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Radical Histories, Beautifully Illustrated

Graphic nonfiction offers new insights into often misrepresented histories with beautiful, fluid, dynamic artwork.

27 November 2025

Radical Histories, Beautifully Illustrated

Graphic non-fiction is the perfect gift for anyone who needs a break from the heavy tomes and wants their political education to be delivered in a beautifully rendered visual world

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Out now, Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen

Patchwork is a major new work of graphic biography. On the 250th anniversary of her birth, Kate Evans brings Jane Austen’s story to life with fluid, dynamic artwork, at times embroidered onto cloth itself in the technique of thread painting. 

“A beautiful thing woven round a brilliant device, with snags to make you pause and think deeply, and maybe even cry as well as laugh.” — Martin Rowson, author of As I Please

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Further Reading:

Works that bring to life radical explorations of resistance, revolution, and solidarity.

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  • Under the Banner of King Death
    Under the Banner of King Death is a tale of mutiny, bloody battle, and social revolution, bringing to life an itinerant community of outsiders behind today’s legends. This graphic novel breaks new ...
    Paperback
  • Prophet against Slavery
    Prophet against Slavery is an action-packed chronicle of a remarkable and radical individual. It is based on the award-winning biography by Marcus Rediker, which prompted the Quaker community that ...
    Paperback
  • La Lucha

    La Lucha

    The Mexican border state of Chihuahua and its city Juarez have become internationally notorious for violence, as drug cartel battles and official corruption have colluded to produce more murders an...
    Paperback
  • Operation Ajax

    Operation Ajax

    The year is 1953. As the value of oil skyrockets, global power brokers begin to take interest in the political regimes of the Middle East. British agents have controlled Iranian oil exports for a...
    Paperback
  • Threads
    **LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR BOOKS 2018**In the French port town of Calais, famous for its historic lace industry, a city within a city arose. This new town, known as the Jungle, was home ...
    Hardback
  • Wobblies!

    Wobblies!

    The stories of the hard-rock miners’ shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the “Rebel Girl” of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and t...
    Paperback
  • Masks of Anarchy

    Masks of Anarchy

    Masks of Anarchy tells the extraordinary story of Shelley’s “The Masque of Anarchy,” its conception in Italy, its suppression in England, and how it became a rallying cry for workers across the Atl...
  • Savage Messiah

    Savage Messiah

    Savage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura Grace Ford’s fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic against the marginalization of the city’s working c...
    Paperback
  • Eugene V. Debs
    Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party in the early twentieth-century to federal and state office across the country, helped to pioneer a fighting union politics that organized all workers, and...
    Paperback

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