Join us for a reading and Q&A with visiting writer Jenny Chamarette to learn about a queer history of gardens! Friday 17 July 2026. 7pm. Tickets are free and available via Outsavvy: https://www.outsavvy.com/event/35298/book-launch-q-is-for-garden

Q is for garden combines queer history, personal narrative and a love of gardening. An eloquent work of nature writing and queer thought, Q is for Garden digs into the rich history of queer gardeners, botanists, artists and agriculturalists.

When Jenny Chamarette faced a devastating health crisis, they found themselves unmoored from the rules of gender, sexuality and productivity. In a small South London garden, Jenny began to imagine another way of living: porous, unruly, rooted in the lessons of soil and plant life. Gardens, like identities, are usually bounded – but what if those limits can be re-drawn?

Blending memoir and cultural criticism, this book asks whether the categories we inherit – colonial, patriarchal, conventions of sexuality and gender – still serve us, or whether they confine us. From illness and recovery to queer love and ecological wonder, Q is for garden invites readers to reimagine how we inhabit land, culture and each other.