This year I've had the great pleasure of regularly illustrating for the Big Issue's Book Review section. Each week is completely different and I've really enjoyed providing solutions for the huge range of themes that they feature. Massive thanks to Mark and Jim for letting me do my thing and putting up with my diabolical roughs every week!
Here's some of my favourites from this continuing body of work, in no particular order:
Return of the Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Audio Books fighting for attention
Dear Life by Alice Munro
Dominion by CJ Sansom
Other Worlds by Margaret Attwood
A Time For Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
An insight into Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Remembering Charles Portis's True Grit
HHhH by Laurent Binet
Beautiful For Ever by Helen Rappaport
The Blind Giant: Human interaction with the digital world by Nick Harkaway
My Song: A memoir of art, race and defiance by Harry Belafonte
A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgard
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
Resilience: Why things bounce back by Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy
The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura
How Music Works by David Byrne
Revealing celebratory memoirs
NW by Zadie Smith
The Irish middle class
Autumn in The Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen Platt
Cold Hands by John J Niven
Faces in The Crowd by Valeria Luiselli
Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and My Fight for Freedom by Sam Pivnik
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Return of the Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Audio Books fighting for attention
Dear Life by Alice Munro
Dominion by CJ Sansom
Other Worlds by Margaret Attwood
A Time For Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
An insight into Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Remembering Charles Portis's True Grit
HHhH by Laurent Binet
Beautiful For Ever by Helen Rappaport
The Blind Giant: Human interaction with the digital world by Nick Harkaway
My Song: A memoir of art, race and defiance by Harry Belafonte
A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgard
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
Resilience: Why things bounce back by Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy
The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura
How Music Works by David Byrne
Revealing celebratory memoirs
NW by Zadie Smith
The Irish middle class
Autumn in The Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen Platt
Cold Hands by John J Niven
Faces in The Crowd by Valeria Luiselli
Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and My Fight for Freedom by Sam Pivnik
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
