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NEW BOOKS 2018-2019
& KEY BACKLIST
LEAD TITLE
Margaret Busby, Editor
New Daughters
of Africa
This major new international anthology
charts a contemporary literary canon with
the work of over 200 women writers of
CONTENTS
African descent.
A magnificent follow-up to Margaret Busby’s original
LEAD TITLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 landmark anthology Daughters of Africa, this new
FICTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 companion volume brings together fresh and vibrant
voices that have emerged in the last 25 years. New
NONFICTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Daughters of Africa celebrates the work of women
from across the globe—from Angola and Antigua,
GRAPHIC NOVELS . . . . . . . . . . 23 to the US and Zimbabwe. It showcases key figures
including Zadie Smith, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
and Malorie Blackman, as well as overlooked historical
authors and today’s exciting new and emerging
Myriad publishes award-winning literary fiction, graphic novels writers.
and political nonfiction, and produces the ground-breaking ‘An extraordinary body of
A unique and seminal anthology, New Daughters
‘State of the World’ atlas series. achievement not only in
of Africa represents the global sweep, diversity and
literary but in human terms.
Our books have won the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award It is a vital document that fills
extraordinary literary achievements of black women
(twice) and have been shortlisted for other prestigious awards, writers whose voices remain under-represented and
a yawning gap in Western
including the British Book Design and Production Award, CWA underrated.
education.’
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, Polari First Book Award, Prix des Sunday Times
Lecteurs, Premio Letterario, and Wales Book of the Year Award.
In 2017 Myriad joined New Internationalist—an independent,
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not-for-profit, community-owned publishing co-operative—as
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part of a shared plan to expand, reach wider audiences, and Margaret Busby OBE is a major cultural figure. Born
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in Ghana and educated in Britain, she co-founded
publish books that push boundaries and embrace diversity. March 2019
Allison & Busby where she published an international list
£25.00/£16.99 | $34.95/$22.95
Daring, powerful and arrestingly original, these are books for our of writers including Buchi Emecheta, C.L.R. James and
153mm x 234mm Michael Moorcock. She has judged numerous literary
times. 752 pages awards, including the Caine, Commonwealth and
Hardback / Paperback Women’s prizes, and has served on the boards of PEN,
myriadeditions.com Rights held: World Wasafiri and the Royal Literary Fund.
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Sohaila Abdulali
What We Talk About Elizabeth Haynes
When We Talk The Murder of
About Rape Harriet Monckton
Thoughtful, provocative and intelligent, this From the bestselling author of Into the
game-changing book looks at sexual assault Darkest Corner comes a delicious Victorian
and the global discourse on rape from the crime novel based on a real murder.
‘Her writing is disruptive and
powerful for it—never letting viewpoint of a survivor, writer, counsellor On 7 November 1843, the body of 23-year-old Harriet
us forget that there is a and activist. Monckton is found behind a chapel in Bromley, Kent.
person who suffers, a body Sohaila Abdulali was the first Indian rape survivor to The community is appalled by her death, apparently as
that gets broken. And when speak out about her experience. Gang-raped as a a result of swallowing acid, and even more so when the
a body is violated, all of teenager in Mumbai and indignant at the silence on surgeon reports that Harriet was six months pregnant.
society is at risk. If the #MeToo the issue in India, she wrote an article for a women’s Drawing on the coroner’s reports and witness
campaign is to have any magazine questioning how we perceive rape and testimonies, Elizabeth Haynes builds a compelling
lasting impact for change rape victims. Thirty years later her story went viral in
‘Haynes is the most exciting
picture of Harriet’s final hours through the eyes of those
in women’s circumstances the wake of the fatal 2012 Delhi rape and the global
thing to happen to crime
closest to her and the last people to see her alive. Her
across the world, it will be outcry that followed.
fiction in a long time.’
fellow teacher and companion, her would-be fiancé,
because of books such as Sophie Hannah
Drawing on three decades of grappling with the issue her seducer, her former lover—all are suspects; each
this.’
personally and professionally, and on her work with has a reason to want her dead.
Preti Taneja
hundreds of other survivors, Abdulali explores what we Brimming with lust, mistrust and guilt, The Murder of
think about rape and what we say. She also explores Harriet Monckton is a masterclass of suspense from
what we don’t say, and asks pertinent questions about one of our greatest crime writers.
ISBN: 978-1-78026-327-4 who gets raped and who rapes, about consent and
eISBN: 978-1-78026-328-1 ISBN HBK: 978-1-912408-03-0
desire, redemption and revenge, and about how we
October 2018 ISBN TPBK: 978-1-912408-04-7
raise our sons. Elizabeth Haynes is a former police intelligence
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analyst whose debut novel, Into the Darkest Corner,
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was Amazon’s Best Book of the Year, a New York
240 pages Sohaila Abdulali was born in Mumbai. She has a BA from £14.99/£12.99 | $19.95/$17.95 Times bestseller and published in 37 countries. Myriad
Paperback Brandeis University in economiWcs and sociology and 135mm x 216mm publishes Haynes’ other psychological thrillers: Revenge
Rights held: World an MA from Stanford University in communication. She is 512 pages of the Tide, Human Remains and Never Alone. She has
Rights sold: US & Canada, the author of two novels as well as children’s books and Hardback / Paperback also written two police procedural crime novels, Under
ANZ, India short stories. She lives in New York with her family. Rights held: World a Silent Moon and Behind Closed Doors.
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Contents
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207 Index award-winning atlas matches the mood of
the momentwith bold, vivid infographics to
illustrate the status of women worldwide and
the diversity of their experiences.
