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Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for a momentous weekend as famous artist and notorious egoist Ray Hanrahan prepares for a new exhibition of his art – the first in many decades.

The Exhibitionist is a dazzling exploration of art, sacrifice, toxic family politics, queer desire, and personal freedom.

Booth

Karen Joy Fowler

Booth tells the story of the brilliant and disastrously ill-fated Booth family.

Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who fled bigamy charges in England, both a mesmerising talent and a man of terrifying instability. As his children grow up in a remote farmstead in 1820s rural Baltimore, the country draws ever closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war.