Name: Meet The Author
Start: 2025-12-07T18:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-07T20:00:00+00:00
Location: 35 Montpelier Road, Brighton, BN1 3BA, United Kingdom

Join us for our brand new Meet the Author evening – a relaxed and welcoming monthly event that brings you a diverse mix of local writers from Sussex with a focus on women.
Each evening features two authors from different genres – from fiction to leadership, wellbeing, biography, art, photography – sharing the stories behind their books and the journeys that led to them.
This is a chance to step away from the noise, sip a glass of wine, and engage in meaningful conversation with authors and fellow book lovers alike.
Nb: Limited space + We regret that unfortunately there’s a steep set of stairs and no lift

2ND NOVEMBER 2025:
LISA FRANSSON - THE SHAPE OF GUILT
Lisa is a bilingual writer living in East Sussex. In her native Swedish, Lisa is an award-winning children’s author, while in her adopted English she’s a writer of short fiction and novels. Her first novel, The Shape of Guilt, is a piece of literary fiction with streaks of magical realism published by époque press. She also works as a literary translator and a mentor to young writers.
ALICE CLOVER - GIRLS LIKE TO FART
Alice is known as The Farting Feminist and writes children’s books about girls, that are all about normalising our natural bodily functions. She’s a huge advocate for women’s and girls rights and believe that when we can take back ownership and autonomy of our bodies and bodily functions, we can feel more in control in all other aspects of our lives too.

7TH DECEMBER 2025:
ANTONY PENROSE – ON LEE MILLER’S LIFE
Antony Penrose is a British author and director of the Lee Miller Archive and Penrose Collection at his parents’ former home, Farley Farm House in Sussex.
He’s the son of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. He’s an artist, writer, photographer and film producer.
Antony is joining our December event and will talk about the writing of his book The Lives of Lee Miller – collating the story of Lee Miller, her life from model to a WWII photographer with her photographs and the biography and also a little bit about Farley House, the development of the film Lee with Kate Winslet and of course answer any questions you may have!