Copy of Queer Book Club: September 2025

Queer Book Club is an inclusive reading group open to anyone from St Helens to come together to read and discuss LGBTQIA+ literature. Founded in Autumn 2023 by a group of local queer artists, producers and book-lovers, Queer Book Club is a space to share a love of queer novels, memoirs and writing.

This month we're reading...

Cemetery Boys by Mae Peterson; an LGBTQIA+ (young adult) ghost story about magic, acceptance and what it means to be your true self. A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave.

Queer Book Club is drop-in, meaning you don’t have to have been before to take part, but we encourage you to read the book ahead of the session.

Access

We want to make Queer Book Club as accessible to as many people as possible and therefore we will hold two pre-bought copies of the book.

Either contact Britney via YXJ0aHVyICEgYnJpdG5leSB8IGhlYXJ0b2ZnbGFzcyAhIG9yZyAhIHVr or call in to The Book Stop to borrow a copy. Additionally, as a QBC reader, you also receive 20% off your copy of the chosen book this month at The Book Stop in St Helens by quoting "Queer Book Club" at the till.

Safer Spaces

These events will use Heart of Glass' Safer Spaces Agreement to create a space that aims to be as welcoming and respectful as possible.

Also check out other Arts events in St Helens, Literary Art events in St Helens.