Consensual adult spanking can be sexy or strict, giggly or grave, gentle enough to pinken the skin or intense enough to leave marks. It can involve infinite combinations of roles, implements and positions,  enough to keep even the most avid spankophile busy for a...

Perverts traverses the psychic landscapes of Kay Gabriel and her community of friends, writers and organizers, piecing together a collective dream that both mirrors and transforms waking life. Against the backdrop of the anti-trans panic, Perverts explores desire as a political problem. It asks...

Food in America and Europe has long been shaped, twisted and upended by queer creatives. John Birdsall fills the gap between the past and present, channelling the twin forces of criticism and cultural history to propel readers into the kitchens, restaurants, swirling party-houses and...

What do you want, when no one is watching?What do you want, when the lights are off?What do you want, when you are anonymous?When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love...

Does peaking in high school ruin you for life?Was Miley Cyrus right, is it all about the climb (when it comes to building a career?)And what - scientifically - is the best way to mend a broken heart?Comedian Suzi Ruffell is considering life's big questions.In this...

In 1939 the writer Enid Barraud, disillusioned with her city life, left London and went to live in a village in Cambridgeshire, joining what became known as The Women's Land Army, one of thousands of women who worked the land, while war raged overhead...

A celebration and exploration of gossip, reclaiming it as a powerful tool for building relationships, sharing vital information and enabling women’s voices to be heard. Tittle-tattle. Hearsay.Rumours. Bitching. Tea.‘A powerful defence of a woman’s right to speak. Everyone should have this on their bookshelf’...

August 22, 1972: Two men attempt to rob a bank in Brooklyn. They fail miserably: the money they’d hoped for isn’t there, the cops get tipped off immediately, and within 30 minutes they’re in a hostage situation with the FBI. Things really get crazy when reporters...

Peter Freestone was Freddie Mercury's personal assistant for the last 12 years of his life. He lived with Mercury in London, Munich, and New York, and was by his side when he died. In this book, Freestone paints a striking portrait of the man...

In Sex Isn’t Real, Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Drawing on lab notes, family genealogies, medical case studies, and more, Velocci follows scientists and clinicians from the...

Already under fire for publishing the literary avant-garde into a world not ready for it, Margaret C. Anderson’s cutting-edge magazine The Little Review was a bastion of progressive politics and boundary-pushing writing from then-unknowns like T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, and Djuna...

Sex sells, but what can it buy? Thank You, John is Best American Essays Notable Michelle Gurule’s debut a heartfelt, laugh-out-loud tragi-comedy of errors based on her time spent as an inexperienced sugarbaby in 2010s Denver. Michelle, a queer, wanna-be writer exasperated by student loans, bad teeth, and...

An Introduction to the Aromantic Community, in Our Own Words Do you ever feel alienated by the way society presents love? Maybe you find the idea of romantic relationships off-putting, or maybe it's just 'not your thing'. Sound familiar? Aromanticism is a spectrum of...

Collage Fantastique! is a collection of 1,000+ images for you to cut out and stick down in your own creations. Collage is an inherently queer artform - just ask the queer artists who created it. And activity books and crafts are things that queer...

"If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities - the expression of love - then life itself loses its meaning."- Harvey MilkIt all started in 1970 in New York City. Pride started out as a...

BBC Radio 4 Food Programme Best Book of 2017Comfort food is enjoying a renaissance as people start to shy away from exclusion diets and `clean eating' and embrace the balance of nourishing homemade meals. With the concept of hygge emphasising the importance of enjoying...

An integrated and inclusive approach to understanding and treating individual and systemic trauma in sexual health therapy What if the challenges your clients face with intimacy are rooted in trauma they can't yet name? Drawing on decades of clinical experience, Dr Sarah Ashton reviews...

The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own word With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha Velour. Their greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a small...

In the future, we’ll all be having sex with robots… won’t we? Roboticists say they’re a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and articles are written on the subject. Campaigns are even mounted against them. So why are sex robots such a hot...

The current COVID-19 pandemic has exuberated global geopolitical tensions and led to rising Sinophobia and anti-Asian racism worldwide. At the same time, there has been a nascent Asian diaspora consciousness emerging in the West, celebrating Asian identity and cultural heritage. In the space between...

Queer books, like LGBTQ+ people, adapt heteronormative structures and institutions to introduce space for discourses of queer desire. Queer Books of Late-Victorian Print Culture explores print culture adaptations of the material book, examining the works of Aubrey Beardsley, Michael Field, John Gray, Charles Ricketts,...

Everything is comprised of energy, including you! You express energy in what you create, experience, and attract. Right now, the Universe is calling you to align your life to a higher energetic frequency, and at any given moment you have the opportunity to Raise...

In centuries past, sexual body-parts and same-sex desire were un­men­­tionables de­barred from polite conver­sa­tion and printed discourse. Yet one scientific discipline ana­to­my had license to rep­re­sent and nar­rate the in­timate details of the human body, anus and genitals in­clud­ed. Figured with­in the frame of...

Tony Peake enjoyed unprecedented access to the visionary artist's archives in order to bring the extraordinary life of Derek Jarman to the page. This authorised and unique biography covers Jarman's story from the bleakness of post-war Britain and his RAF childhood, to student life...

Explore the “femininomenon” and cultural impact of the Midwest pop princess, Chappell Roan, in this richly illustrated biography. Chappell Roan is a 2025 Grammy Award winner for Best New Artist. The queer queen’s meteoric rise from small-town girl to pop icon is a story...

From neurodivergent comedian Darcy Michael, a hilarious memoir with a message about living with adult ADHD. What if ADHD isn't a disorder to overcome, but a superpower that makes you funnier, more creative, and more resilient? In Attention Seeker, comedian and card-carrying adult with...

A timely, illuminating plan for how trans and cis athletes can both fairly play sports. Foreword by Chris Mosier. Fair Game offers an insightful, timely examination of the ongoing battle for equality in athletics. As LGBTQ athletes break barriers in the Olympics, transgender athletes...

Through a focused analysis of work made from textiles, ceramics, wood, paper, metal, and glass, this book explores how contemporary artists, designers, and practitioners identifying as LGBTQ+ use a range of craft materials and processes to explore their identity and queerness. Queer Crafts provides...

This affirming and compassionate workbook is the perfect companion to Queerly Autistic, the bestselling guide for LGBTQIA+ autistic teens from Erin Ekins. In Queerly Autistic, Erin Ekins opened conversations around gender, sexuality, relationships and exploring your identity as a queer autistic teen. Now, in...

Sometimes when I drink wine out of a globulous glass with the thinnest of rims, blocking out the fact it's billed at £14 a pop, I think of baby Becky. Hair so blonde it's neon white, cheeks so chubby you can't see her eyes....