Rickard Sisters Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Rickard Sisters on X
Scarlett & Sophie making graphic novels together including Eisner nom. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and No Surrender from @SelfMadeHero 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally

1984: 75th Anniversary
George Orwell
It was such an honour for The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists to be nominated for an Eisner. Congratulations to the winner of the ‘best adaptation’ category, George Orwell’s 1984 adapted by Fido Nesti Hooray for 20th C British political fiction 👏🎉🏆 https://t.co/bXeAeyoJap
Paperback, Mass Market, 1950
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ain't I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth
“That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody helps me any best place. And AIN’T I A WOMAN?” Sojourner Truth died 139 years ago today but intersectional feminism lives on ✊ https://t.co/JLMfGVOc6t
Paperback, 2021
$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sense & Sensibility
Jane Austen
@gladlib Jane Austen, Brontes, Dickens, Virginia Woolf - all as comfort reading, with Sense & Sensibility, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations and Mrs Dalloway as the cosiest choices of all
Paperback, 2013
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
News from Nowhere
William Morris
We’re a bit late to the party but for January’s unread classic it shall be William Morris’ News from Nowhere. We’ve heard lots about it, but have never yet actually read it. So here goes… https://t.co/KCOWMRR1Mt
Paperback, 2015
$8.97$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
@gladlib Jane Austen, Brontes, Dickens, Virginia Woolf - all as comfort reading, with Sense & Sensibility, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations and Mrs Dalloway as the cosiest choices of all
Paperback, 1990
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Slavery
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
@BarbaranortonBn Hello! This Slavery is an adaptation of a story written by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, a Lancashire writer and mill worker who was politically active and a pacifist. We’re only just beginning so it won’t be out for a while yet!
Paperback, 2023
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell
Robert Tressell
@EconomicsinTen Yeah and the remarkable stats about inequality are reminding us of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists too - what would Robert Tressell have thought of the concept of billionaires? https://t.co/G97AWxO52W
Out of stock

No Surrender: A Graphic Novel
Sophie Rickard
About this time last year, Scarlett was spending all her waking hours like this, drawing the crowd scenes at the end of No Surrender graphic novel. It’s been out for nearly 6 months already, and (of course) we’re stuck in to drawing the next book now https://t.co/5OYYLBmig4
Paperback, 2022
$23.99$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel
We are looking forward to finding out The Secret to Superhuman Strength from Alison Bechdel who has been kind enough to set it out on paper (yes, that Alison Bechdel as in the Bechdel Test!) https://t.co/MYtfaheqo9
Hardcover, 2021
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Open Book
Kasaundra Hamilton
This weeks’ Open Book has @lizzystewart & Posy Simmonds talking about women making graphic novels about women, depicting the 20th C, adapting classics, and accessibility 👏👏👏 https://t.co/bMIEYmOob0
Paperback, 2021
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book