Sarah Waters is the bestselling author of "Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith", and "The Night Watch". Winner of many literary awards, she has been shortlisted for both the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. She lives in London. Many of her Novels have been dramatized for the screen. Have you .....?

Anne Lister (1791–1840), now known as 'the first modern lesbian,' was a wealthy, independent landowner who was renowned in her time for dressing always in black, without bothering to indulge in the feminine frills like the others of her sex. She was the 19th century equivalent of a "butch" lesbian, and she became known to locals as 'Gentleman Jack.' Her lesbian lifestyle, however, was one of the best kept secrets of her time. "Gentleman Jack" is a British historical drama produced by Lookout Point for BBC One and HBO. Created by Sally Wainwright, the series originally aired on BBC One in the UK and HBO in the US. The show, which premiered in 2019 and ran for two seasons, is based on the diaries of Anne Lister. Have you....?

Suzette Mayr is the author of six novels including her most recent, The Sleeping Car Porter, winner of the 2022 Giller Prize, the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, and the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. The novel was also shortlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award, a finalist for the 2023 Governor General's Award for Fiction, and shortlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the Republic of Consciousness Prize (US and Canada). Mayr's other novels have won the ReLit Award and City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, and been nominated for numerous other awards. Mayr has done interdisciplinary work with Calgary theatre company Theatre Junction, and visual artists Lisa Brawn and Geoff Hunter. She has also published articles in journals such as Horror Studies, Studies in Canadian Literature, and The Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. She is a former President of the Writers' Guild of Alberta. Mayr teaches Creative Writing at the University of Calgary, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Killam Laureate. Have you read any of Suzette Mayr books?