Many of Blakeston's books are dedicated to his longtime partner, the artist Max Chapman, who also provided illustrations or photographs for a number of the volumes. Art Blakeston was an artist with a "quick eye for the bizarre and the outrageous” according to Max Chapman. His art mixed abstract and expressionist imagery and tended to be small scale. Blakeston had over 40 solo shows, including in London at New Vision Centre, Drian and Grabowski galleries, and some 100 mixed shows at others such as the Leicester, Madden and Mercury galleries. In 1981 he shared an exhibition at Middlesbrough Art Gallery with Max Chapman and after his death, a memorial show was held in 1986 at Camden Arts Centre. Blakeston's work can be found in public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art and the Ulster Museum in Belfast, as well as national galleries in Finland, Poland and Portugal. Works Films I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside (1929) Light Rhythms (1930, with Francis Bruguière) Fiction Under the pseudonym "Simon", in collaboration with Roger Burford Murder Among Friends (1933) Death on the Swim (1934) The Cat with the Moustache (1935) The Mystery of the Hypnotic Room (1949) Under the name Oswell Blakeston Extra Passenger (1929) Sluice Gates (c. 1930s) The Grim Case of Mrs. John (c. 1930s) Few Are Chosen (1931, with Francis Bruguière) Magic Aftermath (ca. 1932) Jim's Gun (1939, with Max Chapman) Danger in Provence (1946, with Max Chapman) Priests, Peters and Pussens (1947) Boys in Their Ruin (1949) Pink Ribbon, as Told to the Police (1950) Hop Thief (1959) The Night's Moves (1961) The Queen's Mate (1962) Fingers (1964) For Crying Out Shroud (1969) Ever Singing Die, Oh! Die (1970) Pass the Poison Separately (1976) Poetry Poems, a Single Word! (ca. 1930) Death While Swimming (1932) Oswell Blakeston (1956) What the Dino-saur (1960) The Greatest Romantic Poem in the World (1963) How to Make Your Own Confetti (1965) The Furious Futures Dying (1967) Jeremy & Others (1971) Some Essential Information (1975) Journeys End in Young Man's Meeting (1979) Cookbooks Edwardian Glamour Cooking Without Tears (1960) A Surprise in Every Dinner (1968) Cooking With Nuts (1979) Travel Portuguese Panorama (1955) Isle of St. Helena (1957) Sun at Midnight (Finland) (1958) Thank You Now: an Exploration of Ulster (1960) On Film and Photography Through a Yellow Glass (1928) Cruising with a Camera (1939, with