The long-term project of artist Charles Avery entitled The Islanders is a detailed description of a fictional island. The book takes the onlooker on a journey to investigate the lives of island inhabitants and discover how they develop cultural nuances within the city walls and eke out an existence from the landscape. This visual title gives glimpses of the wilderness that lies beyond the fortified walls of the capital city Onomatopoeia.

Charles Avery is a London-based artist, with his ongoing body of work rooted in his own life and upbringing on the Isle of Mull off the west coast of Scotland.