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About the bookA survey of scores of creative talents, from Turner to Damien Hirst, who have been drawn to Suffolk's first resort. Includes in-depth features on Messum's artists William Bowyer, Lionel Bulmer, Margaret Green James Dodds and Guy Taplin. A 2005 book of the year choice in the Times, Sunday Telegraph and Spectator.About the authorIan Collins was born in Norfolk, raised in Cambridgeshire and now lives on the Suffolk coast at Southwold and in London’s Barbican.London and arts correspondent for the Eastern Daily Press, Ian is an author and exhibition curator who has also co-produced a series of arts documentaries for Anglia Television.His books include ‘A Broad Canvas: Art in East Anglia Since 1880’, ‘Nelson’s Ships: A Trafalgar Tribute - the Life and Work of Derek Gardner’, and ‘Bird on a Wire: Guy Taplin’.