BOOK / GRANDVILLE. Bryan Talbot

FANTASY Grandville is a retro-futuristic thriller in which Scotland Yard's Inspector LeBrock pursues a gang of ruthless assassins in Belle Époque Paris... Two hundred years ago, Great Britain lost the Napoleonic Wars. Like the rest of Europe, it was invaded by France, and members of its royal family were guillotined. It had remained part of the French Empire until twenty-three years earlier, when it was reluctantly granted independence after a prolonged campaign of civil disobedience and anarchist attacks. It is now known as the Socialist Republic of Brittany, a small, unimportant country connected to the French Empire by the Channel Railway Bridge. Bryan Talbot, considered one of the fathers of the modern British graphic novel, has been inspired by the work of 19th-century French illustrator Gérard, who signed himself J. J. Grandville, to create a work he describes as “a cross between Jules Verne and Quentin Tarantino's Sherlock Holmes.” “A solid conspiracy story with Tarantino-esque