Body dysmorphia affects a significant number of gay men, driven by rigid beauty ideals and social expectations around masculinity. The pursuit of a 'perfect' body can quickly become all-consuming, leading to harmful patterns around food, fitness, and self-worth.Daniel O'Shaughnessy understands this not just as...

Can one night change your life forever?Jean is married to her job and there is no room in her life for romance. Until she meets someone who takes her breath away. There’s just one catch. Ava’s a woman. And Jean’s straight… isn’t she?The chemistry’s...

Ten-year-old Kwame Akromah's life is changed forever when Yaw, a charismatic 22 year-old from his parents' homeland of Ghana, comes to stay with his family. Kwame's carefully-ordered routine doesn't quite know how to hold this brash young man within it, but the two form...

‘It is dangerous to want someone this much. He has always known it, from the very first night.’It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati,...

In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision: Mary will become Mark, and Ma will continue to collect his inheritance money. Mary's dual existence will take her to a grand...

I can change the story because I am the story. With her execution looming, a woman is fighting for her life. Every night she tells a story.Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad...

Daniel is a queer journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meagre. He has no relationships outside of sexual ones, and can seem at once callow and, at times, cold to the point of cruel with his lovers.Emotionally...

Seven stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, hope and rejection, from a writer at the height of his powers.In Rupert Everett's first, glorious collection of stories, he takes us on an exhilarating journey with a cast of extraordinary characters. A blackly humorous...

'Ecstasy stands out for its brutal examination of the transience of Eros... Campy and fun' -Guardian In Ecstasy, Alex Dimitrov embraces a life on the edge in New York and the finely wrought poetry that can come out of it. He explores sex, drugs,...

A book group can be a very dangerous place ~ Valerie Leon.60 years after the death of iconic American horror writer Shirley Jackson, William Jackson publishes Who's Afraid of Shirley Jackson? Cambridge, England. Present Day. Every week, the Shirley Jackson Club meets to discuss...

From National Book Award-honored author Edmund White, a wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about a rich older man who falls in love with a young ballerino. Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he...

The magic of tabletop RPGs lives in the creativity of the players. Given the chance to explore gender, relationships, and queer existence across vast worlds with completely different sets of rules, queer players throughout the years have found acceptance, camaraderie, and joy by rolling...

While this book is a rally cry for political action, it is also a celebration of wonder and longing and love. The top-selling queer poet in America, Andrea Gibson's Pansy balances themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, illness, family and forgiveness with stunning imagery...

In a broken system, do you save yourself or fight for the people you love? With the godspower waning, the queen of Ashvi must find another way to bolster her fight against her imperialist oppressors. The solution: wrenching children of other cultures from their...

Magical realism meets Southern Gothic in this commanding young adult debut from Ciera Burch about true love, the meaning of home, and the choices that haunt us.Welcome to Coldwater. Come for the ghosts, stay for the drama.Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer...

Claudia Lin - mystery novel superfan and, until recently, clichéd underemployed English major, has scored her dream job: co-running Veracity, a dating detective agency for chronically online New Yorkers who want to know if their prospective partners are telling the truth. Unfortunately, along the...

A struggling vineyard owner gets a second taste of her first crush in this romantic comedy that sparkles with humor and heat. Zoe Brennan may be the loneliest lesbian in Blue Ridge, but at least she has her family vineyard to keep her busy....

A mind is a terrible thing to erase... Welcome to the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty's most luxurious interstellar passenger liner! Room and board are included, new bodies are graciously provided upon request, and should you desire a rest between lifetimes, your mind shall be...

No one need know about her mother's deviation. A mother following her heart. A father with the law on his side. A child caught in the middle  It’s 2022, and Heron, an old man of quiet habits, has just had the sort of visit...

Since its debut in 2004, The L Word has been a milestone of popular and queer culture. For six seasons, this iconic show broke barriers and brought on-screen visibility to the experiences of the LGBTQ+ community through the lives of a diverse group of...

Enrol in this rivals-to-lovers dark academia fantasy of necromancers and gladiatorial combat against eldritch abominations, perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and A Deadly Education.St Penderghast's is an elite college for necromancers and gladiators, promising glory to those who can perfect the arcane...

The next installment in the New York Times bestselling Sworn Soldier series, featuring Alex Easton investigating the dark, mysterious depths of a coal mine in America.Alex Easton does not want to visit America.They particularly do not want to visit an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia...

Hugo Hunter was the most celebrated gay novelist of the 20th century. He published two masterpieces, securing his place alongside the dazzling literary greats of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and rubbing shoulders with everyone from Truman Capote to James Baldwin, Gore Vidal and...

A gorgeously illustrated, accessible celebration of queer activism, by the creator of the award-winning Suffragette, David Roberts. Touching on major moments in the story of the fight for LGBTQ+ rights including the Stonewall Uprising, the first Gay Pride Rally and the dazzling history of...

In the gripping conclusion to the Warring Gods duology, two women find themselves caught in an ancient feud between ruthless entities, in an epic quest for power and liberation.Reina is full of hope.At long last, Reina has the peace she’s been searching for on...

The Bear meets Attack on Titan in this exhilarating, food-based epic fantasy filled with high stakes and monster steaks, perfect for fans of Pierce Brown and Jay Kristoff. Paprick is a common butcher, carving slabs of meat from gargantuan monsters so elite chefs can...

When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa—allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfill his wildest dreams—she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of Easley House, Teddy’s grand, romantic country manor in the UK....

Jamila Shah is twenty-nine and exhausted.An immigration solicitor tasked with running the precious family law firm, Jamila is prone to being woken in the middle of the night by frantic phone calls from clients on the cusp of deportation. Working under the shadow of...

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...

A taut, elegiac, and engrossing read, The Imagined Life follows Steven Mills, a man in a struggling marriage who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about the father who vanished from his life when he was only twelve. Driving up the coast of California,...