We've just received You Are The Friction, an anthology of fiction & illustration with 12 stories inspired by illustrations and 12 illustrations inspired by stores, including work by cartoonists Tom Gauld and Rob Hunter, among others!
The End of Something, illustrated by Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch and written by Nicolas Burrows: An ageing star mourns his wilder years in the company of sea creatures, and a young man explores the forest.
Matryoshka, illustrated by
Carson Ellis and written by
Tess Lynch:
A picture of newlyweds in the wake of a Russian honeymoon, and a wide-eyed revelation at a sewing circle.
The Footnotes, written by
Toby Litt and illustrated by
Rob Hunter:
Two writers under different forms of scrutiny. Academic surveillance, and the enquiring advances of a biographer.
Ash Banditry, written by
Craig Taylor and illustrated by
Tom Gauld:
Two stories about grief, experienced by an astronaut under interrogation, and friends on a budget flight somewhere over France
