My selection seeks to celebrate the artist's visualisation of ordinary passages of life, the kitchen, the parlour, the tool shed and the back garden etc. Hughes' article is most persuasive as to Giles' relevance.

I also seek to highlight his drawing and compositional skills, his use of anxious perspectives, his depiction of snow, rain and wet streets, all the fascination of the open landscape and the spectacle of winter - his sheer sense of cluttered detail in, say, the kitchen and the bathroom.

Of equal interest, and often mentioned, are his reflections on aspects of the Cold War, the space aliens, the Rooshuns, the Toffs and visitors to the Motor and Boat shows. You'll find a teasing image of Elizabeth and Philip on a foreign visit, nude models marched to Buck House for Philip's Life Drawing,and Christine Keeler restrained by US and UK security agents until President Kennedy had left the country.

Each annual has in introduction b ya celebrity of a sort, Parkinson, Wogan, John Junor and in one case Frank Sinatra.

I can't prevent his character of Granny Giles dominating the proceedings. I have tried to copy in any stray domestic details, including a double page testimonial by the artist's wife.

Thanks to Marianne and Anne at Savery Books.