QRR server moderators Elysia and Ella interview Lara Elena Donnelly about spotlight book Amberlough, her 1920s inspired spy thriller full of intrigue and glamour.  Warnings for spoilers, themes around fascism and graphic descriptions of internal wounds with old-timey surgery. 
Books mentioned: 
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg 
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 
Bright Young People by D.J. Taylor 
Declare by Tim Powers 
Making Us Monsters by Sam J. Miller & Lara Elena Donnelly
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind 
A Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester 
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

QRR Mods Discuss Unhallowed by Jordan L. Hawk

Queer Readers is a discord community of readers and writers. As part of its book spotlights, its moderators interview the authors or discuss the spotlight books amongst themselves.