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La Fonte Musica Brings Monteverdi's Passion to Brighton

BREMF has once again delivered a stellar season of musical events, staying true to its mission of unearthing forgotten treasures, championing emerging talent, and bringing world-class early music performers to Brighton.

Out of the Deep: A Decadent Redemption

Out of the Deep: A Decadent Redemption

This was a journey into the darkest of the night, lit by brilliant wit, fuelled by a perfect bonding of voice and instruments to illuminate this crepuscular programme with a refulgent burning urgency. Vache Baroque offered redemptive bliss, and we left all the better for it.

Review: The Little I Knew by Chiara Valerio, translated by Ailsa Wood

Review: The Little I Knew by Chiara Valerio, translated by Ailsa Wood

A meditation on small-town life, female relationships, and the secrets that pulse beneath seemingly placid surfaces. This novel unwinds with careful intensity, its narrative architecture mirroring the slow, sun-drenched rhythms of southern Italian coastal existence.

A Resplendent Celebration: Music Divine brings Gibbons to life in Brighton's BREMF

A Resplendent Celebration: Music Divine brings Gibbons to life in Brighton's BREMF

There's something rather magical about experiencing four centuries of musical heritage vibrating through the bones of a lurking Brighton church, Gibbons 400 was a transcendent journey marking 400 years since Orlando Gibbons' death.

Cast of eight in Regency costumes pose dramatically around "Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel" title on pink background.

A Most Delightful Evening of Theatrical Impropriety Austentatious at Theatre Royal Brighton, - 21 September

Wit, charm, and just a touch of the risqué, whether you are a devoted Austen enthusiast or newcomer to the world of drawing rooms and country estates, Austentatious are masters of daft comedy that shall linger long in memory.

The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex, gender and mating shape modern relationships by Nathan H. Lents ★★★★★

The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex, gender and mating shape modern relationships by Nathan H. Lents ★★★★★

This injects a timely splash of colour into a field increasingly given to dreary black-and-white thinking. Essential reading that proves Nature has always been the ultimate advocate for diversity, and has been having a perfectly marvellous time at it.

Queer Georgians: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers and Homemakers By Dr Anthony Delaney ★★★★★

Queer Georgians: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers and Homemakers By Dr Anthony Delaney ★★★★★

Queer Georgians is both deeply serious scholarship and a celebration of queer resilience. It takes the mythic sheen off our ancestors while making them infinitely more precious—as recognisably queer people who loved, struggled, thrived, and endured. unmistakably queer.

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