RESISTANCE
GRAPHIC NOVEL Look elsewhere if you’re after escapist uplift. In large part, the story Resistance tells is very familiar. That’ll go double if you heard crime writer Val McDermid’s radio version, produced for Radio 4’s Dangerous Visions season in 2017. Centred on journalist Zoe Meadows, it charts how a deadly bacterium transfers from pigs to humans via a food stall at a music festival, spreading globally and eventually bringing civilisation to its knees.