Joanne Harris in The Times

Writing in her regular My Hot Tickets column in The Times today, Joanne Harris suggests as her exhibition choice, Mervyn Peake's Alice, at the Western Bank Library, Sheffield University, showing until 29th September.

'I know the work is marvellous' she writes, 'because the prints line the staircase in my house'. 'Peake had such enormous versatility' she continues, 'his illustrations of his own poetry are so different from his pencil work for Treasure Island or Bleak House. His style is so distinctive'.