Queer Fiction Reading Group

For the third installment of Sanna's Queer Fiction reading group, we will explore Alyson Greaves' Welcome to Dorley Hall.

With Sanna as our guide, we will be immersing ourselves in a range of LGBTQIA+ fiction, both classic and contemporary.

For the next three monthly meetings after this one, we’ll be looking at the following books:

Monday 9th June - Rubyfruit Jungle by Mae Rita Brown

Tuesday 8th July - Evenings and Weekends by Oisin McKenna

Monday 11th August - Perfume and Pain by Anna Dorn

There’s no need to prepare but if you feel like it, please feel free to mention a passage or character you particularly liked (or disliked!) from the novel over the course of the evening.

About Welcome to Dorley Hall:

Mark Vogel is like the older brother Stefan Riley never had, until one day he disappears, and Stefan has to adapt to life without him. But, one year later, when he runs into a girl who looks near-identical to Mark, Stefan becomes obsessed. He discovers that other boys have disappeared, too, dozens over the years, most of them students of the Royal College of Saint Almsworth, many of them troubled or unruly before their disappearance.

What is happening to these boys? Who are the handful of women on campus who bear a striking resemblance to some of those who went missing? And what is the connection to the mysterious Dorley Hall?

Stefan works hard to get into the Royal College for one reason and one reason only: to find out exactly what happened to the women who live at Dorley Hall, and to get it to happen to him, too.

A closeted trans girl attempts to infiltrate a secret underground forced feminisation programme.