Financial Times: Book Review Illustrations

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I've produced a number of illustrations to accompany the book review column in Saturday's Financial Times. Below is a selection of these illustrations

This review discussed a book about a father leaving his family and the emotional grief left in his wake

Sketches for the illustration

For a book review of "The Water Dancer" by Ta-Nahesi Coates, about a man in slave-era America, freeing his fellow slaves with supernatural powers

This was for a review of "The Red Haired Woman" by Ohran Pamuk, a story of a young boy's journey into adulthood

Sketches for the Ohran Pamuk review

This illustration was for a review of "Motherhood" by Sheila Heti in which the narrator, who is a writer, wrestles with whether to have children or not

Sketches for the Sheila Heti review

For a review of "The Sparsholt Affair" by Alan Hollinghurst, part of the story is set in 1940s Oxford amongst a group of friends

Sketches for the Hollinghurst review

For a review of "The Friendly Ones" by Phillip Hensher, where recurring themes are summer garden parties and the relationship between neighbour

Sketches for "The Friendly Ones" review

For a review of Jeet Thayil's "The Book of Chocolate Saints". An Indian painter and poet, and the writer's attempts to understand what he was like from friends' and colleagues' accounts