Queer Fiction Reading Group

Welcome to our Queer Fiction Reading Group!

This is an inclusive reading group open to anyone to come together to read and discuss LGBTQIA+ literature, with titles specially chosen by Sanna. Through a queer lens we explore everything from overlooked queer classics to groundbreaking works of contemporary literary fiction.

To start 2026 off we are looking at Nell Stevens 2022 debut novel Briefly, A Delicious Life: a story about breaking convention and about love - secret, forbidden, unrequited.

LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE

Blanca has been dead for a few centuries when she falls in love - instantly and devotedly - with celebrated novelist George Sand. George is unlike anyone Blanca has encountered in hundreds of years of haunting: a woman dressed in men's clothes, a ferocious writer, a passionate lover of men and women alike and an ambivalent mother.

It is 1838, and George has come to the island of Mallorca with her ailing lover, Frederic Chopin. As the weather and the locals turn against this strange couple, can the love of a teenage ghost keep them from disaster?

'Wildly seductive' - Sarah Waters

'Exquisite' - New York Times

'Deeply enjoyable' - Daily Telegraph

'A luscious, multi-sensory bewitchment of a book' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave