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Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me - by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell - £13.99
One of FORBES Best Graphic Novels of 2019
On BCCB 2019 Blue Ribbons List
One of NPR's Best Books of 2019
Booklist 2019 Editors' Choice
One of Bitch Media’s Best Queer YA Novels of 2019
Author Mariko Tamaki and illustrator Rosemary Vale ... more
Lyra McKee: In Her Own Words: Lost, Found, Remembered - by Lyra McKee - £12.99
When the Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee was murdered in Derry in April 2019 aged just 29, she was survived by her articles that had been read and loved by thousands worldwide.
This memorial anthology will weave together the pieces that ... more
Paul Takes The Form Of A Mortal Girl - by Andrea Lawlor - £8.99
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a lesbian best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul’s also got ... more
All The Bad Apples - by Moira Fowley-Doyle - £7.99
The stunning new novel about silenced female voices, family secrets and dangerous truths from the author of The Accident Season.
On Deena's seventeenth birthday, the day she finally comes out to her family, her wild and mysterious sister Man ... more
Heartstopper: Volume Three - by Alice Oseman - £10.99
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. An LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the third volume of Heartstopper, for fans of The Art of Being Normal, Holly Bourne and Love, Simon.
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Bodies And Barriers: Queer Activists on Health - by Adrian Shanker (Editor) - £18.99
LGBT people pervasively experience health disparities, affecting every part of their bodies and lives. Yet many are still grappling to understand the mutually reinforcing health care challenges that lead to worsened health outcomes. Bodies And Barrie ... more
The Ginger Child: On Family, Loss and Adoption - by Patrick Flanery - £9.99
A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple’s attempt to adopt a child.
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But would you take a ginger child? a social worker asks Patrick Flanery as he and his husband embark on their four-year odyssey of trying to adopt. This ... more
Out of the Woods - by Luke Turner - £8.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD
After the disintegration of the most significant relationship of his life, the demons Luke Turner has been battling since childhood are quick to ... more
Unorthodox: LGBT+ Identity and Faith - by Sean Richardson (Editor) - £7.99
In modern Britain, what does it mean to be queer and religious? Unorthodox tells the stories of LGBT+ people of faith throughout the country. Bringing together artists, activists, religious leaders, community workers and writers, this collection expl ... more
We Have Always Been Here - by Samra Habib - £9.99
Triumphant and uplifting – a queer Muslim memoir about forgiveness and freedom.
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A memoir of hope, faith and love, Samra Habib’s story starts with growing up as part of a threatened minority sect in Pakistan, and follows her arrival in Cana ... more
Other Mother: A Wickedly Honest Parenting Tale for Every Kind of Family - by Jen Brister - £14.99
I'm Jen Brister, stand-up comedian, middle-aged adolescent and, more recently, a mum. But not that mum – I'm the other one. Confused? Let’s back up a bit. Two years ago, my partner (a woman – we're not solicitors) gave birth to twins. Yes. Yes. ... more
Playing Gay in the Golden Age of British TV - by Stephen Bourne - £12.99
The television set – the humble box in the corner of almost every British household – has brought about some of the biggest social changes in modern times. It gives us a window into the lives of people who are different from us: different classes ... more
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death - by Lillian Faderman - £10.99
A lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to protecting all minorities.
Harvey Milk — eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck — was elected to the ... more
Black Car Burning - by Helen Mort - £14.99
How do we trust each other?
Alexa is a young police community support officer whose world feels unstable. Her father is estranged and her girlfriend is increasingly distant. Their polyamorous relationship – which for years felt so natural ... more
Letters from Tove - by Tove Jansson, translated by Sarah Death - £20.00
Out of the thousands of letters Tove Jansson wrote a cache remains that she addressed to her family, her dearest confidantes, and her lovers, male and female. Into these she spilled her innermost thoughts, defended her ideals and revealed her heart. ... more
Trans Power - by Juno Roche - £12.99
In this radical and emotionally raw book, Juno Roche pushes the boundaries of trans representation by redefining 'trans' as an identity with its own power and strength, that goes beyond the gender binary.
Through intimate conversations with ... more
A Little Gay History of Wales - by Daryl Leeworthy - £11.99
A Little Gay History of Wales tells the compelling story of Welsh LGBT life from the Middle Ages to the present day.
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Drawing on a rich array of archival sources from across Britain, together with oral testimony and material culture, this pionee ... more
Guapa - by Saleem Haddad - £8.99
A novel of the Arab SpringÂ
Winner of the Polari First Book Prize 2017Â
A Middle-Eastern capital caught in the revolutionary wave of the Arab Spring.
