Today we at SelfMadeHero are proud to say that Lo! An Amazon! The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft is out now in the UK! This is another landmark collaboration from the award-winning duo Bryan and Mary M. Talbot, putting to page the life of the eponymous author and foundational feminist philosopher.

On their remarkable new title, the Talbots had this to say...

Multiple award-winning artist Bryan Talbothas been working in comics for over forty years. He’s produced underground, fantasy and superhero stories such as Batman and Sandman, and graphic novels including The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, The Tale of One Bad Rat, Alice in Sunderland, the Grandville series, as well as illustrating the books written by his wife, Mary M. Talbot.

Bryan and Mary are both founding patrons of The Lakes International Comic Art Festival. Bryan was awarded a Doctorate in Arts and another in Letters and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Mary M. Talbot is an academic turned graphic novelist. Her first graphic novel, Dotter of her Father’s Eyes (with Bryan Talbot), won the 2012 Costa Biography Award. Her other graphic novels include Sally Heathcote, Suffragette (2014, with Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot), The Red Virgin (2016, with Bryan Talbot), and Rain (2019, with Bryan Talbot). Her most recent academic book is Language and Gender (3rd ed, 2019). She was Visiting Professor of Graphic Narrative at Lancaster University until 2024. Her previous graphic novel with Bryan Talbot, published by SelfMadeHero, was Armed with Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington (2023).

SelfMadeHero: To start at the beginning, how did the idea of a graphic biography of Mary Wollstonecraft come to be?

Bryan Talbot: It was Mary's idea.

SMH: Readers might recall your 2014 title Sally Heathcote: Suffragette, made in collaboration with Kate Charlesworth. Did that graphic novel help lead you to this one?

Mary Talbot: It was about continuing my interest in the history of feminism, in gender issues more generally, so, in that sense, the suffragette book led to this one. With both, I was driven by a search for a substantial subject worthy of years of scrutiny. Mary Wollstonecraft as a biographical subject, though, I wouldn’t have taken on without full access to university library resources. For 3 years, I had the honour of being Visiting Professor of Graphic Narrative at Lancaster University, having been invited by the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing.

SMH: Tragically and famously, Mary Wollstonecraft died at only 38 years old, but not before meeting innumerate other notable thinkers and earning herself scores of accomplishments. How did you go about adapting and condensing such a storied life?

Bryan: Mary did it!

Mary: Scripting a graphic biography involves an enormous amount of selection and condensation. I always put together a detailed timeline of events first – the basic raw material – then gradually select from it to construct a narrative. With the Leonora Carrington biography, I eventually decided to focus on her early years, with her departure to a new life in Mexico as the main finishing point. She lived to the grand old age of 94 – I couldn’t possibly cram it all in! I didn’t have to do that with Mary Wollstonecraft, but she certainly packed a lot into her 38 years.

SMH: Your last book published by SelfMadeHero was Armed with Madness, a graphic biography of the renowned surrealist Leonora Carrington. Do you see any likenesses between Carrington and Wollstonecraft’s experiences as female members of broadly male-dominated movements?

Mary: I don’t get the impression that Wollstonecraft was marginalized, as a woman, in the circles of radicals and revolutionary sympathisers she mixed with. She certainly wasn’t cast in the role of artist’s muse, as Carrington was. In society more broadly, yes of course, they had patriarchy to contend with. They were both struggling to live their lives the way they’d chosen.

SMH: Including the award-winning Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, which partially focused on Lucia Joyce, you have now collaborated on multiple period pieces concerning historically notable women who experienced mental ill health. Why is this such a potent throughline in your collective work?

Mary: 3 of the 6 books we’ve collaborated on have protagonists with mental health issues, yes. In Dotter, Lucia Joyce’s life served as a complement/counterpoint to mine; we were both daughters with a James Joyce connection. In Armed with Madness, Carrington had a severe mental crisis in the turmoil of WW2. Both were rebel daughters whose families used their illness as pretext for locking them up. Wollstonecraft’s ‘melancholia’ was perhaps rather different, but all three women were engaging in mighty struggles for self-determination.

SMH: What did Lo! An Amazon! demand of you both compared to any of your previous collaborations?

