Book Maps

 My new year’s resolution for 2017 was to read a hundred books that year, and in doing so it occurred to me that I’d virtually travelled to a lot of places whilst reading them. I thought it would be an interesting idea since then to sketch some of these fictional and non-fictional places as a way to try out new ideas for illustrated maps.

Here's a selection of these small maps based on the following novels:


This Must Be The Place by Maggie O’Farrell
Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Hidden Nature by Alys Fowler
Tequila Sunset by Sam Hawken
Coconut Unlimited by Nikesh Shukla
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Shuttlecock by Graham Swift
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
Akin by Emma Donoghue
The Death Of An Owl / Paul Torday, Piers Torda
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin
Turtles All The Way Down by John Green

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