For our first Juno Reads of the year we are reading the wonderful Bone Horn by Prudence Bussey Chamberlain.
Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas are the most famous married couple of Modernism, icons of literary queer history.
But what if Alice had a secret? What if, underneath her thickly cultivated fringe and low brimmed hats, there was something sinister growing? What if, as Picasso claimed, Alice B. Toklas really did have a horn?
This is what the mysterious voice on the phone is asking of her. And she's in no position to hang up; a newly registered Private Investigator, she recently walked away from an exploitative job in academia, is bereaved following the sudden death of her partner, and has a kid to support. The case sounds ridiculous, but she needs the money. Okay, she tells the voice. I'll find the horn. The job takes her from London to Paris to San Francisco, from a Hemingway's kitchen table to a Beat-inspired hotel run by an investment bank. Just when she thinks the case is dead, that no horn exists, she finds herself knee-deep in trouble with someone hot on her heels...
At once a reimagining of the lone wolf detective and a hilarious take down of self-important scholarship, Bone Horn is a smart, hilarious, sexy, and poignant mystery novel about queerness, unbearable grief, and the question of stories, and which are ours to tell.
JUNO READS is IRL on Wednesday 21st January from 7:30 to 9pm, at Showroom Bar Cafe
Feel free to arrive from 7:15 to order drinks before we begin.
Your ticket includes:
A copy of Bone Horn by Prudence Bussey Chamberlain
Access to the Group 21st January
Your ticket does NOT include:
Postage. You need to collect the book from Juno Books, 24 Chapel Walk, Sheffield S1 2PD. You can also pay extra for postage. Multiple book orders will be posted at the same time so you only need to pay postage once.
For our first Juno Reads of the year we are reading the wonderful Bone Horn by Prudence Bussey Chamberlain.
Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas are the most famous married couple of Modernism, icons of literary queer history.
But what if Alice had a secret? What if, underneath her thickly cultivated fringe and low brimmed hats, there was something sinister growing? What if, as Picasso claimed, Alice B. Toklas really did have a horn?
This is what the mysterious voice on the phone is asking of her. And she's in no position to hang up; a newly registered Private Investigator, she recently walked away from an exploitative job in academia, is bereaved following the sudden death of her partner, and has a kid to support. The case sounds ridiculous, but she needs the money. Okay, she tells the voice. I'll find the horn. The job takes her from London to Paris to San Francisco, from a Hemingway's kitchen table to a Beat-inspired hotel run by an investment bank. Just when she thinks the case is dead, that no horn exists, she finds herself knee-deep in trouble with someone hot on her heels...
At once a reimagining of the lone wolf detective and a hilarious take down of self-important scholarship, Bone Horn is a smart, hilarious, sexy, and poignant mystery novel about queerness, unbearable grief, and the question of stories, and which are ours to tell.
JUNO READS is IRL on Wednesday 21st January from 7:30 to 9pm, at Showroom Bar Cafe
Feel free to arrive from 7:15 to order drinks before we begin.
Your ticket includes:
A copy of Bone Horn by Prudence Bussey Chamberlain
Access to the Group 21st January
Your ticket does NOT include:
Postage. You need to collect the book from Juno Books, 24 Chapel Walk, Sheffield S1 2PD. You can also pay extra for postage. Multiple book orders will be posted at the same time so you only need to pay postage once.