The most up-to-date global analysis of key issues
‘It makes the female half of the facing women today, the atlas portrays as never
world visible in reliable statistics before how women are living across continents and
and glorious graphics. Nobody cultures. With incisive prose and creative maps and
should be without this book.’ charts, it demonstrates the advances that have
Gloria Steinem been made and the distances still to be travelled—in
gender equality, literacy and information technology,
feminism, the culture of beauty, work and the global
economy, changing households, domestic violence,
LGBTQ rights, government and power, motherhood,
and more.
ISBN: 978-1-912408-09-2
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October 2018 Joni Seager, Professor and Chair of Global Studies at
£14.99 Bentley University in Boston, is a geographer and global
170mm x 230mm policy expert. She has achieved international acclaim
208 pages for her work in feminist environmental policy analysis,
Paperback the international status of women, and global political
Rights held: World economy. She is the author of many books and a
Rights sold: US & Canada, ANZ, consultant with the UN on gender and environmental
Japan, Spain policy.
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short stories short stories
Elleke Boehmer Lisa Blower
South, North It’s Gone Dark Over
Elleke Boehmer’s thrilling new collection of
short stories tracks lives across continents Bill’s Mother’s
from the perspective of the southern
Lisa Blower celebrates her characters with
hemisphere—its light, its seas, its sensibilities.
stories that they wouldn’t want told. She
These are stories of people caught up in a world that makes the bleak funny, and strikes a new
tilts seductively between south and north, between chord in regional and working-class fiction.
ambition and tradition, between light and dark. Her
characters are poised to leave or on the point of The matriarch dominates these award-winning stories
return; often caught in limbo, haunted by their histories in Lisa Blower’s debut collection. From the wise, witty
and veering between possibilities. and outspoken Nan of ‘Broken Crockery’, who has
lived and worked in Stoke-on-Trent for all of her 92
An African student in England longs for her desert years, never owning a passport, to happy hooker
‘With passion and ‘Her stories are at times the
home; a shy Argentinian travel agent agonizes about Ruthie in ‘The Land of Make Believe’; to sleep deprived
intelligence, and rare moral laugh- out-loud funny of
joining her boyfriend in New York; a soldier is pursued Laura in ‘The Trees in the Wood’; to young mum
insight, Elleke Boehmer Alan Bennett and at others,
by his past; a writer’s widow fends off the attentions of Roxanne in ‘The Cherry Tree’; she appears in many
traces the scars left on the the achingly sad of the
his predatory biographer. shapes and forms, and always with a stoicism that is
psyche by the tortuous great, David Constantine.’
histories of the South.’ From story to story we walk through radically different Paul McVeigh hard to break down.
J.M. Coetzee worlds and journeys packed with hopes and ideals. With a sharp eye and tough warmth, Lisa Blower brings
Sharp, tender, and always arresting, these exquisitely to life the silent histories and harsh realities of those
written pieces crackle with luminous insights as living on the margins.
characters struggle to find contentment—with their
pasts, with one another, and with themselves.
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Elleke Boehmer was born in Durban and lives in Oxford.
October 2019 £8.99 | $16.95
She is the author of five novels including Screens Lisa Blower won The Guardian’s National Short Story
£8.99 | $16.95 against the Sky (shortlisted for the David Higham Prize), 129mm x 198mm competition in 2009, was shortlisted for the BBC National
129mm x 198mm Bloodlines and The Shouting in the Dark as well as a 224 pages Short Story Award in 2013, has been Highly Commended
224 pages widely translated biography of Nelson Mandela. Paperback and longlisted for the Bridport Prize for three
Paperback Her first collection of short stories was Sharmilla, And Rights held: World English consecutive years, and was one of just four UK authors
Rights held: World Other Portraits. language longlisted for The Sunday Times Short Story Award 2018.
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Around the world in NINE novelS Fiction
Panos Karnezis
We Are Made
South Africa
Australia
Of Earth
India
ISBN: 978-1-908434-45-6 ISBN: 978-1-908434-74-6 ISBN: 978-0-956251-50-3
Price: £7.99 | $13.95 Price: £11.99 | $16.95
Price: £8.99 | $14.95 At once timely and timeless, this powerful
and absorbing novel explores the price of
peace and security through the intimate
motivations and moral dilemmas of people
bound together by fate and circumstance.
When an overcrowded dinghy capsizes at sea, a
doctor is among those refugees thrown overboard. In
the ensuing panic, he saves one life and condemns
another. The doctor and the boy he has saved—the
only surviving witness to the crime—eventually reach
West Africa
a tiny Greek island where they are offered shelter by
Mauritius
Canada
‘The literary find of the year’ the owner of a small travelling circus, itself marooned
Annie Proulx in the off-season. Debt-ridden, the circus owner knows
that his most valuable asset is an Asian elephant, far
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Price: £8.99 | $14.95 Price: £8.99 | $14.95 Price: £8.99 | $14.95 from her natural habitat but lovingly tended by the
owner’s wife even as she mourns their 10-year old
daughter.
As the refugees await a long-deferred ferry to take
them onto the next stage of their journey, the doctor is
drawn to his host’s wife, all the while keeping his young
companion, who loves him fervently, at arm’s length.
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eISBN: 978-1-912408-28-3
September 2019
£8.99 Panos Karnezis was born in Greece and came to the UK
Germany
129mm x 198mm in 1992. A graduate of UEA’s MA in Creative Writing, he is
France
224 pages the author of four novels—The Maze (shortlisted for the
Brazil
Paperback Whitbread First Novel Award), The Birthday Party, The
ISBN: 978-0-956559-96-8 ISBN: 978-0-956559-91-3 ISBN: 978-0-9565599-7-5 Rights held: World English Convent and The Fugitives, and a collection of stories,
Price: £8.99 | $14.95 Price: £7.99 | $13.95 Price: £8.99 | $14.95 language Little Infamies. His work is translated into 20 languages.
