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A wildly inventive collection of fiction from the MAN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED and BAILEYS PRIZE-WINNING author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de...

Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow...Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609808617Author Gary IndianaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIn rural Georgia, sisters Celie and Nettie share the pain and struggle of growing up as African American women. Forced into an abusive marriage, at...

Three women: divided by time, connected by the ocean.Marine biologist Hana Ishikawa is racing against time to save the coral of the Great Barrier Reef, but struggles to fight for a future in a world where so much has already been lost.Seventeen-year-old...

'Neil Blackmore re-imagines an astounding story of gay men in London 200 years ago and under the pain of their betrayal and injustice, he uncovers loyalty and above all, love. I relished every page.'SIR IAN MCKELLEN'One of the boldest novelistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738658503Author Caitlin MarceauFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Darklit PressPublisher Darklit PressWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in Staten Island. The boys are a conspicuous trio: Dayo is of Nigerian...

'The most gripping account of motherhood since Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work' Independent A single mother wakes to blood in her mouth and flesh under her fingernails. A severed toe on the doorstep. A boy missing. ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had-in the words of biographer Richard Ellmann-"a different look." Yet the...

From the author of Confidence and The Comedown comes a wildly imaginative story collection about queerness, neurodivergence, sexuality, and self-discovery. Frumkin's latest book is a deliciously entertaining collection of five genre-defying stories that...

The stunning new feminist retelling of the real-life female pirates of the Caribbean *One of The Times' Best Historical Fiction Novels of August* 'This swashbuckling debut is great fun'THE TIMES'Wonderfully drawn characters and a terrific pace'JESS KIDD,...

Rural Cyprus, 1925. Despo is recently married, heavily pregnant and deeply afraid. The twelve days of Christmas are beginning - the time when, according to local folklore, creatures known as kalikantzari come up from Hell to wreak havoc. Meanwhile, her...

'A book that feels like summer ... with moments of sharp clarity that puncture the constant sense of aching and longing that define the feel of much of the story.' THE NATIONAL 'Beautifully rendered and instantly captivating. Malinda Lo writes queer...

From the creator of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes a story about loving, about searching - and about the courage you need when you find the unexpected. Keisha Lewis mourned the loss of her...

"Some of the women walked so slow they were, like, floating. For real. Heads perfectly straight. Hips swaying, left, slow, right, slow, step, slow. If you didn't concentrate you would think they weren't moving at all, their bodies just hanging in...

The anthology comprises 42 stories, non-fiction pieces, flash fiction and poetry, the winning entries from an international competition to capture the best of Queer writing today. This is writing that explores characters, stories and experiences beyond...

The anthology will be published in May 2023, just ahead of Pride. Containing 30 stories, non-fiction pieces, flash fiction and poetry, the winning entries from an international competition to capture the best of Queer writing today. Entry is open to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789559057Author SJ SinduFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

'THIS BOOK IS SO FUN AND HOT AND EXCEPTIONALLY WRITTEN!!' Reader review, 'I melted into this book and loved every minute of it - if you're looking for a contemporary story of a queer black girl finding herself,...

'What a charming book. Charlie Lyndhurst observes society with a keen eye.' Sue Moorcroft, author of A Home in the SunEven wedding planners struggle to get it right...Jason is the best wedding planner around, known as the Fairy Godfather to the couples...

'Beautifully written, mysterious and compelling' Janet Fitch, bestselling author of White Oleander 'An addictive read you'll finish within hours' Stylist 'Vogel is a gleaming new talent' Observer 'An alternative feminist love story for the modern age'...

How do you keep a friendship intact, when Alzheimer's has stolen the common ground of language, memory, and experience, that unites you?In brief, sharply drawn moments, Sylvia Molloy's Dislocations records the gradual loss of a beloved friend, M.L., a...

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAINCompleted just months before Patricia Highsmith's death in 1995, Small g explores the labyrinthine intricacies of passion, sexuality, and jealousy in a charming tale of...

A stunning, many-layered speculation on the future of humanity, on interaction between cultures, on love and sex, on religion and politics, STARS IN MY POCKETS LIKE GRAINS OF SAND is an enduring masterpiece by one of science fiction's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640090040Author Gina FrangelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

In 1968, in a remote part of Canada, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people share the secret - the baby's parents and a trusted neighbour. Together the adults make a difficult...

Two women are reunited twenty years after the love affair that changed both their worlds. Sylvia Brownrigg's Pages for Her is a novel about love, memory and what it is to be a woman, a wife, and a mother.'A complex portrait of two women's sexuality . . ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250892201Author Sunny MoraineFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In space, no one can hear you clean... When Darren's charge-cart gets knocked off the Earth-to-Mars highway and lost in space forever, he thinks his day can't get any worse. When Kelly sees Darren accidentally short-circuit a talking lamppost, and...

He's always been the token gay best friend. Now, stuck between a warring bride and groom hurtling toward their one perfect day, he's finally ready to focus on something new: himself.Domenic Marino has become an expert at code-switching between the...

"The Moonday Letters is a thing entirely its own, full of melancholy, a sense of wonder and hope." Hannu Rajaniemi An effortlessly rich and lyrical mystery wrapped in a love story that bends space, time, myth and science, perfect for fans of Octavia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593099414Author Paul RudnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534439214Author Matt WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Gallery / Saga PressPublisher Gallery / Saga PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

'An absolute *blinder* ... so so funny and sexy. So excited now to read everything by Crystal Jeans' Caroline O'Donoghue, author of Scenes of a Graphic Nature 'A glorious celebration of queer friendship and all kinds of love. Funny,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Mark Twain American Voice In Literature Award 2020. Commended for PEN/Faulkner Award 2020 and Kirkus Prize (Fiction) 2019. Short-listed for National Book Awards...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646142668Author Sim KernFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Levine QueridoPublisher Levine Querido

The stunning new feminist retelling of the real-life female pirates of the Caribbean *One of The Times' Best Historical Fiction Novels of August* 'This swashbuckling debut is great fun'THE TIMES'Wonderfully drawn characters and a terrific pace'JESS KIDD,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019'A true force of fierceness and beauty' OLIVIA LAING 'A vital book' ANDREW MCMILLAN'This Brutal House leaves its reader full of a powerful, protesting energy' IRISH TIMES 'A powerful and poetic book' KERRY...

'A writer of real gravitas and potency.' Ali Smith'An extraordinary journey ... Engrossing, original and eloquent.' Helen Dunmore'Elegiac and beautifully observed.' Observer'Vivid and captivating.' StylistI didn't realise my mother was a person until I...