Jeffrey Weeks will be speaking at the SEXing Conference in Liverpool at the beginning of March to celebrate the 4o year anniversary of the first publication of Coming Out. The opening session will take place at 9am on 4th March…

‘This year marks 40 years since the publication of the groundbreaking work ‘Coming Out: The Emergence of LGBT Identities in Britain from the 19th Century to the Present’, by Jeffrey Weeks. SEXing the Past 2017 will commemorate this important anniversary by devoting a special session to a conversation with Jeffrey Weeks, which will provide an opportunity for reflections and questions on the development and future of LGBT history.’

For more information on the event, go here and get your copy of Coming Out here today.

There’s a fantastic review of The Secret Broker by Simon Crane
in his old school magazine. The brilliant reviews on Amazon for The Secret Broker keep spilling in… You can read some of these and get a copy of the book here!

‘Everything about Lesley was unconventional and romantic: her writing, her tumultuous love life, her sartorial glamour and mischievous humour. She was erudite without being stuffy or pompous. Fearless and headstrong, she could be infuriating and grandiose. An internationalist, she opened windows on the world and was passionate about all things Russian and oriental. I treasure Alexander Pushkin’s The Golden Cockerel and Other Stories, adapted by James Reeves, which she gave to me as a child. To be with her was to enter many different worlds.’

Georgia de Chambert writes a piece on Lesley Blanch for the Guardian. You can read the full article here. We will be publishing Far to Go and Many to Love: People and Places later this year. This is a charming selection of unpublished writings by twentieth century luminary Lesley Blanch, and is edited by Georgia de Chambert.

At Quartet, we’re very sad to hear about the deaths of Quartet authors Hilary Bailey and Emma Tennant. Our thoughts are with their nearest and dearest.

The Bookseller has posted an article on the loss of these prolific authors which can be read here.

In 2014, we published Did We Meet on Grub Street? by Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey and David Elliott. Go here for more information on the book.

‘It’s a fiction written in the style of a true story… It has a strong factual background based on actual things that happened in these two capitals, which are 1600 miles apart but at that point had striking parallels.’

Gerald Jacobs talks Nine Love Letters with Ham & High. Read the full interview here: Ham & High and you can get your copy of the book here.

Listen to a fantastic interview with Vanessa Hannam on Talk Radio Europe here. Summer’s Grace by Vanessa Hannam is available now. Get your copy here today!

‘This debut novel is a genre-twisting tour de force – a grand dynastic epic in the style of García Márquez, yet at the same time an exquisitely nuanced study of love and loss, and a primer on Jewish tradition and the devastating 20th- century history of two diaspora communities, Baghdad and Budapest.’

The Lady gives a fantastic review of Nine Love Letters by Gerald Jacobs. Read the full review here and get your copy of the book here today.

‘Readers familiar with Libyan writer Ahmed Fagih’s works in English translation may be surprised by his latest book: a collection of erotica entitled Lady Hayatt’s Husbands and other erotic tales. The slender 127-page volume contains seven stories by Fagih and a story from The Thousand and One Nights.The collection is published by London-based Quartet Books. Fagih has enjoyed a long association with Quartet. It published his Gardens of the Night: A Trilogy in 1995 and the novel Homeless Rats in 2011.

Sarit Yishai-Levi and Gerald Jacobs will be speaking about Powerful Love Stories at the Jewish Book Week on 26th February at 2pm. For more information and tickets, go here. Get your copy of Nine Love Letters by Gerald Jacobs here.

Vanessa Hannam speaks to Talk Radio Europe about Summer’s Grace tonight at 6pm! Tune in here and get your copy of Summer’s Grace here today.

On 24th January author and journalist John de St. Jorre will be speaking about his memoir Darling Baby Mine, A Son’s Extraordinary Search for His Mother at the American Library in Paris. It should be a fantastic evening so if you’re in the city, please do make sure you attend! John is based in Newport, USA so his visits to Europe are rare. John is a wonderful speaker and his story is heart-wrenching.

For more information on the event, please go here. You can read more about John de St. Jorre’s incredible personal story on The Telegraph website here.

‘No man is a male island, no woman independent of male qualities and so much of our perception of the complex world of gender is rigid, outdated and facile. Perched in the eye of a man may well be a pretty good place to reflect upon ‘the women’.’

Venetia Welby talks about the writing of Mother of Darkness and discusses why a woman would write a male protagonist for a piece on Women’s Writers, Women’s Books. In February, we will be publishing Mother of Darkness by Venetia Welby. You can read the full article here and read more about the book here.