** A beautiful new/sealed signed leather-bound rare numbered limited-edition - 1 of only 250 copies - of this acclaimed 5th novel from multiple award-winning Irish author Paul Lynch, who released his debut novel in 2013 ('Red Sky in Morning '). **




** This was one of the 6 novels selected for the 2023 Booker Prize Shortlist, and after the non-selection of the 3 early favourites on the shortlist, most notably Tan Twan Eng's 'The House of Doors ', this had always then been the favourite for the prize.  At the prestigious award ceremony in London on 26 November, it was confirmed as the Booker Prize Winner for 2023. ** 






'Prophet Song ', published by Easton Press in Connecticut in 2024 (published as the trade edition in London on 24 August 2023), 1st edition thus, standard modern hardback, 368 pages.





This special Easton Press edition will be signed by Paul Lynch to a publisher-headed signature page, which is also the limitation page - this edition had a run of only 250 hand-numbered copies (they sold out very quickly).  The Easton Press CoA will be within, which will be signed and dated by Paul Lynch and a witness, and also signed by the publisher.   


This copy is still sealed in the publisher sellophane and is thus in New unread condition. Photos 1-6 are of the book you will receive; photos 7 onwards are stock images to show some of the external & internal features, how the signature is presented etc - as this is still a sealed copy, I am unable to advise what number from the run of only 250 copies a buyer will receive.  


Full leather binding with elaborate gilt design and lettering, all edges gilt, 5 raised bands on the spine, gilt silk ribbon placemarker.






Features include:



Personally signed by Paul Lynch.

Limited to 250 hand-numbered copies.

Fully bound in genuine leather.

22kt gold deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine.

Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper that lasts for generations.

Sewn pages — not just glued like ordinary books.

Handsome moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker.

Gilded page ends.








** A highly collectable and high-quality signed Easton Press (quickly sold out and now rare) numbered leather-bound edition of Paul Lynch's key work, being the winner of the Booker Prize in 2023  **










** WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 **





A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author




On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step.  Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.



Ireland is falling apart.  The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.  How far will she go to save her family?  And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?



Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.








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