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 handpicked by Sanna. Through a queer lens we’ll explore everything from overlooked queer classics to groundbreaking works of contemporary literary fiction.

To welcome spring we are reading Soula Emmanuel's award-winning debut Wild Geese. This is an intimate and moving novel of past lives, messy feelings and the desire to start afresh. With wit and warmth, it charts the dislocations and relocations, encounters, accidents and memories, and the layers of love and loss that constitute a life.

WINNER OF THE GORDON BOWKER VOLCANO PRIZE (SoA Award) 2024

WINNER OF THE LAMBDA AWARD IN TRANSGENDER FICTION 2024

New home, new name and newly thirty: Phoebe Forde has stepped into emigrant life in Copenhagen with her anxious dog, Dolly. Almost three years into her gender transition, she has learned to move through the world carefully, savouring small moments of joy.

A woman without a past can be anyone she wants - that is, until an unexpected visit from Grace, her first love, brings memories of Dublin and a life she thought she'd left behind.

Over the course of a single weekend, as their old romance kindles something sweet and radically unfamiliar, Grace helps Phoebe to navigate the jagged edges of migration, nostalgia and hope.

"Soula is the most exciting new voice in Irish writing." Barry Pierce, i-D

"One of my favourite books so far this year." Stylist

"Soula Emmanuel is a phenomenal talent." Laura Kay

"Searingly sharp, deliciously funny, profound." Danielle McLaughlin