How do you begin a murder story starring a curious foreigner and an opportunistic local without giving away the entire plot-who died and why? You start with the obvious villain. 2019, The Year of Return. It has been exactly 400 years since the first...

A long awaited collection of poems by Mark Hyatt, one of the great lost writers of mid-century British poetry. Scarcely published in his lifetime, Hyatt's work survives thanks to the intervention of poets and friends who saved his manuscripts and kept his poems in...

The High Republic This enthralling follow up to Path of Deceit finds cousins Marda and Yana Ro bound by blood but driven apart by faith. Marda and Yana belong to the Path of the Open Hand, a group led by a charismatic woman called...

‘Language gave to me the body I knew was mine and brought into existence so many possibilities for what my gender can be.’  Across these twenty fresh and boldly intimate stories, Erin Riley writes about the things that matter family, heartbreak, humanity, justice and...

Memories for my Mother   'Are you going into town today?' she says, which annoys me because it's something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I say, 'Jesus, Mum, not this again,' and she says, 'What again?' and I...

The brightest and best places to drink, dance, cruise, hang out and enjoy in the city for the LGBTQ+ community and their allies If it’s queer, it’s culturally and historically, London is one of the premier cities in the world for LGBTQ+ life. With...

One of the English language's best-loved living poets, in Nature Carol Ann Duffy presents us with her favourites among her poems on the natural world. Drawing on work written over four decades and arranged chronologically, Duffy also adds to her selection one wholly new...

The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women from having to be nice. Female characters throughout history have been burdened by the moral trap that is likeability. Any woman...

Marsha P. Johnson, Keith Haring, Harvey Milk, Audre Lorde, RuPaul... the names of pioneers and trailblazers who have advanced the LGBTQI+ cause and helped bring about new human rights. This book pays tribute in 50 portraits to the activists, personalities, writers and artists who...

GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023. From the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Water Cure comes a chilling new feminist fable based on the true story of an unsolved mystery... A recommended read for 2023 in The Times, Guardian, Irish Times, Scotsman, iD,...

'Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride' Tamsyn Muir, New York Times-bestselling author of Gideon the Ninth 'Deserves a space on shelves alongside genre titans like Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler'Publishers Weekly (starred review)A thrillingly told space opera about the...

From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of so-called 'dirty blues' songs, stretching back beyond the earliest attempts to capture the blues on record. The 1920s and 30s saw...

Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents  In Baby Making for Everybody, queer millennial midwives Ray Rachlin and Marea Goodman use their professional expertise to demystify the dizzying process of pursuing parenthood as queer and solo people, offering detailed, gender-affirming, body-positive advice...

An anthology of queer classic poetry Hand in Hand with Love is a celebration of queer voices throughout the ages. Spanning from Sappho and the Ancient Greeks to Edna St. Vincent Millay and the modernists, this luminous anthology champions and redefines the spectrum of queer...

As a boy growing up in the Black Country-drained grey by Mrs Thatcher's steely policies-Jamie dreams of escape to a magical metropolis where he can rub shoulders with the mythical creatures who inhabit the pages of his Smash Hits. Though his hometown is not...

A feminist YA horror-thriller retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the bestselling author of The Society for Soulless Girls A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensation and author of The Society for Soulless Girls......

'We were meant to be seductive. We were designed to lure humans in.' Fortuna Sworn is the last of her kind. Her brother has disappeared, leaving her alone.She hides among humans, spending her days working at a bar and her nights searching for him -...

DC celebrates Pride with this incredible collection starring fan-favorite LGBTQIA+ characters like Superman (Jon Kent), Nubia, Tim Drake, Kid Quick, Aquaman (Jackson Hyde), Green Lantern (Jo Mullein), Alysia Yeoh, the Ray, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Batwoman, and more! DC Pride 2022 collects DC Pride...

And Other (Soma)ticsA captivating, original call for creative freedom from one of the most singular poets of our time'this mechanistic world... has required me to FIND MY BODY to FIND MY PLANET in order to find my poetry'Since their inception in 2005, CAConrad's (soma)tic poems...

The Inspirational History and Culture of the LGBTQIA+ Community The perfect primer for kids ages 8-12, this book celebrates love, hope, equality, and progress by taking an inspirational and essential look at the rich history and culture of the LGBTQIA+ community in the United States...

When Constance told her ex-husband that she was dating women, he made a string of unfounded accusations that separated her from her young son, Paul. Laurent trained Paul to say he no longer wants to see his mother, and the judge believed him. She...

Big Ideas Simply Explained Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions. Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+...

Polarity Magic in a Non-Binary World Break magical polarity free from outmoded ideas of gender and heteronormativity while still celebrating polar energy. This illuminating book explores polarity from many angles, examining how the idea has evolved throughout history, why it's important in the occult,...

For whatever we lose, it is our self we find in the sea. 'An extraordinary work, absolutely breath-taking... it beggars belief' Conn Iggulden. 'Profound, intricate, artful. I urge you to sail into this storm' A. J. West, Sunday Times bestseller. 1800. HMS Ulysses mutinies...

'A triumph... A wholly original and creative mind' NEW YORK TIMES. 'Akwaeke Emezi continues to astound with their prolific multi-genre, multidisciplinary work' SHONDALAND. A fiercely contemporary collection which renegotiates the contract between poet and reader in the light of this moment in human history,...

Stories from an Extraordinary Life Join us on another unforgettable adventure through the extraordinary life and strong opinions of Miriam Margolyes. 'My new book is called OH MIRIAM! - something that has been said to me a lot over the years, often in tones of...

What happens when the life you thought you had does a 180° turn? Everything, and yet... nothing. Us is Sara and Diana's love story, as well as the story of Diana's gender transition. Full of humor, heartache, and the everyday triumphs and struggles of identity,...

Romance, revolution and mystery intertwine as a young rebel and palace guard hunt a murderer in this gripping YA set in a world inspired by Florence, Italy. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Kerri Maniscalco. Roz and Damian grew up in Ombrazia, a...

A rich and provocative history of drag's importance in modern British culture. Drag: A British History is a ground-breaking study of the sustained popularity and changing forms of male drag performance in modern Britain. With this book, Jacob Bloomfield provides fresh perspectives on drag...

Some of what they say about witches is true. She dug her mother's grave in the poison garden so it would stay hidden... Lux has lost everything when Else finds her, alone in the woods. Her family, her lover, her home - all burned....