What’s YOUR Brighton story?
To coincide with its 50th anniversary, QueenSpark Books is looking for tales, anecdotes and reminiscences from Brighton residents to make up a new landmark book
Books
BOOK REVIEW: Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee
Noah Ramirez thinks he’s an expert on romance, writes a hugely popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters….but he’s made it all up, the stories are fake.
BOOK REVIEW: The Split by Laura Kay
The Split is a great book, really funny, with a huge focus on family and found family in particular, showing us how important our friendships are…
BOOK REVIEW: Another Time, Another Place Jodi Taylor
Taylors books excel in giving us real emotional connections with her wide cast of characters and it’s not all laughter and fun, there some hard lessons from life in these books.
Diana Souhami: A Life in Books
Diana Souhami is a writer best known for her biographies of eminent lesbians. Her latest book is called No Modernism Without Lesbians. We caught up with Diana to discuss the new book and her long career as an author.
BOOK REVIEW: Cripple by Nick Maynard
It’s a story about hope and needs, about unexpressed queer desire and how a stranger can become a focus for a world out of reach.
Brighton’s Queer past and present collide in Daren Kay’s new novel
Bitter rivalry, social one-upmanship and a showdown involving a secret past life come to a climax in Daren Kay’s new novel The Brightonians