On Thursday 5th October Diana Souhami will discuss No Modernism without Lesbians (2020), winner of the 2021 Polari Prize and a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her book is a group biography about Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney and Gertrude Stein, four important and, sometimes, shocking women who significantly influenced the Modernist movement and the cultural life of pre-war Paris. Diana is a prizewinning and prolific biographer, playwright and fiction writer. Her books include Gluck, Gertrude and Alice, Greta and Cecil, Mrs Keppel and her Daughter, The Trials of Radclyffe Hall, Selkirk’s Island, Wild Girls, Coconut Chaos, Edith Cavell, Murder at Wrotham Hill and Gwendolen. More details here