Bryan: For myself, a lot of visual research: architecture of the period, carriages, locations, late 18th-century clothing etc. Where possible, the locations were based on old drawings of the areas and specific buildings where the story is set. At the time, in pre-Haussmann Paris, a lot of the buildings were still medieval.

At one point we were in Le Mans, where I had an exhibition and a couple of signings, and I took the opportunity to take many photos of the medieval centre around the cathedral, a place that's frequently been used as locations for French historical movies. Visits to the Musée Carnavalet and the Musée de Montmartre were also very fruitful sources of visual reference. The Carnavalet happened to have a large exhibition centred around the role of Paris in 1789 Revolution.

We also visited places where Wollstonecraft had lodgings or visited, such as The Palace of Versailles and The Luxemburg Gardens. Painted portraits of the famous characters she knew were also useful. Visits to places like Townend in Troutbeck, a family house of the period now owned by the National Trust, were great for photographing ordinary household objects and furniture. Ditto the rebuilt harbour and 18th-century shops and The HMS Trincomalee frigate in the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Hartlepool, which are full of authentic period material. The St Pancras Old Church was another location we used for the present-day sequence, though the church was rebuilt since her time, so I used old illustrations of the building there before it for the 18th-century scenes. Of course, painted portraits of the famous characters she knew were also useful and the internet is a treasure trove of visual reference.

Mary: Portraying the historical period was an interesting challenge. We set out to do that through both image and text. I drew on the words of Wollstonecraft and her contemporaries as much as I could. We’ve visually evoked the built environment, fashions etc, but early print culture and political cartooning were also very important.

SMH: What was an aspect of Wollstonecraft’s life that you discovered or rediscovered in the process of creating this book? Did you gain any newfound perspective on the world she navigated?

Mary: I didn’t know that she was a seasoned solo traveller, or that she crossed the North Sea with an 18-month-old child and a maid! I hadn’t read a great deal of her work before, just extracts, really. I discovered her travelogue: Letters written during a Short Residence in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. I hadn’t come across it before. It’s her most accessible book for a modern reader, I think. There are some moving, lyrical passages in it, as well as beautiful descriptions of wild Scandinavian landscapes, which explain why she’s often cited as an early influence on the English Romantics.

SMH: The relevance of Lo! An Amazon! and of Mary Wollstonecraft herself are both naturally self-evident in today’s political landscape, but what do you personally hope your readers take away from this book?

Mary: I’m hoping that readers, like me, will learn to love Wollstonecraft and give her the due she deserves as one the first champions of women’s rights and education in the Western world. Also that people will enjoy the immersion in 18th-century language and print culture that we’ve tried to portray.

Thank you for reading this latest newsletter! When this hits your inbox, there will be two more Lo! An Amazon! events coming up this week in London: 

Lo! An Amazon! The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft is out now in the UK, and will be released in North America on November 3rd!

This Autumn is shaping up to be one for the (comic) books, with a whole host of events coming up over the next two months! There's so much going on, we just had to get it all down in one place. Here's what we have in store for you...

Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020 - Exhibition and Launch

If you've been paying attention, you'll have already heard about the upcoming exhibition and launch of Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020 at The Coningsby Gallery. The exhibition runs from September 1st to September 7th (closed on September 6th), and the private viewing and launch takes place on September 2nd, 6-8.30pm! 

If you're quick, you can still RSVP to [email protected] to make it to the launch! We hope to see you there!

Romo the WolfBoy - Talk, Workshop, and Signings

On September 1st, Victoriana-infused paranormal adventure Romo the WolfBoy will reach North America in an all-new snappy paperback edition - and its creator ILYA has also crossed the pond!

First you can find him in Somerville, MA where he'll deliver a fireside talk at Comicazi on September 5th!

Then he'll be appearing at Small Press Expo in Maryland, first for a signing on September 12th, and then for the "A Walk on the Wild Side with Romo the WolfBoy" workshop on September 13th - followed by another signing!

Lo! An Amazon! - Launch, Talk, and Signing

Graphic novel legends Mary and Bryan Talbot will be appearing at three different events to celebrate their upcoming title Lo! An Amazon! The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft.

First is the launch at The Cartoon Museum, on September 16th, for which free tickets can be booked here!

