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Tamara Drew is loosely inspired by a 19th century novel -- Far From the Madding Crowd. Set in a writers'' retreat, it is a thrilling tale of jealousy and desire.

This book consists of approximately fifty ''Literary Life'' cartoons which were serialised weekly every Saturday in the Guardian''s Review section from November 2002 until December 2004, and two short stories, ''Murder at Matabele Mansions'' and ''Cinderella''. Posy Simmonds examines the pretensions of the literary world with her customary flair for light, witty satire and social observation. Women writers suffer ''Rustic Block'' after moving to the countryside, type their sexual fantasies into their laptop, and (in ''Enemies of Promise'') juggle the dilemmas of feminism and motherhood. Male authors are shown suffering the ego-perils of coming into contact with the public at book signings, and complain about reviewers and ''media hoops''. Jealousies and rivalries emerge out of reading groups; struggling small booksellers have to deal with recalcitrant customers or sales reps pushing the latest celebrity book. Simmonds'' penchant for literary pastiche and parody is given full rein, as in ''Murder at Matebele Mansions''. And she wickedly suggests a family''s fixed smiles as a young girl explains the plot of her Harry Potter book ... Funny, insightful and beautifully drawn, Literary Life will delight fans of Gemma Bovery.

Posy Simmonds'' extraordinary reworking of Madame Bovary as a graphic novel Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bete-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 neighbor, 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. Many familiar ingredients of the novel are given new life in Gemma Bovery''s unique graphic form. Like Posy Simmond''s legendary cartoon strips featuring the Weber family, Gemma Bovery was published in weekly parts in the Guardian.

Lulu doesn''t want to be stuck in a museum, she wants to play outside in the snow! She sits on the bench and sniffs. Before she knows it the flying babies have escaped a painting and swept her off her feet. Lulu is flown into a whimiscal, magical adventure through a world of pictures, meeting Kings, growling at tigers and getting lost in the woods.

Lulu is going to be a bridesmaid, but the night before the wedding she eats too much chocolate and is very poorly. Lulu has a nap to feel better, but before long she is woken up by someone crying. Join Lulu on her very chocolatey escapades as she tries to rescue the wedding cake''s sugar bride from some mice who have a very sweet tooth.

***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 Online Cassandra 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.

In May 1977 Posy Simmonds, an unknown young illustrator, started drawing a weekly comic strip for the Guardian. It began as a silly parody of girls'' adventure stories, making satirical comments about contemporary life. The strip soon focused on three 1950s school friends in their later middle-class and nearly middle-aged lives: Wendy Weber, a former nurse married to polytechnic sociology lecturer George with a large brood of children; Jo Heep, married to whisky salesman Edmund with two rebellious teenagers; and Trish Wright, married to philandering advertising executive Stanhope and with a young baby. The strip, which was latterly untitled and usually known just as ''Posy'', ran until the late 1980s. Collected here for the first time are the complete strips. Although celebrated for pinpointing the concerns of Guardian readers in the 1980s and their constant struggle to remain true to the ideals of the 1960s, they are in fact remarkably undated. They show one of Britain''s favourite cartoonists, celebrated for Literary Life and Tamara Drewe, maturing into genius.

How Lavender became the Bravest Rabbit in the World Whenever there is the slightest hint of danger, Lavender the rabbit can be found with her friends the goose and the hens clucking with concern. So when a group of tourist town foxes arrive on their first visit to the countryside, Lavender is very wary indeed, even though the town foxes think that the idea of eating rabbits is just sick. Rabbit’s courage is challenged even further when the town foxes invite the rabbits to a party. However, Lavender joins the group and even perseveres when the others decide that the situation has become quite scary. What happens next, as the town foxes come face to face with their hungry country cousins, ensures that Lavender returns home a heroine!

A humorous story about a baker cat and his mice friends.

After selling out of the original hardcover edition, this innovative adventure in learning the alphabet is now a Dragonfly paperback. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

The night Sophie and Nick bury their dearly beloved cat Fred, all Fred''s cat friends arrive to reveal his nighttime self and give him a proper funeral and farewell.