A day in the life of a young man disillusioned with both East and West and struggling to fin ... more
Odd Men Out: Male Homosexuality in Britain from Wolfenden to Gay Liberation, 1954 – 1970 - by John-Pierre Joyce - £10.99
Odd Men Out is a social, cultural and political history of gay men living in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. It follows a chronological narrative and covers a number of thematic issues in detail, starting with the establishment of the governmentâ ... more
People in Trouble - by Sarah Schulman - £8.99
First published in 1990, a blistering novel about a love triangle in New York during the AIDS crisis.Â
It was the beginning of the end of the world but not everyone noticed right away.
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It is the late 1980s. Kate, an ambitious artist, lives i ... more
The Confessions of Frannie Langton - by Sara Collins - £8.99
'They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. But how can I confess what I don't believe I've done?'
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1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Fr ... more
Trans Britain: Our Long Journey from the Shadows - by Christine Burns (Editor) - £9.99
Over the last five years, transgender people have seemed to burst into the public eye: Time declared 2014 a 'trans tipping point', while American Vogue named 2015 'the year of trans visibility'. From our television screens to the ballot box, transgen ... more
Murmur - by Will Eaves - £8.99
Murmur evokes the extraordinary life of Alan Turing, the beauty and sorrows of love, and the nature of consciousness. Winner of the Wellcome Prize and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.
Winner of the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize
Winner of th ... more
How to Cure a Ghost - by Fariha RóisÃn - £10.99
A poetry compilation recounting a woman’s journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitterness to forgiveness.Â
Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I, ... more
Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen - by Amrou Al-Kadhi - £16.99
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s journey from a god-fearing Muslim boy to a proud, queer drag queen.
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My name is Amrou Al-Kadhi – by day. By night, I am Glamrou, an empowered, confident and acerbic drag queen who wears ... more
The Black Flamingo - by Dean Atta - £12.99
‘I masquerade in makeup and feathers and I am applauded.’
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Fiercely told, this is a powerful coming-of-age story told in verse, from one of the UK’s leading poets, Dean Atta. Perfect for fans of Sarah Crossan and Poet X.
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A boy comes ... more
History of Violence - by Edouard Louis - £8.99
The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy – a personal and powerful story of violence.
I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at around four in the morning. He approached me in the street, and finally I invited him up to ... more
Letting Go - by Cat Clarke - £7.99
Never make a promise at a funeral. It’s my new motto.Â
When Agnes made a promise to her girlfriend, Ellie, she thought they would be together for ever. But when she has to keep that promise a year later, it puts Agnes in a situation she could n ... more
Mercury and Me: An Intimate Memoir By the Man Freddie Loved - by Jim Hutton, with Tim Wapshott - £9.99
The moving, remarkable story of the relationship between Freddie Mercury and his longtime partner Jim Hutton, as explored in the major, Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated film Bohemian Rhapsody.
The relationship between Freddie Mercury ... more
The Bi-ble - Volume Two 2: Further Original Essays and Narratives about Bisexuality - by Lauren Nickodemus and Ellen Desmond (Editors) - £9.99
In this stand alone follow up to The Bi-ble Anthology of Personal Narratives and Essays about Bisexuality, writers from across the UK and abroad present a range of new essays on various aspects of the bisexual experience.
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Whether you are bisexu ... more
Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide - by Kate Charlesworth - £17.99
Cartoonist Kate Charlesworth presents a glorious pageant of LGBTQI+ history, as she takes us on a PRIDE march past personal and political milestones from the 1950s to the present day. Peopled by a cast of gay icons such as Dusty Springfield, Billie J ... more
Zebra - by Ian Humphreys - £9.99
In Zebra, a boy steps tentatively from the shadows onto a strobe-lit dancefloor. Ian Humphreys’ much-anticipated debut shimmers with music, wit and humour while exploring mixed identities, otherness, and coming-of-age as a gay man in 1980s Manchest ... more
Heartstopper: Volume Two - by Alice Oseman - £10.99
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Â An LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the second volume of Heartstopper, for fans of The Art of Being Normal, Holly Bourne and Love, Simon. * ... more
The Bi-ble - Volume 1: Essays and Personal Narratives about Bisexuality - by Lauren Nickodemus and Ellen Desmond (Editors) - £9.99
Bisexuals inhabit a liminal space between cultures, often misunderstood or dismissed by the straight and gay communities alike. This selection of intersectional bi voices has come together to share their stories, helping bi voices be heard and identi ... more
White Houses - by Amy Bloom - £8.99
In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the i ... more
Women - by Chloe Caldwell - £7.99
"A beautiful read / a perfect primer for an explosive lesbian affair / an essential truth"(Lena Dunham)
'I have meditated repeatedly on what it was about Finn that had me so dismantled.'Â
A young woman moves from the countryside to the city.
