The queer version: retellings of classic stories
Jessica
Over the next few weeks we have the pleasure of hosting not one but TWO events with fantastic authors who have both created stunning, bold and imaginative novels drawing on the stuff of legend - classic, familiar stories to inspire something completely new and beautifully queer.
Here's what to expect!
On Wednesday May 27th, we welcome Elle Machray to introduce us to a new and very different Miss Havisham - the character from Dickens' Great Expectations - who, in this version, will stop at nothing to ger her heart's desire. Elle will be in coversation with Jean Menzies.
On Tuesday June 9th, it's time for an evening of gothic horror in the company of Kat Dunn and Kirsty Logan. Kat Dunn's new novel Rottenheart exhumes the heart of Hamlet to create a fearless and haunted queer love story.
Have a wee browse of both books below, alongside some of our favourite queer off-shoots of classic stories!
Linked Books
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- Havisham
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- Elle Machray
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- Rottenheart : The unmissable new gothic horror novel from the author of Hungerstone
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- Kat Dunn
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- What moves the dead
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- T. Kingfisher
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- Girl Meets Boy
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- Smith, Ali
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- Sistersong
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- Holland, Lucy
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- Just as You Are : A Novel
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- Kellog, Camille
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- Our Hideous Progeny : A thrilling Gothic Adventure
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- McGill, C. E.
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- Tamlin
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- Aven Wildsmith
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- Once & Future
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- Capetta, Amy Rose, McCarthy, Cori
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- This Princess Kills Monsters : The Misadventures of a Fairy-Tale Stepsister
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- Ry Herman
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- The Raven Tower
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- Leckie, Ann
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- Henry Henry
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- Allen Bratton
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- Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
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- McLemore, Anna-Marie
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- My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix
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- Bayron, Kalynn
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- Teach the Torches to Burn: A Romeo & Juliet Remix
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- Roehrig, Caleb
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- Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix
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- Cole Novoa, Gabe
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- The Song of Achilles : Bloomsbury Modern Classics
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- Miller, Madeline
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- Cinderella Is Dead
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- Bayron, Kalynn
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- The Grimrose Girls
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- Laura Pohl
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- Girl, Serpent, Thorn
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- Melissa Bashardoust
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- The One Hundred Nights of Hero
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- Greenberg, Isabel
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- Gentlest of Wild Things
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- Underwood, Sarah
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- A Treachery of Swans
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- Poranek, A. B.
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- Her Wicked Roots
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- Pell, Tanya
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- Not Good for Maidens
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- Tori Bovalino
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- The Last True Poets of the Sea
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- Julia Drake
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- The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
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- Alexis Hall
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- A Sweet Sting of Salt : A Novel
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- Sutherland, Rose
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- The Salt Grows Heavy
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- Cassandra Khaw
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- Off With Their Heads
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- Zoe Hana Mikuta
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- One For All
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- Lainoff, Lillie