Is is 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 her neighbour.[...]

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 course of a career spanning more than fifty years, Posy Simmonds has become one of Britain's best-known satirical cartoonists. She is also as a much-loved author and artist of widely translated children's books and graphic novels. These include Fred, animated in 1996 into the Oscar-nominated [...]

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 [...]