Jonathan Walker and Dan Hallett, ‘Five Wounds: An Illuminated Novel’

First published on Spike Magazine (28th November 2011) //

Not every book looks and feels like an artefact when you pick it up. Oftentimes it is just words printed across cheap paper, the literal form of it separated from its content, cased in a merely functional cover with some gluey binding. But with Five Wounds, an “illuminated novel”, the very object itself is part of its mythology and there is a sense of something big, something heavy within it, if you have the time.

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