Holding what appeared to be a lifeless baby, Ma resisted the captain's orders to throw her bundle overboard. Instead, on landing, Ma rushed her baby into the arms of American military nurses and doctors, who saved the child's life. "I had hope, just a...

 Seven Hidden Histories  'With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mystery and a kind of magic' Colm Toibin, 'Hester is a fizzingly brilliant writer' Robert Macfarlane, 'Haunted and haunting - totally riveting' Chris...

There's a new governess at Fairmont House, and she's going to be nothing but trouble. Emily Laurence is a liar. She is not polite, she's not polished, and she has never taught a child in her life. This position was meant to be her...

When a TERF bombs Frankie's workplace, she blows up Frankie's life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries to cope with the carnage: binge-drinking, sleeping with strangers, pushing away her friends. Then, she meets Vanya. Mysterious, beautiful, terrifying Vanya. The two...

'Sharp, charming and passionate... It is this eye for the rhythms and textures of life - of millennial digital media, of the death by a thousand cuts offered by workplace racism, of Maryland suburbia - that makes this novel vivid and inviting'New York Times Book...

The second novel by the phenomenally talented author of Solitaire, Alice Oseman - the most talked-about YA writer right now. What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing...

Mortuary technician Cassie Raven returns to solve another ingenious forensic mystery. Perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen, Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs. Mortuary technician Cassie Raven believes the last thoughts of the dead linger like static in the air... Cassie has always had a...

'I LOVE THIS SERIES!' ELLY GRIFFITHS'TIMELY, GRITTY AND DARK' PAULA HAWKINS When the dead are silent, she will be their voice... Goth-girl mortuary technician Cassie Raven has seen thousands of dead bodies but when a drowned man knocks against the hull of her canal boat,...

For fans of Tess Gerritsen and Kathy Reichs comes a gripping debut thriller introducing Camden's most exciting new forensic investigator. Mortuary technician Cassie Raven believes the dead can talk. We just need to listen... Cassie Raven is used to people thinking her job is strange -...

The 28-day calorie-controlled meal plan to nourish your body and soul. Written by elite fitness trainer and TikTok star Sarah Hutchinson and nutritionist Charlotte Taundry, The Weight Loss Kitchen offers readers a 28-day meal plan that nourishes both body and soul through calorie-controlled recipes...

Winner of the 2018 Albertine Prize. Finalist for the 2018 Lamba Literary Awards. Finalist for the 2018 French American Foundation Translation Prize. Available in a new edition, Anne Garreta's sensual portrayal of trysts past. Not One Day begins with a maxim: "Not one day...

Godslayers—Zoe Hana Mikuta's high-octane sequel to Gearbreakers is perfect for fans of Pacific Rim, Pierce Brown's Red Rising Saga, and Marie Lu's Legend series.The only way to kill a god is from the inside...The Gearbreakers struck a devastating blow against Godolia on Heavensday, but...

'A heartfelt celebration of all kinds of queer love' Alice Linehan, Gay Community News A ground-breaking Irish lesbian love story, set across the decades from the 1980s AIDS crisis to the 2015 marriage referendum. Ro McCarthy, single in her fifties and working a quiet...

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...

An adorable board book for the babies and toddlers of lesbian mothers, featuring a variety of diverse loving families with two moms. Families with same-sex parents are celebrated in this board book that follows busy moms and their kids throughout their day - eating...

An uplifting, feminist coming-of-age love story about a young woman who dreams of becoming a tattoo artist, and living life on her own terms Introvert Gina Mulley is determined to become a tattoo artist, and to find somewhere she belongs in her conventional Long...

It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and...

'A DARK, LUSH AND HEARTRENDINGLY ROMANTIC' Lyndall Clipstone, author of Lakes edge This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession... A deliciously dark retelling of Dracula, A Dowry of Blood is a sensual story of obsession, desire...

This is a print on demand title and can take a while to come back into stock if currently showing as awaiting stock - prints and ships from the US. Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes...

* SOON TO BE A MAJOR HBO SERIES STARRING JODIE COMER ** Greta liked knowing people's secrets. That wasn't a problem. Until she met Big Swiss. Big Swiss. That's Greta's nickname for her - she is tall, and she is from Switzerland. Greta can see...

Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock band Static Saints. Side A is a snapshot of her life from 1993, when Tracy arrives in a labyrinthine city as a fledgling artist and unexpectedly falls...

This stunning literary debut, voiced by lesbian gangster Donna and her streetwise god-daughter Aurora, is steeped in the gang and gun culture of Manchester’s criminal underworld. It is both an unforgettable love story and an unputdownable revenge thriller.Donna and Carla run the all-female Bronte...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.In the aftermath of the First World War, a young woman gets swept into a glittering world filled with illicit magic, romance, blood debts and murder in this lush and decadent debut novel. On Crow Island, people whispered, real magic lurked...

A debut novel about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyalty to a friendship she's outgrown Savannah Sav Henry is almost the person she wants to be, or at least she's getting closer. It's the second...

'One of the best fantasy novels I've read in a long time...This book is truly special' Sarah J. Maas on The Bone Shard Daughter THE BATTLE IS OVER. NOW THE WAR BEGINS. Lin Sukai has won her first victory as Emperor, but the future...

A blistering critique of digital media and a kaleidoscopic depiction of consumer culture, Eden II is both fanciful and satirical, a combination of deft cartooning and virtuosic storytelling. In the grungy, punk-inflected world K. Wroten creates, a cast of disaffected young characters struggle to...

"In this expanded edition of his distinguished Sappho: Poems and Fragments (2002), Stanley Lombardo offers over 100 fragments not included in the original edition, as well as the new poems discovered in 2004 and 2014. His translation of this latter material yields fresh insights...

Plato hailed her as "the Tenth Muse," and 2,500 years later her voice remains dazzling as well as direct and honest. Sappho, a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos, wrote verse that sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. Praised...

Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership. After a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John Addington, married to Catherine, has met Frank, a working-class printer. Meanwhile Henry Ellis's wife Edith has fallen in love with Angelica - and Angelica wants Edith all...

A Sister Holiday Mystery When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding community are thrust into chaos. Unsatisfied with the officials' response, sardonic and headstrong Sister Holiday becomes determined to unveil...