Gender, Sexuality and LGBTQIA+

It's fine. She's fine. Really. When life's turned you into a big hot mess, there's still love, laughs, and snark to be had... Dr Lizzie Wells, Professor of British Literature...

From the bestselling author of The Wife and The Interestings comes a warm and immersive novel about ambition, power, women, friendship and finding your place in the world ** Selected...

A poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war...

"Korean author Park Seolyeon's English-language debut succeeds in ways no other recent novel has: in portraying the anxiety-riddled realities of coming of age in our present moment through an unexpected...

'In one short and sly book after another, Levy writes about characters navigating swerves of history and sexuality, and the social and personal rootlessness that accompanies both' Atlantic Who was...

'Glorious, hilarious and life affirming . . . I absolutely loved it' - EMMA HUGHES, author of No Such Thing As Perfect Would you entrust your life choices to someone...

'Intense and claustrophobic, this is an impressive first book' OBSERVER 'A summer sizzler...with twists, turns and revelations in all the right places' EVENING STANDARD 'Stylish and sensual ' KIRAN MILLWOOD...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Winner of the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction Winner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ Fiction Finalist...

A poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war...

'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...

Two women search for a place of belonging, in this stunning novel that will break your heart and lift you up. 'A stunning novel and a dynamic intergenerational tale' Bernardine...

From the French Marian Keyes comes an uplifting novel of mothers and daughters, families and extraordinary friendships that will make you laugh and cry. Fo r fans of Ruth Hogan,...

'I wolfed down this brilliant book' ADAM KAY 'Immensely clever and moving, dark and mature, a reflection on loss, on our compartmentalised selves, delivered in a gripping mystery' MHAIRI McFARLANE...

'Feral' Jenny Offill, author of Weather'Horny' Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl'Hilarious' Chelsea Bieker, author of Mad WomanThe trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit's best friend gets...

Meet Sofie. The history of her sexuality begins when she loses her virginity to Walter the recruitment consultant. So, naturally, she thought that things could only improve from there. But...

'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...

It's fine. She's fine. Really. When life's turned you into a big hot mess, there's still love, laughs, and snark to be had... Dr Lizzie Wells, Professor of British Literature...

A poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war...

'Two hours later, a chill rose off the long shadows and we had readied ourselves for the dance. I had my eyelashes darkened. He pricked his finger with the tip...

'The exquisite story of two women trying to make a life together in wartime Austria, and all the love, friendship and danger that implies.' - Sophie Ward All of You...

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

'An important literary piece of feminist activism' 'Taps into the everyday minutiae of motherhood, baring to all the unspoken labours that women take on both inside and out of parenthood'...

'Barkworth is excruciatingly good' OBSERVER 'An extraordinary story of female power and rage' KATIE BISHOP 'Breathtaking' ERIN KELLY SOMETIMES YOU MUST CHOOSE TO PLAY WITH FIRE... On a remote university...

Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this blazing debut of one family's queer desires, violent impulses and buried secrets. Three generations...

'An enthrallingly intricate novel . . . impressive' GUARDIAN 'There's something of F. Scott Fitzgerald about the way Cahill writes about the very rich' DAILY MAIL 'A biting satire of...

BOOK 5 IN THE BESTSELLING CANON CLEMENT MYSTERY SERIES 'Another clever, twisty read' i Paper 'You'll want to take a front row pew in Champton while this delicious series unfolds'...

'Barkworth is excruciatingly good' OBSERVER 'An extraordinary story of female power and rage' KATIE BISHOP 'Breathtaking' ERIN KELLY SOMETIMES YOU MUST CHOOSE TO PLAY WITH FIRE... On a remote university...

This is the story of a secret painting, hidden by accident or by design, beneath another. For centuries the painting has formed the central panel in the treasured altarpiece of...

"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...

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?...

Over half of the short stories written during this century have been writen by women. This book is an anthology of British women's short stories and authors represented include Rebecca...

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 prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she's pregnant Discover this...

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...

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,...