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Posy Simmonds

    August 9, 1945

    Rosemary Elizabeth Simmonds, known as Posy Simmonds, is a British cartoonist and author celebrated for her graphic novels and children's books. Her work is characterized by its gentle satire of the English middle classes, particularly those with a literary bent. Simmonds frequently draws inspiration from 18th- and 19th-century gothic novels, imbuing them with an ironic, modernist sensibility. Her narratives often feature doomed heroines, exploring the complexities of modern life with wit and insight.

    Posy Simmonds
    Cassandra Darke
    Lulu und die fliegenden Babys
    Gemma Bovery
    Tamara Drewe
    Baker Cat
    Fred
    • Fred

      • 32 pages
      • 2 hours of reading
      4.2(17)Add rating

      Fred's owners, Sophie and Nick think he is the laziest cat in the world, but who knows what goes on after dark?It's only after their beloved pet dies, that they discovers he has been leading an exciting double life . . . 'Enchanting, an instant classic' Sunday Telegraph'Fred is pure delight' Guardian

      Fred
    • Baker Cat

      • 36 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

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

      Baker Cat
    • Tamara Drewe

      • 136 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
      3.9(119)Add rating

      Winner of the Grand Prix 2009 de la Critique Bande Dessinee.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.First appearing as a serial in the Guardian, in book form Tamara Drewe has been enlarged, embellished and lovingly improved by the author.

      Tamara Drewe
    • Gemma Bovery

      • 106 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
      3.9(199)Add rating

      The English in France, fat and slim, then and now. Many familiar ingredients of the novel are given new form in a unique graphic form, as Gemma's sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy wher the charms of French country living soon wear off

      Gemma Bovery
    • Cassandra Darke

      • 94 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
      4.0(332)Add rating

      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.

      Cassandra Darke
    • Wie aus Lulus ungeliebtem Museumsbesuch ein Flug durch wunderschöne Bilder wurde: In den Schnee, ans Meer zu einem Tiger und einem König.

      Lulu im Museum
    • Wer sagt denn, daß Katzen und Mäuse sich nicht vertragen können? - Die wunderbare Geschichte von einem bösen Bäcker, einer fleißigen Katze und einer Bande frecher, fröhlicher Mäuse.

      Die Katze des Bäckers