Posy Simmonds hurga en las pretensiones del mundillo literario con su habitual talento para la sátira ligera e ingeniosa y su profunda capacidad de observación. En esta recopilación de viñetas publicadas en The Guardian entre 2002 y 2005, Posy Simmonds afila su pluma y su ingenio para hacer un retrato despiadado del mundillo literario. Con su extraordinario don para observar y parodiar, repasa con humor los rasgos característicos de quienes hacen de la literatura su forma de vida. Escritoras que sufren de «bloqueo rural» cuando se mudan al campo y entonces se dedican a teclear sus fantasías sexuales en un ordenador portátil, haciendo malabares con los dilemas del feminismo y la maternidad; autores que padecen de «egotitis aguda» cuando entran en contacto con su público durante las firmas de ejemplares, se quejan de los críticos y deploran tener que «pasar por el aro de los medios»; pequeños libreros que luchan por sobrevivir y que deben lidiar con clientes recalcitrantes y comerciales que intentan colocarles el último libro de una gran celebridad: nadie se libra de recibir su merecido... con cariño, eso sí. Hilarante, esclarecedor y maravillosamente dibujado, El mundillo literario encantará y matará de risa a los fans de la autora de Gemma Bovery, Tamara Drewe y Cassandra Darke. Reseñas: «Posy Simmonds es, sencillamente, una de las mejores autoras de cómics contemporáneas [...] su obra amplía el rango de lo que se considera una novela gráfica.» Paul Gravett «Simmonds es un genio infalible [...] Es una de las escritoras más brillantes de Gran Bretaña.» Jenny Colgan, Mail Online «Hace ya tiempo que Simmonds es algo así como un tesoro nacional.» Teddy Jamieson, Herald Scotland

Posy Simmonds sacrée Grand Prix du Festival de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême 2024 ! True love, c’est le premier roman graphique de Posy Simmonds, paru vingt ans avant Gemma Bovery, qui allait la rendre célèbre dans le monde entier. True love, c’est aussi l’amour sincère et sans faille que l’autrice a voué au dessin et à la littérature en cinquante ans de carrière. Pour célébrer ce jubilé, la Bibliothèque publique d’information du Centre Pompidou a décidé de lui ouvrir, du 22 novembre 2023 au 1er avril 2024, l’espace d’exposition où elle accueille depuis quelques années les très grands noms de la bande dessinée. À la faveur de cette entrée en fanfare dans l’espace muséal parisien, nous lui consacrons le présent album, qui rassemble les plus belles pièces de l’exposition, un long entretien en forme d’autoportrait et une série d’histoire inédites, dont l’irrésistible True love, publié ici pour la première fois en français.

Posy Simmonds sacrée Grand Prix du Festival de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême 2024 ! "Ces chroniques ont paru chaque samedi entre 2002 et 2005 dans The Gardian Review, supplément littéraire du célèbre quotidien britannique. Ma seule consigne était que tout devait tourner autour de la vie des lettres. Je travaillais en flux tendu – recherche d''une idée le lundi, fol espoir de l''avoir trouvée le mardi, et le mercredi, jour de remise, frénésie de travail matinal, en robe de chambre parmi les miettes de toast. Puis à 11 h 50, course jusqu''au bureaux du journal, au bout de la rue (mais pas en robe de chambre) pour livrer ma planche. Le reste du mercredi était en général consacré à un lunch bien mérité." Posy Simmonds.

Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft: Die Katze des geizigen Bäckers und seiner faulen Frau wird geschurigelt, wo es nur geht. Sie muss Teig anrühren, backen, spülen, fegen, die ganze Bäckersarbeit machen und nachts Mäuse jagen, um sich ihr Fressen zu verdienen. Sie magert dermassen ab, dass die Mäuse Mitleid haben und ihr einen Vorschlag machen, der beiden Seiten dient und gut geht, bis der Bäcker ihnen auf die Schliche kommt und Vergeltung androht. Aber die Mäuse sind clever genug, auch diese Situation zu meistern. In witzigen, bis aberwitzigen comicartigen Bildern wird die Geschichte illustriert und ist für die ganze Familie ein Spass! Ab 5 Jahren, ausgezeichnet, Monika Hedinger.

Vous voulez la recette pour fabriquer une merveilleuse histoire ? Alors, prenez un abominable boulanger, ajoutez un pauvre chat qui croule sous le travail et assaisonnez le tout d''une multitude de souris, aussi malicieuses que gourmandes !

Kiki kijkt heel erg uit naar de trouwdag van haar tante, want ze mag bruidsmeisje zijn! Prentenboek in de vorm van een stripverhaal met gekleurde illustraties. Voorlezen vanaf ca. 6 jaar, zelf lezen vanaf ca. 8 jaar.