Journal

This is one of my favourite books, regarded as the greatest science novel of all time. I remember first reading it the whole way through in hospital whilst recovering from injuries sustained in a cycle race crash nearly three years ago, it put my situation into perspective looking at some of the things that Levi writes about in this series of short stories. The stories are a biographical account of his time as a Jewish-Italian chemist living in fascist Italy, each one is name

Some watercolour studies after reading The End of Something, the story features Hemingway's recurring character Nick Adams, who's character is largely based on Hemingway's personal experiences as a young man. Nick Adams is on a fishing trip with his girlfriend Marjorie, and he plans to split up with her. Marjorie daydreams that the abandoned mill is a castle, from my reading of it, it is meant to symbolise her youthful naivety in not knowing what is happening and that Nick pl

I've been reading Ernest Hemingway's The First Forty Nine Stories, here's some drawings I made of the characters from Old Man At The Bridge, based on his experiences as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War.