The next day, the Talbots will be delivering a special Authors' Hour talk on their new title at Dr Johnson's House - the home another literary icon who was one of Wollstonecraft real-life associates.

Finally, you can catch up with the Talbots at Gosh! Comics for a signing on September 18th!

The Great Marc Evers: The True Story of a Champion Against All Odds - Special Panel

On October 1st at City St George's, University of London, two creatives responsible for one recent and one upcoming title will be taking part in Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics. These are Francisco de la Mora, the illustrator of 2025's The Most Amazing Saturday Morning Rubbish Club, and Gemma Plum, the illustrator of The Great Marc Evers: The True Story of a Champion Against All Odds, which also releases on October 1st!

Tickets are now available for this special event, which also features the graphic novelist Zara Slattery and is hosted by the academic and comics journal editor Dr Ernesto Priego.

Lakes International Comics Festival - Launch, Talk, and Signing

Once again, we're excited to return to the Lakes for LICAF 2026! As usual, you can expect to find us on October 3rd and 4th hosting signings at our very own table, and these are the fantastic creators we've published who are among this year's special guests: Gemma Plum, Francisco de la Mora, Bryan and Mary Talbot, and ILYA!

A full schedule if we ever saw one, and that's just for September and October! We look forward to seeing you at any of these exciting events, and to telling you what's next!

- The SelfMadeHero Team

SelfMadeHero is delighted to announce that The Count Binface Comic Book will be published on August 6th – preorder your copy from Gosh! Comics here!

This 72-page anthology is an unauthorized celebration of the extraterrestrial politician, Count Binface. The collection features contributions from more than 30 of planet Earth’s most exciting comics creators including Krent Able, Steven Appleby, Becky Barnicoat, Hannah Berry, Babak Ganjei, Dave McKean, Martin Rowson and Bryan Talbot, with cover art by JAKe Detonator. The book will be published just a week ahead of the Clacton by‐election when Count Binface will, democratically, battle Baron Von Thunderclap, that bloke who used to be on the telly, and, oh yes, Nigel Farage.

10% of every sale will be donated to Shelter via Work for Good.

For years, Earth has staggered from one crisis to another. Politicians promised solutions. Experts offered analysis. But the planet still seemed headed into the proverbial trash.

Then Count Binface arrived from planet Sigma IX. He took on prime ministers, mayors, and snooty pundits. Along the way, he became Britain’s most beloved Recyclon, defender of common sense and tireless champion of the Lovejoy box set.

When Count Binface announced earlier this month that he would stand against Farage in the Clacton by-election, SelfMadeHero Managing Director Emma Hayley knew the time was right to celebrate this exciting new force in British politics in comic book form.

“I’ve been a fan of his ever since learning of his policy to nationalize the singer Adele,” says Hayley. “After Count Binface said he was standing, I started contacting all the great comics creators and cartoonists I’ve worked with over the years.”

Remarkably, the anthology has been put together in less than a month.

“It has been a hectic few weeks,” says Hayley. “I’d like to thank all the writers and artists who went the extra mile because they believed in this crucial work of political satire. And because they thought it was a funny idea to celebrate a guy dressed as a bin.”

The Count Binface Comic Book brings the universe of “Old Binnie” to glorious life. Expect space battles, political nonsense, cosmic bureaucracy, recycled wisdom, and more heroic rubbish than you can fit in a wheelie bin.

Full list of contributors:
Nick Abadzis, Krent Able, Steven Appleby, Andrew Attwell, Rachael Ball, Becky Barnicoat, Henny Beaumont, Hannah Berry, Abbigayle Bircham & Bobby Joseph, Paul Ashley Brown, Grazia Caleo & Louis Netter, Darryl Cunningham & Jonathan Edwards, Dix, Kate Evans, Babak Ganjei, Fraser Geesin, ILYA, JAKe Detonator, Rich Johnston, Rebecca K. Jones, Jonesy, Dave McKean, Peter Morey, Rob Murray, Woodrow Phoenix, Anna Readman, Scarlett & Sophie Rickard, Martin Rowson, Mark Stafford, Bryan Talbot, Edward Taylor, Myfanwy Tristram.

The Count Binface Comic Book touches down from Sigma IX on August 6th. Preorder here, or find it wherever the most out-of-this-world comics are sold!

