Manga: Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction
Fantagraphics Last Girl Standing
Book SynopsisThe first lady of underground comix pens a sweet and blistering memoir.
£17.99
Fantagraphics The Thing From The Grave And Other Stories
Book SynopsisClassic crime, shocking horror - and outrageous satire!
£25.49
Fantagraphics I, Rene Tardi, Prisoner Of War In Stalag Iib
Book SynopsisIn his Magnum Opus, acclaimed cartoonist Jacques Tardi tells the story of his father, who was a WWII Prisoner of War.In his Magnum Opus, acclaimed cartoonist Jacques Tardi tells the story of his father, who was a WWII Prisoner of War.
£25.49
Fantagraphics Drawn To Berlin: Comics Workshops in Refugee
Book SynopsisA compassionate mix of memoir and graphic journalism recounting one cartoonists experience working in a Berlin refugee shelter.
£21.24
Fantagraphics Cryptoid
Book SynopsisFamous monsters of Haven-land!
£17.99
Fantagraphics Cowboy
Book SynopsisAn uproariously funny surreal take on the classic Western.
£17.99
Fantagraphics Red Rock Baby Candy
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£25.49
Fantagraphics I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
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£21.24
Fantagraphics Illustrating Spain In The US
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£21.24
Fantagraphics Halcyon
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£21.24
Boom! Studios Seen: Rachel Carson
Book SynopsisThe second original graphic novel in a new series spotlighting the true stories of the real groundbreakers who changed our world for the better.Booklist Starred Review! “Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.” Meet Rachel Carson, the woman who changed the way America fought against the environmental crisis through her bestselling books, ultimately spurring the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Birdie Willis & Rii Abrego present the true story of the marine biologist whose dedication, compassion and integrity gave a new generation of Americans hope for a brighter tomorrow. It’s about being seen. Both for who you are, and who you hope you can become. History is a mirror, and all too often, the history we’re told in school reflects only a small subset of the population. In Seen: True Stories of Marginalized Trailblazers, you’ll find the stories of the real groundbreakers who changed our world for the better. They’re the heroes: the inventors, the artists, the activists, and more whose stories you won’t want to miss. The people whose lives show us both where we are, and where we’re going.
£6.52
Drawn and Quarterly Present
Book SynopsisLeslie Stein takes us on a sinuous urban stroll divorced from destination, glimpsing New York City through her open eyes. While she is closing up a bar late at night, she is also an adolescent at a rave in the mountains, an adult grappling with her grandfather s fading memory or at one of her first waitressing jobs. Stein is a master storyteller, an urban explorer, and a loyal guide through dark days and simple, blissful encounters. Stein s curiosity about and generosity toward the world around her come through powerfully: each colorful story flows with vivid watercolors and delicate ink lines. Here, an autobiography is built through memories and moments tied together by loose lines, evoking a beautiful dreamlike yet endlessly relatable glimpse into the world of a thirty-something woman carving out a life for herself, one step at a time. Known for her acclaimed Eye of the Majestic Creature series, collected here are Stein s serialized Vice.com comics which have become a staple for the site, showcasing her storytelling abilities with a freer style. With an introduction and new material, Present will be a deluxe die-cut hardcover that is a meditation on memory. Stein is asking us to take a moment to be here now, while acknowledging the other places and people we always carry with us.
£15.29
Between the Lines Showdown!: Making Modern Unions
Book SynopsisBased on interviews and other archival materials, this graphic history illustrates how Hamilton workers translated their experience of work and organizing in the 1930s and early 1940s into a new kind of unionism and a new North American society in the decades following World War II.
£17.05
Between the Lines 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General
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£11.35
New Internationalist Publications Ltd Co-operative Revolution: A graphic novel
Book SynopsisA graphic novel about the history and enduring appeal of the co-operative movement.
£7.46
New Internationalist Publications Ltd A New Jerusalem
Book SynopsisA detailed and minutely-drawn graphic novel based in Bristol in 1945 against a backdrop of dramatic post-war politics.
