“I put his ashes on my dressing table next to my favourite brush, and at night, when my room was secured in darkness, I saw lights dance in the air, which I knew were him.”

When God Was a Rabbit, Sarah Winman

At the end of last year I was commissioned to do this book cover for the British Film Institute. This year is the 20th anniversary of their classics series, so they’re all getting shiny new designs!

“The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear.”

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers

Almost done!

Close up

“Mr Lisbon kept trying to lift her off, gently, but even in our ignorance we knew it was hopeless and that despite Cecilia’s open eyes and the way her mouth kept contracting like that of a fish on a stringer it was just nerves and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.”

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides