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'Quentin Blake is without doubt Britain's best-known and best-loved living illustrator' - Sir Christopher Frayling

'Quentin Blake is without doubt Britain’s best-known and best-loved living illustrator' - Sir Christopher Frayling '[Reveals a] gentle whimsicality ... has an utterly distinctive personal line, recognisable at a glance' - Martin Gayford, The Spectator 'A handsome 90th-birthday celebration of Mr. Blake's life and work' - The Wall Street Journal 'Richly detailed' - The New York Review of Books 'A visual feast and an engaging biography of the artist most known for illustrating Roald Dahl’s books... A work of art to slowly take in and a fascinating peek into the life of an iconic artist' - School Library Journal

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Jenny Uglow is a prize-winning author and biographer. She was Chair of the Royal Society of Literature 2014-16. Her books include bestselling biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth. Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick won the National Arts Writers Award; A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Edward Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize. She is also the author of Walter Crane in the Thames & Hudson series The Illustrators (2019).

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