Favourite graphic novels for older readers

The Savage

by David Almond

Walker Books

Blue’s father has died suddenly, and finding that the school’s counselling increases his anguish, instead he turns to writing a story.

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Britten & Brűlightly

by Hannah Berry

Jonathan Cape

There are murder mysteries and there are murder mysteries, but this is a noir where nothing is black and white

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The Hound of the Baskervilles: Graphic Novel

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Self Made Hero

Master of deduction, Sherlock Holmes and his acolyte Dr Watson get drawn to the Devon moors to investigate ghoulish happenings and macabre goings-on around Baskerville Manor...

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Salem Brownstone: All Along the Watchtowers

by John Harris Dunning

Walker Books

In this dark gothic fantasy, Salem must meet his guardian familiar, get help from some new friends and defeat mysterious dark forces.

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Romeo and Juliet: Manga Shakespeare

by Sonia Leong and William Shakespeare

Self Made Hero

Set in modern Tokyo, with the Capulets and Montagues recast as organised-crime rivals, this racy retelling gets to the heart of the love story and the foolish rivalry that dooms it.

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures

by Brian Selznick

Scholastic

This book inspired the recent Martin Scorsese film, Hugo. Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks...

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Manga Shakespeare: King Lear

by William Shakespeare

Self Made Hero

Ilya's illustrations match the intensity of the play to bring this tragic classic vividly to life

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Maus

by Art Spiegelman

Penguin

This is the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe.

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The Amulet of Samarkand: A Bartimaeus Graphic Novel

by Jonathan Stroud

Random House Children's Books

The graphic novel adaptation of the first volume in the best-selling Bartimaeus sequence makes the series more accessible to readers without taking away any of the wit and magic

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Tales From Outer Suburbia

by Shaun Tan

Templar

These often thought-provoking stories look at the reactions ordinary people have to the unusual situations they find themselves in and feature a host of different illustrative styles ranging from collage to painterly Edward Hopper-esque scenes.

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