Credits

The poem ‘Wells iii’ from Handwriting by Michael Ondaatje, published by Bloomsbury in 1998, is reproduced with the permission of the author.

All drawings and archive pictures are published with the permission of C. Anjalendran.

Other images:

© C. Anjalendran’s archives:

All drawings, plus the following images:
Pages 18-29, 31br, 32tl, 33, 40tl, ml, 56-8, 59tr, mr, br, 104tr, 156-7, 161bl, 184bl, 186ml, 188mr, 205, 212tl

© Waruna Gomis:

Back cover, pages 1, 2, 6, 43mr, 49, 54ml, 55, 60bl, 61, 62tr, mr, br, 63t, 65-67, 68br, 69, 70tr, 71br, 72t, 73, 74 bl, 75, 76bl, 86, 91-2, 94bl, 95-6, 99, 100t, 101br, 105-7, 111, 113, 115-6, 118tr, 119-20, 121bl, br, 122-4, 125tr, 126tl, 134bl, 135, 136t, 137tr, br, 138, 139br, 140bl, 141, 143tr, 148, 149tl, 155, 158-9, 161br, 163-4, 168tr, br, 172, 175, 176bc, 177, 178tl, 180-1, 183, 185, 186 tr, br, 188tl, 207tl, tc, tr, 211, 217bl, tr, mr, 218bl, 222ml, 223, 227tr, 228tl, 231ml

© David Robson:

Front cover, front and back endpapers, pages 4, 8, 12, 16, 32ml, 36tl, 37br, 38bl, 39tr, br, 40bl, 41br, 42, 43tr, 44-8, 52, 54bl, 60tr, 63b, 64, 68tr, 70tl, b, 72b, 76tl, 77-85, 89, 94tr, 101tr, 103t, br, 108, 110bl, tr, 114tr, 118bl, 121tr, 125tl, 126mr, 127-33, 134tr, 136bl, 144b, 145t, br, 146, 147tr, 149tr, bc, br, 150-4, 161tl, tr, 162br, 165tl, tr, 166-7, 169-71, 176tr, bl, br, 178bl, 182, 184t, 186tl, 189tr, 190bl, br, 191-97, 199-201, 204, 206tl, tc, tr, 208bl, br, 209b, 215bl, br, 216bl, 217br, 218tl, ml, 220, 222tl, bl, 224br, 226tl, ml, 227mr, 228ml, 229tr, 230mr, br, 231tl, 234, 235

© Dominic Sansoni:

Pages 30tl, 31tr, 35br, 39mr, 93tl, ml, 102, 214ml, bl