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Brought to you by Penguin. ***Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2025*** Ask anyone non-Northern, they’ll only know Donny as punch line of a joke or place they changed trains once ont way to London. But Doncaster’s also the home of Rach, Shaz and Kel, bezzies since childhood and Donny...

An Autostraddle and Electric Literature Most Anticipated Queer Book “We’re calling it… Lotte Jeffs’ novel is the new One Day.” —Sunday Times Style Magazine An utterly charming and modern debut novel spanning ten years of extraordinary friendship, about soulmates, unconventional...

Six lives. Six different ways of surviving a world that too often insists on defining them. Across generations, families, cities, and circumstances, transgender people learn very different lessons about what it means to be known. For some, honesty brings love and protection. For others, it...

Orphaned and stuck in a one-traffic-light prairie oil town, a young man yearns for a family to belong to and sets out to find his last known living relative, his estranged grandfather, somewhere in Serbia. Armed with nothing but his wit and resourcefulness, he starts his trek, from his hometown on the Canadian plains, across continents and countries, in search of acceptance and family, which he finds, but in the most unexpected people.

AN AUDITION WORTH LIVING FOR. A SOLO WORTH DYING FOR . . . A GRIPPING AND ATMOSPHERIC HAUNTED HOUSE BALLET HORROR TAKES THE STAGE 🩰🖤🥀 'A showstopping debut' ― Luke Dumas, bestselling author of Nothing Tastes as Good 'An intensely choreographed page-turner that left me breathless...

Luzia wächst in einer Gemeinschaft auf, die für ganz unterschiedliche Menschen eine Zuflucht bietet. Im »Haus« werden queere und platonische Formen von Liebe sowie geteilte Elternschaft gelebt. Später, als Erwachsene, kämpft Luzia als Theaterregisseurin gegen patriarchale Strukturen an und versucht, etwas zum Guten zu verändern. Ihre Jugendfreundin Marle verspürt mit Anfang vierzig einen starken Kinderwunsch und entscheidet sich für einen ungewöhnlichen Weg abseits von Beziehungen mit Männern.

The Wicker Man meets The Twisted Ones in Bitter Karella's Quaint Folk-a queer folk horror novel that peels back the idyllic veneer of a perfectly quaint island town to reveal the rot beneath. From the outside, it looks like Jessica has the perfect life. She's a stay-at-home mom, married to a man...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Golden Poppy Book Award Finalist "A banger of a trans feminist body horror comedy."—Caro Claire Burke, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yesteryear She’s...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2026 FOREST OF READING EVERGREEN AWARD A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A noirish page-turner about a mysterious disappearance and a moving portrait of a Chinese Canadian family navigating insecurities, expectations, and simmering...

There is plenty to distract Marie Santora when she comes home to lick her wounds after the end of her relationship. Not least of which is her sister Lisa’s plan to transform a rundown campground into a gay & lesbian paradise—complete with a five-star Italian restaurant—with the help of a...

A tender coming-of-age novel about a young woman haunted by her sister’s death, who starts to believe that her beloved sibling has returned to her—in the form of a ghost fish. Perfect for fans of Sweetbitter and Our Wives Under the Sea. Alison is mired in loneliness and grief. Freshly...

Meet Orlando: a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, poet, lover, adventurer—and, after a transformational sleep, a woman. Spanning over 300 years of British history, Orlando bends the rules of time, gender, and narrative as its protagonist navigates shifting societies, identities, and expectations, all while seeking something elusive: the truth of the self. Playful, profound, and radically ahead of its time, Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel is part love letter, part satire, and part meditation on the fluid nature of existence.

«День поперек недели» — роман в рассказах о семье, дружбе и о времени перемен, которым стали и 1990‑е, и нынешние годы. Главный герой — мальчик эпохи перестройки, подросток 90‑х, — взрослеет у нас на глазах, от рассказа к рассказу. Его родня ищет лучшей жизни, исторические декорации стремительно меняются, но 90‑е показаны без ужасов бандитизма и политики, мы видим их глазами подростка, а детский глаз ловит больше красок.

In 1956, lonely teenager Teddy is drawn to the water and woods surrounding his small town, where he meets bad boy Wade and becomes overwhelmed by his attraction to him. During the rapturous early period of their friendship, the two range over the area’s mountains and waterways before falling out after high school over Teddy’s sexuality.

A young woman's deliciously unhinged descent into a feral and glamorous hell. A devoted lover and wannabe screenwriter, January is unable to love or write after finding out her (now ex) girlfriend has cheated. Restless and questioning it all, January and her stoic bestie, Laura, travel to a...

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child, and the star-crossed pair fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls.

Meet the Skelfs: well-known Edinburgh family, proprietors of a long-established funeral-home business, and private investigators.... When patriarch Jim dies, it's left to his wife Dorothy, daughter Jenny and granddaughter Hannah to take charge of both businesses, kicking off an unexpected series of events. Dorothy discovers mysterious payments to another woman, suggesting that Jim wasn't the husband she thought he was.

Everyone knows that Prophet - former Navy SEAL, former CIA spook, full-time pain in the ass - works alone. But his boss at Extreme Escapes, Ltd. has just assigned Proph a new partner and a case haunted by ghosts from Proph's past. Suddenly he has to confront both head-on. Tom Boudreaux - failed FBI agent, failed sheriff, full-time believer in bad luck - is wondering why the head of a private contracting firm has hunted him down to offer him a job.

Goldengrove’s towers and twisted chimneys rose at the very edge of the peaceful Weald, a stone’s throw from the poisonous marshes and merciless waters of Rye Bay. Young Tabby Palethorp had been running wild there, ever since her mother grew too ill to leave her room. I was the perfect choice to give Tabby a good English education: thoroughly respectable and far too plain to tempt her lonely father, Sir Kit, to indiscretion. I knew better than to trust my new employer with the truth about my past. But knowing better couldn’t stop me from yearning for impossible things.

Saying that Benjamin Sean Quinn had "anger issues" was an understatement. For those who knew him for the shortest amount of time, his life was in order: He was physically fit, had a great job which provided him a house in the suburbs and the material things he desired, a loving, monogamous relationship, two happy, healthy daughters and an established circle of friends. In all accounts, his life seemed perfect. But to those who knew him the longest, they knew he was an idle grenade, waiting for someone to pull the pin.