A collection of recent illustration to accompany book reviews for the Metro Newspaper. Each review is illustrated in response to the particular themes or aspects that the reviewer has selected.
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Book Review Illustration for the Metro Newspaper - "In this vast new novel by the great Japanese novelist and film-maker Ryu Murakami, North Korea is most certainly not a joke. From The Fatherland, With Love is set in an alternative present in which the credit crunch has delivered the coup de grâce to the stagnant Japanese economy of the 2000s." - Metro
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Book Review Illustration for the Metro Newspaper - "Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs is a fearless tonic for the lonely" - Metro
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Book Review Illustration for the Metro Newspaper - "John le Carré’s new thriller, A Delicate Truth, exposes hypocrisy and corruption at the top."
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Book review Illustration for the Metro Newspaper - Charles Moore’s Margaret Thatcher – The Authorized Biography
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Book Review Illustration for the Metro Newspaper - A Constellation of Vital Phenomena - Anthony Marra. A girl caught in the crossfire between Russian and Chechen Rebels.
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Book Review Illustration for the Metro Newspaper - Be Awesome by Hadley Freeman "Hadley Freeman’s feminist primer Be Awesome is humorous but lacks substance" - Metro Review
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Book Review Illustration for the Metro Newspaper - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s - Americanah. "A Nigerian who moves to the US for 13 years, only feels black when she is abroad." - Metro