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Fiction Fiction
Manu Joseph
Miss Laila, Armed Tony Peake
and Dangerous North Facing
Bold, stylish and deceptively witty, Manu A novel of awakening and atonement, this
Joseph’s gripping new novel poses searching exquisitely realised story revisits a seminal
questions about political forces and religious boyhood moment as it plays out—with
division—with an ingenious twist. unexpected and sinister consequences—
On the day that Hindu nationalists and their
against the backdrop of political upheaval
controversial leader have won a spectacular election in South Africa.
victory, a large apartment building collapses in For one long, intense week in October 1962, the Cuban
Mumbai. The rescue operation finds a single survivor Missile Crisis brought with it an East-West stand-off and
Manu Joseph’s new novel trapped under a beam and the only person able ‘This beautiful, moving novel the possibility of nuclear holocaust. On the other side
is a daring, page-turning to reach him is Akhila Iyer, a medical student who is vast in how much of the globe, in Pretoria, a group of schoolboys scan
thriller, filled with anger is also a notorious social media prankster. Crawling it recounts and how the horizon for signs that the world is about to end.
and wit and some of the through the rubble to administer first aid, she finds him deeply it makes us feel.’
loveliest sentences you will mumbling in delirium about a young Muslim couple on Edmund White There is political tension in the classroom too, and the
read this year’ their way to carry out a terror attack. power struggles and cruelties of the boys mirror the
Zoë Heller corruption of a deeply divided country. One of those
Elsewhere, an intelligence agent, Mukundan, is boys, Paul Harvey, now in his sixties and living abroad,
assigned to shadow two terror suspects, one of whom is drawn back to South Africa to confront the chilling
is the teenage Laila, the sweetheart of her street. Time consequences of the part he unwittingly played in the
is running out. drama that unfolded.
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May 2018 Tony Peake was born in South Africa and has lived
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£8.99 Manu Joseph is the author of two widely acclaimed in London for most of his life. His work has appeared
October 2017
129mm x 198mm and bestselling novels, Serious Men (winner of the Hindu in many anthologies, including The Penguin Book
Literary Prize and the PEN/Open Book Award) and The £8.99 |$14.95 of Contemporary South African Short Stories, The
224 pages
Illicit Happiness of Other People (shortlisted for the 129mm x 198mm Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories and Best British
Paperback with flaps
Encore Award and the Hindu Literary Prize). A former 208 pages Short Stories 2016. He is the author of two novels, A
Rights held: UK & Commonwealth
(ex-Canada and India) and columnist for the International New York Times, he lives in Paperback Summer Tide and Son to the Father, and of Derek
Europe Delhi and writes for Mint Lounge. Rights held: World Jarman: A Biography.
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LITERARY BESTSELLERS AND AWARD WINNERS fiction
ISBN: 978-1-908434-94-4 ISBN: 978-1-908434-41-8 ISBN: 978-0-9935633-8-6 Ruth Figgest
Magnetism
Price: £9.99 Price: £8.99 † Price: £8.99 | $14.95
Brutally honest and horribly funny, this
gloriously wry debut episodically unpacks
a mother-daughter relationship recounted
‘Ruth Figgest demonstrates in reverse.
how to make a story.’ Mother and daughter Caroline and Erica are best
Patrick Gale of friends and the worst of enemies.
Set in the American mid- and south-west, their story
unfolds over more than 50 years against a backdrop
of sweeping social change. Together they experience
the stigma of mental health problems, infertility,
ISBN: 978-0-954930-97-4 ISBN: 978-1-908434-84-5 ISBN: 978-0-956251-53-4 homosexuality and single parenthood. Feisty and
Price: £7.99 | $13.95 Price: £8.99 † Price: £8.99 † argumentative, they roll with the punches, surviving
car crashes, awkward family gatherings, relationship
disasters —and plastic surgery.
Sharply observed and darkly comic, Magnetism
notches a riveting new path through this most
fundamental of family ties.
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eISBN: 978-0-9955900-7-6
March 2018
£8.99 | $16.95 Ruth Figgest grew up in the US and has an MA in
129mm x 198mm Creative Writing from the University of Sussex. Her fiction
368 pages has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize six times and
ISBN: 978-1-908434-53-1 ISBN: 978-0-956251-52-7 ISBN: 978-1-908434-86-9 Paperback one of her stories, ‘The Coffin Gate’, was commissioned
Price: £8.99 | $14.95 Price: £7.99 | $13.95 Price: £8.99 | $14.95 Rights held: World for broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
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CRIME BESTSELLERS AND AWARD WINNERS fiction
Peter Adamson
ISBN: 978-1-908434-12-8 ISBN: 978-0-956251-57-2 ISBN: 978-0-956559-93-7 The Kennedy
Moment
Price: £7.99 | $13.95 Price: £7.99 † Price: £7.99 | $13.95
A reunion of friends and lovers; a conspiracy
that begins as a joke; a secret to be kept for
thirty years—this daring, ingeniously plotted
thriller brings together five ordinary people
with an extraordinary idea.
When the mild-mannered American physician Dr
Michael Lowell opens an invitation to his college
‘It reads like an Elmore reunion he knows he’ll see Seema Mir—the serene
Leonard novel, only with more young woman from Karachi who rejected him twenty
emotion and more depth. I years earlier because he was ‘just a little bit too
was spellbound, in genuine dull’. He doesn’t expect to be caught up in a global
ISBN: 978-0-956792-64-8 ISBN: 978-1-908434-18-0 ISBN: 978-1-908434-96-8
Price: £7.99 † Price: £8.99 | $14.95 suspense, the writing is so conspiracy.
Price: £7.99 †
damned good.’ Moving between Oxford, New York, Washington,
Adam Fifield Geneva, Abidjan and Côte d’Ivoire, this is masterful
storytelling from an author whose career has put him
at the heart of international affairs.
