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In the five short years since the London Olympics, a forward-looking and global Britain has been reduced to an inward, isolationist nation, or so it seems. As we struggle to find ourselves again, Si Smith brilliantly examines notions of identity and Britishness, spirituality and self, loss and hope in a comic strip tour de force. Quite the most beautiful thing I've read in years. Mike Maddox Si Smith's perfectly weighted, beautifully rendered story inhabits the derelict fringes of society. It is a story of art and self-sacrifice, exploring how hard it can be to find yourself when nobody knows you're lost. Jared Myland

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For as long as he can remember Si Smith has been an avid draw-er of stuff. Maybe it's in his genes – his father paints and exhibits, his grandfather was also an artist and his brother is a graphic designer and cartoonist. He was born in Leicester in 1966, and he currently resides in north Leeds with his wife Sue and their sons Eddie and Jonah. During the course of his relatively uneventful life Si has been in a documentary on BBC2, witnessed Gary Lineker's football league debut and spent five and a bit years teaching in a primary school. Si has also drawn a lot of stuff, author-illustrating three children's books for HarperCollins and producing work for a range of clients including OUP, Scholastic, the BBC, Heinemann, Reed and Macmillan. Represented by the Beehive Illustration agency, he has over twenty years' experience as a freelance illustrator.

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