John Gillham
83 Glenshiels Avenue
Hoddlesden
Darwen
Lancs BB3 3LS
Tel/Fax: 01254 773097
Email: johngillham@lineone.net		 THE WRITER
THE ILLUSTRATOR
THE PHOTOGRAPHER
DESKTOP PUBLISHING
PUBLISHING

THE WRITER

 Click to enlarge John Gillham's first book, Snowdonia to The Gower, was released on Diadem Books in 1989. He has since written and illustrated ten other books, including Pennine Ways (Crowood) and Lakeland to Lindisfarne (Crowood). (Click image to enlarge)

He is one of the regular Trail magazine writers and often appears in TGO (The Great Outdoors), Peak and Pennine, and Dalesman magazines.

Gillham knows Wales from coast to coast, the Peak and Pennines, Northumberland, and the Lake District. Abroad, he has covered the United States (Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Nevada); Austria (Tyrol); Switzerland (Berner Oberland and Valais), Italy (Val Gardena and Lake Garda), and France (Chamonix).

THE ILLUSTRATOR
    "Some of the clearest sketch-maps I've come across in walk books" - Showell Styles in TGO about the Welsh Coast to Coast Walk.
 John Gillham has illustrated many books and articles, including Snowdonia to the Gower, Lakeland to Lindisfarne, Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales and The Welsh Three Thousand Foot Challenges with both 3D panorama drawings and sketches.

Click to enlarge Maps can be supplied as hand drawn sketches, or more formal computer EPS files using the Macromedia Freehand program. The computer diagrams are ready to drop into DTP layouts. Some of Gillham's 3D drawings are hand drawn, then scanned into the computer, where colour and captions are added. (Click on map to enlarge)

THE PHOTOGRAPHER
    ...perhaps the best selection of Welsh mountain and wild land pictures so far available" - Chris Townsend TGO about Snowdonia to The Gower
 . John Gillham has supplied thousands of photographs to illustrate both his and other writers' articles and book covers.

Click to enlarge Gillham's extensive slide library includes:

UK: ALL the Pennine areas including Bowland and Pendle; the Lakeland Fells; ALL of Wales; Northumberland, its coast, the Cheviot and Simonside hills and the Tyne Valley; northern Cornwall; Scotland: the Isle of Aran and the Inverary area.

Abroad: USA: The Colorado Rockies; Utah National Parks and the Grand Canyon; Austria: Ferwall, including St Anton; Wilder Kaiser, including EIlmau and St Johann; Oetztal including Obergurgl and the Silvretta, including Gargellen. Switzerland: Berner Oberland including the Jungfrau, Monch and Eiger; the Valais, including Zermatt, the Matterhorn and Saas Fee; the Vaud around Les Diablerets. France: Chamonix Valley. Italy: Val Gardena and Lake Garda.

DESKTOP PUBLISHING

 John Gillham designs all the books for his Grey Stone imprint and has also designed the Pennine Ways and Lakeland to Lindisfarne coffee table books for Crowood.

Book layouts can be supplied from your text and pictures using Quark Xpress 3.11 or Pagemaker 6 on the MAC.

THE PUBLISHER

 Grey Stone Books is a small publisher of outdoor titles, which include Irvine Butterfield's successful The Famous Highland Drove Walk, Ronald Tumbull's Across Scotland on Foot and Roy Clayton and Ronald Tumbull's The Welsh Three Thousand Foot Challenges. In September 1998, TumbulI's coffee-table book, Long Days in Lakeland will be released.

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