(Image credit: Marie-Alice Harel) Marie-Alice Harel is a French author and illustrator based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She has illustrated classics such as The Neverending Story, designed a Britannia coin for the Royal Mint, and worked for clients including Aardman Animations, Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber, Hachette and Penguin Random House. Outside of her client work, Marie-Alice writes, illustrates and designs her own books, and teaches a book illustration course on Schoolism. Most recently, she's illustrated a 40th anniversary limited edition of Diana Wynne-Jones’ Howl’s Moving Castle , published by Folio Society on 24th March 2026. Inside Marie-Alice Harel’s studio "I started living in this flat in January 2021, it's been 5 years. I work from home, so my studio is also my living room and my kitchen." (Image credit: Marie-Alice Harel) “I moved here in the middle of the Covid lock-down, so for the first six to eight months I had no desk, and generally very little furniture.…