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· Jan 20
Pre-orders of In Transit by Brigid Brophy now available on the Lurid Editions website - www.lurideditions.com/shop/p/brigi...
First pre-orders get limited edition tattoos, inspired by content from the book!
#BrigidBrophy #Booksky #preorder #newbooks
First pre-orders get limited edition tattoos, inspired by content from the book!
#BrigidBrophy #Booksky #preorder #newbooks
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Following this, Aubrey Walter then went on to co-found, with David Fernbach and Richard Dipple, The Gay Men’s Press on 1 August 1979 in London. #GMP published a diverse list, including “In Transit” #BrigidBrophy (recently reissued by @LuridEditions.bsky.social)
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A Short History of Gay Men’s Press
Aubrey Walter and myself, David Fernbach, had been living together since 1965. We were very involved in the political struggles of that decade, especially the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. We were o…
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October 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Following this, Aubrey Walter then went on to co-found, with David Fernbach and Richard Dipple, The Gay Men’s Press on 1 August 1979 in London. #GMP published a diverse list, including “In Transit” #BrigidBrophy (recently reissued by @LuridEditions.bsky.social)
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The Ladies of Llangollen, Eleanor Butler (1739–1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831), were two upper-class Irish women who lived together as a couple.
The pair moved to a Gothic house in Llangollen, North Wales, in 1780 after leaving Ireland to escape the social pressures of conventional marriages.
The pair moved to a Gothic house in Llangollen, North Wales, in 1780 after leaving Ireland to escape the social pressures of conventional marriages.
September 3, 2024 at 12:47 PM
The Ladies of Llangollen, Eleanor Butler (1739–1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831), were two upper-class Irish women who lived together as a couple.
The pair moved to a Gothic house in Llangollen, North Wales, in 1780 after leaving Ireland to escape the social pressures of conventional marriages.
The pair moved to a Gothic house in Llangollen, North Wales, in 1780 after leaving Ireland to escape the social pressures of conventional marriages.
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There's a 1936 novel about them: Chase of the Wild Goose by Mary Gordon. There was a recent edition by @lurideditions.bsky.social
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Chase of the Wild Goose — Lurid Editions
Chase of the Wild Goose is the forgotten queer novel of the 1930s – a joyful corrective to the misery of The Well of Loneliness, and amiable companion to Woolf’s time-travelling Orlando.
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October 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
There's a 1936 novel about them: Chase of the Wild Goose by Mary Gordon. There was a recent edition by @lurideditions.bsky.social
www.lurideditions.com/shop/p/chase...
www.lurideditions.com/shop/p/chase...
In honour of Banned Books Week
We are celebrating The Milkman’s on His Way by David Rees First published by the Gay Men’s Press in 1982, this ground breaking young adult novel would go on to have a pivotal role in the passing of Section 28. Never banned outright, the book was
suppressed & censored.
We are celebrating The Milkman’s on His Way by David Rees First published by the Gay Men’s Press in 1982, this ground breaking young adult novel would go on to have a pivotal role in the passing of Section 28. Never banned outright, the book was
suppressed & censored.
October 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
In honour of Banned Books Week
We are celebrating The Milkman’s on His Way by David Rees First published by the Gay Men’s Press in 1982, this ground breaking young adult novel would go on to have a pivotal role in the passing of Section 28. Never banned outright, the book was
suppressed & censored.
We are celebrating The Milkman’s on His Way by David Rees First published by the Gay Men’s Press in 1982, this ground breaking young adult novel would go on to have a pivotal role in the passing of Section 28. Never banned outright, the book was
suppressed & censored.
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This sounds amazing!
To celebrate #SapphicSeptember A Jingle Jangle Song by Mariana Villa-Gilbert is available to pre-order from the Lurid Editions website. www.lurideditions.com/shop/p/a-jin... “To read A Jingle-Jangle Song is to discover a missing link in the tradition of the 20th century lesbian novel”—Leigh Wilson
September 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This sounds amazing!
