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
There's a fantastic review of The Secret Broker by Simon Crane in his old school magazine.
‘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
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
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
‘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
