The Best in New and Contemporary Romance, with Sareeta Domingo and Eleanor Pilcher

We are thrilled to get to announce the next event for this year's FIRST DATE FESTIVAL, which we are thrilled to run in partnership with Book Lovers Bookshop!

Join us to discuss the best of new contemporary romance - it's queer, it's feminist, and it takes women's pleasure seriously!

In Sareeta Domingo's Possibility, protagonist Anika faces her own mortality and vows to pursue the life - and love - she truly wants. The manifestations she writes in ther diary seem to magically come true, with sexy consequences. But what if she was enough all along, even without being able to control everything? It's hot, smart, and completely unputdownable.

That's What She Said by Eleanor Pilcher follows best friends and polar opposites Serena and Beth as Beth enlists Serena's help on a journey to face her fears. Speed-dating, sex therapy, tantra, a perplexed but ultimately very nice escort - it’s all on Beth’s Sexual Odyssey List. However, the odyssey sets them a course that’ll make them so much closer - or end their friendship for good...

About our speakers:

SAREETA DOMINGO is the author of Possibility (Renegade Books), The Three of Us (previously published as The Nearness of You), and creator, editor and contributing writer of romantic fiction anthology Who’s Loving You. Her novel If I Don’t Have You was longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2021. Her books for young adults are published under S.A. Domingo, including Love on the Main Stage, shortlisted for the Lancashire Book of the Year 2021. She lives in Southeast London, and works in publishing.

ELEANOR PILCHER is a published author of commercial women's fiction and an award-winning Marketing Consultant in the publishing industry, based in London, UK. She is also a podcaster, content creator on TikTok, and founder of the Substack newsletter Market Your Marketing. You'll find her on TikTok @eleanorpilcher or writing in a cafe.