Piper at the Gates of Dusk
It’s been a while since Jim Kay illustrated Patrick Ness’s book, A Monster Calls, which has now sold in countless countries. So he was delighted to be asked to illustrate the endpapers of Patrick’s latest book in the Chaos Walking series. The joy of working on endpapers is that you escape the scrutiny of the cover meeting comments, and you can see that Jim enjoyed working on this one.
Stone Age Beasts
Many congratulations to Grahame Baker Smith whose book has won the Hampshire Information Book Award. 
The Selfish Giant
Alexis Deacon has adapted Oscar Wilde’s text for The Selfish Giant and also illustrated it in his typical elegant style. It was published by Red Fox (Random House) in 2013 and we have a small handful of the original paintings for sale, including this one, ‘We Must Ask Hail on a Visit’.
John Harris and South Africa . . .
We still have a few of John Harris’s landscape original paintings but they’re vanishing fast. This one is ‘South from the Limpopo’, the cover for the book by Dervla Murphy.
Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year
It’s cold here now, as you can see from this image by Paul Cox, commissioned by The Observer.