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WINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR GAY FICTION Hussam and Wassim are teenage boys living in Syria during America's 2003 invasion of Iraq. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of their families, are shattered. Wassim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088260579Author Ryan Lill-WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful and moving novel in the tradition of Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station and Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be.At 11:04 a.m. on January 21st, 2017, Jordan opens the...

______________ 'One of the best writers of my generation' - John Irving 'A playful yet searching novel of gay life in the New York of Ed Koch and Studio 54' - Kirkus 'Smart, worldly, erudite, well-connected, and funny' - New York Review of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of QRG Best Book 2010 and Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2010. Short-listed for Green Carnation Prize 2010 and Polari Best First Book 2010.Book InformationISBN...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020Longlisted for the Desmond Eliot Prize 2020Longlisted for the Polari Prize 2021Featuring on BBC 2's Between the Covers'Sophie Ward is a dazzling talent who writes like a modern-day F Scott Fitzgerald' Elizabeth Day,...

'A masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's The Turn of the Screw' TimeSet on a Southern army base in the 1930s, Reflections in a Golden Eye tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major...

For whatever we lose, it is our self we find in the sea.'The best swashbuckler of the year ... There are echoes of Horatio Hornblower in Nightingale's introspection and doubts. The gay love story is beautifully written and the evocation of life on board...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943720866Author Warren WagnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Ghoulish BooksPublisher Ghoulish BooksWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed * Esquire * Bustle * The Millions * The Wall Street Journal * Entertainment Weekly * Nylon * Elle * Dazed * The Irish Times 'Cassara has written a heartbreaking tale of gay men struggling to survive in...

William di Canzio's Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. M. Forster's secret novel of a happy same-sex love affair, tells the story of Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper Maurice Hall falls in love with in Forster's classic, published only after the author's death. ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLEREscape into a world of magic and danger with THE DARK STAR TRILOGY. Drawing on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history, this is the story of a lost child, an extraordinary hunter, and a mystery with many...

'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, Booker...

'Inventive, excellent ... a pure pleasure to read' THE TIMES In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados. ...

EVIE EPWORTH IS TEN YEARS OLDER. BUT IS SHE ANY WISER?!'It's an uplifting, rip-roaring read, peppered with nostalgic detail and plenty of comic asides.' Daily Express'A golden ray of sunshine. If you're after a funny, uplifting summer read then this is...

Manhattan, 1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, fresh-faced Raymond Wallace lands in the New York Times newsroom on a three-month bursary from Cambridge University. He soon discovers his elusive boss, Bukowski, is being covertly...

'The best novel I have read for ages. My heart was constantly in my throat as I read . . . There is so much to enjoy, to contemplate, to wonder at, and to be lost in' Stephen Fry'Meticulous and atmospheric . . . delicious unease and pervasive threat give...

' A writer with heart, soul, and a dark and naughty wit' ObserverWhat happens when 'doing good' is no longer enough?'A convincing, moving account of man's struggle with faith, marriage and morality' Sunday TimesOn a clear, crisp summer's day in Cornwall,...

The Stranger's Child is Alan Hollinghurst's Sunday Times Novel of the Year. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943720958Author Sofia AjramFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Ghoulish BooksPublisher Ghoulish BooksWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

"A work of earnest, grounded, and ultimately hopeful testimony of selfhood at the brink." -Ocean Vuong 1985. Russia. As the Soviet Union disintegrates and Western capitalism spreads its grip across their land, the Morozov family finds itself consigned...

Patrick Gale's LITTLE BITS OF BABY is a charming, witty novel of love, possibility and life in crisis - 'Richly comic, affectionate and perceptive' Mail on SundayEight years ago, Robin fled from his family, friends, and entire life, to suffer a complete...

With an introduction by Lynne Tillman 'The last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction' Bret Easton Ellis Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles attracts his fellow students' attention, like a wallet lying on the street. One...

Fox is a memory editor - one of the best - gifted with the skill to create real life in the digital world. When he wakes up in Field of Reeds Centre for Memory Reconstruction with no idea how he got there, the therapists tell him he was a victim in a...

The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.'Some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read' Guardian____________________Tranquillity reigns in the ancient...

Patrick Gale's FACING THE TANK is a witty, eccentric novel of clergy, scandal and English eccentrics - 'Made me laugh out loud' Sunday Times''Gale speedily unleashes his merrily black mischief. The uncovering of the sadness behind the doilies and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954857230Author Lucy LennoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Lucy Lennox LLCPublisher Lucy Lennox LLCWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377766Author Robert GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

The sixth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.'Maupin's adeptness at fluid dialogue, his flair for shaping characters who thread the needle between pop archetypes and singular human beings.....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527253Author Joshua WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

The feel-good read of 2024. Perfect for fans of Mike Gayle, Beth O’Leary and Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper. Selected as one of the Independent’s 19 debut authors set to make their mark in 2023 ‘Gentle, honest and beautifully authentic’ Julietta...

Pre-order the new sharp, hilarious Justin Myers novel, LEADING MAN, now!'If you liked Bridget Jones's Diary, try this' BBC News*****James is 34 and fed up. His six-year relationship with Adam has imploded, he hates his job making up celebrity gossip, and...

Bridgerton meets Poldark in this sweeping Regency romance of smugglers, adventure, mystery, and life-changing love from celebrated author KJ Charles.Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and well-used to disappointment. Still,...

'If you read only one police procedural this year, make it The Insider.' Daily Mail*************The thrilling second novel in the acclaimed Stone and Oliver series by award-winning author, Mari Hannah.'Nobody understands the many faces of cops better...

Recently bereaved Jamie is staying at a rural steading in the heart of Scotland with his actor boyfriend Alex. The sudden loss of both of Jamie's parents hangs like a shadow over the trip. In his grief, Jamie finds himself sifting through bittersweet...

THE RIVETING FOLLOW-UP TO THE BESTSELLING FIREWATCHING 'Hard-hitting' SUNDAY TIMES, CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH 'Comparable with the best of Michael Connelly's Bosch books and James Lee Burke's Robicheaux novels, and - naturally - Ian Rankin' AJ...

For fans of Children of Men, Years and Years & Station Eleven, a postcard from a future Britain that's closer than we think.An Evening Standard 'Best New Book' 'A beautiful book: thought-provoking, eerily prescient and very witty.' Brit Bennett, author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916257382Author David C DawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Park Creek PublishingPublisher Park Creek PublishingWeight(grams) 322g

'An instant classic' - THE GUARDIAN'A bloody masterpiece.' - MELISSA BRODER, author of THE PISCES'Witty, emotional and gripping, Open Throat is a short but savage thrill ride' - THE INDEPENDENT'Open Throat is Bret Easton Ellis meets mountain lion in the...

Award-winning author Eric Schlich's Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife isan accessible and big-hearted novel that explores belief and forgiveness as a boy grapples with his faith and sexuality on a rollicking family road trip to Bible World. When...