Love, Leda

Leda is lost. Bouncing from job to job, from coffee bar to house party, he spends his days watching the hours pass and waiting for the night to arrive. Trysts in the rubble of a bombsite follow hours spent in bedsits with near strangers, as Leda is forced to find intimacy in unusual places. This newly discovered, never-before-published novel – which pre-dates the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 – is a portrait of a lost Soho, as well as an important document of queer, working-class life, from a voice long overlooked.

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Love, Leda is a transgressive, wriggling slice of queer, working class life in 1960s London.

Yara Rodrigues Fowler

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A novel of melancholic exhilaration, beautifully captured in Jack Holden’s reading which layers humour on desperation.

Leigh Wilson

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Acerbic yet wistful, indecent, caffeinated, raw, suddenly profound – a hip flask of a novel, brimful of phenomenal lines.

Jeremy Atherton Lin

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