Breakneck
What starts as a revenge thriller twists into a race to save a city from certain destruction in this latest pulp drama from Hard Case Crime
Horizontal Collaboration
Being on opposite sides in a war doesn’t always stop people from falling in love, as Navie and Carole Maurel describe in this beautiful book set in occupied France during World War II
The Silent Invasion: Red Shadows
A paranoid tale set in fifties America, when your next-door neighbour was probably a closet communist and UFOs seemed to herald an invasion from outer space
Is This How You See Me?
Jaime Hernandez returns to Hoppers with Maggie and Hopey for a punk reunion with a lot of familiar (but older) faces
Super Narwhal and Jelly Jolt
My 10-year-old daughter loved the first Narwhal book but what does she think of the second?
IAN 3: Blitzkrieg
The third book in Vehlman and Meyer’s IAN cranks up the tension, as the titular android takes his programming a little too literally
Brink: Book 3
Dan Abnett and I.N.J. Culbard use the third book in the Brink series to bring the first story arc to its unnatural conclusion.
Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea
My daughter (aged 10) reviews the first in a series of children’s graphic novels about a narwhal and a jellyfish
A Shining Beacon
James Albon follows up his brilliant Her Bark and Her Bite with a very different story depicting a bleak, dystopian post-Brexit Britain on the verge of a civil war. The story centres around an artist, who finds herself stuck in the gap between the government and the revolution.
Tyler Cross: Angola
The second book in Fabien Nury and Brüno’s dark tales of crime and punishment sees Tyler Cross doomed to spend 10 years in a dangerous hard-labour prison