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February 2018
Peter Adamson is the author of two previous novels,
£14.99/£12.99 | $19.95/$17.95
Facing out to Sea and The Tuscan Master. His short story
153mm x 234mm ‘Sahel’ was awarded the Royal Society of Literature V.S.
368 pages Pritchett Memorial Prize in 2013. For 16 years Adamson
Hardback / Paperback was Senior Adviser to the Executive Director of UNICEF in
ISBN: 978-1-908-434-26-5 ISBN: 978-1-908434-39-5 ISBN: 978-1-908434-22-7 Rights held: World New York. In the 1970s he founded New Internationalist
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† Rights sold in North America
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nonfiction nonfiction
BRAVE
NEW WORDS
Susheila Nasta & Rukhsana Yasmin,
edited by
Susheila Nasta
Lorna Goodison & Rukhsana Yasmin Editors
Redemption Ground Brave New Words
This first-ever collection of essays by the Poet Fifteen specially commissioned essays from
Laureate of Jamaica interweaves the personal distinguished authors explore the value of
and political to explore her love of poetry and critical thinking, the power of the written
the arts; colonialism and its legacy; racism and word, and the resonance of literature in the
social justice; authenticity; and the enduring twenty-first century.
power of friendship. ‘As long as we have
literature as a bulwark Bernardine Evaristo, Romesh Gunesekera, Tabish
‘Being introduced to Enlightening, entertaining, profoundly political against intolerance and as Khair, Blake Morrison, Marina Warner and others
[Lorna Goodison’s cast of and poetic, Lorna Goodison introduces us to an a force for change, then we explore the place of the writer, past and present. Their
characters] is like sitting extraordinary cast of characters and range of have a chance... Literature work articulates ‘brave new words’ at the heart of
down at the family dining influences—from finding a black hairdresser in Paris is plurality in action; it battles against limitations on fundamental rights of
table. You’ll stay for the and crying at a movie in Jamaica, to having a life- embraces and celebrates a citizenship, the closure of national borders, fake news,
day and then on into the changing epiphany in New York’s Bottom Line Club or place of no truths; it relishes and an increasing reluctance to engage with critical
evening as each new drinking tea with an old friend and new strangers on ambiguity, and it deeply democratic debate. Published to celebrate 35 years
character pulls up a chair. Marylebone High Street. respects the place where of Wasafiri, the leading magazine of international
You could not be in better everybody has the right to literature, Brave New Words imagines writing across
company.’ She describes not only the daily slights but also the
be understood.’ shifting and troubled borders, and diverse possibilities for
New York Times compassion that enables us to rise above them. Her
Caryl Phillips living, working and belonging together.
poet’s eye, profound vision and glorious combination
of metaphysical and post-colonial sensibilities in these
essays confirm her as a major figure in world literature.
Susheila Nasta MBE is the founding editor of Wasafiri.
ISBN: 978-1-912408-13-9 ISBN: 978-1-912408-20-7
A literary activist, writer and presenter, she is Professor
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Lorna Goodison is the author of nine collections of of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Queen
August 2018 November 2019
poetry, three collections of short stories and an award- Mary College, University of London. Her books include
£9.99 | $16.95 winning memoir. Her work has been translated into £9.99 | $16.95 Home Truths, Writing Across Worlds, and India in Britain.
129mm x 198mm many languages. Born in Jamaica, Lorna Goodison now 129mm x 198mm Rukhsana Yasmin, Deputy Editor of Wasafiri, is winner of
224 pages divides her time between Canada and the US where 265 pages the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize for Women in Publishing and
Paperback she teaches at the University of Michigan. She was Paperback a Bookseller Rising Star. She speaks widely on diversity in
Rights held: World appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 2017. Rights held: World publishing, Muslim literature, and international fiction.
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Mike Barnes
Be With
Letters to a Carer
Charlotte Amelia Poe
No ordinary practical care guide, this is a
compelling personal story that unfolds a side
of dementia almost entirely missing from
How To Be Autistic
public discussion. This urgent, funny, shocking, and impassioned
memoir by the winner of the Spectrum Art
Poet Mike Barnes has spent years caring for his mother, Prize 2018, presents the rarely shown point of
Mary, through the stages of moderate, severe, very view of someone living with autism.
severe and late-stage Alzheimer’s. In this eloquent
series of letters, addressed to an anonymous long-term Charlotte’s work challenges narratives of autism,
dementia carer, he transforms his own increasingly created by neurotypical people, as something to be
challenging experience into a wellspring of clarity and ‘fixed’. Charlotte believes her autism is a fundamental
understanding, support and solace. aspect of her identity and art. She writes:
‘I wanted to show the side of autism that I have lived
Calming and contemplative yet fiercely alive, this through, the side you don’t find in books and on
consoling, humane and surprisingly uplifting Facebook groups. My piece is a story about survival,
‘Timely, lyrical, tough, book balances candour about the devastations of ‘Charlotte shows us both fear and, finally, hope. It is an open letter to every
accurate, and ultimately dementia with insights into the ways in which it calls the desperate and bleak autistic person who has suffered the verbal, mental or
not (too) depressing. forth capacities long-buried by the defences of angle to autism, as well as physical abuse and come out snarling and alive.’
Or as my aunts used to say, full cognition—the ‘depths of sensitive awareness, the beautiful side.’
