A graphic novel telling the story of Britain’s secret political police. For more than four decades, a covert operation targeted over a thousand political groups, mostly left-leaning. Spycops interrogates our ideas of democracy and freedom as it references the ongoing inquiry into undercover policing. Read more here. @hustlerbyname

A mixed-race Chinese-Scottish child, Birdie, joins an indigenous school set up by a Maori elder in a poverty-stricken rural area of New Zealand at the turn of the 20th century. Years later, a Maori nurse repatriates Birdie’s family heirlooms to her rural community. Inspired by true events. @emmalouisepratt_

The fictional journal of Hilton Woolf comes with a trigger warning, as it chronicles the discomfort and inconsistency of its daily depression. The wolf character uses tactile scratching, raw drawing, and visceral mark-making to tell its story. Read more here. @tpgxims

Promising exorcisms, meetings with God, forming cults and existential crises, competitors prepare for a dramatic show that the BBC will forever regret commissioning, as groups of militant Atheists and fundamentalist Christians go toe-to-toe on live national TV. Read more here. @annamariaglover

A queer, historical graphic novel about love and women’s football in 1920s Europe. When Florrie’s great-great-niece discovers Florrie was a footballer in the early twentieth century, she unearths a secret history both on and off the pitch. In 1921, the FA banned women’s matches. @anna_trench

Sef is a local chef on a Greek island who only finds success when he adds Joy to his menu. It mirrors his creator’s joy at finding her daily swim close to home after an annual holiday is cancelled. Through fictional stories about the islanders, the author structures a graphic memoir. @ca.comics

Gerald Preston works at Wattersons Booksellers, and lives with a hole in his chest, a physical manifestation of ‘hiraeth’, a Welsh word for irretrievable loss. Sister Jenny died some 20 years ago, and Gerald recruits customers and colleagues to explore that hole in his life. Read more here. @garethcowlin

A toy camera made up of bricks is the key to building memories of Amatus’s lost mother, but as he takes pictures, parts of the camera fall off and his memory of her fades. The ghost of his mother guides him to re-build the camera and restore his memories by making new ones with his father. Read more here. @robbie_brewster_illustrator

A girl reborn as a deity embarks on her journey to cleanse a dying world of the last vestiges of humanity before becoming the catalyst for the planet’s own rebirth. She tries to take in her last moments alive and reflect on her life. Visual and written narratives interact. Read more here. @chrishalls.art

The author addresses her uncle Pistike, who lived with cognitive disabilities, in a small village in Hungary. She talks to him about his life, shared memories, belongings and habits, and a pivotal incident in her own life when, in 1986, Pistike vanished in the Budapest underground. @eszter_simavari

What really happened to Mrs Thorwald, the ‘nagging New York housewife’, who apparently murdered and dismembered by her adulterous husband? Here’s the story the neighbours couldn’t see, a 3D illustration picture book inspired by Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’. Read more here. @gingerdoodles

A silent graphic novel about loneliness and connection on the Mongolian coal road. It follows a day in the life of a female truck driver who spends every day driving coal from the mines at Tavan Tolgoi to the Chinese border, yearning for the freedom of a nomadic life that no longer exists. Read more here. @m.ereida

True stories of protest from the Rhondda Valley in SouthWales. A response to current-day politics and the erosion of our rights to protest, the author interviews local people and shares their stories – and bears witness to a rich culture of those who don’t take things lying down. Read more here. @mockduck

George, a bisexual teacher, struggles with debts and physical and mental disabilities. She finds the contact details for her father, who left 40 years ago when she was three years old, and they arrange to meet at his flat. But when she approaches the fridge, he warns her of evil inside… Read more here. @steve_thompsonn

When Sebastian Fox is found dead on Sea Nettle Beach in the middle of the night, all of the signs point to the notorious serial murderer Jellyfish Killer. However, not all the details of Seb’s murder match up with the previous victims, and his bereft twin sister Belle is left looking for answers. @edie.woolf

