GUARDIAN MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019 iNews BEST NEW FICTION 2019 'A symbolic rallying cry for the need for LGBTQ+ teens to have safe spaces of their own' DAZED BOOKS TO READ IN 2019 'Vivid prose reinventing ideas of motherhood, belonging and taking us into the community of drag balls and protest, both personal and political' JENNI FAGAN 'Fearless, authentic, vivid - necessary in a world that's running out of tolerance' PANOS KARNEZIS 'A vital book' ANDREW MCMILLAN 'A novel of rare intensity and sustained passion, This Brutal House shines a light on lives marginalised and...

A timely queer protest novel set in the drag ball community of New York City, from a Green Carnation Prize-shortlisted author

The latest novel from Niven Govinden, author of This Brutal House.

'Niven Govinden's Diary of a Film, his sixth novel, is also his best yet. Smart, sexy and cinematic (in many senses), it is a love letter to Italy and to film' Observer 'Immersive . . . This is a wise and skilfully controlled novel that can be read in an afternoon, but which radiates in the mind for much longer' Financial Times 'A beautiful, poignant novel of love and longing' Telegraph An auteur, together with his lead actors, is at a prestigious European festival to premiere his latest film. Alone one morning at a backstreet cafe, he strikes up a conversation with a local woman...