The next LGBTQ+ young adult rom-com from New York Times bestselling author Jason June (author of Jay's Gay Agenda and Out of the Blue). Femme, gay teen podcaster Riley Weaver has made it to junior year, which means he can finally apply for membership...

AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDON. When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twenty-five-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby. Growing...

'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...

To mark the 30th anniversary of his death, Polari Press are publishing a finger in Derek Jarman’s mouth.  Accompanied by cyanotype impressions, a finger in Derek Jarman’s mouth is a poetic tribute to Jarman’s inspiring legacy spun from the multi-coloured threads of his extraordinary...

The Sins of the Cities of the Plain (1881) is an erotic novel attributed to Irish prostitute Jack Saul. Published by William Lazenby, a prominent printer of Victorian erotica, The Sins of the Cities of the Plain is considered to be one of the first works of...

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...

Dragon Scales #1 The first in an epic fantasy trilogy from Sunday Times bestselling author L.R. Lam. The last male dragon.A desperate thief. A bond that will save the world... or shatter it. Long ago, humans betrayed dragons, stealing their magic and banishing them to...

Quinn wants to save his bookshop, the last thing he needs is to fall in love… Hay-on-Wye’s only queer bookshop is always a hive of activity. So when it’s threatened with closure, its owner Quinn Oxford is determined to do whatever it takes to save his...

A GAY 'FATAL ATTRACTION' Britt Ekland London. England. 1988. A time of anti-gay laws, queer-bashing and 'traditional family values'. Jack Huntley is a thirty-something family man with a respectable job. And a secret. He cruises London's gay bars looking for sex with younger men. Billy...

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this suspenseful queer YA romance from critically acclaimed author K. Ancrum reimagines the tale of Icarus as a star-crossed love story between a young art thief and the son...

In Hollywood, every pavement star tells a story. Not all of them shine.Wannabe actor Kyle Macdonald is down on his luck. Working as a supply teacher in an inner-city Birmingham school, he's single again at twenty-eight, and sleeping in his childhood bedroom beneath a...

'I laughed and cried and nodded my head in recognition. If it doesn’t get a movie deal there is no justice' Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious ThingsJoyful, defiant and dazzling, this is the story of Rafi Aziz – a Northern boy dreaming...

A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-20th-century Cairo.In a tight-knit Levantine Christian family in 1960s Cairo, Tarek's entire life is written in advance. He'll be a doctor like his father, marry, and have...

The latest pulse-pounding thriller from the master of the moral dilemma and Sunday Times bestseller Jack Jordan.Aaron Alexander has just been released from jail after serving eleven years for causing the death of Joshua Moore in a hit-and-run. Now a free man, all he...

Emotions are hard . . . but mind games are the worst. STEVEN PERCIVAL HAS BEEN THRIVING. After an idyllic summer with his boyfriend Troy, his emomancy powers are under control and he can’t wait to start uni life in London.But things don't exactly...

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...

An intimate, emotionally rich novel, in which two men - young and old - reckon with queer histories and their place within them, from the critically acclaimed author of We the Animals. Juan Gay is on his deathbed. He has decided to spend his...

Leo’s content to be in the background, letting his louder, more charismatic best friends shine. For a thirty-something gay people pleaser it’s always been safer that way.But, suddenly, a gorgeous love interest from the past steps out of the wings, Leo’s pushed to his...

Set in the buried streets of Georgian London and the outrageous underworld of the molly houses, a carpenter hiding a double life searches for a traitor who is betraying the secrets of the mollies. The visceral, raucous, tender and enchanting historical thriller by the...

Alfie Parker has bagged the hottest date to prom … hasn’t he? Bestselling LGBTQ+ writer Simon James Green makes his Barrington Stoke debut with a life-affirming teen romance. Harvey is popular, cool, plays football and has been in a relationship with his girlfriend Summer...

The hilarious first novel in a cosy and inclusive historical romantasy series by the writer of Horrible Histories In an alternative Elizabethan London, Upper London residents Fang and Lazare awake from their deaths to discover they are not quite human anymore. In fact, despite...

Joyous.' Observer' Tremendously entertaining.' Irish Times, 'Truly original.' The Times ** A Times and Guardian Book of the Year **' We make lazy assumptions about the centre of things and its location. Who's to say that the centre of things isn't in a corner,...

Drawing on activist campaign literature and materials, broadcast media, and new oral history interviews, Severs reconstructs and discusses the overlooked world of radical AIDS activism in England. This book provides one of the first detailed histories of the radical HIV/AIDS movement in England, following...

'Neil Blackmore re-imagines an astounding story of gay men in London 200 years ago and under the pain of their betrayal and injustice, he uncovers loyalty and above all, love. I relished every page.'SIR IAN MCKELLEN. 'I was staggered by this book; one of...

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...

Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about with his friends Nik and Darby. He's been struggling to manage his transition to adulthood almost as much as his monthly transitions to a werewolf. Really,...

THEY FOUND EACH OTHER. NOW THEY MUST RESCUE WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND. The highly-anticipated sequel to the queer genre-bending dystopian romance All That's Left in the World. Against the backdrop of a ravaged world, Andrew and Jamie have settled in a new community, more...

In the 1940s, it was believed that homosexuality had been becoming more widespread in the aftermath of war. A moral panic ensued, centred around London as the place to which gay men gravitated. In a major new anthology, Peter Parker explores what it was...

A writer’s life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body,...