Mirko Ilić, and the directors of SelfMadeHero and The Coningsby Gallery warmly invite you to Mirko's exhibition detailed below.

Graphic Novel Launch & Exhibition Private View: Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020 by Mirko Ilić

Private View: Wednesday 2nd Sept 6pm - 8.30pm
Exhibition Opening Times: Tues 1st Sept - Mon 7th Sept 10.30am - 6.30pm (Closed Sun 6th Sept)

The Coningsby Gallery, 30 Tottenham Street, London, W1T 4RJ

In 2020, as his city and the world shut down around him, the acclaimed New York-based artist and graphic designer Mirko Ilić returned to his first love: drawing comics. With unprecedented time on his hands, he crafted a sequence of single-page stories to reflect the mood of those times – eventually naming his accumulated series in memory of 2020 AD – or rather (as a quite different sort of “AC Comic”) “A.C. 2020”.

Those initials stand for “After Covid”, because Ilić continued to create his intense visual essays even as the lockdowns slowly began to lift, channelling his inner anxieties and minute daily observations into a set of starkly surreal images that combine his unique personal imagination with the distilled inspiration of a lifetime’s influence – from Magritte to Moebius, Marshall McLuhan to Winsor McCay, Robert Crumb to Leonard Cohen.

Topped and tailed here by new appreciations from the legendary Steven Heller and Dave McKean, Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020 builds into a unique picture of one man’s inner turmoil at a crumbling world. At once tender and disturbing, enthralling and liberating, its tragicomic pages stand as testament both to the stunning talent of their award-winning author and the universal circumstances he faced and overcame.

Spotlighting key pages and artworks from the book, this exhibition celebrates Ilić's long-awaited return to the comics form and invites you to explore the surreal world he created in response to the pandemic in 2020. The artworks lifted from the page and printed at large scale allow an enhanced appreciation of the book's captivating psychological landscape. Ilić's intensely personal and inventive imagery is a must-see! Several pieces will also be available to buy as high quality prints.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mirko Ilić is a Bosnian-born comics artist and graphic designer based in New York. His formative years were spent in Communist-era Yugoslavia, where he became known for his early illustrations for comic books and magazines. His comics were then published internationally in Heavy Metal, Métal Hurlant, and Marvel’s Epic Illustrated, among others. Soon after moving to the United States, he became the art director of Timemagazine’s international edition and The New York Times’s op-ed pages.

Other highlights of Ilić’s illustrious career include designing album covers for Rage Against the Machine, creating the celebrated opening title sequence to You’ve Got Mail (1998), and enjoying collaborations with such luminaries as the legendary Milton Glaser and Steven Heller – including, most recently, on Milton Glaser: POP (The Monacelli Press, 2023). His works (including some of his comics) are in the collections of MoMA (New York), SFMOMA (San Francisco), the Smithsonian (Washington DC), Die Neue Sammlung (Munich), and many other globally renowned institutions.

Mirko Ilić: Fist to Face, a sumptuous retrospective of his life and work by Dejan Kršić, was published in New York in 2012 by Print Publishing. Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020 (SelfMadeHero, 2026) is at once a disturbingly beautiful reflection on surviving the COVID pandemic and an unforgettable return to the visual medium of his first love: comics.

“Ilić’s comics are vivid and sublime descriptions of that range of emotions we have all experienced, and may continue to feel for considerable time still to come.” – Steven Heller

“It was a great pleasure to see such a powerful image-maker return to comics after many years as a master poster-maker, illustrator, designer – a ‘creativo’, as the Italians would say.” – Dave McKean

Dear SelfMadeHero readers,

It might only be June, but we're wasting no time in announcing our lineup for Autumn 2026! As always, thank you for your readership throughout our Spring season this year.

To lighten Summer's end, you can look forward to four brand-new titles, all of which draw inspiration from a range of striking life stories and unique moments in time, and two new editions of works previously issued in other formats.

September 2026 sees the long-awaited return to print of comics and graphic design legend Mirko Ilić, now invoking the surrealism of life during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020.

The Great Marc Evers is also set to make a splash in September, with Ivo van Woerden, Gemma Plum and Marloes Dekkers’ beautifully realized life-story of this champion Paralympian swimmer’s rise to greatness – with his family constantly by his side.

