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Dark, twisted, fresh and fierce, Eyes Guts Throat Bones is a collection of stories about queer, female bodies at the end of the world 'I WAS DELICIOUSLY HORRIFIED' JENN ASHWORTH 'GAVE ME SERIOUS WRITER ENVY' KIRSTY LOGAN 'ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE 'AN INCREDIBLE...

A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting...

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK “The Phoenix Pencil Company is a masterful blending of history, fantasy, and romance that sank into my heart . . . This book had me smiling through my tears.” — Fonda Lee, author of the Green Bone Saga In this dazzling debut novel, a hidden and nearly forgotten...

A funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip Most days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime colleagues, whose playful bickering she mediates...

When young Sebastian Brambani meets a sexy and exciting older man, he's easily seduced. But for spy Kyle Grant, it's all business. Sebastian is simply a pawn in Kyle's mission to acquire a dangerous chemical weapon from Sebastian's criminal father. Kyle's life is his work for a shadowy international agency protecting the world from evil, and he can't worry about what will happen to Sebastian when the job is done.

Sous les regards distraits de sa famille, Mary Bennet se façonne en secret un autre destin. Tandis que ses sœurs brillent dans les salons et poursuivent de beaux mariages, dans la solitude d'un laboratoire secret, Mary rêve de science, d'indépendance, et cherche à percer le mystère de la vie elle-même… Mais lorsqu'elle rencontre Georgiana Darcy, c'est un tout autre mystère qui s'empare d'elle : celui du désir. Celui d'un impossible bonheur dans un monde où les femmes n'ont aucun pouvoir, si ce n'est celui qu'elles arrachent.

Für die zurückgezogen lebende Schriftstellerin Jorie Price ist die große Liebe genauso unrealistisch wie die Gestaltwandler in ihren Büchern. Auch Griffin Westmore glaubt nicht an die Liebe, aber sie ist eine der keineswegs fiktiven Gestaltwandler, die unbemerkt unter den Menschen leben. Als Jories Roman der Wahrheit gefährlich nahe kommt, wird Griffin beauftragt, die Autorin zu beobachten – und sie notfalls zum Schweigen zu bringen. Doch je besser sich die beiden kennenlernen, desto mehr stellt Griffin ihre Mission infrage. Sie soll diese Frau töten, nicht Gefühle für sie entwickeln!

Jilted bride. Mad witch. Tragic villainess. This time, she will have her revenge. ‘Dazzling’ HEAT MAGAZINE ‘This is a novel of enormous élan’ THE TIMES  Charlotte Havisham has a secret. She's been underestimated for too long: by her former fiancé, Compeyson; by her family; and by...

Edi Parcell thought she had life all planned out, so when her childhood sweetheart proposes a three-month break to date other people, she’s shocked. Unexpectedly back on the dating scene after years with the same guy, this is the first opportunity Edi’s had to think about what she really wants from life—and love. When she meets Winifred, her world is turned upside down. She never expected to have feelings for someone else, but now she’s met Winifred, she can’t stop thinking about her.

Farah moves into Liberty House - an arcadia, a community in harmony with nature - at the tender age of six, with her family. The commune's spiritual leader, Arcady, preaches equality, non-violence, anti-speciesism, free love, and uninhibited desire for all. At 15, Farah learns she is intersex, and begins to go beyond the confines of gender, as she explores the arc of her own desires. What, Farah asks, is a man or a woman? What does it mean to be part of a community? What is utopia when there are refugees nearby seeking shelter who cannot enter?

A heartbroken and humiliated Ricky Graves took the life of a classmate and himself. Five months later, the sleepy community is still in shock and mourning. Ricky's sister, Alyssa, returns to confront her shattered, withdrawn mother and her guilt over the brother she left adrift. Mark McVitry, the lone survivor of the deadly outburst sparked by his own cruelty, is tormented by visions of Ricky's vengeful spirit. Ricky's surrogate older brother, Corky Meeks, grapples with doubts about the fragile boy he tried to protect but may have doomed instead.

“A sweet and spicy story about found family, taking chances on love, and getting through your Saturn return.”—Elissa Sussman, bestselling author of Funny You Should Ask A newly single queer woman moves to New Orleans and sets off on a mission to find her most compatible match by going on a...

It's been a couple years since Commander John Marion - the US Navy's most decorated SEAL - hung up his dog tags, choosing his cherished Alpha over war. Call and Alpha have settled comfortably into their carefree lives nestled in the mountains of South Carolina. No more combat for the commander, and no more ordered killings for the deadliest assassin in the world. However, nothing stays peaceful forever.

'Saturday, the 27th of February, 1627. The master artist Mansur, who works under the patronage of Mughal emperor Jahangir, must finish his painting of a dodo and prepare for an imminent journey to Kashmir when he is interrupted by a younger colleague, Bichitr. An innocuous remark from this...

At the age of ninety-six, Isaac Dahl sits down to write his memoir. For Isaac, an accomplished journalist and historian, finding the right words to convey events is never a problem. But this book will be different from anything he has written before. Focusing on twelve different days, each encapsulated in a chapter, Isaac hopes to distill the very essence of his life.

For fans of Torrey Peters's Detransition, Baby and HBO’s Search Party—Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette is an addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day getaway with her partner and two older queer couples.

The remarkable first novel by a young, gay, black author who fashioned a deeply moving and compelling coming-of-age story out of the controversial issues of bisexuality and AIDS Law school, girlfriends, and career choices were all part of Raymond Tyler's life, but there were other, more...

It's 1946, and the dust of World War Two has just begun to settle. When famous archaeologist Rufus Denby returns to London, his life and reputation are as devastated as the city around him. He's used to the most glamorous of excavations, but can't turn down the offer of a job in rural Sussex. It's a refuge, and the only means left to him of scraping a living. With nothing but his satchel and a mongrel dog he's rescued from a bomb site, he sets out to investigate an ancient church in the sleepy village of Droyton.

Driven by the glory he'll earn from the Royal Horticultural Society for such an achievement, Gregor ignores the flaws in his plan: that intelligence cannot be controlled; that plants cannot be reasoned with; and that the only way his plant-beast will flourish is if he uses a recently deceased corpse for the substrate. The experiment-or Chloe, as she is named-outstrips even Gregor's expectations, entangling their strange household. But as Gregor's experiment flourishes, he wilts under the cost of keeping it hidden from jealous eyes.

In this BBC full-cast production of Twelfth Night, Malvolio is looking for trouble - and revenge... Michael Maloney, Josette Simon and Anne-Marie Duff star in this fast and funny production of Shakespeare's most sparkling and optimistic comedy, when all the world is turned on its head and...