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Fabulosa! The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language - by Paul Baker - £15.99
Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. At a time when being gay could result in criminal prosecution – or worse – Polari offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage, a way of expre ... more
The Madonna of Bolton - by Matt Cain - £8.99
An everyday story of love, life and Causing a Commotion.
Charlie Matthews’ love story begins in a pebble-dashed house in suburban Bolton, at a time when most little boys want to grow up to be Michael Jackson, and girls want to be Princess Di ... more
The Deepest Breath - by Me Grehan - £6.99
The Deepest Breath is a beautifully written, poetic, lyrical and insightful story of one girl’s coming into full awareness of who she is, and who she might want to love.
Stevie is eleven and loves reading and sea- creatures. She lives wit ... more
Little Boy - by Lawrence Ferlinghetti - £14.99
Little Boy was quite lost. He had no idea who he was or where he had come from... Grown Boy came into his own voice and let loose his word-horde pent-up within him.Â
From growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D- ... more
XX - by Angela Chadwick - £8.99
A stunning debut novel imagining a world where women can have children without men.Â
How far would you go for a child of your own?Â
When Rosie and Jules discover a ground-breaking clinical trial that enables two women to have a female baby, t ... more
The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World - by Mason Funk - £20.00
The Book of Pride captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These ind ... more
In My Skin: My Life on and Off the Basketball Court - by Brittney Griner - £12.99
Hailed by ESPN as the world s most famous female basketball player, Brittney Griner, the dunking phenom and national sensation who is shattering stereotypes and breaking boundaries, now shares her coming-of-age story, revealing how she found her stre ... more
Queer Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender - by J. Daniel Luther and Jennifer Ung Loh (Editors) - £18.99
A comprehensive, far-reaching study of queer identities and communities across Asia, re-envisioning the queer through Asian perspectives.
Queer studies is now a rapidly expanding field, as scholars from a variety of disciplines seek to addre ... more
Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era - by Jason Baumann (Editor) - £17.99
These indelible images are among the hundreds housed in the New York Public Library’s archive of photographs of LGBT history from photojournalists Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies.
This powerful collection — which captures the energy, hu ... more
The Rules of Seeing - by Joe Heap - £7.99
Winner of the Debut Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2019
When you make eye contact, when you hold someone's gaze, it’s the closest thing to knowing you're not alone in the world.
After 32 years of living her life in the dark, Jil ... more
PRIDE: Fifty Years of Parades and Protests from the Photo Archives of the New York Times - by New York Times - £17.99
It began in New York City on June 28, 1969.
When police raided the Stonewall Inn — a bar in the Greenwich Village neighborhood, known as a safe haven for gay men — violent demonstrations and protests broke out in response. The Stonewall ... more
Pride: Photographs After Stonewall - by Fred W. McDarrah - £20.00
Foreword by Peter Tatchell and Hilton Als, and introduction by Allen Ginsberg and Jill Johnston.
The ultimate visual chronicle of life in New York's gay community following the Stonewall Riots, by the late Fred W. McDarrah, published in time ... more
Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister - by Anne Choma - £8.99
'There are more ways than one of being happy… I am living proof of this.'
Anne Lister was remarkable. Fearless, charismatic and determined to explore her lesbian sexuality, she forged her own path in a society that had no language to defin ... more
Yay! You're Gay! Now What? A Gay Boy's Guide to Life - by Riyadh Khalaf - £8.99
Yay! You're gay! Or maybe you're bi. Or maybe you just feel different... in time, that difference will become the greatest gift you could ask for. It will bring you love, a sense of identity, a new community, and eventually the freedom to be yourself ... more
50 Years Legal: Five Decades of Fighting for Equal Rights - by Simon Napier-Bell, edited with Mark Neeter - £12.99
This is both the story of the 50-year battle for equal rights and deeply personal accounts from high profile politicians, comedians, actors and others in the public arena. Â The book features contributions from David Hockney, Stephen Fry, Julian Clar ... more
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