‘It’s not necessarily a fun ride, but I promise there’s
Roll up your sleeves.’ resilience rising to heroism, and a capacity for joyful Professor Simon Baron-Cohen
a happy ending. There will be parts that make you
Margaret Atwood relatedness.’
want to cover your eyes or cringe away, but as the
Addressed to carers but relevant and deeply person who lived through them, I beg you to read on,
important for us all, Be With encourages us to focus because if I can change just one person’s perceptions,
on fellowship and accurate witness: to simply be with if I can help one person with autism feel like they’re less
ISBN: 978-1-912408-18-4 who, and what, is actually before us. alone, then this will all be worth it. So please, turn the
eISBN: 978-1-912408-19-1 ISBN: 978-1-912408-32-0 page. Our worlds are about to collide.’
February 2018 eISBN: 978-1-912408-33-7
£8.99 | $14.95 September 2019
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160 pages have appeared twice in Best Canadian Stories, three 111mm x 178mm Charlotte Amelia Poe is a self-taught artist and writer
Paperback times in The Journey Prize Anthology, and won the Silver 160 pages from Suffolk. She also works with video, and won the
Rights held: UK and Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards. Paperback inaugural Spectrum Art Prize with the film she submitted,
Commonwealth ex Canada He lives in Toronto. Rights held: World ‘How To Be Autistic’.
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Cynthia Enloe Olivier Kugler
The Big Push Escaping Wars
Exposing and challenging the and Waves
persistence of patriarchy Encounters with
Leading feminist Cynthia Enloe pulls back the Syrian Refugees
curtain on patriarchy to reveal not only the
blatant sexism we can all identify, but also Compelling and evocative, Kugler’s
the insidious persistence of particular forms intense graphic reportage documents
of masculinity and authoritarianism in daily the experiences of Syrian refugees in Iraqi
‘This is a manual for taking life. Kurdistan, Greece, France, Germany,
‘Kugler is an extraordinarily
us to the finishing line of
skilled journalist and Switzerland and England.
Decades of feminist campaigning have resulted
gender equality. A jolt of
in real advances, and yet patriarchy continues to cartoonist who is taking Olivier Kugler was commissioned by Médecins Sans
new energy for longstanding
thrive. Drawing on her own experiences and the lives comics journalism to a new Frontières to interview and photograph Syrian refugees
feminists and a “must read”
of women from around the world, Enloe uses these level. These potent profiles as they travelled across borders and took temporary
for our new generations.’
diverse and illuminating essays to explore the resilience from the migration front refuge in camps en route to an uncertain destination.
Helena Kennedy QC
of patriarchal beliefs and values, and identify the lines will leave an indelible
impression on your brain His beautifully observed drawings—peppered with
unwitting nature of our complicity. She shows how,
and heart.’ snatches of conversation and the everyday objects
simply by noticing, questioning, and crafting fresh
Joe Sacco that have become such a significant part of their
feminist concepts, we can update our resistance and
lives—bring to life the refugees’ experiences in a room,
challenge patriarchy’s self-perpetuating core.
in a camp, and on the road.
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October 2017
£9.99 ISBN: 978-1-912408-12-2
Cynthia Enloe has investigated women in the global Olivier Kugler is a German illustrator based in east
135mm x 216mm June 2018
garment, trainer, banking and banana industries, London. His work has been commissioned for Médecins
208 pages domestic work, diplomacy and militarism. She is £19.99 Sans Frontières and published in The Guardian, Vanity
Paperback the author of 14 books, including Globalization and 225mm x 290mm Fair, and Harpers. Winner of the 2018 European Design
Rights held: World Militarism. Her work has been translated into many 80 pages Awards Jury Prize, his other awards include Association
Rights sold: US & Canada, Japan, languages and she regularly appears on National Hardback of Illustrators World Illustration Awards in 2015 and the
Spain, Turkey Public Radio, Al Jazeera, C-Span and the BBC. Rights held: World English V & A Illustration Award 2011.
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ISBN: 978-1-908434-36-4 ISBN: 978-0-9935633-2-4 ISBN: 978-1-908434-43-2 Darryl Cunningham
Billionaires
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The richest one per cent in our society
have vastly disproportionate political and
cultural influence. Who are these people?
What are their lives like? Are Trump, Branson,
Gates and Murdoch today’s12
equivalent
of Rockefeller, Carnegie, JP Morgan and
Vanderbilt?
The super-rich are often portrayed as self-made, as if
their wealth was created entirely by their own efforts.
But is this true?
‘It can take other authors
ISBN: 978-1-908434-69-2 ISBN: 978-1-908434-77-7 ISBN: 978-1-908434-20-3 whole books to say what In his latest book of graphic analysis, celebrated
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illustration.’ featuring graphic biographies of media baron Rupert
Jon Ronson Murdoch, oil and gas tycoons Charles and David
Koch, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Have these
individuals enjoyed advantages beyond their personal
ability and attributes to aid their success?
Billionaires concludes with a standalone graphic essay
showing how the one per cent’s iron grip on politics
and the media has led to cruelty, racism, misogyny,
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November 2019 book about what made Trump possible.
£16.99
160mm x 230mm Darryl Cunningham lives in Yorkshire. He is the
240 pages acclaimed author of Psychiatric Tales, Science Tales,
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24 † Rights sold in North America 25Graphic Medicine graphic
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Price: £16.99 † Price: £17.99 † Price: £12.99 | $17.95 Ian Williams
The Lady Doctor
A behind-the-scenes, warts-and-all comedy
drama set in a rural Welsh health centre, and
a follow-up to Williams’s critically acclaimed
debut, The Bad Doctor.
Forty-year-old Lois Pritchard is a partner at
Llangandida Health Centre, and also works two days
a week in the local Genitourinary Medicine (GUM)
‘The territory of doctor as clinic. Currently single, she is, by her own admission,
patient has been visited ‘not very good with relationships’. Her patients’ stories
before, but Dr Williams’s provide some welcome relief: a man who regrets
iteration and its resolution, the Pinocchio face he had tattooed on his genitals;
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provoking as the best of prescribing his drugs; and a man being driven mad
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New York Times
Williams uses his own experience as a practising GP
to recreate the lives of patients and practitioners with
his trademark lightness of touch and wonderfully sly
sense of humour.
