FLORRIE

Anna Trench

RIGHTS AVAILABLE: TV/Film and all other rights controlled by the bks Agency

RIGHTS SOLD: World all languages, Jonathan Cape

Anna Trench is a graphic novelist, illustrator and teacher from London. Her work has been published by The Guardian, The Spectator, The Royal Society of Literature, SelfMadeHero, Slightly Foxed and Cambridge University. After an Art Foundation at Falmouth, she read English at King's College, Cambridge, then held the Levy-Plumb Visual Arts Studentship at Christ's College, Cambridge. She teaches English at a London secondary school and also enjoys playing football. Her graphic novel FLORRIE will be published by Jonathan Cape in June 2025 and has been shortlisted for the First Graphic Novel Award and the LDC Comics Award. 

FLORRIE is a queer, historical graphic novel about love and women’s football, set around the FA’s 1921 ban. When Florrie’s great-niece discovers Florrie was a footballer in the early 20th century, she unearths a secret history both on and off the pitch. Boxes from the attic contain match reports, photos and letters, revealing football games and love affairs in Norfolk, London and Paris. Florrie’s adventures touch on both invented and real events: huge crowds at matches in London and Preston, international fixtures, dances at lesbian club Le Monocle in Paris and the devastating consequences of a ban on women playing a game deemed 'unsuitable for females’.

Photo by Christa Holka