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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...

Not to be missed: two reissued Brigid Brophy novels discussed in this week's TLS @thetls.bsk.social.

During the scudding back of the spoon across the opaque liquid I realised I could no longer remember which sex I was, text over lays a copy of In Transit, a cappuccino and a brioche

Cappuccino core #intransit

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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Yay! Today! Brigid Brophy!

Love the @lurideditions.bsky.social reprints project. Looking forward to reading this.

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Copy of In Transit published by Lurid editions

Text says Happy publication day In Transit Brigid Brophy's heroi-cyclic masterpiece

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!

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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...

'In Transit is about a series of disintegrations of rulebooks, including the sexual stereotypes, ending with the question of whether Aristotelian logic might disintegrate, whether we are mistaken in thinking that a thing cannot be both X and not-X' Brigid Brophy

Just leaving this here, as they say.

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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.

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.

Thanks for your support So x

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...

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...

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Brigid Brophy In Transit — Lurid Editions Brigid Brophy's In Transit published by Lurid Editions.

You can pre-order this fabulous new edition of Brigid Brophy's travelling-while-non-binary fantasia IN TRANSIT from new queer press @lurideditions.bsky.social right now!

www.lurideditions.com/shop/p/brigi...

For St Patrick's Day, Brigid Brophy having fun. In Transit. New edition coming in May 2025 from @lurideditions.bsky.social

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We had such an amazing time at the Alternative Book Fair on Saturday, thanks for @indienovella.bsky.social for organising! Did you pick up an In Transit tattoo? Send us your pics! Free with pre-orders through the Lurid website - www.lurideditions.com/shop/p/brigi...

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Titles not to miss in May, description of In Transit, photo of cover and author

Delighted to feature in @thebookseller.com's "Titles Not to Miss in May" with our new Lurid Edition of In Transit, by Brigid Brophy!

Publishing 1 May 2025

Distribution @turnarounduk.bsky.social

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Flyer for the Indie Press Fair, Sat 8 March, 10am-5pm, Islington Central Library

Looking forward to attending the Indie Press Fair on Sat 8 March alongside loads of other awesome independent publishers - thanks to @indienovella.bsky.social for organising!

www.alternativebookfairlondon.co.uk

Publisher stalls, talks and lots of other good stuff! #indiepressfair #bookfairslondon

Copies of In Transit, promotional postcards and temporary tattoos

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

A video for all #Wimpybar and Gay Young Adult Fiction from the 1980s fans!

Featuring all #Wimpy references in The Milkman's on His Way by David Rees, published by Lurid Editions earlier this year 🍔

Get your copy: tinyurl.com/vd5b8zyc

#queerbooks #davidrees #LGBTQbooks #booksky #queernostalgia

The Virago Modern Classics edition of Brigid Brophy’s The King of a Rainy Country, featuring a painting of a woman in profile against a blue, cloudy sky, hands almost in prayer, a bunch of horizontal white tulips obscuring the top half of her face (‘Girl in Meditation’ by John Armstrong)

This is a lovely and funny and sad and hopeful story of a young woman in the 1950s figuring out love and her sexuality, in London, across Italy, and in Venice.

Text graphic says: 'Mary Gordon's story of two women whose each other, and a life of freedom, will conquer every heart', Patricia Duncker

The Ladies of Llangollen - two older androgynous women wearing black jackets - with superimposed Santa hats

Seasonal reminder that books about the Ladies of Llangollen make an excellent present for beloveds, romantic friends, WLW & those with sapphic inclinations.

Look no further than Mary Gordon's Chase of the Wild Goose!

Buy here: www.lurideditions.com/shop/p/chase...

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Stacks of untrimmed copies of In Transit by Brigid Brophy in a warehouse published by Lurid Editions May 2025

To the skies! Ready for trimming...

#ARC copies available soon!