THE ICONIC CLASSIC, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD''A lush celebration of all that it means to be a black female. I love that The Color Purple doesn't try to soften its blows but is also...

 A Practical Guide to the Science of SexA practical workbook from the New York Times-bestselling author of Come As You Are that will radically transform your sex life. In Come As You Are, sex educator Dr Emily Nagoski revealed the true story behind female sexuality,...

"You probably already know all about CURVY, but if not, I don't even know how to begin explaining it to you." - AUTOSTRADDLE. "Welp, we're gonna die. Wanna make out?" Anais Phalese plays softball, panics about her physics exams, and lives on what the...

'Triumphs of the imagination' Stephen Fry The treasured fairy tales of Oscar Wilde in a stunning gift edition featuring exquisite illustrations by the celebrated artist Philippe Jullian with an afterword by Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland. For nearly 150 years, the classic fairy stories of...

With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled...

Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although, like so many of his generation, he died tragically young, in action on the Western Front, his reputation as a writer...

Collected here for the first time are all James Purdy's short stories-fifty-six-including seven drawn from unpublished archives. Characterised by his dark sense of humour and jaundiced eye towards American culture, Purdy was considered one of the greatest-and most underappreciated-writers in America in the last...

This story will send your head spinning, and keep you guessing all the way... Eden Dyson's life is turned upside down by a series of events, one after the other; some are explainable. Most, not so much. It begins with Eden visiting her wife...

'Deep-diving and elegant... Wide Sargasso Sea meets Beloved meets Alias Grace' Margaret Atwood.' Takes the gothic genre by the scruff of the neck... a triumph of powerful characterisation melded with suspenseful plotting' Bernadine Evaristo. 'They say I must be put to death for what happened...

Sophie s young and queer and into feminist theory. She decides to study abroad, choosing Paris for no firm reason beyond liking French comics. Feeling a bit lonely and out of place, she s desperate for community and a sense of belonging.She stumbles into...

From contributors to The Conversation, a look at gender diversity in the twenty-first century and the intricate and intersecting challenges faced by trans and nonbinary people. With media amplifying the voices of anti-trans legislators and critics, it is important to turn to the stories,...

The Copper Cat Book 1 The first in the exhilarating British Fantasy Award-nominated Copper Cat Trilogy. Epic fantasy for fans of Robin Hobb and Jay Kristoff's Nevernight series. 'A fast-paced and original new voice in heroic fantasy' Adrian Tchaikovsky , author of Children of...

PRE-ORDER NOW: 24TH APRIL 2025 Hollis Brown is stuck. Born to a Blue-Collar American Dream, Hollis lives in a rotting small town where no one can afford to leave. Hollis's only bright spots are his two best friends, cool girls Annie and Yulia, and...

A purrfect cure for lonely humans awaits Five strangers meet at a cat sanctuary after each facing difficulties in their lives - leading them to the calming nature of the feline refuge. Sasha is struggling with the heartbreak of her past and is trying...

In becoming a vampire, I'm less than a girl. And more. Or maybe I'm becoming what I always have been, deep inside. A blade. When nineteen-year-old Fin volunteers to take her secret love's place in their village's Finding, she is terrified. Those who are...

PRE-ORDER NOW: 1ST APRIL 2025 Zoe Hana Mikuta delivers a bloody and unrelenting fantasy about young witches dangling on the edge of love and obsession, of magic and madness, of life and death (and death and death and death). . .Just like her mother...

Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator - purchased Long Crichel House, an old rectory with no electricity and an inadequate water supply. In this...

Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator - purchased Long Crichel House, an old rectory with no electricity and an inadequate water supply. In this...

'Brilliant'Paula HawkinsIn 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive too - a secret romance with a married lover based in London. Unfortunately it...

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the most wicked of them all?  Snow White’s dark queen tells her side of the story in this queer, witchy reimagining of the classic fairy tale from the author of Malice. Legends tell of a witch who became...

The Cruising Diaries is a queer coming of age memoir that's not for the faint of heart. Follow author and musician Brontez Purnell on a series of hilarious sexual misadventures through '00s Oakland. Outrageous tales of taco truck trysts and bathhouse Santa's are accompanied...

When Rilke, a dissolute auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly disturbing photographs, he feels compelled to discover more about the deceased owner who coveted them. Soon he finds himself sucked into an underworld of crime, depravity and secret desire, fighting...

The gripping new novel from Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies. 'Exceptionally brilliant. Immersive, sensual, compelling, ambitious' - Marian Keyes. 'Intriguing, haunting... raw, beautiful' - Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne Strasbourg, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone...

The gripping new novel from Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies. 'Exceptionally brilliant. Immersive, sensual, compelling, ambitious' - Marian Keyes. 'Intriguing, haunting... raw, beautiful' - Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne Strasbourg, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone...

'Witty, original and clever, this tale of Jacobean power and lust is a blast' THE TIMES. Best Historical Fiction of the Year. Francis Bacon, philosopher, politician, writer, is an outsider at the court of King James I. He is clever but not aristocratic, has...

A Land Fit for Heroes Vol 3.Compared to Michael Moorcock and Joe Abercrombie alike, Richard Morgan's fast moving and brutal science fantasy reaches its final volume as Ringil comes to his final reckoning and sees the world tipping into another war with the dragon...

Manufactured on Demand (Delivery could take 2-4 weeks 'Ten minutes to midnight!' Jonathan shouts over the sound of the blazing fire. Sparks rise into the sky and mingle with the stars. 'Only ten minutes!' Bevins says, falling down on his knees.'So it begins.' Rebekah...

A gripping, dark LGBT YA fantasy about two girls who must choose between saving themselves, each other, or their sinking island. Every year on St. Walpurga's Eve, Caldella's Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace. An innocent life to be sacrificed on...

From Gillian Flynn Books, a lyrical YA horror by debut author Wen-yi Lee that’s perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting, Stephen King’s IT, and The Haunting of Hill House.Art student Isadora Chang swore never to return to Slater. Growing up, Isa never...

Set in Renaissance Florence, The Darkest Sin is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop and is the sequel to City of Vengeance. Spring, 1537. When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the Renaissance city's northern quarter, he...