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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 26 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Henry Henry by Allen Bratton
    Henry Henry - by Allen Bratton

    £16.99   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781787334595 | ISBN 10: 1787334597

    'One of the most exciting new novels' FINANCIAL TIMES  'Very funny... Its deeply felt pages flew by' GUARDIAN  London, 2014. Hal Lancaster – twenty-two, gay, Catholic, chops lines of cocaine with his myWaitrose card – is the reluc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
    Cereus Blooms at Night - by Shani Mootoo

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781784878320 | ISBN 10: 1784878324

    EVERYONE THINKS MALA IS A MURDERER  'A Caribbean classic' Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch   Everyone in Paradise thinks Mala Ramchandin is a murderer. But with no body, no evidence and no witnesses, Mala is sent to an ... more

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  • Cover image of book God
    God's Children Are Little Broken Things - by Arinze Ifeakandu

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781399606271 | ISBN 10: 1399606271

    ‘Although he writes about queer lives and loves in Nigeria, Arinze Ifeakandu’s voice is sensually alert to the human and universal in every situation. These quietly transgressive stories are the work of a brilliant new talent’ DAMON GALGUT, Bo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Radical Love by Neil Blackmore
    Radical Love - by Neil Blackmore

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529152074 | ISBN 10: 1529152070

    Welcome to England, 1809. London is a violent, intolerant city, exhausted by years of war, beset by soaring prices and political tensions.   By day, John Church preaches on the radical possibilities of love to a multicultural, working-class congre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
    Under the Whispering Door - by TJ Klune

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529087994 | ISBN 10: 1529087996

    Witty, haunting and kind, Under the Whispering Door is a gift for troubled times. TJ Klune brings us a warm hug of a story about a man who spent his life at the office – and his afterlife building a home.  From the author of joyous New York ... more

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  • Cover image of book At Certain Points We Touch by Lauren John Joseph
    At Certain Points We Touch - by Lauren John Joseph

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526631329 | ISBN 10: 1526631326

    SELECTED FOR STYLIST'S FICTION YOU CAN'T MISS IN 2022 - 'AN ESSENTIAL READ'  NAMED AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE, STYLIST, SHEERLUXE AND FOYLES  'A stone-cold masterpiece by a shocking new talent' OLIVIA LAING  'Pure delight ... A queer ro ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Brutal House by Niven Govinden
    This Brutal House - by Niven Govinden

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780349700694 | ISBN 10: 0349700699

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019   On the steps of New York's City Hall, five ageing Mothers sit in silent protest. They are the guardians of the vogue ball community - queer men who opened their hearts and homes to countless lost Childr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Guapa by Saleem Haddad
    Guapa - by Saleem Haddad

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787702059 | ISBN 10: 1787702057

    A novel of the Arab Spring  Winner of the Polari First Book Prize 2017  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

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  • Cover image of book Murmur by Will Eaves
    Murmur - by Will Eaves

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786899378 | ISBN 10: 178689937x

    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

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  • Cover image of book Murmur by Will Eaves
    Murmur - by Will Eaves

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781909585263 | ISBN 10: 1909585262

    Shortlisted for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize Longlisted for the 2019 Republic of Consciousness Prize  Taking its cue from the arrest and legally enforced chemical castration of the mathematician Alan Turing, Murmur is the account of a man who r ... more

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  • Cover image of book Made Up: An Anthology of LGBTQ+ Writing from Liverpool and Merseyside by Various authors
    Made Up: An Anthology of LGBTQ+ Writing from Liverpool and Merseyside - by Various authors

    £4.50   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781542462952 | ISBN 10: 1542462959

    Do you know where Winnie the Pooh currently lives? Are you aware of the real reason Margaret Thatcher pursued her infamous Clause 28 anti-LGBTQ campaign? And what's it like to relive a Welsh gay love affair while sitting on a little green bus? Or spy ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ernesto by Umberto Saba
    Ernesto - by Umberto Saba

    £10.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786690685 | ISBN 10: 1786690683

    Ernesto is sixteen years old and ready for life to begin. His curiosity leads him into an affair with an older man – the first step on his journey to adulthood.  Full of tenderness, humour and warmth, Ernesto is a beautifully rendered comin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beijing Comrades by Bei Tong, translated by Scott E. Myers
    Beijing Comrades - by Bei Tong, translated by Scott E. Myers

    £11.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781558619074 | ISBN 10: 1558619070

    When Handong, a ruthless and wealthy businessman, is introduced to Lan Yu, a naïve, working-class architectural student — the attraction is all consuming.   Arrogant and privileged, Handong is unsettled by this desire, while Lan Yu quietly sub ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best Gay Romance 2014 by Timothy J. Lambert and R. D. Cochrane (Editors)
    Best Gay Romance 2014 - by Timothy J. Lambert and R. D. Cochrane (Editors)

