Two Graphic Novels Shortlisted For The Costa Book Awards, Both About Parents And Children

Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart is on the shortlist for Novel Of The Year, the story of a mother and a teenage son and the conflucts between them.

While Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes by Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot has been nominated for Biography Of The Year, also a story of parents and children, dealing as it does with the life of Mary Talbot and her father James S Atherton, James Joyce and his daughter Lucia Joyce. Bleeding Cool ran an early review here.

The winners will be announced on 2nd January and all five will then compete for Book Of The Year and £30,000/$50,000.