Hachette Pride in Writing Evening

Hachette Pride In Writing and The Portobello Bookshop are thrilled to be hosting a pride evening event at the bookshop! This will be a celebration of LGBTQ+ authors, stories, and readers.We invite you to join us in the bookshop to enjoy refreshments, hear from some of your favourite authors, have the chance to mingle, and of course, do some late night book shopping!Your entry ticket is a voucher that is redeemable against a single copy of any of the participating author's books on the night.Authors in attendance include (additional contributors to be announced!):L.R. Lam, originally from sunny California, now lives in cloudy Scotland. Lam is a Sunday Times bestselling author whose work includes epic fantasy romance Dragonfall, the near-future space thrillers, Goldilocks, feminist space opera Seven Devils (co-written with Elizabeth May), BBC Radio 2 Book Club selection False Hearts, the companion novel Shattered Minds, and the award-winning Micah Grey series: Pantomime, Shadowplay, and Masquerade. Their short fiction and essays have appeared in various anthologies such as Nasty Women, Cranky Ladies of History, Scotland in Space, and more.Sarvat Hasin is a novelist and dramaturg from Pakistan. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. Her first novel, This Wide Night, was published by Penguin India and longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.