Editors Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood Marketing and publicity Stephanie Allen and Jennie Paterson Subscriptions Alarys Gibson, Richard Conyngham and Anna Kirk

Cover illustration: Andy Lovell, ‘Creek’ Cover fox: James Nunn, ‘Fenland Eel-Trapper’

For the last 20 years Andy Lovell has enjoyed a successful career as an illustrator. He has also had regular exhibitions of his printmaking, which has now become the main focus of his work. Drawing and painting from life form the starting-point for his images, which are then honed, simplified and transformed through silkscreen and monoprint.

For further details see www.andylovell.com.

Design by Octavius Murray

Layout by Andrew Evans

Colophon and tailpiece by David Eccles

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From the Editors

A World of Shining Beauty • gee williams

All Creatures Great and Small • hazel wood

In Praise of Pratchett • amanda theunissen

Teaching Life • grant mcintyre

How Did He Do It? • ranjit bolt

Every Green Thing • john gray

Much More than a Perfect Gent • ursula buchan

Flashy but Irresistible • andrew nixon

The Making of Flashman • patrick mercer

A Tourist in Search of Home • david barnes

Neither a Borrower . . . ? • oliver pritchett

Dreamwork • kathryn peak

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