![]() ![]() Hippolyte's Island (Raincoast, 2001) is a novel in which Hippolyte Webb sets out for the South Atlantic on a weather-beaten sailboat to find a mysterious group of lost islands. In a similar vein, or veins, the heroine of The Sensualist, a woman named Helen, discovers she is losing her five senses while riding on a train to Vienna. ![]() ![]() Set in Morocco, The Tattooed Map merges a modern-day murder with the travels of a woman named Lydia who is horrified to discover a detailed map is spreading on her hand and onto her wrist. These works combine text, ephemera, maps and handwritten notations, usually with exotic locales, in keeping with her series of non-fiction titles. Since 1995, her works of illustrated fiction have included The Tattooed Map, The Sensualist, Hippolyte's Island and The Lives of Shadows. As a book designer, photographer and novelist, Barbara Hodgson is a founding partner of Byzantium Books with Nick Bantock. ![]()
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