Mervyn Peake: The Sunday Books
- Artist: Mervyn Peake
- Published: 2011
- Publisher: Duckworth Overlook, London
- Edition: -
- Format: Hardback Clothbound
- Height: 26cm
£18.99
Add to basketMervyn Peake: The Sunday Books
Brand new Peake art book published to mark the centenary of Peake’s birth, which will be commemorated around the world on July 9, 2011.
Every Sunday on the Isle of Sark, Mervyn Peake would tell his children stories about pirates, shipwrecks, and the Wild West. He illustrated his spontaneous stories with delightfully vivid drawings of the characters in his tales, but never set down words to go with them. Now, decades after Peake’s death, world-renowned fantasy writer (and friend of the Peakes) Michael Moorcock has written verses to go with Peake’s drawings.
Beautifully clothbound with full page colour illustrations this title is a must for Mervyn Peake fans everywhere.
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Artists Biography
Mervyn Peake was born in China in 1911 of medical missionary parents. He began to draw, paint and write stories at an early age and his first book of poems, Shapes and Sounds, was published in 1941.
Peake is probably best known for his Titus novels — Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone — but other well known poetry collections include: The Glassblowers and The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb.
Peake married Maeve Gilmore in 1937 and was later awarded the W.H. Heinemann Foundation Prize by the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. Mervyn Peake died after suffering a long illness in 1968.
