Diana Souhami has a new book coming out
British author Diana Souhami is one of my favourite writers. She's witty, sharp and wry as she twists her biographical scalpel through the lives of lesbian luminaries such as Radclyffe Hall, Una Troubridge, Natalie Barney, Violet Trufusis et al. Now she has written a book called No Modernism Without Lesbians - which is quite a broad statement! The publisher is Head of Zeus. Publication date is April 2nd. Souhami quipped upon announcing this date that perhaps publishers avoid April 1st! Here's the publishers blurb: The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place – Paris - Between the Wars – fostered the birth of the Modernist movement. Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein. A trailblazing publisher; a patron of artists; a society hostess; a groundbreaking writer. They were all women who loved women. They rejected the patriarchy and made lives of their own – forming a community around them in Paris. Each of these