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January 2019
£14.99
170mm x 230mm Ian Williams is a physician and award-winning comics
224 pages artist. Founder of GraphicMedicine.org, a resource on
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Rights held: World a weekly comic strip for The Guardian, and is joint
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Film & TV University Press. Welsh by birth, he now lives in Brighton.
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Sarah Lightman Kate Charlesworth
The Book of Sarah Sensible Footwear
The ‘Book of Sarah’ is missing from the This political and personal history, by one of
bible, so artist Sarah Lightman sets out to Britain’s best-known cartoonists, makes the
make her own. Questioning religion, family, invisible visible, and celebrates lesbian lives
motherhood, and what it takes to be an from the domestic to the diva.
artist, this is a deeply subversive visual Growing up in the North of England was a rich and
autobiography from the Jewish heartlands of colourful experience for Kate Charlesworth but
north London. anything overtly queer was thin on the ground. Like
Sarah Lightman has been drawing her life since she countless other girls and women, Kate grabbed
‘Sarah Lightman is like was a 22-year-old undergraduate at The Slade School ‘It is Kate Charlesworth’s whatever role models were on offer.
the poster-child for a new of Art. The Book of Sarah traces her journey from artwork that really captures, Female homosexuality has never been an offence
kind of feminist activist— modern Jewish orthodoxy to a feminist Judaism, as she with her soft washes, dynamic in the UK, effectively rendering lesbians even more
scholar, artist, curator, and searches between the complex layers of family and expressions, and that invisible than they already were—often to themselves.
cheerleader for comics that family history that she has inherited and inhabited. wonderful use of minimal But in 1950, when Kate was born, male homosexuality
reveal and shape new forms colour.’
The Jerusalem Bible, Ellerdale Road, St Paul’s Girls carried a custodial sentence; blackmail, violence, and
of Jewish consciousness’. The Independent
School and a baby monitor, together with books, the fear of exposure were ever-present.
Ariel Kahn, Jewish Quarterly
streets, buildings and objects, fill this bildungsroman set Sensible Footwear is a fascinating history of how post-
in Hampstead, North West London. war Britain transformed from a country hostile towards
and virtually in denial about ‘queer’ lives to the LGBQTI
universe of today.
Sarah Lighman is an artist, academic, curator, editor
ISBN: 978-1-908434-51-7 ISBN: 978-0-993563-34-8
and writer. She attended The Slade School of Art, where Kate Charlesworth is a cartoonist and illustrator
April 2019 October 2018
she won the Life Drawing Prize, Slade Prize and William originally from Yorkshire and now living in Edinburgh.
£19.99 Coldstream Award. She has published in numerous £17.99 | $24.95 After studying in Manchester, she moved to London and
180mm x 250mm academic books and journals, curated and shown in 180mm x 250mm became part of the ‘golden age’ of queer publishing.
256 pages many exhibitions, and won many awards. She and is 272 pages Her strips have appeared in The Guardian, New Scientist
Hardback completing a PhD at the University of Glasgow and lives Paperback and elsewhere. She illustrated the acclaimed graphic
Rights held: World in London. Rights held: World novel Sally Heathcote, Suffragette.
28 29graphic graphic
Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin
& Julian Waite Nicola Streeten and Cath Tate
Marie Duval The Inking Woman
This is the first book to celebrate the life and 250 years of women cartoon
work of Marie Duval (1847–1890), a ground-
breaking cartoonist whose work, depicting
and comic artists in Britain
an urban, often working class milieu, has ‘We’re here, and we’ve always been here,’ says author
Cath Tate. In the 1760s, Mary Darly illustrated and
been largely forgotten.
wrote the first book on caricature to be published in
Marie Duval’s work confounds one of our most England. A century later, Marie Duval created the
commonplace ideas of the Victorian era— that cartoon character Ally Sloper for the new popular
women were not supposed to create or to even press. The Suffragettes used cartoons to promote their
‘One of the forgotten wonders participate in public life, and were certainly not meant ‘It matters that we cause and, by the 1920s, women cartoonists regularly
of 19th-century art. [Duval’s] to be either comic or professional. remember women’s contributed to newspapers. Since the 1960s, women
drawings have something history. Like so much art, have come increasingly to the fore as comic creators.
Both a stage actress as well as an artist, Duval was
in common with Honoré uniquely placed to take advantage of the first women have taken a Covering a wide range of topics, this curation of
Daumier, but also look forward appearance of a mass leisure culture that combined backseat. Now they are at women’s comics work includes prints, caricatures,
to modern comics’. current affairs and theatrics with a focus on urban life. the forefront and I am SO jokes, editorial and strip cartoons, postcards, comics,
The Guardian Her work appeared in serial magazines and books at proud!’ zines, graphic novels, and digital comics. Based on
a time when the identity of the artist was in flux and a Sandi Toksvig an exhibition held at the Cartoon Museum in 2017, it
woman working in the man’s world of cartooning was demonstrates that women have always had a wicked
hitherto unknown. sense of humour and a perceptive view of the world.
Dr Simon Grennan is research fellow at the University of
Chester, a performance artist and graphic novelist. His Dr Nicola Streeten is a cartoonist and comics scholar
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colleague, lecturer Dr Julian Waite, is a performer and whose PhD focuses on humour in British feminist
March 2018 March 2018
visual artist specializing in street theatre. Roger Sabin is cartoons and comics (1970–2010). She is the author
£19.99 | $24.95 Professor of Popular Culture at the University of the Arts, £19.99 | $24.95 of Billy, Me & You and co-founder of the international
210mm x 270mm Central Saint Martins, and the author of many books 210mm x 270mm network Laydeez Do Comics. Cath Tate is an author of
144 pages about comics. They have teamed up to work on the 144 pages humorous books and her company, Cath Tate Cards,
Hardback Marie Duval Archive, a project of Chester University, Hardback has published the work of women cartoonists for over 30
Rights held: World Central Saint Martins, and Guildhall Library. Rights held: World years.
