Emily Banting is an award-winning and bestselling author of contemporary sapphic romance featuring LGBTQ+ characters and plenty of British humour. History obsessed, she throws her sapphic leading ladies into historic buildings and environments at every opportunity, and believes strongly in representing women over forty in literature.

Broken Beyond Repair, the first book in the South Downs Series, won the following awards

GOLDIE WINNER 2024: AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR
GOLDIE WINNER 2023: ANN BANNON POPULAR CHOICE BRONZE AWARD
THE LESFIC BARD AWARD 2022: ROMANCE
THE LESFIC BARD AWARD 2022: COVER DESIGN
THE QUEER INDIE AWARDS 2022: CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

And was a 2023 Goldie finalist in 
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE LONG NOVEL

 

Reality In Check, the second book in the South Downs Series,

was a 2024 Goldie finalist in

CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE LONG NOVEL