Gender, Sexuality and LGBTQIA+

"Mush" follows the progress of a sexual and emotional relationship between three Alaskan women. When Nicky and Carol meet Ellen in Seattle, the three women share an initially warm attachment....

Between dusk and dark lies another world. Haunted castles and lost ingenues, shadows hungry for life, immortal beings of power claiming their captive souls - everything is possible when the...

Trisha Todd, the actress who starred in the classic lesbian film, Claire of the Moon presents an account of her own intimate journey to herself. With honesty and insight, she...

an Experience A good story is always worth telling, which is why it has already taken three volumes to contain the sweet, sexy, funny, passionate and heart-warming words of women...

This collection of true, first-person stories comes from a wide selection of women who describe their first consensual same-sex experience. Sparkles with laughter, awkward moments, touching memories, and enough hot...

From the Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure - an eerie historical mystery about desire, memory and madness If you eat the bread, you'll die, he said. The statement made...

Thea lives under a mountain - one that's ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she has been called back during maternity leave and is coping -...

Stories take us beyond the bounds of our own lives-into new worlds and new situations. Perhaps most importantly, they invite us into new minds. Through the eyes of the characters...

The heartbreaking family epic from the Booker International Prize winning author An epic, deeply moving novel about the power of love and loving with courage - from the Man Booker...

The feminist cult classic about a smart, sensitive, yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own terms Ellen is a single artist living alone on New York's...

Sarah Waters meets The Girls in this haunting, wickedly perceptive debut set in an all-girl school and seeking to answer the timeless question- Who has authority over a woman's body?...

Winner, 2016 Stella Prize Co-winner, 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winner, Fiction Book of the Year, 2016 Indie Awards Winner, 2016 Indie Book of the Year Award Shortlisted, 2016 Miles...

A stunning debut novel charting the coming-of-age of a young gay man in 2010s Nigeria, from a young rising star in literary fiction When Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment...

'A gripping call to action-and a daring triumph of a novel' ADORAH NWORAH 'Masterfully portrays the splintering of the mind in its most striking, unfiltered form' AIWANOSE ODAFEN 'A playful,...

#1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD * Meet Elizabeth Zott: "a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention" ( The Washington Post )...

For fans of The Doll Factory and The Familiars, a gemlike novel set in a Parisian asylum in 1885 about two women - one deemed mad, the other sane -...

'A moving collection' GRAZIA 'Danielle is a sharp new talent.' SIRIN KALE 'Vibrant, intense and darkly comic' ABIGAIL BERGSTROM 'Danielle Pender explores that impact on women's exterior and interior lives...

Inventive, electrifying and daring, True Story is a novel like nothing you've ever read before. After a college party, two boys drive a girl home: drunk and passed out in...

"A fresh ode to sisterhood and sexual agency that crackles with verve and wit. I couldn't put it down."-Gabriela Garcia, author of the New York Times bestseller and Good Morning...

INAUGURAL LILLY'S LIBRARY BOOK CLUB PICK FROM LILLY SINGH 'I really loved this book' Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind 'Patel writes with the wisdom and compassion of...

An arranged marriage leads to unexpected desire, in the first book of New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Alyssa Cole's Runaway Royals series. When Shanti Mohapi weds the...

An arranged marriage leads to unexpected desire, in the first book of New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Alyssa Cole's Runaway Royals series. When Shanti Mohapi weds the...

"A fresh ode to sisterhood and sexual agency that crackles with verve and wit. I couldn't put it down."-Gabriela Garcia, author of the New York Times bestseller and Good Morning...

'A gripping call to action-and a daring triumph of a novel' ADORAH NWORAH 'Masterfully portrays the splintering of the mind in its most striking, unfiltered form' AIWANOSE ODAFEN 'A playful,...

"A rollicking space adventure" ( Locus ), military sci-fi meets found family space opera when the crew of Zuma's Ghost find themselves under attack, shocking truths are about to be...

'I urge you to read Bad Habit' PEDRO ALMODOVAR 'Had me hooked from the first page ... Savour every word' DUA LIPA 'The book that everyone is reading' NEW YORK...

A quirky, joyful queer love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of cult hit Diary of a Void...

The queer feminist serial killer novel of the summer. They Never Learn is about good women who kill very bad men and get away with it - for fans of...

When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it's the culmination of years of yearning to be reunited with Cicely, her oldest friend and secret love, who left home years...

In this darkly ironic novel, a dead man walks back through four generations of family estrangements to recover his lost identity. The journey will be long and difficult, one thousand...

Smart, headstrong Kirabo is raised by her grandparents in rural Uganda. But as she enters her teens, she starts to feel overshadowed by the absence of the mother she has...

Dana Robbins needs a vacation from her girlfriend--and her life. Used to working out her problems in her work, the successful syndicated cartoonist plans a solo summer vacation on a...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn presents a novella featuring Violet Bridgerton along with a collection of "second epilogues" to her Bridgerton series-her beloved Regency-set novels featuring her...

Eudora Welty's works are treasures of American literature. When her first short-story collection was published in 1941, it heralded the arrival of a genuinely original writer who over the decades...

An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by the prize-winning Spanish writer Cristina Morales An explosive and daring novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability by...

From the critically acclaimed author Sally Bayley, The Green Lady is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships between children and their teachers. In the style of her memoir Girl...

**A NATIONAL BESTSELLER** BEST SUMMER READS OF 2023: The New York Post * Oprah Book Club * Oprah Daily * USA Today * Good Housekeeping * Brit + Co *...

'A gripping call to action-and a daring triumph of a novel' ADORAH NWORAH 'Masterfully portrays the splintering of the mind in its most striking, unfiltered form' AIWANOSE ODAFEN 'A playful,...

'Breathtaking... dark academia at its most compelling' ERIN KELLY 'A very clever dark campus novel... really packs a punch' DAILY MAIL 'An extraordinary story of female power, rage and oppression'...

'An incredible debut from a blazing new voice in Scottish fiction' Image 'Beautifully captures the pain of growing into yourself, and the intensity of all-consuming female friendship' ROSE WILDING 'I...

Some of what they say about witches is true. A witch story unlike any other, from one of the UK's most outstanding LGBT writers. She dug her mother's grave in...

From award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn comes this beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration and sacrifice For Patsy, a visa to America is her ticket to freedom, a passport to the...

'Breathtaking... dark academia at its most compelling' ERIN KELLY 'A very clever dark campus novel... really packs a punch' DAILY MAIL 'An extraordinary story of female power, rage and oppression'...

Inventive, electrifying and daring, True Story is a novel like nothing you've ever read before. *One of Entertainment Weekly's top five reads of the summer* ' A mind-blowing page-turning un-put-downable...

A coming-of-age novel about love and obsession, set in a silent convent in 1950s Italy Isabella is worldly, alluring and brazen. Everything that Bridget is not. So when they both...

'Hilarious, touching and hotly sublime' JULIA ARMFIELD SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Delightfully confident . . . a total pleasure' TIMES 'Warm, witty and...