2010: an independent review

Anna Goodall, Clerkenwell Tales bookshop, December 2010 This year the broadsheets' best of 2010 fiction lists were dominated by publishing's heavy hitters: Franzen and Roth garner the largest percentage vote, with quite a few giving nods to Carey and Amis;... More...

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Monday, 20 December, 2010

Creator Bryan Talbot talks about the inspiration behind his steampunk graphic novel series

The initial inspiration for Grandville was the anthropomorphic illustrations of the early nineteenth-century French cartoonist Jean Ignace Isadore Gérard. I was looking at a book of his work that I've owned for several years when suddenly his animal characters came... More...

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Sunday, 19 December, 2010