October will mark the welcome return of the renowned, award-winning duo Mary M.Talbot and Bryan Talbot, with Lo! An Amazon! – perhaps their most brilliant collaboration yet. This is the graphic biography of the political theorist and feminist pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft, tracing her daring travels – and enduring activism – through Revolutionary times.

Talking of daring travels, our final new title of the season, slated for November, comes from Simon Elliott, the acclaimed creator of Kusama: Polka Dot Queen, who now exchanges dots for lines in bringing us the story of Chagall: Painter of Poetry. Follow Chagall’s artistic journey, from his birth in an obscure outpost of the Russian Empire, via his constant flight from oppression and tyranny, to his global renown as an emblem of all it means to be free.

And meanwhile...“Who is this who is coming” in time for Halloween? None other but the spirit of M.R. James, perfectly embodied in Leah Moore & John Reppion’s single-volume Ghost Stories of an Antiquary: The Compendium.

And if that’s not enough, there’s even a new paperback edition of ILYA’s Victorian paranormal mystery, Romo the WolfBoy, set to arrive in North America in September and in the UK in November.

Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020 by Mirko Ilić.

A collection of wordless single-page visual essays inspired by Leonard Cohen, Dylan Thomas, Winsor McCay and others to reflect the anxieties, uncertainties, and daily observations of award-winning artist and designer Mirko Ilić.

In 2020, New York-based artist and designer Mirko Ilić started drawing self-contained single-page stories created to reflect the mood of an unprecedented time. He called this collection “After Covid 2020” or “A.C. 2020”.

Ilić continued to create these visual essays even as the lockdowns slowly lifted, channelling his anxieties and observations into striking and surreal images that combine personal imagination with motifs and inspiration from music, fine art, comics, and more.

Shocking and provocative, captivating and meditative, this sequence of illustrations paints a unique picture of a man’s inner turmoil amidst a crumbling world. Nightmares and Daydreams: A.C. 2020 is a testament to both a period of unprecedented upheaval and the stunning talent of its award-winning author

OUT IN UK: 3rd SEPTEMBER! 🇬🇧
OUT IN NORTH AMERICA: 29th SEPTEMBER! 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇲

The Great Marc Evers: The True Story of a Champion Against All Odds, written by Ivo van Woerden, illustrated by Gemma Plum, translated by Michele Hutchison (with colours by Marloes Dekkers).

The inspiring life story of one of the greatest Paralympic swimming champions, and his family that stopped focusing on a “no” to find a “yes”.

What if you stopped focusing on what’s impossible, and opened yourself up to what’s possible?
Marc Evers is two years old and it's almost impossible for anyone to get through to him. His parents are told by a psychiatrist he has Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and that he’ll never be able to talk or go to the toilet on his own. For this reason, the psychiatrist recommends institutionalization. Thankfully, Marc’s parents refuse to listen.

Eighteen years later, Marc is preparing to compete in the 100-meter backstroke at the 2012 London Paralympics. He walks, talks, and rides his bike. He’s his own person, surrounded by a busy family – and he can swim like a torpedo. With five Paralympic medals and many world records, Marc Evers is the Netherlands' greatest Paralympic swimming champion. How did he manage to beat the odds?

The Great Marc Evers is a moving, intimate, inspiring, and above all optimistic coming-of-age portrait of Marc and his family. A beautifully drawn story about perseverance, hope, and strength, about trusting your intuition and daring to believe.

OUT IN UK: 17th SEPTEMBER! 🇬🇧
OUT IN NORTH AMERICA: 6th OCTOBER! 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇲

Lo! An Amazon! The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, written by Mary M. Talbot, illustrated by Bryan Talbot.

A graphic novel from the award-winning creative duo Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot about Mary Wollstonecraft, foundational feminist philosopher and author.

“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners – time to restore to them their dignity.”
In the Age of Revolutions, with many movements springing up to demand greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft spoke out for the other “one-half of the human race”: that of womankind.

Over twenty years before her daughter, Mary Shelly, created the science fiction genre with Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 manifesto, Vindication of the Rights of Woman, took the world by storm. Forthright and fearless, she mingled with other radical thinkers of her time and travelled widely. In the same year she published her magnum opus, she even ventured alone to Paris during the Reign of Terror.

