Sara Hardy Writes

Midsumma Festival in Melbourne - January 30 2022: Get in between the pages and meet lesbian authors face-to-face — a fabulous afternoon of book readings and a panel discussion with established and emerging writers. Compered by Monica Dullard , everything from crime and cutting-edge fiction to historical romps, biography and more. Authors include Sara Hardy, Lindy Cameron, Kathleen Mary Fallon, Robin Gregory, Loretta Smith, Jean Taylor, Jessica Megarry and Robyn Arianrhod . Publishers Spinifex Press, Dyke Books and Clan Destine Press will be represented. Books available to purchase. Here's a couple of video links to an interview done by LOTL with Loretta Smith and Sara Hardy - my rave about my novel is about 14 minutes in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RlGxRtkD9I&t=3s https://www.facebook.com/lotlmedia/videos/1586524291708781/

1920s Weimar Berlin was the capital of decadence where everyone was dancing on the edge of the volcano. Many tourists came just for the nightlife, especially gay men such at Christopher Isherwood - the originator of the stories that became 'Cabaret' - for Berlin was the gay capital of the world back then. But the partying and new sexual freedoms were but a moment of glitter before the devastating rise of Fascism - as 'Cabaret' demonstrates. My novel, A Secretive Life, features a 1920s Berlin cabaret star, Steffi - and it is through her that my novel captures the Berlin cabaret scene, its 'devine decadence' and horrific underbelly. Another Berlin character is the real-life Ruth Roellig - journalist, travel writer, novelist, lesbian - and devoted owner of a pet monkey. Ruth Roellig wrote the LGBT era-defining Berlin Travel Guide Berlins lesbische Frauen published in 1928 (pic of front cover above). It was reprinted several times, and finally banned by the Nazis