Marble Cake
English
Kitty
Graphic Novel - Slice of Life
Kitty lives an unremarkable life with her aging parents and her job in the Post Office. She escapes into daydreams of dancing and romance to relieve the monotony of her daily routine. Her story provides a glimpse into a generation of women whose lives were shaped by the limits of their education, class and social expectations of the last century.
Grey Area: Issues One to Three Collection
Comic - Slice of Life
Collecting together the first three issues of Tim Bird's acclaimed series, this includes While The City Sleeps, The Old Straight Track and From the City to the Sea which won the Best Comic award at the British Comic Awards in 2015.
Psychogeography figures largely in Tim's work and sees him examining people's relationships with the space around them and how the space around them shapes people.
States of Mind
Comic - Slice of Life
A glimpse into the life of a vivacious young woman whose brilliant mind is caught in the ebbs and flows of her mental illness.
Artificial Flowers
Graphic Novel - Slice of Life
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 other; they just need to keep it a secret from their parents, Siobhan’s girlfriend and the London art scene…
I Love This Part
Graphic Novel - Slice of Life
Two girls in a small town in the USA kill time together as they try to get through their days at school. They watch videos, share earbuds as they play each other songs and exchange their stories. In the process they form a deep connection and an unexpected relationship begins to develop.
Grey Area: Our Town
Comic - Slice of Life
Memories from childhood. Relationships with those we love. The environment that we experience. The time and place within which we exist.
These aspects of our lives are questioned and interrogated - memories and places change, whilst we are shaped by our connections with those close to us, as well as the landscapes we inhabit.
Something City
Graphic Novel - Slice of Life
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.
Lights, Planets, People!
Graphic Novel - Slice of Life
Renowned astronomer, Maggie Hill, is due to deliver a lecture about her astonishing career to a group of science students. She’s also attending her first ever therapy session in order to overcome some debilitating anxiety. Plus, Maggie's heartbroken... but she doesn't know this yet. Through facing first herself and then a group of terrifyingly ambitious and canny young women, Maggie is forced to share her greatest achievements and admit her biggest regrets.
Big Ugly
Graphic Novel - Slice of Life
Work, health, family -- Mel feels like her life is just circling endlessly as she begins to renew her relationship to her brother in this vibrant graphic novel. Renowned illustrator Ellice Weaver brings her crisp artwork to the graphic novel form in this powerful story of contemporary life.
Low Orbit
Graphic Novel - Slice of Life
An atmospheric and profound coming-of-age graphic novel about a Malaysian American teen carving out her own identity in the uneasy space between friends and family.