To celebrate #SapphicSeptember A Jingle Jangle Song by Mariana Villa-Gilbert is available to pre-order from the Lurid Editions website. www.lurideditions.com/shop/p/a-jin... “To read A Jingle-Jangle Song is to discover a missing link in the tradition of the 20th century lesbian novel”—Leigh Wilson
September 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
To celebrate #SapphicSeptember A Jingle Jangle Song by Mariana Villa-Gilbert is available to pre-order from the Lurid Editions website. www.lurideditions.com/shop/p/a-jin... “To read A Jingle-Jangle Song is to discover a missing link in the tradition of the 20th century lesbian novel”—Leigh Wilson
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Today's #SapphicSeptember rec:
Chase of the Wild Goose, by Mary Gordon and published by @lurideditions.bsky.social
Originally published in 1936, this is a gloriously romantic, melodramatic and weird retelling of the lives of the Ladies of Llangollen.
Chase of the Wild Goose, by Mary Gordon and published by @lurideditions.bsky.social
Originally published in 1936, this is a gloriously romantic, melodramatic and weird retelling of the lives of the Ladies of Llangollen.
September 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Today's #SapphicSeptember rec:
Chase of the Wild Goose, by Mary Gordon and published by @lurideditions.bsky.social
Originally published in 1936, this is a gloriously romantic, melodramatic and weird retelling of the lives of the Ladies of Llangollen.
Chase of the Wild Goose, by Mary Gordon and published by @lurideditions.bsky.social
Originally published in 1936, this is a gloriously romantic, melodramatic and weird retelling of the lives of the Ladies of Llangollen.
Review of In Transit by Hailey Maxwell, to be published in the New Internationalist #bookreview #brigidbrophy
August 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Review of In Transit by Hailey Maxwell, to be published in the New Internationalist #bookreview #brigidbrophy
Lurid borlotti beans and Brigid Brophy
August 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Lurid borlotti beans and Brigid Brophy
Lurid borlotti beans and Brigid Brophy
August 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Lurid borlotti beans and Brigid Brophy
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An age of misgovernment; the novel of ideas; Chaucer’s ambitions for English; reconsidering Brigid Brophy; Samuel Beckett’s resourcefulness – and much more.
This week’s TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
This week’s TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
July 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
An age of misgovernment; the novel of ideas; Chaucer’s ambitions for English; reconsidering Brigid Brophy; Samuel Beckett’s resourcefulness – and much more.
This week’s TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
This week’s TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
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Not to be missed: two reissued Brigid Brophy novels discussed in this week's TLS @thetls.bsk.social.
July 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Not to be missed: two reissued Brigid Brophy novels discussed in this week's TLS @thetls.bsk.social.
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Jet-lagged, gender-shifting, and gloriously unclassifiable—In Transit follows Pat through airports, opera, revolution & reinvention. A 1969 anti-novel of sexual amnesia, identity flux & feminist undergrounds. Brophy was way ahead of us. #QueerLit
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May 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Jet-lagged, gender-shifting, and gloriously unclassifiable—In Transit follows Pat through airports, opera, revolution & reinvention. A 1969 anti-novel of sexual amnesia, identity flux & feminist undergrounds. Brophy was way ahead of us. #QueerLit
@lurideditions.bsky.social
buff.ly/miFJRpe
@lurideditions.bsky.social
buff.ly/miFJRpe
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Yay! Today! Brigid Brophy!
May 1, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Yay! Today! Brigid Brophy!
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Love the @lurideditions.bsky.social reprints project. Looking forward to reading this.
Happy publication day to In Transit, Brigid Brophy's heroi-cyclic masterpiece! Huge thanks to @brophylevey.bsky.social for believing in the project to publish a new edition of the novel, and for writing a brilliant foreword. We're so proud to be publishing this mind/sex bending novel. #booksky
May 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Love the @lurideditions.bsky.social reprints project. Looking forward to reading this.
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Read Brigid Brophy and follow Kate Levey
Happy publication day to In Transit, Brigid Brophy's heroi-cyclic masterpiece! Huge thanks to @brophylevey.bsky.social for believing in the project to publish a new edition of the novel, and for writing a brilliant foreword. We're so proud to be publishing this mind/sex bending novel. #booksky
May 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Read Brigid Brophy and follow Kate Levey
Happy publication day to In Transit, Brigid Brophy's heroi-cyclic masterpiece! Huge thanks to @brophylevey.bsky.social for believing in the project to publish a new edition of the novel, and for writing a brilliant foreword. We're so proud to be publishing this mind/sex bending novel. #booksky
May 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Happy publication day to In Transit, Brigid Brophy's heroi-cyclic masterpiece! Huge thanks to @brophylevey.bsky.social for believing in the project to publish a new edition of the novel, and for writing a brilliant foreword. We're so proud to be publishing this mind/sex bending novel. #booksky
For Bristol folks! In Transit launch, Thu 8 May, East Bristol Books. 7pm start!
