Letters from Iceland Mothers Day The most enjoyable graphic novel

The most enjoyable graphic novel I've read in a while' Zadie Smith 'I joyously recommend this book to you' Mark Haddon 'Riad Sattouf is one of the great creators of our time' Alain De Botton 'Beautifully-written and drawn

vivid and arresting' The Times One summer evening in 2009

Tim Kendall and Fiona Mathews take us on a safari unlike any other

the book casts Novak as an agitator and freedom fighter - but

Letters from Iceland Mothers Day The most enjoyable graphic novelIn the summer of 1936, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found themselves capturing concerns on a scale that were far more international. 'Though writing in a "holiday" spirit,' commented Auden, 'its authors were all the time conscious of a threatening horizon to their picnic world wide unemployment, Hitler growing everyday more powerful and a world war more inevitable.' The result is the