£12.34
Verso Books Bohemians: A Graphic History
Book SynopsisThe countercultures that came to define bohemia spanned the Atlantic, encompassing Walt Whitman's Brooklyn and the Folies Bergère of Josephine Baker, Gertrude Stein's salons and the Manhattan clubs where Dizzy Gillespie made his name. Edited by Paul Buhle and David Berger, Bohemians is the graphic history of this movement and its illustrious figures. The stories collected here revisit the utopian ideas behind millennial communities, the rise of Greenwich Village and Harlem, the multiracial and radical jazz and dance worlds, and the West Coast, Southern, and Midwest bohemias of America, among other radical scenes.Drawn by an all-star cast of comic artists, Bohemians is a broad and entertaining account of the rebel impulse in American cultural history. Featuring work by Spain Rodriguez, Sharon Rudahl, Peter Kuper, Sabrina Jones, David Lasky, Afua Richardson, Lance Tooks, Milton Knight, and more.The ebook edition is expanded from the paperback edition, and includes additional chapters on the swing music scene, La Boheme and midwest bohemians, as well as expanded material on the Greenwich Village intellectuals, Walt Whitman and Harlem jazz club Minton's Playhouse.Trade ReviewExcavates an essential part of American history ... and does so with style, great graphics, and no punches pulled. -- Luc SanteThe excitement and inspiration of their creative and courageous work is brilliantlycaptured in this wonderful graphic history. -- Noam ChomskyIngenious in its conception and brilliant in execution. It is urgently necessary for our times: read this book and see how to raise your voice against all the forces that would drown you out. A modern activist's primer! -- Ben Affleck, in praise of A People’s History of the American Empire
£12.01
Upfront Publishing Saltaire Blonde
£10.66
Cast Iron Books Candles
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£13.49
Cast Iron Books Hans Vogel is Dead: Volume 1: 2022: 1
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£20.69
AK Press Len, A Lawyer In History: A Graphic Biography of
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£13.05
AK Press Zooicide: Seeing Cruelty, Demanding Abolition
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£14.40
AK Press Fight Fascism!: Presented by World War 3
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£9.50
AK Press Now Is The Time Of Monsters
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£9.50
AK Press The Face Of Struggle
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£12.35
Merlin Unwin Books Fishing with Emma
Book SynopsisEmma is the modern answer to Mr Crabtree, the fictional character who inspired a whole generation how to fish in the 1950s. David Overland's informative cartoons capture all the fun and thrill of fishing and are the perfect medium for teaching all the different methods of catching coarse fish.
£9.49
Classical Comics Frankenstein The Graphic Novel: Quick Text
Book SynopsisConceived as part of a literary game among friends in 1816, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is today regarded as a classic piece of 19th century literature. The story begins with the journey of an adventurer, Robert Walton, who saves the life of a man at the North Pole. That man, Victor Frankenstein, tells Walton about his experiments with the creation of life and how he ended up at the North Pole. Through this simple plot device, Shelley was able to deal with serious real-world issues like acceptance, tolerance, and understanding, as well as the universal human need for companionship and love. The novel, of course, inspired a host of films, from the 1931 classic starring Boris Karloff to Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein, and more recently, a series of novels by Dean Koontz. This version, though slightly abridged, retains much of the original dialogue and remains true to Shelley’s brilliant vision.
£18.00
Classical Comics Dracula The Graphic Novel: Quick Text
Book Synopsis"I went down into the vaults. There lay the Count!He was either dead or asleep, I could not say which - for the eyes were open and stony but without the glassiness of death."The classic gothic horror story, presented in a totally engaging way through the immensley powerful illustrations. Staying true to the events of the original prose novel, this Quick Text edition features simplified and reduced dialogue to help reluctant readers and ELL students to engage with the text.Designed to encourage readers to enjoy classical literature, titles in the Classical Comics range stay true to the original vision of the authors. They also offer alternative text versions to cater for different readership levels. This title has been moderately and sympathetically abridged from the original text to fit within the graphic novel format. Despite that, all of the events of the book are represented in every version – it’s only the speech and captions that change!Like all of their titles, this Classical Comics production remains true to the original novel, and features incredible artwork that will engage any reader.
£18.00
SelfMadeHero Picture a Favela
Book SynopsisAndre Diniz tells the extraordinary story of Mauricio Hora, who lives in one of the most dangerous slums (favelas) in Rio, Brazil. In spite of the odds, Hora has made a name for himself internationally as a photographer. We are led from his challenging childhood living with his drug dealer father up to the present day.
£13.49
SelfMadeHero The Good Inn
Book Synopsis“A book based on a soundtrack score that has not yet been composed for a feature film that does not yet exist.” Pixies frontman Black Francis has approached writing his first book as he would do a song: with inventiveness and originality. The Good Inn tells the story of an eighteen-year-old known only as Soldier Boy who, after escaping a devastating explosion at the French port of Toulon, sets out on a bizarre journey across France. Navigating his way past homicidal gypsies, combative soldiers and porn-peddling peasants, he takes refuge at The Good Inn – and promptly finds himself centre stage in the making of the world’s first narrative pornographic movie. Unique and vividly imagined, The Good Inn is a touchingly comic story that brings turn-of-the-century France to life.
£13.49
Soaring Penguin Press Sugar
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£13.49
Soaring Penguin Press Urban Tails
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£15.29
Myriad Editions Things to Do in A Retirement Home Trailer Park
Book SynopsisA graphic novel about a young man taking care of and coming to terms with his dying father told in a wholly original way.
£999.99
Myriad Editions The Facts of Life
Book SynopsisA beautifully drawn, funny and sometimes painful exploration of what it takes to be a woman, and a mother - or not.
