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This months instalment in the dawn of the unread series is titled Shelves. In this very personal story writer David Belbin tells us of his relationship with Booker prize winning author Stanley Middleton.

Booker-winner Stanley Middleton is brought back to life in literary graphic novel Dawn of the Unread. The artist Ella Joyce describes the process of laying out and illustrating each page.

Joining Arthur Seaton in issue 12 of the Dawn of the unread series is Colin Smith, created by Allan Sillitoe in The loneliness of the long distance runner. Together Colin and Arthur embark on a journey on behalf of their literary creator to help save the libraries of Nottingham.

James Walker discusses Nottingham writer, broadcaster and activist; Ray Gosling. Ray spent half a century producing over 1,000 radio documentaries and 100 television documentaries. In all that time he never ceased fighting the system, standing up for ordinary people or courting controversy.

Arthur Seaton discovers a different type of Pussy Riot on a Saturday night...

Here's artist Steve Larder discussing factors that got him interested in becoming an artist and the processes he used to create the latest edition to the Dawn of the Unread series, Books and Bowstrings.

Lord Byron and Brian Clough have been fused together for Chapter 6 of Dawn of the Unread. Artwork is by Kate Ashwin and words courtesy of Andy Croft. We wouldn't say Byron Clough was the best Romanticist in the business, but he was in the top one. 

Kate Ashwin, the author and artist of Widdershins, discusses what it means to be a comics artist and how she went about illustrating the Byron Clough chapter for Dawn of the Unread