A Feast Of Hunger: Horror, Queerness and Appetite

Join us this October 25th for a conversation about desire, hunger, horror and queerness featuring two of the hottest releases this spooky season.

Feast While You Can

Don't wake the monster, it'd just love to get to know you...

Angelina Sicco was born and raised in Cadenze, an ugly little mountain town that's dead most of the year. Determined to be content with her lot in life, she does everything she can to bait hot, queer women to her sleepy, conservative hometown. On the night of a family party, Angelina runs into the sternly handsome Jagvi, who's back in town for a spell. And who just so happens to be her brother's ex-girlfriend. But when the local monster makes Angelina its latest target, her feelings for Jagvi seem to be the least of her troubles.

‘A truly monstrous romance, by turns alluring and appalling, sexy and grotesque, kinky and transportive. It's Call Me By Your Name meets Stephen King's It, for lesbians. It threw me against the wall and I loved it.’
Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea & Private Rites

‘Feast While You Can is a singingly clever and gnarly tale of hunger and possession. Lesbian pulp meets literary horror – truly unlike anything else. The sexiest book you'll read this year!’
Yael van der Wouden, author of The Safekeep

‘Vivid, immersive, and crafted with richly stunning prose, Feast While You Can is a frightening and sensual
exploration of possession and eroticism. A fanged literary dalliance poised to disturb and arouse in equal measure.’
Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta are the co-authors of The View Was Exhausting, a Goop and Good
Housekeeping book club pick and named ‘a perfect summer read’ by Vogue. Between them, their writing has
been published in the New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post, White Review, Slate and more. They are
married and live in Berlin.

The first short story collection from Eliza Clark, author of Boy Parts and Penance and a major voice in British fiction.

A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands. Each of these characters has a desperate desire. Can any of them be sated?
Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humour, Eliza Clark’s debut short story collection plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger.

‘Eliza Clark knows that inside everyyoung woman there are two monsters; Both are depraved. Scary and satirical, Clark’s debut collection is unsettling, repulsive and darkly hilarious. Clark is a razor sharp, singular voice in modern horror.’
Juno Dawson