This graphic biography of the then-controversial and now-legendary Mary Wollstonecraft comes from the creative partnership of Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot, the award-winning duo behind Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, Sally Heathcote: Suffragette, and Armed with Madness.

OUT IN UK: 1st OCTOBER! 🇬🇧
OUT IN NORTH AMERICA: 3rd NOVEMBER! 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇲

Chagall: Painter of Poetry by Simon Elliott.

“Poet, dreamer, and exotic apparition…” This is a graphic novel about the colourful life of modernist pioneer Marc Chagall.

The artist Marc Chagall (1887–1985) once described painting as “a window through which I could fly into another world” – which is just what he did. He grew up Jewish in the so-called Pale of Settlement (now Belarus) in the Russian Empire, relocating to Paris in 1910, at the height of the “Belle Époque”, and then served an uncomfortable time as an art commissar in Bolshevik Russia. He would spend his long lifetime outrunning and outliving a succession of oppressive régimes (Tsarist, Soviet, Fascist, Nazi) as numerous as the art movements he absorbed (surrealist, fauvist, symbolist, modernist) and the range of media he both liberated and illuminated. In his ceramics, stained glass, tapestry – above all, in his paintings – Chagall brought the freedom of his “colours of love” to a stark world that is too often too dark.

Acclaimed for his graphic biographies of Hockney (2023), Van Gogh (2024), and Kusama (2025), Simon Elliott returns with a triumphant portrait of perhaps the greatest colourist (and therefore optimist) of them all.

OUT IN UK: 12th NOVEMBER! 🇬🇧
OUT IN NORTH AMERICA: 24th NOVEMBER! 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇲

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary: The Compendium, adapted by Leah Moore and John Reppion, illustrated by Aneke, Kit Buss, Al Davison, Meghan Hetrick, George Kambadais, Abigail Larson, Fouad Mezher, and Alisdair Wood, and cover art by Francesco Francavilla.

An anthology of eight spine-chilling ghost stories by M.R. James by various artists.

It’s time to draw the curtains, curl up by the fire, and enter the sinister world of that master of the English ghost story, M.R. James. Just make sure that you’ve locked the back door... As an academic medieval historian (of the sort often featured in his stories), he turned his back on Victorian schlock-horror sensationalism, in favour of a subtler form of creeping shivers and uncanny fear that has guaranteed the endurance of his supernatural tales.

In the ninety years since his death, the spirit of M.R. James has inspired countless acts of homage, not just in literature (Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Ruth Rendell), but in radio (Neil Brand, Mark Gatiss), television (Jonathan Miller, Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton), and film (Jacques Tourneur’s Night of the Demon).

Now Leah Moore & John Reppion have extended that influence into the graphic-novel form with Ghost Stories of an Antiquary: The Compendium, a collection of eight powerful adaptations of his most famous and spine-chilling tales. Reimagined in a wide variety of graphic styles by Aneke, Kit Buss, Al Davison, Meghan Hetrick, George Kambadais, Abigail Larson, Fouad Mezher, and Alisdair Wood, this anthology hauntingly evokes the singular dread of what James himself simply called “the ominous thing”...

OUT IN UK: 17th SEPTEMBER! 🇬🇧
OUT IN NORTH AMERICA: TBC 2027! 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇲

Romo the WolfBoy (Paperback Edition) by ILYA.

At Blimey O’Riley’s Travelling Circus, a stagehand and a strange, wild boy find themselves investigating a paranormal mystery.

Romo, rumoured a wolf boy taken from the wild, and a young stagehand named Francis are the two newest members of Blimey O’Riley’s Travelling Circus. Together they will become Criminologists Extraordinaire, Specialists in the Paranormal – but this is only their first adventure…

When the circus comes to town in Victorian England, repeated acts of sabotage by a mysterious, giggling culprit turn Romo and Francis from rivals to friends. Can they work together to solve this baffling case, and even become a top act in the meantime?

OUT IN UK: 26th NOVEMBER! 🇬🇧
OUT IN NORTH AMERICA: 1st SEPTEMBER! 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇲

And there you have it! Six reasons to look forward to Autumn 2026! Thanks for reading!