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) gmppubs.wordpress.com/a-short-hist...

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

Review of In Transit by Hailey Maxwell, to be published in the New Internationalist #bookreview #brigidbrophy

Lurid borlotti beans and Brigid Brophy

Lurid borlotti beans and Brigid Brophy

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.

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 @lurideditions.bsky.social buff.ly/miFJRpe

Yay! Today! Brigid Brophy!

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

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

For Bristol folks! In Transit launch, Thu 8 May, East Bristol Books. 7pm start! #bookevents #booksky #bristolbookevents #bristol #brigidbrophy

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...

Just leaving this here, as they say. #brigidbrophy #intransit #booksky

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.

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

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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

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... #brigidbrophy #intransit

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 😍📚🎉🛫 #booksky #reprints #brigidbrophy #newbooks

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

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

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.

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... #sapphicbooksky #booksky

Just a reminder that none of us are tech bros (we also have a no AI stealing clause on our copyright page going into 2025). You want to follow some exceptional indie publishing? Start here 👇 *AI not included go.bsky.app/HwjSvKq

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To the skies! Ready for trimming... #ARC copies available soon!

Hello to our new followers! Sneak preview of our temporary tattoos we'll be sending out with review copies of #BrigidBrophy's #InTransit Aren't they pretty? 💚🏳️‍⚧️ Who wants a set? #Booksky

In Transit by Brigid Brophy. A new edition is coming next year, I'm delighted to say. @lurideditions.bsky.social

We've been busy proofing the next Lurid Editions title, In Transit by Brigid Brophy, that will be published 1 May 2025. More info here: www.lurideditions.com/forthcoming

The Milkman's on His Way is available as an audiobook from all good audiobook outlets. Narrated by rising star Roux Cannon. libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #audiobooks #LGBTQaudiobooks #queeraudiobooks

This recent #indexoncensorship report on Book Banning, Censorship and School Libraries is a worrying indication that the suppression of Queer YA lit continues today - www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/08/bann...

Big thank you for the warm welcome on this app today x

The Milkman’s on his Way was the first gay book I read. Given to me secretly by my form tutor at college in a brown paper bag thanks to Section 28. It was published by Gay Men’s Press. Years later, in 2002, my first book The Lodger was published by GMP. Finalist in Lambda Awards. Also forgotten.

hi there, we're Lurid Editions, a Bristol-based publisher of forgotten queer books. We published The Milkman's on His Way by David Rees in June, and will publish In Transit by Brigid Brophy May 2025. More here: www.lurideditions.com #introductions #books #publishing