A event on Thursday 5th February. The event starts at 19:00.
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Gloucester Road Books and Bristol-based indie publisher, Lurid Editions, celebrate an important, and until now largely unknown queer novelist, Mariana Villa-Gilbert (1937-2023), and the republication of her finest novel, A Jingle Jangle Song.
Lurid Editions director, D-M Withers, will be in conversation with the acclaimed writer of A Flat Place, Noreen Masud, to discuss Villa-Gilbert’s life and work, the queer novel and publishing history, and the wider work of Lurid Editions.
Villa-Gilbert was a prolific young author in the 1960s, but has since slipped from the history books. She published six novels with Chatto & Windus in the 1960s and 70s, including A Jingle Jangle Song (first published in 1968), an atmospheric and cosy sapphic work set in London’s swinging folk scene.
A Jingle Jangle Song is the lost lesbian novel of the late 1960s, and one of only thirty published between 1946-67 that openly depicted a queer relationship. To read it, writes literary critic Leigh Wilson, “is to discover a missing link in the tradition of the 20th century lesbian novel.”
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Lurid Editions are a Bristol-based indie publisher who publish rediscovered LGBTQIA+ books from the twentieth century archive.
D-M Withers is Director of Lurid Editions and Lecturer in Publishing at the University of Exeter where they are also Co-Director of the MA in Publishing programme.
Dr Noreen Masud is a lecturer in twentieth century literature at the University of Bristol and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker, making programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4. Her memoir, A Flat Place, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, the Jhalak Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. It was also selected for numerous Books of the Year lists, including by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The News On Sunday (Pakistan) and The Sunday Times.
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
Gloucester Road Books and Bristol-based indie publisher, Lurid Editions, celebrate an important, and until now largely unknown queer novelist, Mariana Villa-Gilbert (1937-2023), and the republication of her finest novel, A Jingle Jangle Song.
Lurid Editions director, D-M Withers, will be in conversation with the acclaimed writer of A Flat Place, Noreen Masud, to discuss Villa-Gilbert’s life and work, the queer novel and publishing history, and the wider work of Lurid Editions.
Villa-Gilbert was a prolific young author in the 1960s, but has since slipped from the history books. She published six novels with Chatto & Windus in the 1960s and 70s, including A Jingle Jangle Song (first published in 1968), an atmospheric and cosy sapphic work set in London’s swinging folk scene.
A Jingle Jangle Song is the lost lesbian novel of the late 1960s, and one of only thirty published between 1946-67 that openly depicted a queer relationship. To read it, writes literary critic Leigh Wilson, “is to discover a missing link in the tradition of the 20th century lesbian novel.”
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Lurid Editions are a Bristol-based indie publisher who publish rediscovered LGBTQIA+ books from the twentieth century archive.
D-M Withers is Director of Lurid Editions and Lecturer in Publishing at the University of Exeter where they are also Co-Director of the MA in Publishing programme.
Dr Noreen Masud is a lecturer in twentieth century literature at the University of Bristol and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker, making programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4. Her memoir, A Flat Place, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, the Jhalak Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. It was also selected for numerous Books of the Year lists, including by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The News On Sunday (Pakistan) and The Sunday Times.
Entry requirements: 16+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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