Maggie O'Farrell, Graphic Novels with Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds, plus Anuradha Roy

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Johny Pitts talks to Maggie O'Farrell, the Woman's Prize-winning author behind Hamnet. Continuing her fascination with overlooked women in history, O'Farrell explains how her new novel, The Marriage Portrait, is poetically influenced by the brief life of Lucrezia de Medici. There is a long tradition of female graphic novelists, even if it is considered to be a "boys club". Lizzy Stewart and Posy Simmonds discuss. Plus Anuradha Roy sends a reflective Literary Postcard from the Himalayan foothills. Book List – Sunday 18 September and Thursday 22 September The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell Alison by Lizzie Stewart Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds Tamara Drew by Posy Simmonds Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds Maus by Art Spiegelman When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs Sally Heathcote, Suffragette by Mary M Talbot, Kate Charlsworth and Bryan Talbot Lighter Than My Shadow by Katy Green Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton The Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy