Though you may not know Angela Harding's name, you'll almost certainly recognise her work. Her vibrant images of British countryside - sparrows in flight, terns at sea, leaping hares, a bounding fox - can be found on tea towels, jigsaw puzzles, notebooks and calendars. They adorn the covers of countless books, from illustrated RSPB guides to poetry by Ted Hughes, not to mention the award-winning memoir The Salt Path and the murder mysteries of PD James.
Only now, at 62, has Angela begun to produce books of her own. The first, A Year Unfolding, charts the seasons as seen from her garden studio in Rutland and from the small wooden boat she and her husband keep in Suffolk. Her second, Wild Light, charts the changing light over 24 hours in 70 evocative illustrations.