£15.29
Myriad Editions The Opportunity
Book SynopsisThis thrilling debut graphic novel casts a spotlight on the unforgiving world of door-to-door selling.
£12.34
Myriad Editions Hole in the Heart: Bringing Up Beth
Book SynopsisA Shortlisted title for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition 2014
£15.29
SelfMadeHero Wolf
Book SynopsisIt is the long, hot summer of 1976. Hugo, the youngest child of three, is walking with his father in the woods. There, he comes face-to-face with a wolf—and from that moment on, his life will never be the same again. Soon after, a tragic accident leaves Hugo desolate and disoriented. The family, now grieving and incomplete, moves to a new home. Among Hugo’s new neighbors is the Wolf Man—a dangerous recluse, according to the boy next door. Spellbound by the movie The Time Machine and desperate to return to the days before the accident, Hugo draws up plans to build a contraption that will turn back time. But only the Wolf Man has the parts Hugo needs to complete his machine, and that will mean entering his sinister neighbor’s house. Beautifully illustrated in pencil, Wolf is a captivating and poignant graphic novel about confronting childhood grief and overcoming the loss of a loved one.Trade Review“Employing supernatural elements to represent a child’s grieving process, Ball’s viscerally moving graphic novel of parental loss unfolds like a haunting dream.” -- Publishers Weekly“Childhood grief and loss are sensitively and imaginatively handled in this quietly affecting graphic novel.” -- Booklist
£14.39
SelfMadeHero Isadora
Book Synopsis“There was never a place for [Isadora Duncan] in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.” — Dorothy Parker In 1899, performing in the drawing rooms of London’s elite, Isadora Duncan was already laying the foundations for modern dance. The 22-year-old’s movements were visceral, free-flowing, and expressive; she performed barefoot. She shattered the conventions of traditional ballet and, in doing so, enchanted high society. A year later, in Paris, she met the sculptor Auguste Rodin, whose work proved a revelation, and the influential dancer Loie Fuller, whose support marked the beginning of a dazzling on-stage career. In Isadora, Julie Birmant and Clément Oubrerie capture the astonishing life and scandalous times of the so-called “Mother of Modern Dance.” This extraordinary graphic novel takes in her arrival in Europe, her rise to stardom and the development of a style of dance inspired by natural forms and Greek sculpture that would become her enduring legacy.
£13.49
SelfMadeHero I Feel Love
Book SynopsisLove makes the world go round. It can also turn your heart as black as coal. In a series of short fictions, Krent Able, Anya Davidson, Julian Hanshaw, Cat Sims, Benjamin Marr and Kelsey Wroten explore love’s dark, twisted underbelly, and offer a much-needed antidote to everything that is sweet, cloying and conventional. Through wife-swapping, slash fiction, medieval aliens, childbirth, swamp monsters and a mysterious black balloon, I Feel Love questions the one emotion that is meant to make us feel good—but that often does the exact opposite. As unflinching as it is honest, this is the kind of book you don't take home to meet your parents.
£13.49
SelfMadeHero The Mystic Lamb: Admired and Stolen
Book SynopsisFlemish painter Jan Van Eyck is one of Belgium’s most significant artists, famous for his early contributions to the Northern Renaissance movement of the 15th century. His polyptych classic, the Ghent Altarpiece (or The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb), is considered a masterpiece of European art and one of the most influential paintings ever made. In The Mystic Lamb, the famous Flemish illustrator Jan Van der Veken and history professor Harry De Paepe, produce a series of works in honour of Van Eyck’s coveted treasure. The book discusses Jan Van Eyck and explores why his paintings were so exceptional, as well as the robbery of two parts of the work in 1934, which was never resolved. This is an easy-to-read collection of interesting anecdotes alongside illustrations telling you everything you ever wanted to know about Jan Van Eyck and The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb.
£13.49
Bookmarks Publications 1917: Russia's Red Year
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£13.49
Classic Comic Store Ltd Don Quixote
Book SynopsisCervantes' great classic of the comedic adventures of a noble man who decides to become a knight to revive chivalry and serve his nation.
£8.20
Classic Comic Store Ltd The Black Arrow
Book SynopsisIn the midst of England's War of the Roses, Dick Shelton is on a quest for justice over the death of his father.
£8.20
Classic Comic Store Ltd Crime and Punishment
Book SynopsisDostoyevsky's novel of damnation and redemption follows a desperate student Raskolnikov who commits murder without remorse. Pursued by the authorities his conscience grows louder as the noose around his neck tightens.
£8.20
Ponent Mon Ltd Charlotte Salomon: Colours of the Soul
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£15.29
Centrala Ltd Amazing Athletes
Book SynopsisFind out what it takes to be the best in this graphic compendium of the most amazing athletes of all time!
£13.29
Centrala Ltd Single
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£25.49
Centrala Ltd Zen Without Master
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£22.94
