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Painted Faces by LH Cosway: Book Club Diary

Book discussed: Painted Faces by LH Cosway

Book club Zoom meeting: 27 Jan 2024

The first book club gathering of 2025 considered Painted Faces, self-published in 2013 by LH Cosway. Neither book nor author were familiar to the club participants but the story offered the intriguing premise of a love affair between a drag queen and a straight woman in early 2010s Dublin. Apparently LH Cosway has an online following for her books which are largely heterosexual romances with a supposedly edgy twist. But all of that tantalising background turned out to be far more interesting than the reality of Painted Faces.

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Book Club Diary

Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan: Book Club Diary

Book Discussed: Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan

Book club Zoom meeting: 19 Nov 2024

Our book club kicked off with a flying start. Borstal Boy is a classic in the canon of modern Irish literature, an enjoyable accessible read and redolent with queer themes. It received a universally enthusiastic reception from our reading group.

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Book Club: Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy

LILGBT are delighted to announce details of our new online bookclub!

Led by our Treasurer, Ed, the first night of our book club will take place on November 19th at 1900. We had a really difficult choice of which book to read for our first meetup but we had to go with a classic. Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy.

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