On Stage
The Bookshop
Sunday
1:40 pm
Phil Melanson’s Florenzer is a queer historical novel set in fifteenth-century Florence, following Leonardo da Vinci, Lorenzo de’ Medici, and a priest central to the Pazzi conspiracy. It’s been compared to Hilary Mantel in its historical rigour and immediacy.
Latitude loved: the scale. The richness and ruin of the city
Tobi Coventry’s He’s the Devil is a queer horror novel about a good boy whose new flatmate brings something monstrous into the flat. Coventry, who lives in East Sussex in a town full of haunted pubs, is a genuinely original new voice.
Latitude loved: horror that drips off the pages, queer to its bone.