Constable by James Hamilton sport as the noose tightened around

as the noose tightened around them and the daily pressures became increasingly unbearable

I gulped The Fell down in one sitting' - Emma Donoghue'Gripping

witty and incisive

of a young German American woman who finds a small map drawn by hand on its own blank page in the back

Constable by James Hamilton sport as the noose tightened aroundJohn Constable, the revolutionary nineteenth century painter of the landscapes and skies of southern England, is Britain's best loved but perhaps least understood artist. His paintings reflect visions of landscape that shocked and perplexed his contemporaries: attentive to detail, spontaneous in gesture, brave in their use of colour. What we learn from his landscapes is that Constable had sharp local knowledge of Suffolk, a clarity of expression of