HAMMAJANG | adjective. Definition: In a disorderly or chaotic state; messed up. Chiefly in predicative use, esp. in all hammajang. Etymology: A borrowing from Hawaiian Pidgin. Source: Oxford English Dictionary.Edie is done with crime. Eight years behind bars changes a person - costs them...

In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women’s sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he, too, was...

By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring family, queer desire, pop culture, and raceThe late Anthony Veasna So’s debut story collection, Afterparties, was a landmark...

The Hollow Covenant #1 An epic and heart rending struggle between gods and mortals, lovers and siblings . . .After a divine war shattered the world, humanity struck a pact with the god Kluehnn: in return for regular tribute of magical gems, Kluehnn would...

An illustrated guide of practical parenting advice informed by queer experiences for anyone parenting outside the mainstream, from the author and the illustrator of Special Topics in Being a Human Being a parent is enormously joyful, but it is also an enormous amount of...

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodigy, operating under the shadow of his oppressive occultist father. Now, years after his father’s death and rapidly approaching his thirtieth birthday, he is content with the high-powered life...

Based on the unsolved real-life disappearance of a Mount Holyoke student in 1897, Killingly weaves a haunting spell of intrigue, longing, and terror, perfect for fans of Donna Tartt and Sarah Waters.Bertha Mellish, “the most peculiar, quiet, reserved girl” at Mount Holyoke College, is missing. One...

For fans of The Witch Boy and Squished, Lunar Boy is a must-have heart-warming coming-of-age graphic novel about a young boy from the moon who discovers a home in the most unlikely places, from debut twin creators Jes and Cin Wibowo. Indu, a boy...

In this diverse young adult graphic novel, third in the DeadEndia trilogy, Barney, Norma, and friends team up with unlikely heroes to fight a battle for the fate of the universe, all while dealing with their greatest challenge of all: their love lives. The...

Red, White & Royal Blue meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a sexy, quirky romcom where the golden-hearted Prince of Christmas falls for the totally off-limits Prince of Halloween.Nicholas “Coal” Claus used to love Christmas. Until his father, the reigning Santa, turned the holiday...

Lucy Preston just wants to go on vacation. The beach-swimsuit-sleeping-in kind. Not the impromptu stop in a creepy small town at the edge of the forest kind.But being the daughter of a famous private detective means that sometimes, your beach vacay goes off the...

Set in a magical zoo teeming with mythical beasts from dragons and unicorns to kelpies and krakens, The Phoenix Keeper is a fierce joy of a cozy fantasy novel with a soul-restoring queer romance at its heart, for fans of The House in the Cerulean Sea and Legends and...

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...

'The UK's most influential LGBT Power Couple' - Guardian,  This is the inspiring and moving memoir of a couple in search of a normal family life. And in many ways that have found that: married, doing jobs they love and expecting their second child....

“How It All Ends is hilarious, inventive, smart, and silly, and perfectly captures the overwhelming confusion, anxiety, and joy of a young gay crush.” — Alice Oseman, bestselling author of Heartstopper. Thirteen-year-old Tara lives inside the nonstop adventure of her imagination. It’s far more...

Six people land on a desert island ready to make their reality show debut. The contestants are hungry to prove themselves. The stakes are high and losing is not an option. But three weeks and eighteen episodes later, five of the six contestants sit...

A woman, her grandfather, and her lover quarantine in the remote lakeside wilderness—where their world splits apart at the seams.In the summer of 2020, with a heat wave bearing down and a brood of periodical cicadas climbing into the trees, Husha mourns the recent...

'Such a beautiful and gentle romance. Recommended for any lover of sweet yet spicy mm romances' Reader review Could they be a perfect pairing? Julien Boire can’t wait to get out of his small town. Soon he’ll be leaving to take an advanced wine...

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...

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...

We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures. An empowering cross-genre YA anthology that explores what it means to be a monster, exclusively highlighting trans and queer authors who offer new tales and perspectives on classic monster...

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...

Perfect for fans of Ace of Spades and The Taking of Jake Livingston, this young adult horror debut is told in dual timelines, following a group of teens as they visit an abandoned school for troubled youth and then return two years later to...

An epic clash of deities explores the two facets of pain—rage versus sadness—in this rousing conclusion to the Betrayal Prophecies, a dark crown fantasy duology with a sweeping sapphic romance.The centuries-old prophecy has been fulfilled at last: the New Maiden has returned to Velle....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A radical, joyful novel from Goldsmiths Prize-winning author Isabel WaidnerIn flight from a traumatic rural childhood, Corey Fah has come to earth in a one-bed council flat in the capital....

Jake Wild Hall’s Blank is a song of shared loss and quiet recovery, a talisman for the internal conflict between the vulnerability of hope and the safety of detachment. Language soars and contracts: reaching out in prayer—‘london is the world until it sings all...

In this wry and hilarious queer YA romantic comedy, fifteen-year-old Phoebe realizes that falling in love is maybe not just for losers. Did you know you can marry yourself? How strange / brilliant is that? Fifteen-year-old Phoebe thinks falling in love is vile and...

A master at family drama' – The Times, 'One of the funniest writers in Britain' – The Guardian. Set in the world of London academia, both past and present, Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is heart-breaking and funny, profound and gripping, as it takes the...

In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of marriage, with a focus on the UK. Wedded Wife tells a remarkable story of how this institution has developed from the ancient customs of the stone...

'Masterful in its portrayal of love, sex and friendship' - The Observer. 'Utterly engrossing, vivid and honest' - Emma Donoghue. Raised in a brothel at the edge of a dying empire, a boy of no known origin creates his own identity. He is Sparrow,...