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Lifting OffPre-order (published 06 June)
Bookeseller Crow (signed copy) Foyles Waterstones Bookshop.org Amazon Told with the wit and verve that characterised her debut novel, In Search of the Missing Eyelash, Karen McLeod’s new memoir Lifting Off, about flying as cabin crew offers a fascinating insight into the profound impact of long-haul life. Having come out as a lesbian she is forced to go back in as colleagues advise her that it is not ok to be gay, unlike male cabin crew. Brimming with vertiginous loops and extreme globe-trotting, against a backdrop of exotic locations, hotel bars and nightclubs, Karen slowly unravels as the inability to truly be herself reverberates. This is the story of how Karen finally came into land. How she learned to look after herself and discovered her real self. Published by Muswell Press.h |
In Search of the Missing EyelashPre-order (republished 06 June)
WHSmith Bookshop.org Amazon First published in 2008 by Vintage this Betty Trask Award winning novel; a humorous LGBTQI+ coming of age story, is available for the first time in 17 years. Lizzie is lonely. Her parents have gone and her brother, who believes he is a woman, is missing. Most of all, though, Lizzie misses Sally, her former lover, who has gone off with a man with a fat neck. Lizzie starts to stalk Sally, collecting bathroom fluff, dust and pubes from Sally’s bed – all the things that prove that somewhere life is taking place without her. "A marvellous debut: quirky, honest, funny and sad. I loved it." - Sarah Waters "Sensitive, ferocious and very funny." - Helen Oyeyemi, New Statesman More on In Search of the Missing Eyelash |
Queer Life, Queer Love 2Order:
Muswell Press Bookseller Crow Foyles Waterstones Bookshop.org Karen has contributed to 'Queer Life, Queer Love 2 The Second Anthology' by Julia Bell and Matt Bates. This sparkling collection features voices across all narrative forms with 44 stories, poems, essays, and flash-fiction, capturing the very best of international queer writing today. This is writing that explores characters, stories, and experiences beyond the mainstream; works that celebrate the fascinating, the forbidden, the subversive, and even the mundane, but, in essence, works that express the view from outside. Humorous, serious, autobiographical, and revelatory – all aspects of the queer experience are reflected in this dazzling collection. Published by Muswell Press |