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Award-winning #mapmaker and #illustrator based in #Valencia | Commission enquiries: @_illustrationX | #mapping #cartography #illustration

16 books
Book Cover for: Scotland the Best Islands, Peter Irvine

Scotland the Best Islands

Peter Irvine
Mike Hall | Maps · IllustrationMike Hall | Maps · Illustration

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It's St Andrew's Day! Which seems a good excuse to share this project I completed last year for HarperCollins, a set of ten maps of Scottish islands for Peter Irvine's book "Scotland The Best: The Islands" ➡️ https://t.co/V4uhaTLOX9 https://t.co/5PrA0RfFvh

Paperback, 2022

$24.95Member price:$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Three Hours in Paris, Cara Black

Three Hours in Paris

Cara Black
Mike Hall | Maps · IllustrationMike Hall | Maps · Illustration

Read about the vintage style map of 1940s #Paris I designed for Cara Black's 2020 novel Three Hours In Paris Commissioned by @soho_press ℹ️ https://t.co/8niBg8dlZz https://t.co/Zn78nret5X

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Book Cover for: Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations, Norman Davies

Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations

Norman Davies
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@Plaistovian Indeed. As I mentioned at the top, I've been reading about the subject... in Norman Davies' "Vanished Kingdoms" as it happens, which goes into loads of detail. Fascinating stuff.

Paperback, 2012

$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Official Guide to the Botanic Gardens, Dominica: Illustrated: With an Index of the Principal Plants, Botanic Gardens

Official Guide to the Botanic Gardens, Dominica: Illustrated: With an Index of the Principal Plants

Botanic Gardens
Mike Hall | Maps · IllustrationMike Hall | Maps · Illustration

For those curious about the illustrated locations, they are: 1. Amitabul Korean Restaurant 2. Midwest Buddhist Temple 3. Buddhist Temple of Chicago 4. Art Institute of Chicago 5. Chinatown 6. Chicago Botanic Gardens 7. Lin Shen Ching Tze Temple

Paperback, 2022

$15.95Member price:$14.35 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: World Food: Paris: Heritage Recipes for Classic Home Cooking [A Parisian Cookbook], James Oseland

World Food: Paris: Heritage Recipes for Classic Home Cooking [A Parisian Cookbook]

James Oseland
Mike Hall | Maps · IllustrationMike Hall | Maps · Illustration

#30DayMapChallenge Day 14, Hexagons: 🇫🇷 How about what the French call L'Hexagone? The overview map of France that appears at the top left of my map of Paris for James Oseland's World Foods book series (ℹ️ https://t.co/eGE0OZjlaI) https://t.co/OLdW8tqNqe

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Book Cover for: Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro, Rachel Slade

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

Rachel Slade
Mike Hall | Maps · IllustrationMike Hall | Maps · Illustration

#30DayMapChallenge Day 23, Movement ⛴️ My nautical style map for the endpapers of Rachel Slade's book "Into The Raging Sea" about the sinking of the cargo ship El Faro during Hurricane Joaquin in 2015. Map shows courses of the ship and storm. Commissioned by HarperCollins in 2018 https://t.co/cSpZ1t7YUM

Paperback, 2019

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Very Bad People, Kit Frick

Very Bad People

Kit Frick
Mike Hall | Maps · IllustrationMike Hall | Maps · Illustration

📆By coincidence, today is publication day for two books for which I was commissioned to create illustrated maps recently. 👀 The first is this bird's eye view of Tipton Academy, the setting for Kit Frick's new YA novel VERY BAD PEOPLE (@simonschuster) https://t.co/ZM5Ems7dAE https://t.co/MJnFNe8riY

Paperback, 2023

$12.99Member price:$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: My Father's House, Joseph O'Connor

My Father's House

Joseph O'Connor
Mike Hall | Maps · IllustrationMike Hall | Maps · Illustration

✍️🏻 Delighted to share this period-style map of #Rome, Italy in 1943 that I was commissioned to design by publishers @randomhouse for Joseph O'Connor's new novel #MyFathersHouse, which is released today! ℹ️https://t.co/zE1uv4uPCs https://t.co/jhkWgtR8Zo

Paperback, 2024

$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Two Colours, Marcia Leonard

Two Colours

Marcia Leonard
Mike Hall | Maps · IllustrationMike Hall | Maps · Illustration

#30DayMapChallenge Day 25, Two Colours: ⚫️🔴 My map for the endpapers of Ciarán McMenamin's period novel The Sunken Road (Harvill Secker, 2021) centred on the town of Pettigo on the Irish/Northern Irish border, with the border and key locations from the story highlighted in red https://t.co/ybIla1Lw5s

Paperback, 2012

$19.76Member price:$18.77 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Scotland the Best, Peter Irvine

Scotland the Best

Peter Irvine
Mike Hall | Maps · IllustrationMike Hall | Maps · Illustration

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It's St Andrew's Day! Which seems a good excuse to share this project I completed last year for HarperCollins, a set of ten maps of Scottish islands for Peter Irvine's book "Scotland The Best: The Islands" ➡️ https://t.co/V4uhaTLOX9 https://t.co/5PrA0RfFvh

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