Book Launch / Reading

Desire Makes Me Brave – Memoir Talk and Lively DiscussionDesire Makes Me Brave is an adventurous and vulnerable memoir about self-discovery and the erotic-awakening of a bonafide bisexual.Part sex memoir, part romcom, part travelog, it traces the wild and winding escapades of April Hirschman—from her all-but-traditional upbringing in a northern […]

A talk about the challenge and pitfalls of writing memoir with readings from work in progressDIANA SOUHAMI writes of lesbians include Gluck, Greta and Cecil, Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter, The Trials of Radclyffe Hall, Natalie and Romaine and No Modernism Without Lesbians.Her memoir Ah Me is due for publication […]

A celebration of Dykes and their Dogs from the writers of ‘Ode To Free’ and ‘Deep in The Heart of Me’. Introducing Stoll and Moss, the latest creations of genius illustrator, Shanni Collins.Behind The Lines has been bringing lesbian stories to life since 2014. As a theatre company and publishing […]

BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE, TRANSFORMING YOURSELF INTO A POWERFUL NEW LIFE When everything seemingly falls apart, there is good news; it signals an opportunity for growth, rebirth, a rise in consciousness, or a swift kick in the ass if we continue not to listen. Burning Down the House is a […]

Trust Me by Kashmira (Dimitra Tzioti)You know, people’s lives go on, change, and erase their course in the history of humanity. Sometimes these lives experience fateful encounters that are about to change the course of history. One of them was ours! So many years have passed.A novel with strong elements […]

Are you looking at me? aspires to be funny, insightful, and wise. Queen Queerlysh says, “If you laugh, it’s comedy; if you don’t, it’s art.”Queen Queerlysh’s collection of poetry and spoken word, spanning 10 years, explores her experiences as a queer woman. She explores universal topics of self, love, freedom, […]

I’m a writer, researcher and story-teller who uses oral history methods to record the lives of marginalised women. My published work includes Now You See Me: lesbian life stories, and Free to Be Me: stories from the Lesbian Immigration Support Group.But I am also, in collaboration with Jacky Bratton, half […]

‘Many Loves, One Love’A couple of women. A ten-year-old son. The revenge of one’s narcissistic wound and the other’s sorrow transformed in a prose that, through a lucid analysis, becomes a moving and exciting song of love. A passionate rhythm, erotism and poetry dance in a vortex of emotions. “The best […]

MOUTHING OFF on the flip of a century MOUTHING OFF IS A COLLECTION OF PERFORMANCE POETRY it lures you in with a stylish lilt then packs an uncompromising punch, knocking you head first into the critical issues of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, seen from the down side […]

Come and join this newly published, highly talented and gifted writer Stina Vogt from Norway as she introduces her newly published book: But How Can I Cry When The Streets Are Ablaze With Flowers? Stina will discuss the themes (Mothers, daughters, grief, plants, memories), the genre, the writing process and […]

For the last decade or so, Jane Traies has been collecting lesbian life stories. Some of them appear in Now You See Me, a collection of tales told by lesbians born between 1920 and 1950; and in her second collection, Free to Be Me, featuring the lives of lesbian refugees […]

Jane Traies and Jacky Bratton write together as Jay Taverner, and have now published four successful lesbian historical novels in the ‘Brynsquilver’ series. The latest, Liberty, is their most ambitious story yet. Set at the time of the French Revolution, it takes its two heroines on an epic journey across […]