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Ideas for the walls you actually live with: how to hang a gallery wall, how to mix book scenes with a print that makes you laugh, and how to make a reading corner feel like your own. Simple advice on sizes, frames and spacing, with the prints that suit each room.

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Literary map of Britain print as an antique hand-coloured county map: Whitby, Haworth, Bath, Dartmoor and Ullswater marked with the book beside each and a tiny vignette, in a decorated border with a cartouche reading A Literary Map of Britain.

12 October 2026

New home gifts for people who have everything

A new home has bare walls and not enough boxes unpacked. The best housewarming gift fills a wall, takes no space in a drawer, and tells the owner something about you.

Hound of the Baskervilles art print in a 1790s colour print style: a huge black hound bursts out of the fog on Dartmoor under a full moon as two men with revolvers rise from the rocks. Shown framed in black, white or natural oak and unframed, with the style reference and behind-the-scenes shots.

5 October 2026

Gothic Halloween decor that stays up all year

Most Halloween decorations come down on the first of November. A gothic gallery wall doesn't have to. Choose dark, atmospheric pictures instead of pumpkins, and the wall that looks right on Halloween night will still look right in March.

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