Livestock

'A parable for the Trump era.' Paul Mason

A satire set in a not-very-distant future (think tomorrow, or possibly the day after) … In this tale, the gruesome relationship between celebrity and politics has moved way beyond The One Show sofa… Knowing and savage, Livestock is that rare thing: a comic book that has only grown more essential in the gap between its inception and its publication.

Hannah Berry’s graphic novels have a brilliantly threatening kind of British humour to them: you read them, you smirk, then you look over your shoulder... Livestock…tells the kind of story that will be familiar ground for viewers of Black Mirror and The Thick of It, mixing scathingly realistic political situations and dialogue with a satirical premise that balloons towards the absurd… The real meat of Livestock is in the bleak viciousness of its satire… This is comic fantasy with a knife up its sleeve.

A sharp socio-political satire, germane for the current political climate.

Engaging and timely, a rich brew of celebrity, menace, media-spin and human cloning.

Uneducated, pliant, easy to control - that's how our rulers want us. But in Hannah Berry's dark tale of celebrity and corporate greed, the people have other ideas. A parable for the Trump era.

As sharp as Taylor Swift's marketing team, Berry slices through the info-celeb news nexus. Bloody funny.

Hannah Berry’s new graphic novel Livestock is furious and funny, angry and amused by its own anger. It’s a future vision of a time when politics and celebrity are fused even more than they are today, when political spin is even more amoral and embedded than it is now.

This sharp satire, almost a little too on the nose by the time of publication, takes a populace easily distracted by celebrity culture to its logical extreme… With the understated, chilling final images, this book left me alternating between being entertained and disquieted...buy this now while it can still be described as a work of fiction.

Hannah Berry’s stunning artwork is painstakingly meticulous and her narratives are always thought-provoking and playful.

Hannah Berry is the author of two highly praised graphic novels, Britten and Brulightly and Adamtine. She lives in Brighton.

Excitement is building for this year’s Twammies and Clementine Darling is hotly tipped to win Best Female Singer and Political Spokesperson! 
 
The government is embarrassed about the leak of a confidential email exchange, but have you heard about Clementine’s new beau Devon Ayre? Yes, human cloning appears to have been legalised, but wasn’t Devon once together with Clementine’s arch rival Coral Jerome? And does it really matter what dubious corporate connections helped get this bill into place while Clementine and Coral are locking horns in a violent feud? 
 
Livestock is a razor-sharp satire on our relationship with the media from critically acclaimed graphic novelist Hannah Berry. In the fight for the public’s attention, why let public interest get in the way?

Adamtine

For every action, there is always an equal and opposite reaction. A haunting new tale from the author of the mysterious Britten &amp; Brulightly.

Easily the best graphic novel I’ve read this year… Both the story and the art are just brilliant and I’ve never felt the fear of a story communicated better…each twist and turn is utterly captivating and the ending is both shocking and inventive

Much of Adamtine's pleasure lies in how disconcerting it all is. The tricky narrative, however, is nicely counterbalanced by Berry’s clear and carefully detailed illustrations, and a deceptively simple visual style that keeps the storytelling on solid ground, even when things take an alarming turn for the weirder

Hannah Berry (Author, Illustrator) Hannah Berry is the author of two highly praised graphic novels, Britten and Brulightly and Adamtine. She lives in Brighton.

All people could do was speculate on the fate of those who vanished - strangers; seemingly random, unconnected: all plucked from their lives and never seen again. The notes found left behind, apparently describing some slender reason for their removal, were all that linked them. They were all delivered by one man. 
 
Rodney Moon had admitted seeing those who had been disappeared and to passing the notes, but denied any involvement beyond that. Who wrote the letters, then? Moon shrugged during the trial: 'It has no name,' he said. 'It's a bogeyman. A monster.' 
 
He was not mourned when the vengeful bereft finally found him. 
 
Some years later, four strangers; seemingly random, unconnected, all take the last train home. But something each of them has forgotten - or is trying to forget - is catching up with them; with a terrible, inexorable purpose. The devil is in the detail, as they say.

Hannah Berry

An impressive debut. Set in a beautifully evoked bygone era, it's a tale of private investigation that takes its narrative queue from the writing of Dashiell Hammett and its visual styling from American film noir

The plot writhes and twists, needing its drizzly, downbeat epilogue to draw together the many strings

Berry's ability to convey facial expressions is right on the button

'Nowadays I don't get out of bed for less than a murder. I don't get out of bed much...Until today.' 
 
'Private Researcher' Fernández Britten is the messenger who would view being shot as a blessing. The years spent uncovering people's secret dramas and helping to confirm their darkest suspicions have taken their toll. Battered by remorse over the lives he has ruined, he clings to the hope of redemption through delivering, just once, a truth with a positive impact. It's a hope he has been clinging to for a long time. 
 
And so Britten and his 'unconventional' partner, Brülightly, take on the case of suicide Berni Kudos. At least, suicide was the official verdict. His fiancée, Charlotte Maughton, believes his death was something more sinister. 
 
Blackmail, revenge, murder: desperate acts are exposed, and this is no tree-lined avenue to justice. Each new revelation stirs the muddy waters of a family's dark secrets, and each fresh twist takes them further from that elusive redemption. 
 
There are murder mysteries and there are murder mysteries, but this is a noir where nothing is black and white.

Hannah Berry

Praise for Britten and Brulightly

An impressive debut. Set in a beautifully evoked bygone era, it's a tale of private investigation that takes its narrative queue from the writing of Dashiell Hammett and its visual styling from American film noir

The plot writhes and twists, needing its drizzly, downbeat epilogue to draw together the many strings

Berry's ability to convey facial expressions is right on the button

An impressive debut. Set in a beautifully evoked bygone era, it's a tale of private investigation that takes its narrative queue from the writing of Dashiell Hammett and its visual styling from American film noir

The plot writhes and twists, needing its drizzly, downbeat epilogue to draw together the many strings

Berry's ability to convey facial expressions is right on the button

An impressive debut. Set in a beautifully evoked bygone era, it's a tale of private investigation that takes its narrative queue from the writing of Dashiell Hammett and its visual styling from American film noir

The plot writhes and twists, needing its drizzly, downbeat epilogue to draw together the many strings

Berry's ability to convey facial expressions is right on the button

Books by Hannah Berry

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