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24 25Recent and recommended Fiction 2019 Calendars and Diaries
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22 23Fiction Fiction
Various Authors
Redemption Song William Ash
and other stories Heroes of the
The Caine Prize for Evening Mist
African Writing 2018 Heroes in the Evening Mist is the previously
unpublished novel by the Texas-born
The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s author William Ash. His repeated attempts
leading literary prize. The 19th prize-winning to escape German prisoner-of-war camps
story is Fanta Blackcurrant by Makena made him one of the models for the
Onjerika. character played by Steve McQueen in the
Kenyan writer Makena Onjerika won the 2018 Caine film The Great Escape. This, his final novel,
Prize for her short story entitled Fanta Blackcurrant.
‘A story of bravery in the face evokes heroism, romance, comradeship –
of brutality, of comradeship, of
‘Africa’s most important literary This collection brings together the five 2018 shortlisted and ultimately betrayal.
award.’ stories:
a never-say-die attitude; and
running through it is a sense War correspondent Colin Frere is on assignment
International Herald Tribune • American Dream by Nonyelum Ekwempu (Nigeria)
of humour that cheers up the in Malia, a southeast-Asian state consumed by
• The Armed Letter Writers by Olofunke Ogundimu
grimmest situation.’ civil conflict and revolution. He is abducted by the
‘Entertaining. Deserves to be (Nigeria)
The Times Communist guerrillas – actually by prearrangement.
widely read.’ • Fanta Blackcurrant by Makena Onjerika (Kenya)
(for Ash’s best-selling memoir, His mission is to understand the rebels and their
Sunday Independent (South • Involution by Stacy Hardy (South Africa)
Under the Wire) charismatic leader – not least because his own elder
Africa) • Wednesday’s Story by Wole Talabi (Nigeria)
brother once fought alongside them. But he soon finds
that idealism trumps journalistic detachment and he
It also includes 12 stories written at the Caine Prize
becomes an active soldier in the revolutionary cause.
Writers’Workshop, which took place in Rwanda in
His journey and that of his adopted country involves
April 2018
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betrayal.
ISBN: 978-1-78026-461-5
eISBN: 978-1-78026-462-2 ISBN: 978-1-78026-473-8
July 2018 eISBN: 978-1-78026-474-5
William Ash was born in Texas but fought as a Spitfire
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pilot in the Second World War before spending three
190mm x 130mm £9.99 | $16.95 years in a German prisoner-of-war camp. After the War,
240 pages The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading 215mm x 139mm Ash acquired British citizenship and went on to become
Paperback literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an 356 pages a politician, broadcaster and President of the Writers’
Rights held: World African writer published in English, whether in Africa or Paperback Guild of Great Britain. He wrote a dozen books of fiction
Rights sold: Africa, North America elsewhere. Rights held: World and nonfiction.
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20 21Fiction Fiction
Various authors
Edited by Helen Moffett, Nebila Various authors
Abdulmelik and Otieno Owino Edited by Helen Moffett
Short Story Day Africa: Short Story Day Africa:
Identity Hotel Africa
The theme for Short Story Day Africa’s (SSDA) The latest Short Story Day Africa prize and
latest anthology is ‘Identity’. Its annual anthology theme is Hotel Africa. If these walls
competition sought innovative short fiction could talk, what story would they tell?
exploring identity, especially (but not limited Check-in... To five-star neon-lit luxury. To budget motels
to) the themes of gender identity and with the option to pay by the hour. Lovers, aid workers,
sexuality. businessmen local and foreign, wedding guests, gap-
year travellers, volunteer tourists, honeymooners, UN
21 stories from writers across Africa have been selected
soldiers, politicians, adventure seekers, evangelists,
for the 2018 longlist. The shortlist of first, second and
holidaymakers, warmongers, peacekeepers.
third place winners will be announced in March 2018.
‘Short Story Day Africa Check-in... To hotels made of brick and cement and
SSDA is one of the most successful short story ‘[Short Story Day Africa]
provides an increasingly blood and sweat. Hotels made of corrugated iron and
organizations on the continent with all of its previous articulates the relationship
powerful springboard for clay and hope and faith. Hotels celebrated, hotels
anthologies receiving significant critical acclaim. between globalized first-world
young talent.’ forgotten. Hotels that have served as shelter for the
culture, with its expectations of
The Guardian These are authentic African stories offering alternative night or refuge when the shots rang out.
fiction, genre, and style, and
short stories, stepping away from 'the single story, a
various African localities.’ Check-in to Hotel Africa. Innovative short fiction set
distorted, one-dimensional view of Africa that sees
Los Angeles Review of Books in the rooms, the passages, the bars and the lobbies
the continent only through a prism of war, disease,
of hotels across the continent, as well as metafiction
poverty, starvation and corruption.' (Chimamanda
exploring Africa as a hotel herself.
Ngozi Adichie, The Danger of the Single Story).
ISBN: 978-1-78026-459-2 ISBN: 978-1-78026-463-9
eISBN: 978-1-78026-460-8 eISBN: 978-1-78026-464-6
July 2018 July 2018
£8.99 | $14.95 £8.99 | $15.95
194mm x 129mm Short Story Day Africa brings together writers, readers, 194mm x 129mm Short Story Day Africa brings together writers, readers,
284 pages booksellers, publishers, teachers and school children 284 pages booksellers, publishers, teachers and school children
Paperback from all over the globe to write, submit, read, workshop Paperback from all over the globe to write, submit, read, workshop
Rights held: World, ex. Africa and discuss stories. Rights held: World, ex. Africa and discuss stories.
