Can you crack #TheBookofEve code?

Calling all codebreakers: we need your help!

A mysterious and ancient book had come into our possession. It is full of puzzling codes in an unreadable script, and we need your help to decipher it.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing a code at a time with a riddle that eludes to its meaning, alongside the alphabet we’ve managed to decode so far. There seems to be a final cipher that holds the key to understanding the book itself, and whoever can help us crack it will become the new keeper of The Book of Eve.

Play along by following @headlinepg and @meg_clothier on Twitter and you can download our codebreaking worksheet here.

Whoever can decipher the alphabet, follow the link and email elise.jackson@headline.co.uk with the mysterious tenth clue will win a hardback copy of The Book of Eve by Meg Clothier, alongside a package of goodies!

THE BOOK OF EVE by Meg Clothier – Available here

The Binding meets The Handmaid’s Tale – Discovering a book of dark and ancient power, a convent librarian must defend it with her life. Perfect for fans of dark academia.

‘A wonderfully rich and absorbing tale’ Observer
‘Expertly crafted and beautifully told’ Jennifer Saint


Beatrice is the convent’s librarian. For years, she has shunned the company of her sisters, finding solace only with her manuscripts.

Then, one carnival night, two women, bleeding and stricken, are abandoned outside the convent’s walls. Moments from death, one of them presses something into Beatrice’s hands: a bewitching book whose pages have a dangerous life of their own.

But men of the faith want the book destroyed, and a zealous preacher has tracked it to her door. Her sisters’ lives – or her obsession. Beatrice must decide.

The book’s voice is growing stronger.
An ancient power uncoils.
Will she dare to listen?


More praise for THE BOOK OF EVE:
‘What an extraordinary book’ Harriet Tyce
‘A ravishing, erudite feminist hijack of Renaissance’ Alice Albinia
‘A beautifully written, utterly enthralling read’ Karen Coles
‘Mysterious, bewitching and beautiful’ Elizabeth Lee
‘Brutal and haunting’ Melissa Fu
‘Erudite and bewitching’ Costanza Casati