    £11.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781627780117 | ISBN 10: 1627780114

    Passion and Possibility...   The best part of romance is what might happen next...that pivotal moment where we stop and realize, This is wonderful. Romance can be many things: thrilling, inspiring, passionate and life altering. But most of all ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hairdresser on Fire by Daniel LeVesque
    Hairdresser on Fire - by Daniel LeVesque

    £14.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781933149738 | ISBN 10: 1933149736

    Meet Francis, whose quirky childhood was marred by a strange religious cult yet enhanced by the rock band KISS; his teen years spent dawdling with daytime television talk show appearances and weekend art classes, followed by a dubious career in a sou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Just Between Us by J.H. Trumble
    Just Between Us - by J.H. Trumble

    £11.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780758277183 | ISBN 10: 0758277180

    Seventeen-year-old Luke Chesser is trying to forget his spectacular failure of a love life. He practices marching band moves for hours in the hot Texas sun, deals with his disapproving father, and slyly checks out the new band field tech, Curtis Came ... more

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  • Cover image of book Briefs Encountered by Julian Clary
    Briefs Encountered - by Julian Clary

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780091938857 | ISBN 10: 0091938856

    Whoever said the afterlife would be easy...?   The new inhabitants of an old house in deepest darkest Kent are about to discover the previous owner – a certain Mr Noël Coward – never quite left the building...   A wickedly dark ghost st ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy I Love by Marion Husband
    The Boy I Love - by Marion Husband

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908262721 | ISBN 10: 1908262729

    The story is set in the aftermath of World War One. Paul Harris, still frail after shellshock, returns to his father’s home and to the arms of his secret lover, Adam. He discovers that Margot, the fiancée of his dead brother, is pregnant and marries ... more

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  • Cover image of book 98 Wounds by Justin Chin
    98 Wounds - by Justin Chin

    £13.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781933149578 | ISBN 10: 1933149574

    98 Wounds is a series of improbably linked stories that reimagines and reconciles the abject, the outlaw, the ostracized, the misfits, and the cranky contrarians among us.  Gay people have never been as free — or divided — as in today's s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Devil in Disguise by Julian Clary
    Devil in Disguise - by Julian Clary

    £13.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780091927356 | ISBN 10: 0091927358

    How far would you go for fame and fortune?  Would you change your name?  Change your personality?  Reveal your inner drag queen?  Betray your friends?  Would you kill?  Fab, filthy and funny, Julian Clary’s Devil in Disguise is a ta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gay Love Stories: An Anthology of Erotica by Hank Brooks
    Gay Love Stories: An Anthology of Erotica - by Hank Brooks

    £13.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781935509240 | ISBN 10: 1935509241

    "These stories were written by a hopeless romantic. I believe everyone should be in love; young, old, and in between; men and women. Consequently, every story has a Hollywood ending and all my live happily ever after.  Almost every love st ... more

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  • Cover image of book Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires by Gilbert Adair
    Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires - by Gilbert Adair

    £6.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780571206117 | ISBN 10: 0571206115

    Gideon is a lonely, horny young Englishman who arrives in Paris to take up a teaching post in the local Berlitz, and becomes increasingly fascinated by the intoxicating atmosphere of erotic banter and bragging in the school's all-male and virtually a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Giovanni
    Giovanni's Room - by James Baldwin

    £8.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141186351 | ISBN 10: 0141186356

    David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancee to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsom Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancee returns, and, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
    The Night Listener - by Armistead Maupin

    £8.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780552142403 | ISBN 10: 0552142409

    Gabriel Noone is a writer whose late-night radio stories have brought him into the homes of millions. Noone is in the midst of a painful separation from his lover of ten years, when a publisher sends him the memoir of a 13 year old boy who suffered h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Like People In History by Felice Picano
    Like People In History - by Felice Picano

    £12.99   paperback   (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780349108384 | ISBN 10: 0349108382

    Flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge and steadfast, cautious Roger Sansarc are second cousins who are both gay and whose lifelong friendship begins when they first meet as nine-year-old boys in 1954. At crucial moments in their personal histories the ... more

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  • Cover image of book When Love Comes to Town by Tom Lennon
    When Love Comes to Town - by Tom Lennon

    £8.99   paperback   (1993) - ISBN 13: 9780862783617 | ISBN 10: 0862783615

    Meet Neil Byrne - try-scorer on the rugby field, prizewinning student, one of the in-crowd at the disco, regular guy, gay. Presenting one face to the world and burying his true feelings in fantasy, Neil manages to keep his secret. But when fantasy is ... more

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