18 19CHILDREN’s Fiction
Kate Evans Various authors, Edited by
Don’t Call Me Karen Martin and Makhosazana
Princess Queer Africa
Queer Africa is a collection of unapologetic,
Award-winning cartoonist delivers her tangled, tender, funny, bruising and brilliant
first children’s book with this humourous stories about the many ways in which we
and irreverent response to the princess love each other on the continent.
stereotypes.
This collection draws together 25 stories selected
from two ground breaking anthologies published
Well-known cartoonist Kate Evans takes a punchy pop by MaThoko Books, an imprint of Gay and Lesbian
at six ‘classic’ fairytales: The Princess and the Pea, Memory in Action (GALA) in South Africa. The first
Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, volume, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction won
‘One of the most original
Rapunzel and The Little Mermaid. ‘Here is fiction that is at times the 26th Lambda Literary Award. In 2017 Queer Africa
talents in comics I’ve seen
transgressive, at times gentle, 2: New fiction added fresh material to the LGBTQ+
in a long time.’ A sassy child narrator chooses six well-known fairy
at times indignant, but always literary landscape.
Steve Bell tales involving princesses. With simple rhyme and lively
acknowledging the very
pictures, she takes the stories apart with incredulous Stories from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa,
human desire to find a place of
humour and charm. This is a book to inspire children Botswana, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe celebrate
solace, acceptance and love.’
and adults of all ages to think beyond the superficial. the diversity and fluidity of queer and African
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
identifications and expressions.
Karen Martin is a fiction writer, collage artist and
Kate Evans is is a cartoonist, artist, and activist. She professional editor. She is the co-editor of Sex and
is the author of numerous books and zines including ISBN: 978-1-78026-463-9 Politics, a collection of essays, memoirs and archival
ISBN: 978-1-78026-465-3 Bump: How to Make, Grow and Birth a Baby, The Food eISBN: 978-1-78026-464-6 documents about the South African LGBTQ+ rights
October 2018 of Love: Your Formula for Successful Breastfeeding, July 2018 movement and the anti-apartheid struggle.
£9.99 | $12.95 Funny Weather: Everything You Didn’t Want to Know £8.99 | $15.95 Makhosazana Xaba is a poet and author. Her poetry
218mm x 180mm About Climate Change but Probably Should Find Out, 194mm x 129mm has been anthologized widely and translated into
32 pages Red Rosa and Threads. She was awarded the John 264 pages various languages. Her collection of fiction, Running
Hardback C. Laurence Award in 2016, and the Broken Frontier Paperback and other stories, won the SALA Nadine Gordimer Short
Rights held: World Award for Best Graphic Non-Fiction in 2017. Rights held: World, ex. Africa Story Award in 2014.
16 17Graphic Graphic
Sean Michael Wilson and
Written by Sean Michael Wilson Jaime Huxtable
Illustrated by Robert Brown The Illustrated Orwell:
The Many Such, Such Were
Not The Few The Joys
An Illustrated History of Britain George Orwell’s celebrated auto
Shaped by the People biographical essay about life at school
before and during WWI is brought to new life
Union rep Joe and his granddaughter discuss in graphic format.
the history of the labour movement, from the
Writer Sean Michael Wilson and artist Jaime Huxtable
14th century right up to today. bring to vivid graphic life one of George Orwell’s most
Over tea and sandwiches in his studio they consider celebrated essays. In Such, Such Were The Joys Orwell
the whole wide sweep and points of connection looks back on his childhood and on his experience of
throughout history. boarding school, reflecting on the often brutal realities
of the regime to which pupils were subjected in the
Starting way back with the 14th-century Peasants’
name of class prejudice, hierarchy and imperial destiny.
Revolt, taking in the Levellers and the Luddites, the
expansion of the unions in the 19th century, the height This groundbreaking graphic treatment conjures up
of their power in the ‘70s, and the great conflicts and how this harsh world looks through a child’s innocent,
decline of the ‘80s. accepting eyes while juxtaposing the mature Orwell’s
ruminations on what such schooling says about
With a mix of serious research and family jokes Joe and
society. The book aims to introduce Orwell’s writing to
Arushi go into the complicated history, the ideological
new readers while offering a fascinating new visual
battles, the class conflict, a consideration of what
dimension for those who already know it well.
unions are for, and what the future of unions may be.
Sean Michael Wilson is an award-winning graphic Sean Michael Wilson is an award-winning graphic novel
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and history. He was co-author of Fight the Power: A history. He was co-author of Fight the Power: A Visual
Visual History of Protest Among the English-Speaking History of Protest Among the English-Speaking People,
ISBN: 978-1-78026-444-8 People, Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of ISBN: 978-1-78026-518-6 Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical
eISBN: 978-1-78026-445-5 Radical Thinking, and main author of Goodbye God?: eISBN: 978-1-78026-519-3 Thinking, and main author of Goodbye God?: An
March 2019 An Illustrated Exploration of Science vs Religion January 2020 Illustrated Exploration of Science vs Religion (all
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(all New Internationalist). New Internationalist).
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240 x 165 mm Cartoonist Robert Brown is a regular contributor to 240 x 165 mm Jaime Huxtable is a cartoonist/illustrator. His work includes
128 pages anthology titles, including Soaring Penguin’s Eisner- 192 pages the graphic novel app Think Like Churchill, Makers of
Paperback nominated To End All Wars and Portraits of Violence. Paperback Monsters (with writer Mark Pembrey), and a piece for
Rights held: World He has his own critically acclaimed comic series, Killjoy. Rights held: World the next volume of Russ Kick’s The Graphic Canon.
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