Illustration & commercial art

  • You and me

    £10.99

    Like a comforting sip of tea amidst life’s chaos, these delightful illustrations celebrate the small joys of existence.

  • Asterix and the white iris

    £8.99

    A strange new philosophy is gaining popularity amongst the Roman soldiers. When its enchanting influence reaches the Gauls, everything they once held dear is turned upside down. Armed with their trademark humour, bravery, and trusty magic potion, can our heroic duo save the Chief’s wife and break the spell of the White Iris?

  • Illustrators’ sketchbooks

    £30.00

    Here is a treasure trove of visual delights: examples of the sketchbooks of sixty international illustrators offer new insights into their artistic practice. Intimate and often unseen, the sketchbook means something different to each illustrator. It might be a beautiful object, a work of art in its own right, where every line is painstakingly considered. It might be a pictorial playground, where mistakes can make art. The boundaries between sketchbooks, notebooks and visual journals are often blurred, lending to the creativity that fills their pages. It is likely that you will recognize many of the illustrators featured, including classic childhood favourites Beatrix Potter, Jean de Brunhoff, Edward Ardizzone and Tove Jansson, and established names such as Beatrice Alemagna, Oliver Jeffers, and Shaun Tan.

  • 101 Super Cute Things to Draw

    £14.99

    101 Super Cute Things to Draw features more than 100 step-by-step drawing projects to teach beginning and aspiring artists how to draw simple and adorable illustrations.

  • The Quentin Blake Book

    £30.00

    Quentin Blake is an artist who has charmed and inspired generations of readers. Tracing Blake’s art and career from his very first drawings – published in Punch when he was 16 – through his collaborations with writers from Roald Dahl and John Yeoman to Russell Hoban and David Walliams, to his large-scale works for hospitals and public spaces and right up to his most recent passions and projects, acclaimed author Jenny Uglow here presents a fully illustrated overview of Quentin Blake’s extraordinary body of work.

  • SJ Axelby’s Interior Portraits

    £25.00

    An artist’s record of the homes of 89 leading creatives from interior designers to ceramicists, antiques dealers, florists and chefs.

  • DC Book of Lists

    £18.99

    Packed with 100+ inventive groupings, hierarchies, and infographics, the ‘DC Book of Lists’ offers a creative way of looking at both the well-known and obscure histories of the top heroes and villains from the DC Universe across 80+ years. Each entry in this book celebrates another corner of DC’s past, present, and future. It revels in the rich tapestry of DC’s characters and history.

  • Asterix and the Griffin

    £8.99

    Follow Asterix and Obelix as they set out on their long journey in search of a strange and terrifying creature. Half-eagle, half-lion, and idolised and feared by ancient peoples, this creature is the griffin. How will Asterix, Obelix, Dogamatix, along with the Druid Getafix, get drawn into the epic, perilous quest to find this fantastical animal?

  • Asterix and the Griffin

    £10.99

    Village druid Getafix goes on a journey with Asterix, Obelix and Dogmatix in search of the griffin.

  • The Woman, the Mink, the Cod and the Donkey

    £9.99

    The woman is embarking on an important journey. She does not know her destination, but she knows what she’ll find when she gets there: an open pub. It has been a long time since she has been in one due to a strange, sad region of yester-year called ‘Lockdown’. On her travels she finds a mink. The mink is wise because he’s known the cruelties of life, having been maligned because Danish minks were found to be spreading Coronavirus. The woman helps the mink forget the cruelties of life through something as old as time itself: love. The mink helps the woman withstand the journey to the pub through something else as old as time itself: wine. As they wander on their quest, a cod and a random donkey tag along, and together they discuss their most valued life lessons, such as the value of travel insurance, and why it’s always important to wear breathable pants.

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