For thirty summers Tove and her partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the gulf of Finland, where they would live, paint and write, energised by the shifting seascapes and the island's austere charms....

Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder of George Floyd, Bluff is Danez Smith’s powerful reckoning with their role and responsibility...

Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? They're all grown up now - but if they think life's done surprising them, they'd better think again... Being an adult isn’t quite what Ellie Allard dreamed it would be when she was...

Joe Lycett is an incredibly right-wing commentator, comedian, television presenter, gardener, cage-fighter, Spectator columnist, fancy boy, bandit, pharmacist and knee-pain advocate. He is also a world-renowned portraitist, and some of the world's most influential and infamous people - Liz Truss, Eamonn Holmes, Mick Hucknall...

Winning the lottery ruined Opal Devlin's life. She may have been able to leave her dead-end job, but now she's getting endlessly bombarded with people knocking at her door for a handout . . . and she can't seem to stop saying yes.Opal realises...

Once the trigger is touched you can't tell who to trustAn unflinching verse novel about a teenage boy who is sexually assaulted in an attack he struggles to remember.Jay wakes in a park, beaten and bruised. He can’t remember what happened the night before....

A hilariously honest book about surviving middle school while navigating a chronic illness from the Stonewall Honor-winning author of Almost Flying.Twelve-year-old Al Schneider is too scared to talk about the two biggest things in her1. Her stomach hurts all the time and she has...

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real?Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the only good thing in Roos’ life, which is filled with sordid backroom...

A stylish, searing drama about the complicated love between mothers and daughters, the indelible impact of estrangement – and one woman fiercely coming into her own.–––‘When my mother washed my hair she crooned, mamele, mamele, into my ear. Little mother, meaning little daughter, meaning...

The Butterfly Assassin #3 --- The epic conclusion to the dark, twisting thriller trilogy about a teen assassin’s attempt to live a normal life.  Isabel Ryans has fled Espera, leaving behind her identity as teen assassin the Moth. Now she’s trying to adjust to the reality...

Gaku and Yuriko prepare to face the final hurdle of their newlywed life—meeting Gaku’s grandmother! But as they do, the pair are forced to consider exactly what kind of relationship they want to have and what kind of life they want to build together...

Molly Bauer's first year of college is not the picture-perfect piece of art she'd always envisioned. On day one at PICA, Molly discovers that—through some horrible twist of fate—her full-ride scholarship has vanished! But the ancient texts (PICA's dusty financial aid documents) reveal a...

Award-winning author Jen Ferguson has written a powerful story about teens grappling with balancing resentment with enduring friendship—and how to move forward with a life that’s not what they’d imagined.Before that awful Saturday, Molly used to be inseparable from her brother, Hank, and his...

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...

In his intimate memoir, legendary ballet dancer and entertainer Wayne Sleep looks back on the extraordinary times he's lived through. Wayne Sleep has danced with ballet legends Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, partied with Freddie Mercury and performed with Princess Diana, becoming her close...

When a mysterious illness knocks Zhao Yunlan off his feet, he enjoys being doted on by Shen Wei—until he discovers a grim secret that threatens to tear them apart. However, it’s not just their domestic bliss that’s on the verge of collapse. The Great...

THE SLEEPING GOD STIRSAs snow quietly covers Dragon City in the final days of the lunar year, patients writhing in pain flock to the hospital. Baffled doctors call upon Zhao Yunlan and his team for help. As the case unfolds, Shen Wei and Zhao...

In this YA contemporary fantasy, the teen son of the local mortician accidentally reanimates the dead body of the boy he had more than friendly feelings for, but can he keep him alive for good before their time runs out? Perfect for fans of...

Young Royals meets Red, White, and Royal Blue in this heart-pumping romance by award-winning author Julian Winters!When roguish Prince Jadon of Îles de la Rêverie is left in America to clean up his image after a horribly public break-up gone viral, romance is not on the table....

A 'deeply felt and achingly intimate' (Annie Lord) debut novel about the complexities of gender, power, race and fame for readers of Sheena Patel's I'm A Fan and Madeleine Grey's Green Dot I made up my mind to meet you. Your book had cast a spell on...

Everything in Edith’s life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess.Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend, Val, is dead.Still Life volleys between the present and...

THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS meets THE GILDED WOLVES in this historical romantic fantasy! 'SWEETLY VICIOUS' Gabi Burton' DELICIOUSLY DARK' Ava Reid SOMETIMES TRUE LOVE DEFIES DEATH ITSELF. New York, 1926. Reapers - once-human vampires - stalk the shadows.The Saint family has reigned over the city...

Everything You Need to Know From Gay to Ze 'A must read for any queer person who is, or wants to be, a parent.' Will Young. 'I wish this book had been available when my kids were young. It would have made me feel less...

Kali has a lot to deal with. Her crush doesn't notice her, her parents love her cousin more, and a big family wedding is overshadowing her 16th birthday. So, she really did NOT need a demon appearing in her bedroom and for the fate...

Lorcán Black’s brilliant Seren debut, Strange Husbandry - a nominee for the 2024 Forward Prize - contrasts modern-day stories of queer passion with older stories from myth and history. The title references not just husbandry in farming of crops and animals, but a more...

The hilarious and piercing memoir about growing up gay in a not-so-gay world. ‘A beautiful celebration of being different.’ TOM ALLEN ‘An important story, told with a sharp wit and disarming humour’ MOHSIN ZAIDI author of A Dutiful Boy‘ Brilliant, spectacularly witty and genuinely...

A searing collection of E. M. Forster’s short stories about forbidden sexuality and desire ‘Madness, isn’t it? What can it matter to anyone else if you and I don’t mind? ’Exploratory, experimental and pioneering, the short stories collected in this volume show E. M....

If boys will be boys, girls will fight back.For high school senior Nell and her friends, a vacation house on a private Florida island sounds like the makings of a dream spring break. But Nell brings secrets with her—secrets that fuse with the island's tragic...

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...

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,...