Client details
Posy Simmonds
Agent
| Caroline Dawnay |
About
Posy Simmonds is best known for her weekly cartoon strip which ran in the Guardian from 1977 to 1987. The collected cartoons were published as MRS WEBER'S DIARY, TRUE LOVE, PICK OF POSY, PURE POSY and MUSTN'T GRUMBLE. She was Cartoonist of the Year in 1980 and 1981 and in 1998 was overall winner of the National Art Library Illustrations Award. GEMMA BOVERY was published by Cape in 1999 to great critical acclaim. Her last book, TAMARA DREWE, is being made into a film. To enquire about journalism, please contact Carol MacArthur at United Agents. |
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| Publication Details | Notes |
|---|---|
| TAMARA DREWE 2007 Jonathan Cape | A graphic novel loosely based on Hardy`s FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD. |
| BAKER CAT 2004 Jonathan Cape | The delightful tale of a beastly baker, a hard-working cat and a rabble of rude and frisky mice. |
| LITERARY LIFE 2003 Jonathan Cape | The book consists of approximately fifty `Literary Life` cartoons, as currently being serialised weekly every Saturday in the Guardian Review, and a selection of short stories. |
| GEMMA BOVERY 1999 Jonathan Cape | A classic novel rewritten as glittering contemporary satire: the British adrift in Normandy. |
| MATILDA 1992 Jonathan Cape | Who told such dreadful lies and was burned to death. |
| LULU AND THE FLYING BABIES 1988 Jonathan Cape | Lulu is swept off her feet by a winged figure and flown into a wonderful world of pictures. |
| FRED 1987 Jonathan Cape | Fred is a cat who seems normal enough by day, but by night Fred is a singing superstar, much to the surprise of Fred's owners. |
| PURE POSY 1987 Jonathan Cape | Pick of Posy Simmonds |
| VERY POSY 1985 Jonathan Cape | Illustrated children's book |
