A Pizza Hut, A Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut

By Hannah Levene

Published 9 June 2026

9781917008211 / Paperback / £11.99

An electric, smart, and boldly playful novel exploring queer suburbia and the radical implications of staying put.

Herb and Lara are busy slinging coffees in their hometown – of Watford! While Herb dreams of leaving to write big gay plays for a big gay world, Lara’s dedication to being in the here and now keeps her firmly rooted. Plus she’s fallen madly in love with Cynthia, a high-femme roboteer here to finish her PhD, teaching her way through robot post-doc hell, stamping on the brains of robo-boys as she goes. Soon Watford will use Cynthia’s inventions to reinvent itself into the communised Watford Underburg, but not yet.

Meanwhile, Lazarus is back at her mum’s. Her attempt at city life didn’t exactly go to plan, and now she spends her days working on a Yiddish translation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and playing video games. With no capacity to think about her future and trying to forget her past, what will happen? Local football coach Butch Lichenstein, that’s what.

A Pizza Hut, A Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut is a wildly inventive and funny novel that counters the idea of the suburbs as a place queers leave and plays out the radical implications of staying put.

Hannah Levene is the author of Greasepaint (Nightboat Books, 2024). She has a PhD in Writing exploring the composition of new butch literature. She is currently working on a collaborative novel with D Mortimer titled Abraham’s Bosom. A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Pizza Hut is her second novel.