Part diary and part memoir, ‘Old Cornflower’ documents the three months that Eates lived with her mother to care for her until her death. Two scrap books, at once hilarious and shocking, were found hidden in the sofa. Key to the processing of grief, they show that while mother and daughter had their differences, they also had plenty in common. Read more here. @walliseates

The author developed a stammer in his childhood, which is now mostly hidden. But it did impact his life considerably as he was growing up. D-D-Disfluent is an anthology of connected stories acting as a portal for the author's own thoughts on speech and language, and also incorporates the experiences of others. @garethcowlin

‘Most people living with gender incongruence don't transition. Not medically, and not socially. Many never talk to anyone about how they feel, and repress it forever.’ A contemporary graphic novel about the relationship between a young man and his gender-non-conforming lover. Read more here. @corbanwilkin_illustration

Set in a quiet village in England, graduate Hattie finds herself living back at home with her mother, and taking on a series of increasingly demeaning part-time jobs. She is comforted by her pet rat, Pod, who is training to become a ‘Therapy Rat’ by psychoanalysing Hattie’s socially awkward experiences. Read more here. @Hazzaart

Vera's quest begins when she decides to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of her father Tobias in a huge, disused factory. Yet the extraordinary energy of the place seems to offer the possibility of healing and transformation. Read more here. @elenablacoartist

On April 17th 2017, the author received a call that her paternal grandmother Denise was dying in France. Embarking on the last road trip to Denise, this autobiographical story tells the untold story of the women in the author’s family, as well as her own journey trying to understand the suicide of a parent. Read more here. @@what_zoe_did

This is the personal history of a colour that changed the world. Created by accident in a scientific laboratory in 1704, Prussian blue is the first modern synthetic pigment. Vassie blends facts and fiction to tell their life story. Read more here. @from_the_bones_of_old_horses

Inspired by many old fairy and folktales of Scottish folklore, Water, Blood and Wine injects the quality of those tales with open longing for queer love and dreams of escape to a safe place. Read more here. @galacticjonah

Slate is a town famous for its UFO and supernatural sightings. Ace visits the alien museum to find clues about the disappearance of her friend Dani, with the help (or hindrance) of her companion, a giant millipede that feeds her anxious and intrusive thoughts. Read more here. @luckylucyart

A graphic novel about the ways in which people’s religious beliefs shape their view of right and wrong and, in turn, how that’s playing out across the American political landscape today. The author’s three trips will document visits and conversations with evangelical Christians. Read more here. @lizzie_mikietyn

A graphic biography of painter Francis Bacon begins on the eve of the opening of his major Paris retrospective. The next morning, his muse, George, is found dead. Johnstone channels Bacon’s inspiration, imagery and multiple perspectives through the events of a pivotal 24 hours. Read more here. @gjohnstoneart

Born in Jaffa, Palestine, in 1940, the author's mother is only now sharing her experiences. The author aims to reach out those who may not view themselves political but find themselves navigating political circumstances, and to use the graphic novel format as a way to explore truth and reconciliation. @leinadrawscomics

A coming-of-age queer thriller, following Ash, a young transmasculine queer person, starting his first job in a ramen shop. As he begins to learn the process of making bone broth ramen, he suddenly finds himself caught up in how to cover up the death of his boss after a staff party. Read more here. @azbtart

A child’s Saturday was a day to rehearse what freedom could look, feel and be like. As the author collects stories of her grandparents' Saturdays, she sees a generation who came together in order to survive in a hostile environment. As we face new crises and frontiers today, she shows that we too must do it together. @charlottewithink

Two twelve-year-old boys set out spend their pocket money in the amusement arcades of Scarborough, the day after a pack of wolves have been euthanized following their escape from the local zoo. During their journey, they encounter the harsh truth of growing up in a small seaside town. Read more here. @chriskingart