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Location: Crookes Social Club, crookes social club, Mulehouse Rd, Sheffield S10 1TD, UK
Laura Kay and Lily Lindon are amongst the finest rom com writers around, and what's more they are queer and hilarious. What more could you want on a summery Thursday evening? Laura and Lily will be talking about their new books, messy main characters and the importance of queer representation in romance writing.
Laura Kay is the author of The Split and Tell Me Everything and her new book Wild Things is set to be another hilarious, sexy addition to the sapphic rom com canon.
WILD THINGS: El Evans is stuck in a dead-end job, hopelessly in unrequited love with her best friend, Ray, and in need of a major life change.
After a New Year's resolution to 'Be More Wild', El is soon in possession of one (small) tattoo, one (bad) hangover and memories of one (very disappointing) threesome. . . but she's trying and surely it can only get better?
So when a plan is hatched for El, Ray and their two closest friends - newly heartbroken Will and Instagram darling Jamie - to ditch the big city and move out to a ramshackle house in the middle of the English countryside, El can hardly say no. This is her big chance for a fresh start, the perfect wild thing.
But living in close proximity to the love of your life without letting on isn't as easy as El might think. . .
WILL A YEAR OF WILD THINGS TURN THESE FRIENDS INTO LOVERS?
Lily Lindon is the author of hilarious bisexual rom com Double Booked and her new book Her Own Worst Enemy is a juicy new gift to fans of the enemies to lovers oeuvre.
HER OWN WORST ENEMY: She's her own worst enemy. So why does she fancy people who look like her? In the new fun, fresh and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy from Lily Lindon, opposites really don't attract. Overthinker and recent drama-school graduate Emmy Clooney (no relation) will do anything to be a successful actor, even if it means getting typecast in the tiny roles available to a 'mid-twenties short-haired lesbian'. But in the audition room for her big break, Emmy meets a new rising star, Mae Smith-Jones - unfortunately, another mid-twenties short-haired lesbian. As Mae is exactly Emmy's casting type, she is her worst enemy. But as Mae is effortlessly charismatic, talented, and insanely hot in costume, she is also exactly Emmy's romantic type... When their opposing personalities clash, Emmy and Mae begin a fierce competition to win the best parts. But if they are cast in the same play, will they find a way to act nicely - or will they take their rivalry to the next stage?
THIS EVENT IS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN ANDRO AND EVE AND JUNO BOOKS