Bryan & Mary Talbot (2013 event)

Winners of the Costa Award for Biography in 2012, illustrator Bryan Talbot and writer Mary Talbot brought the graphic novel form to massive mainstream attention with Dotter of Her Father's Eyes. In this event, recorded live at the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival, they discuss their award-winning interweaving of two father-daughter relationships, and present the third graphic novel in the hugely popular steampunk detective series: Grandville Bête Noire, written and illustrated by Bryan.

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