This is a collection of portraits of a shepherd, a farmer, a painter and blind man, a sylph of Byzantine arrogance and a vagabond cyclist with primroses growing in her basket. The backgrounds range from Prague, Paris, Athens, Lahore and countrysides and mountainscapes. John Berger is the author of About Looking, Ways of Seeing, Art and Revolution, G - for which he won the Booker Prize, and the trilogy Into Their Labours, consisting of Pig Earth, Once in Europe and Lilac and Flag. His latest novel is To the Wedding.