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#RivetingReviews: Max Easterman reviews TRAP by Lilja Sigurðardóttir

Jul 8, 2019 • No comments

‘It’s never good for an Icelander to dream of sea ice, she thought. That means a hard spring to come,…

The Queer Riveter: From TRAP by Lilja Sigurðardóttir, translated by Quentin Bates

Jul 8, 2019 • No comments

April 2011 Sonja was wrenched, shivering, from a deep sleep. She sat up in bed and looked at the thermometer…

The Queer Riveter: Writing a Chapter in History by Lilja Sigurðardóttir

Jul 8, 2019 • No comments

When I wrote Snare, the first book in the Reykjavík Noir Trilogy, which is about lesbian coke-smuggler Sonja and her…

The Queer Riveter launch by West Camel

Jun 17, 2019 • 1 comment

Thursday, 6 June saw the European Literature Network decamp to Brixton to launch the latest edition of our print magazine,…

Prose, Poetry & Debate: Queer Writing from Europe – West Camel

Jun 6, 2019 • No comments

Born and bred in south London – and not the Somerset village with which he shares a name – West…

Prose, Poetry & Debate: Queer Writing from Europe – Paul Burston

Jun 5, 2019 • No comments

Paul Burston is the author of six novels including the WHSmith bestseller The Black Path and his latest, The Closer…

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