We're really looking forward to welcoming Tom Humberstone to the bookshop for a launch event to celebrate the publication of his stunning graphic novel, Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis.
We are planning for this event to take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience, as well as a livestream for attendees watching from home. On the night of the event, our team will be wearing masks.
In-person vouchers can be redeemed on the night of the event against anything in the bookshop – we will have a list of attendee vouchers at the ready. Livestream vouchers are valid until the day after the event and can be redeemed on the website against a copy of Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis.
About Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis:
One of the greatest tennis players the world has ever seen was a woman few even remember. A championship player by the age of fifteen in a Europe overshadowed by impending war, Suzanne Lenglen broke records for ticket sales and match winning streaks, scandalised and entranced the public with her playing outfits, and became a pioneer, making friends and enemies throughout restrictive tennis society in the trailblazing jazz age.
With stunning art and an astute eye, Suzanne explores how a figure both enormously influential and too-often overlooked battled her father’s ambition, bias in sporting journalism, and her own divisive personality, to forge a new path ― and to change sport forever.
Tom Humberstone is an award-winning comic artist and illustrator based in Edinburgh. He writes and draws non-fiction comics for the Ignatz award-winning The Nib, as well as the New Statesman, Vox, Icon Books, Buzzfeed and others. His work has also appeared in Phonogram (Image Comics), Doctor Who (Titan) and the Eisner award-nominated Nelson (Blank Slate Books). He is the editor and publisher of the critically acclaimed UK comics anthology Solipsistic Pop and the co-editor of Over The Line: An Introduction to Poetry Comics.
