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Flake

Matthew Dooley (author)

Hardback Published on: 02/04/2020

£18.99

5 reviews

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Just Lovely

Nothing more British. A really charming story of a hapless, crossword puzzle loving ice-ceam van man drawn in to a war for his "patch". Alan Bennet as draw... READ MORE

Nessa Urquhart

Choc-ice full of Northern nostalgia

Full disclosure...this is the first graphic novel I’ve read and I’m so glad I’ve ventured into this genre. A truly charming, funny and whimsical story abou... READ MORE

Gemma Hudson at Lancaster

Charming and Witty

This really is fantastic. Well worthy of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Comic Fiction Prize. Superbly witty, and wonderfully charming, this story is upli... READ MORE

Kirsten at Norwich

Scooptastic!

As someone who lives in a seaside town, I loved the idea of Flake, a graphic novel about rival icecream sellers. The illustrations are adorable, the sto... READ MORE

Stephanie Llandudno at Llandudno

Synopsis

Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2020

A stunning first graphic novel by a Cape/Comica/Observer graphic short story competition winner - a tale of a skirmish in the ice-cream wars that is worthy of Alan Bennett.

In the small seaside town of Dobbiston, Howard sells ice creams from his van, just like his father before him. But when he notices a downturn in trade, he soon realises its cause: Tony Augustus, Howard's half-brother, whose ice-cream empire is expanding all over the North-West...

Flake, Matthew Dooley's debut graphic novel, tells of how this epic battle turns out, and how Howard - helped by the Dobbiston Mountain Rescue team - overcomes every obstacle and triumphs in the end.

Publisher information

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781787330580
Number of pages: 176
Dimensions: 248 x 176 x 23 mm
Weight: 719g
Languages: English

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Great fun

This proved to be a most enjoyable read : it is sufficiently full of British silliness to be very entertaining, and is written in reasonably lengthy chapte... READ MORE

Hugh Bebb

Flake

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