LOTE- Shola von Reinhold

WINNER OF JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021

An exceptional queer, literary debut, LOTE follows the journey of Solitary Mathilda. Long enamored with the 'Bright Young Things' of the 20s, Solitary discovers a photograph of the forgotten Black modernist poet Hermia Druitt, and becomes transfixed with discovering more.

Following Druitt’s footsteps to a European artist’s commune throws her deeper into a lattice of secrets and secret societies that takes hold of her aesthetic imagination, but will she be able to break the thrall of her Transfixions?