'The first biography of Thom Gunn, and likely the definitive one. [..] Nott's book is one of the best versions of a gay relationship conducted over this half century.' Colm Tóibín'Michael. Nott's brilliant and necessary new biography Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life is...

An Ode to My Black Queer Body You've fought and you've run away. You've danced with other Black queer bodies until sunrise. Sometimes you wanted to be caught and sometimes you wanted to be held. With all that you've endured, you are nothing less...

'A first-rate biography of the man, the writer and the lover' DAVID HOCKNEY 'Bucknell's research is impressive and her judgements astute' GUARDIAN An engrossing new biography of the man whose writings about 1930s Berlin made him famous. From the editor of Isherwood’s diaries and...

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...

THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS 'I went to a lot of trouble to create Boy George and then I went through a whole battle for years about not wanting to...

'I love this book!' SARAH CRACKNELL, SAINT ETIENNE'Poignant and wonderfully warm' CATHY NEWMAN, CHANNEL 4 NEWS'Shows us how music has the power to change everything' JUDE ROGERSIt is 1994. In a loft bedroom in North Yorkshire, fifteen-year-old Anna sits on the carpet immersed in the...

A monumental history of the LGBTQ influence on popular culture, from the award-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author. An electrifying look at key moments in music and entertainment history between 1955 and 1979, which helped move gay culture from the margins to the mainstream and changed...

Brimming with vertiginous loops and extreme globe-trotting, This is the account of Karen’s experience flying as cabin crew for British Airways over a 12-year period, and the profound impact that experience had on her life. Told with the wit and verve that characterised her...

Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness I spent eighteen years in a group that taught me to hate myself. You cannot be queer and a Jehovah’s Witness—it’s one or the other.” Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion considered...

A Guide to Trans Allyship and Empathy Conversations on the transgender experience may be becoming more commonplace but the topic is still all too often the subject of fierce debate. But behind the shock headlines, what does it really mean to be trans?In this...

Part memoir, mostly self-help, How Do I Sexy? A Guide for Trans Queers strives to provide affirming and helpful direction to those struggling with finding their sexual selves in a landscape rife with misogynistic, transphobic, and homophobic ideals and expectations.  Mx. Nillin Lore brings...

'This book had sex with my brain!' SARA PASCOE, 'Hilarious. Intimate. Vital.' JAMEELA JAMIL. 'I couldn't put the book down!' LAURA BATES. Comedian Sofie Hagen has not had sex in 3,000 days (and counting). And it turns out, she's not the only one... In...

Defying Every Label Singer. Dancer. Movie star.Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist.Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet.Feminist. Android. Dirty Computer. Janelle Monáe is all these things and more, making her one of the most fascinating artists to emerge in the twenty-first century. This provocative new study...

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR LESBIAN MEMOIR 'A muscular, canny memoir...I couldn't put it down. What a fucking gorgeous book' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, 'Entertaining' New York Times, 'Absolutely not to be missed' Vogue, 'A gripping story' Esquire, Chris Belcher appeared destined...

The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest Female Code Breaker 'One of the greatest codebreakers of the twentieth century' Suzannah Lipscomb An astounding story of codebreaking, personal sacrifice and a life lived in the shadows. The history of British codebreaking is often considered...

The music of Arthur Russell defies classification. Across a twenty-year career he created a body of work which ranged from his pioneering compositions as part of the New York avant-garde alongside artists including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg, to his genre-expanding disco and art...

Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century’s most complex and compelling figures. 'A book of met­iculous sensitivity and research' TELEGRAPH, 'Extraordinary' THE TIMES, 'Superbly written, genuinely exciting' ANDREW ROBERTS, 'Outstanding'...

In these poems, living with disability or being trans are not tragedies to overcome but ways of being, with their own humour, romance, stories and mundanity. Embracing the ordinary ( We re middle-aged, of course. Life rolls on ) and the remarkable, Cath Nichols...

'Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body'Raymond Antrobus, author of The PerseveranceIn October 1960, James Baldwin and John Cheever spoke on a panel together at San Francisco State College. The troubled state of American society was under discussion, which Baldwin incisively diagnosed as...

Sceptre has acquired Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh. Seal Press, an imprint of Basic Books, will publish in the US.Straight Acting is an alternative biography of William Shakespeare viewed through the lens of the queer world of...

No Worries if Not is a funny and relatable coming-of-age story, that explores Soph Galustian's experiences of poverty, queerness, mental health, grief and community. She recounts her life from childhood, to teens, into adulthood through a mixture of short stories, spoken word, illustrations and...

April Ashley was a trailblazing figure in the history of transgender rights and advocacy. Born in 1935 in Liverpool, Ashley was assigned male at birth, but knew from a young age that she identified as a woman. At the age of sixteen, April left...

A sex and relationship columnist bares it all in a series of essays-part memoir, part manifesto-that explore the author's coming-of-age and coming out as a bisexual man and move toward embracing and celebrating sex unencumbered by shame As a boy, Zachary Zane sensed that...

An autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation―about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind. One question took center stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied...

Thirty years after Derek Jarman’s death, we are finally allowed inside the house that encapsulates the filmmaker’s vision of the world. The world-famous garden made by Derek Jarman at his home, Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, is much visited and widely featured, but the house...

A memoir of transformation and self-discovery that explores fetish communities from a gender diverse perspective. Transland is a fiery and revealing memoir that explores what happens when a non-binary person goes looking for self-worth and a sense of belonging in fetish subculture, only to find that...

From the beloved author of 100 Boyfriends, a wrenching, sexy, and exhilaratingly energetic memoir in verse.In Ten Bridges I've Burnt, Brontez Purnell - the bard of the underloved and overlooked - turns his gaze inward. A storyteller with a musical eye for the absurdity of his...

For many thousands of readers Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet is almost a way of life. Ironic, haunting and melancholy, this completely unclassifiable work is the masterpiece of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic writers.Richard Zenith's Pessoa at last allows us to...

The 25th Anniversary Edition of the Classic Memoir The classic account of growing up gay in America. "The best little boy in the world never had wet dreams or masturbated; he always topped his class, honored mom and dad, deferred to elders and excelled...

Brilliant, beautiful, driven, uncompromising, elusive, iconic―Jessica Lange is one of the most gifted and fascinating actors of her generation. From her rise to fame in Dino De Laurentiis's remake of King Kong (1976) and her Oscar-winning performances in Tootsie (1982) and Blue Sky (1994);...