Posy Simmonds – författare

The brilliant graphic novel behind the major new film starring Gemma Aterton (Quantum of Solace), Jason Flemyng (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Fabrice Luchini (In the House) and Mel Raido (Spooks)Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bête-noire of his ex-wife. Gemma's sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy, where the charms of French country living soon wear off. Is it a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a name rather like Flaubert's notorious heroine? Is it by chance that, like Madame Bovary, Gemma is bored, adulterous, and a bad credit risk? Is she inevitably doomed? These questions consume Gemma's neighbour, the intellectual baker, Joubert. Denying voyeurism, but nevertheless noting every change in the fit of her jeans, every addition to Gemma's wardrobe, her love-bites and lovers, Joubert, with the help of the heroine's diaries, follows her path towards ruin. Adultery and its consequences. Disappointment and deception. The English in France. Fat and slim. Then and now.

Winner of the Grand Prix 2009 de la Critique Bande Dessinée.Tamara Drewe has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different wardrobe, a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a new and thrilling power to attract, which she uses recklessly. Often just for the fun of it.People are drawn to Tamara Drewe, male and female. In the remote village where her late mother lived Tamara arrives to clear up the house. Here she becomes an object of lust, of envy, the focus of unrequited love, a seductress. To the village teenagers she is 'plastic-fantastic', a role model. Ultimately, when her hot and indiscriminate glances lead to tragedy, she is seen as a man-eater, a heartless home-wrecker, a slut.First appearing as a serial in the Guardian, in book form Tamara Drewe has been enlarged, embellished and lovingly improved by the author.

***WINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2020***'Simmonds is a copper-bottomed genius... she is as brilliant a writer as Britain has' Jenny Colgan, Mail OnlineCassandra Darke is an art dealer, mean, selfish, solitary by nature, living in Chelsea in a house worth £7 million.She has become a social pariah, but doesn't much care. Between one Christmas and the next, she has sullied the reputation of a West End gallery and has acquired a conviction for fraud, a suspended sentence and a bank balance drained by lawsuits. On the scale of villainy, fraud seems to Cassandra a rather paltry offence - her own crime involving 'no violence, no weapon, no dead body'.But in Cassandra's basement, her young ex-lodger, Nicki, has left a surprise, something which implies at least violence and probably a body . . . Something which forces Cassandra out of her rich enclave and onto the streets. Not those local streets paved with gold and lit with festive glitter, but grimmer, darker places, where she must make the choice between self-sacrifice and running for her life.

First published in 2003, Literary Life became an instant classic as readers (and writers) delighted in watching Posy Simmonds skewer the pains and pretensions of the writer’s (and reader’s) calling with her inimitable flair for witty satire and sharp social observation. As well as all the cartoons and comic strips from the original edition, The Complete Literary Life includes 40 extra pages of cartoons, including the two series Rick Raker and Dr Derek, in which two very different heroes attempt to right the wrongs afflicting the writing world, one by brute force and skulduggery, the other with a silky bedside manner.

Vinnare av Urhundenplaketten 2012 för 2011 års bästa översatta seriealbum!

Löst baserad på romanen Fjärran från vimlets yra (1920) av den engelske författaren Thomas Hardy har Posy Simmonds skapat ett drama i serieformat som väl speglar ett härligt grymt England av idag. Serien gick ursprungligen som veckostrip i The Guardian och blev vinnare av kritikerpriset Prix de la critique på International Comics Festival i Angoulême 2009.

Boken har även filmatiserats av Stephen Frears där Gemma Aderton spelade rollen som Tamara.

Boken inleds med ett förord av Andres Lokko.

Långt ut på den engelska landsbygden driver mr och mrs Hardiman ett gästhem för författare, Stonefield Farm. Där ägnar mrs Hardiman stor omsorg åt att ta hand om gästerna, renskriver manus, tar hand om gårdens djur, serverar eftermiddagste och ser till att mr Hardiman, gästerna och de anställda har allt de kan önska av lugn, komfort och service.

Inget tycks hota idyllen till den dagen då flickan från granngården oväntat återvänder från London. Med sin perfekta (opererade) näsa och sin karismatiska utstrålning påverkar Tamara alla som kommer i hennes närhet, den ständigt otrogne författaren, lantbrukaren, den frustrerade forskaren, rockmusikern och ortens uttråkade ungdomar.

Tamaras oemotståndliga skönhet och faiblesse för farliga förbindelser leder oundvikligen fram till tragedier som både är gripande och absurda.

Detta är en serie fylld med brittisk humor och så nära en bra feel good-serie man kan komma.