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Maggie O'Farrell, Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds, plus Anuradha Roy

Johny Pitts talks to Maggie O'Farrell about her new book, The Marriage Portrait. Plus feminist graphic novels with Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds

Johny Pitts talks to Maggie O'Farrell, the Woman's Prize-winning author behind Hamnet. Continuing her fascination with overlooked women in history, O'Farrell explains how her new novel, The Marriage Portrait, is poetically influenced by the brief life of Lucrezia de Medici.

There is a long tradition of female graphic novelists, even if it is considered to be a "boys club". Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds discuss.

Plus Anuradha Roy sends a reflective Literary Postcard from the Himalayan foothills.

Book List – Sunday 18 September and Thursday 22 September

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Alison by Lizzie Stewart
Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds
Tamara Drew by Posy Simmonds
Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds
Maus by Art Spiegelman
When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs
Sally Heathcote, Suffragette by Mary M Talbot, Kate Charlsworth and Bryan Talbot
Lighter Than My Shadow by Katy Green
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
The Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy

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28 minutes

Last on

Sun 18 Sep 2022 16:00

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Photographer Sophie Davidson

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  • Sun 18 Sep 2022 16:00

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