Sidelights on Sayers
The Society’s Journal is Sidelights on Sayers and is published annually. Articles may be submitted by members only. The Annual Dorothy L Sayers Lecture given at the Essex Book Festival may appear in Sidelights.
Copies of Sidelights are available from the Society with cost varying depending on date of publication. Some Sidelights articles are also available on JStor, an academic repository. For further information or an index to the various articles and topics, please contact the Society.
Members of the Society have full access to digital copies of Sidelights as listed in the Members’ area of the website.
Proceedings of the Annual Convention
Each year, the Proceedings, or a selection of papers presented at our annual convention, are published. Some may be available digitally and others in hard copy. The index to this publication and Sidelights is available on application to the Society.
God, Hitler & Lord Peter Wimsey
The Society has published a collection of works by Dorothy L. Sayers:
God, Hitler and Lord Peter Wimsey: Selected Essays, Speeches and Articles by Dorothy L Sayers, edited, with Preface and Commentary by Professor Suzanne Bray.
The book - £10 + p&p - can be purchased here .
This collection includes ‘The Wimsey Papers’: letters between LPW, Harriet and others that were published in The Spectator during WWII.
Taking Detective Stories Seriously
Taking Detective Stories Seriously is a collection of reviews written by DLS for The Sunday Times, edited by Martin Edwards. The reviews of Golden Age writers, including Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Georgette Heyer and Ronald Knox, demonstrate DLS’ wit, understanding of the genre and her close reading of the texts.
The book - £15 + p&p - can be purchased here .
Love All
A later edition of this play is available, costing £8 + p&p. For further information, see here
About our publications
As well as holding extensive archives of previously published material, the Society also produces a number of publications itself.
The Society’s publications include:
An annual publication of the Proceedings of our Annual Convention;
Sidelights on Sayers, a collection of papers on DLS, her work, her contemporaries and her life, written by and for members
· Occasional papers, such as the collection of talks given at a study day in Cambridge, devoted to Charles Williams and DLS;
· One-off publications:
Love All, a play written by DLS
Please keep an eye on the News section of our website for further information on new publications and releases.
For archive copies of Proceedings or Sidelights, listings of their contents or anything related to our Occasional Papers, please contact the society. Prices of earlier copies of these items will vary.
Earlier Publications
Below are a number of earlier publications, some of which are still available from the Society and others that are currently out of print but may be available from online booksellers. Click on a book cover to order or for further details. All prices exclude postage and packing which will be added to your order. The members' price is shown in brackets. Please note that the cover images below are illustrative and the copy you receive may look different.
