Eros: Queer Myths for Lovers–Zoe Terakes in Conversation with Charlee Brooks

A sexy modern take on ancient Greek myths that embraces the history and endurance of queer love, from an exciting Australian writer.

She keeps her eyes on me while she lights the end of my cigarette. I stare back at her. Something in the pills and in her eyes is opening up my muscles like hands parting from prayer, like trees breathing.

Eros is a stunning collection of short stories, grounded in truth and coloured with dazzling imagination and alluring unpredictable mystery. Revealing how queerness, nature and myth have been intertwined for eternity, these are stories of gods and goddesses: of Zeus, of Aphrodite, of Hermaphroditus, of Icarus before he flew into the sun. Stories of queer life, lust, revenge, wrath, passion and sex. Of yearning, love, loss. Some stories span across a life, and others, an evening. Perspectives will shift. Houses will burn. Lovers will learn their fate.

Zoe Terakes has skilfully blended myth and modernity to illuminate the complex and enduring truth of trans lives, resisting a history of erasure and delivering a sexy, soul-touching book to read to your lover... or yourself.

Hosted by Charlee Brooks (@grandpasbookclub), join us for a night of conversation and discovery.

Charlee Brooks (he/him) is an Australian poet, writer, and content creator living on Wadawurrung land. He runs Grandpa’s Book Club, a digital community with over one hundred thousand followers curating and celebrating literature from the margins. Charlee is the recipient of a 2026 Bowery Theatre Arts Grant and a Red Room Poetry Youth Ambassador, continuing to build creative spaces that champion emerging and underrepresented voices across Australia.

Presented in conjunction with The Bookshop at Queenscliff.