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Sketching The Periodic Table: Iron, by Primo Levi
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

Sidney Wilson
4 days ago2 min read


Illustrating Hemingway: The End Of Something
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

Sidney Wilson
Apr 51 min read


Illustrating Hemingway: Old Man At The Bridge
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.

Sidney Wilson
Mar 131 min read
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