Avery Hill Publishing
The Hard Switch
» Graphic Novel » Sci-Fi
Dystopian
Leading Ladies
Political
Post-apocalyptic
Space
An engrossing science fiction graphic novel about a spaceship's crew, and the end of non-renewable resources.
Ada, Haika, and Mallic are on a mission . . . one last mission, before everything, everywhere shuts down. They’re raiding old, abandoned spaceships and wrecks for the (sometimes-expensive) parts – and they make just enough money to get by. But living their nomadic, exploring life...
On a Sunbeam
» Graphic Novel » Sci-Fi
Family
Girls' Love
LGBTQ+
Space
Tillie Walden's queer space-opera tells the story of Mia, from her life as a rebellious schoolgirl, to her time as part of the crew on the ship Aktis, out in the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful and broken down structures.
Part love story, part epic space adventure, and dealing with Tillie’s now signature themes of sexuality & gender, the individual in landscape, first love and...
Adrift on a Painted Sea
» Graphic Novel » Biographies
Family
Love
Named one of The Guardian's Top 20 Graphic Novels of 2024
Sue Bird was always painting: botanical art, landscapes, still lifes, and especially the sea. She took classes, kept countless sketchbooks, and filled the house with art. From their neighbourhood to their family trips, all the moments of her life were memorialised in her artwork. Throughout her life, she never sold a piece - she gave...
The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott
» Graphic Novel » Drama
Family
Friendship
Leading Ladies
Billie Scott is an artist. Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months. Within a fortnight she'll be completely blind. As Billie struggles to deal with her impending blindness, she sets off on a journey from Middlesbrough to London; into a world of post-austerity Britain and the problems facing those left behind. Her quest is to find ten people to paint for her exhibition, as well as the...
Jinx Freeze
» Graphic Novel » Crime
Fighting
Gangs
Heists
Humor
Crime has descended on the normally tranquil riviera - a solid gold sculpture on loan from the Gurgleheim Museum has been stolen and the local police force are well out of their depth. They need help and they need it fast.
Told through the twisted creative lens of Hurk in his long-awaited full-length technicolour debut, Jinx Freeze is a heist story unlike any you've read before!
Victory Point
» Graphic Novel » Adventure
Holiday
Mature
On a summer's day, Ellen returns to the coastal town she grew up in, the picturesque, yet architecturally strange, Victory Point. Revisiting old haunts and people from her past, she feels increasingly disconnected from her previous life, and exhausted by the constant struggle of trying to forge the path ahead. Exploring a town, which itself is an experiment in how to live, Ellen searches for some...
Safer Places
» Graphic Novel » Anthologies
Friendship
Magic
Mystery
A new collection of stories about isolation, memory, liminal spaces, and small magic from one of comics’ up-and-coming voices.
From road trips to doctors’ offices to the mysterious spaces under the house, Kit Anderson’s short stories explore the secrets and magic typically unseen in everyday life. A walk through the forest, a family move, a day in a normal life – Anderson’s...
Alone in Space
» Graphic Novel » Fantasy
Family
Friendship
LGBTQ+
Alone In Space compiles award-winning cartoonist Tillie Walden’s short comics into a stunning and comprehensive collection of the early work which shot her to fame on both sides of the Atlantic.
Walking Distance
» Graphic Novel » Non-Fiction
Modern
Walking Distance is Lizzy Stewart's poignant and contemporary illustrated essay on the experience of being a woman out walking. Merging the personal and the political, observation and contemplation, Lizzy examines what her life is and wonders what it should be; what is expected of a thirty year old woman by society, by family and friends and by herself.
The Corus Wave
» Graphic Novel » Adventure
Friendship
Mystery
Lorelei is just trying to finish her BA thesis. Then her research into an obscure star-shaped Devonian-era cephalopod fossil drags her into a scavenger hunt that indicates her subject may be hiding some of the central secrets of the universe. Or at least, that's what 19th century polymath Havius Corus thought.
Careening through libraries, churches, botanical gardens, and stone circles with...
What We Don't Talk About
» Graphic Novel » Psychological Fiction
Family
Love
Psychological
Farai has finally persuaded Adam to introduce her to his parents, but the visit to the in-laws turns out to be a horrible experience for her. She starts to feel uneasy and ostracised. When confronted about this experience Adam tries to play down the situation and does not show any understanding for his partner's concerns. Then things get a whole lot worse and Farai has to question if she can be...
The Scrapbook of Life and Death
» Graphic Novel » Abstract
Gore
Mature
Murder
Psychological
The British newspaper clipping collection of egalitarian George Ives, collected between 1892 and 1949, ranged from murder and theories of crime to cricket scores. He was fascinated by the unusual, the gothic, the sexual, and the melodramatic.
In this graphic novel, acclaimed cartoonist J. Webster Sharp shares some of the most bizarre stories from the archives of George Ives in silent comics...