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...
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...
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...
Second Shift
» Graphic Novel » Sci-Fi
Space
From the time when the station wakes her up, Birdie Doran is on the clock. It's just her and one or two others on Terracorp's isolated outpost, processing comets. So she slips into virtual reality, with the station creating adventures for her as she does repairs, routine maintenance, and checks the status on all the systems.
But when Birdie discovers another abandoned station just within...
Curses
» Graphic Novel » Anthologies
Interdimensional
Mystery
Psychological
A new collection of surreal, subversive, magical realist stories from one of comics’ most inventive voices.
From hospitals to hell to the wilderness, George Wylesol’s short stories take place in liminal spaces where nothing is as it seems; the surreal becomes real; and something is lying in wait around every corner. As our main characters navigate through corridors, passageways, and...
Artificial Flowers
» Graphic Novel » Slice of Life
Family
Siobhan has left her hometown to try to start a career as an artist in trendy East London. She desperately needs an exhibition but no one seems particularly interested in her work.
When her little brother Chris's anti-social tendencies resurface, he’s sent by his parents to stay with her as part attempt at rehabilitation, part banishment.
Soon the two discover a way in which they can help each...
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...
A City Inside
» Graphic Novel » Abstract
Family
LGBTQ+
Modern
Shifting between the everyday and the surreal, A City Inside recounts one woman’s life from her childhood home, to the first love that she will never forget, to the creation of the idea of herself that she can grow old with and the home that she can grow old in.
Something City
» Graphic Novel » Slice of Life
Family
Friendship
Something City is an exploration of modern day living through representations of the lives of different groups of people in an imagined place. Segregated communities of young people, elders, fanatics, techies and the religious live side by side, interweaving and cohabiting in a city they build around themselves.
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...
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.