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  • Published: 16 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9781787333031
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $79.99

Grandville L'Intégrale

The Complete Grandville Series, with an introduction by Ian Rankin




The complete Grandville graphic novels series - the bestselling, award-winning steampunk thrillers, whose fans include Philip Pullman - in a sumptuously designed package, with an introduction by Ian Rankin

'I've never come across a fictional world as fully-realised as Bryan Talbot's Grandville... It's a world you'll never tire of exploring' IAN RANKIN

Beware the Badger! The acclaimed steampunk series from graphic-novel pioneer Bryan Talbot explores an alternate art-nouveau world populated by intelligent animals, a human underclass, and wondrous technology. Within this rich fantastical milieu, the relentless Detective-Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard pursues shadowy death squads, psychotic killers, dark political conspiracies, ruthless crime lords, and bloodthirsty cults through the streets of London and the center of the greatest empire on earth, the Belle Epoque Paris known as Grandville.
Grandville L'Intégrale collects all five Grandville novels in one deluxe hardcover volume accompanied by voluminous author notes never before in print.

*WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN*

'I have greatly enjoyed the Grandville books. I think they're superbly designed, beautifully conceived, admirably written - everything about them is terrific' PHILIP PULLMAN

'These ingeniously plotted fantasies will make you bark with laughter' METRO

'Utterly delightful' THE TIMES

'Bryan Talbot is a genius' OBSERVER

  • Published: 16 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9781787333031
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 608
  • RRP: $79.99

About the author

Bryan Talbot

Bryan Talbot was born in 1952. He has worked on underground comics, science fiction and superhero stories such as Judge Dredd and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight. His books include Alice in Sunderland, Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes (with Mary Talbot), the first graphic novel to win the Costa biography award, and the Grandville series.

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Praise for Grandville L'Intégrale

Grandville is a favourite of ours.

Bleeding Cool

Bryan Talbot is the most important comic creator in Great Britain.

Teddy Jamieson, Herald Scotland

I've never made a secret of my belief that Bryan Talbot is a genius... So I was always going to like Grandville Mon Amour. Even so, my passion for it took me by surprise: I can safely say that this is, by several miles, my favourite graphic novel of the last 12 months.

Rachel Cooke, Observer

These ingeniously plotted fantasies will make you bark with laughter.

Metro

For over a century children have loved getting a Rupert or Beano annual as part of the season's largesse. This year a lot of grown-ups should feel similar delight when Grandville Mon Amour turns up under the tree.

Guardian

A solid conspiracy caper with bursts of Tarantino-like mayhem... A witty romp in a vividly realised topsy-turvy world.

Times Literary Supplement

Utterly delightful... There's a witty touch or deliciously knowing in-joke on almost every page... Beautifully rendered, throughout, the glossy gorgeousness fills your eyes.

The Times

The bastard child of Conan Doyle and Beatrix Potter, it's a gripping feast for the eyes.

Observer

I have greatly enjoyed the Grandville books. I think they're superbly designed, beautifully conceived, admirably written - everything about them is terrific.

Philip Pullman

This ripping yarn of mystery, murder and the machinating arms tycoon Baron Krapaud of Toad Hall is both irresistibly exciting and sumptuously designed.

Telegraph

I've never come across a fictional world as fully-realised as Bryan Talbot's Grandville... It's a world you'll never tire of exploring.

Ian Rankin