Background
Her first graphic novel Dotter of Her Father"s Eyes, published by Jonathan Cape in 2012 and illustrated by her husband Bryan Talbot won the 2012 Costa biography prize.
Her first graphic novel Dotter of Her Father"s Eyes, published by Jonathan Cape in 2012 and illustrated by her husband Bryan Talbot won the 2012 Costa biography prize.
Talbot gained a Doctor of Philosophy in critical discourse analysis from Lancaster University.
She has written several well received academic works in critical discourse analysis and since 2009 has turned her hand to freelance writing. Following a variety of teaching posts, she became Reader in Language and Culture at the University of Sunderland in 1997.