#bookevents #booksky #bristolbookevents #bristol #brigidbrophy
#bookevents #booksky #bristolbookevents #bristol #brigidbrophy
April 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
For Bristol folks! In Transit launch, Thu 8 May, East Bristol Books. 7pm start!
#bookevents #booksky #bristolbookevents #bristol #brigidbrophy
#bookevents #booksky #bristolbookevents #bristol #brigidbrophy
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One of the most promiscuous, brilliant, + endlessly fascinating novels of the 60s In Transit is being republished 🎉 Here “the empirical world shivers and becomes more malleable, more erotic, more wild. Bends into itself and returns,” as Helen Marten says of her own Aristotelian disintegrations...
April 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
One of the most promiscuous, brilliant, + endlessly fascinating novels of the 60s In Transit is being republished 🎉 Here “the empirical world shivers and becomes more malleable, more erotic, more wild. Bends into itself and returns,” as Helen Marten says of her own Aristotelian disintegrations...
April 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Mother's Day 2025. Brigid Brophy didn't cook, sew dust or garden. Instead she wrote *the* witty niche-cult sexual adventure novel of the 20th century, In Transit. New edition, top right, coming soon.
March 30, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Mother's Day 2025. Brigid Brophy didn't cook, sew dust or garden. Instead she wrote *the* witty niche-cult sexual adventure novel of the 20th century, In Transit. New edition, top right, coming soon.
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GO GO GO!!! BB's In Transit is an airport-tastic operatic no-gender?-don't-panic good time & you should scoop up this edition.
Join us Thu 8 May 7pm at East Bristol Books to celebrate the publication of Brigid Brophy's In Transit!
Publisher D-M Withers will be in conversation with literary agent Becky Brown.
Tickets here:
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...
#brigidbrophy #intransit #booksky #bookevents #bristol
Publisher D-M Withers will be in conversation with literary agent Becky Brown.
Tickets here:
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...
#brigidbrophy #intransit #booksky #bookevents #bristol
Lurid Editions: On Brigid Brophy's *In Transit* at East Bristol Books
'It’s easy to forget things when you go to the airport.
Including your sex.'
Publisher D-M Withers and Heritage Literary Agent Becky Brown discuss the republication of Brigid Brophy's In Transit. Bec...
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April 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
GO GO GO!!! BB's In Transit is an airport-tastic operatic no-gender?-don't-panic good time & you should scoop up this edition.
Join us Thu 8 May 7pm at East Bristol Books to celebrate the publication of Brigid Brophy's In Transit!
Publisher D-M Withers will be in conversation with literary agent Becky Brown.
Tickets here:
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...
#brigidbrophy #intransit #booksky #bookevents #bristol
Publisher D-M Withers will be in conversation with literary agent Becky Brown.
Tickets here:
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...
#brigidbrophy #intransit #booksky #bookevents #bristol
Lurid Editions: On Brigid Brophy's *In Transit* at East Bristol Books
'It’s easy to forget things when you go to the airport.
Including your sex.'
Publisher D-M Withers and Heritage Literary Agent Becky Brown discuss the republication of Brigid Brophy's In Transit. Bec...
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk
April 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Join us Thu 8 May 7pm at East Bristol Books to celebrate the publication of Brigid Brophy's In Transit!
Publisher D-M Withers will be in conversation with literary agent Becky Brown.
Tickets here:
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...
#brigidbrophy #intransit #booksky #bookevents #bristol
Publisher D-M Withers will be in conversation with literary agent Becky Brown.
Tickets here:
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...
#brigidbrophy #intransit #booksky #bookevents #bristol
This! ✴️
It's queer feminist* writers' Xmukkah!
*ALCS was started by Maureen Duffy & Brigid Brophy who won the support of TUC for the scheme after SoA turned them down. Their activism built on their feminist & animal rights activist experience. Thank them by buying their books today!
*ALCS was started by Maureen Duffy & Brigid Brophy who won the support of TUC for the scheme after SoA turned them down. Their activism built on their feminist & animal rights activist experience. Thank them by buying their books today!
Time for UK authors and artists to check their ALCS statement — or register if you have not yet done so.
www.alcs.co.uk
www.alcs.co.uk
March 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This! ✴️