Gender, Sexuality and LGBTQIA+

For nearly half a century, feminist scholars, writers, and fans have successfully challenged the notion that science fiction is all about "boys and their toys," pointing to authors such as...

A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a...

Before Heartstopper, there was Breaks . . . the enemies-to-lovers queer webcomic sensation. Now publishing in three volumes, catch the complete series in print for the first time.Ian and Cortland...

How do pious Shia Muslim women nurture and sustain their religious lives? How do their experiences and beliefs differ from or overlap with those of men? What do gender-based religious...

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Based upon the author's large personal collection of beautiful fashion postcards from Edwardian times, this book takes the reader on a journey through that era covering the hat fashions and...

For fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and Veronica Mars, this whip-smart YA debut crime thriller follows a sapphic detective agency seeking the truth behind a growing trail...

Rainbow Rowell has won fans all over the world by writing about love and life in a way that feels true. In her first short story collection Scattered Showers, she...

'A major talent' Irvine Welsh'Remarkable, beautiful, magic. Like Ulysses for those who can't cope with reading Ulysses' Paolo Hewitt'We're all in the gutter but some of us are ogling the...

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICKSHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE AND THE LAMBDA AWARD*'Absolutely incredible. Beautiful, powerful writing. These pages will stay...

A powerful call to confront the reasons why politics is jeopardising women's health across the world, by a prize-winning academic'Harman delivers her devastating diagnosis with a powerful prescription for change'...

What is "woman" if not "mother"?Anything she wants to be.Foregoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as "other." With no official place setting for her in our society, she has...

'Illuminating.' New Statesman'Ditum's prose is never overwrought, and she treats pop culture with a rare seriousness. She is right to do so. The women who came of age in the...

Made with melanin and magicThere is no one quite like you. Your strengths are unique and your future is full of wonder. It's time to tap in to your confidence...

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Part space odyssey, part Sapphic romcom and all spaceship-stealing fun, Emily Hamilton's breathtaking debut is a wild tale of galaxy-spanning friendship, improbable love, and wonder as vast as the universe...

Courage and outrage inform 13 essays about black womanhood.Searing in its emotional honesty, Womanish is an essay collection by award-winning author Kim McLarin that explores what it means to be...

WINNER of the James Tait Black Prize 2021 and The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021.As seen in Document Journal, Guardian and The White ReviewLush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola...

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK   SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE AND THE LAMBDA AWARD     *'Absolutely incredible. Beautiful, powerful...

The thousands of academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten her?This is the story of Esther Simpson, a remarkable...

With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a...

'I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order - pretending...

'A masterful love letter to queer joy' Justin Myers, author of The Fake-Up'Heartbreaking, hopeful, funny. Rarely have I rooted so hard for a character. I loved it!' Suzi RuffellIssy is...

Play the game. Change the game.Discover some of the bravest and most inspirational women out there with these stunning portraits by Daniela Henriquez. Compare notes on 32 of the most...

A collection of 60 short prose pieces by best-selling author and design critic Akiko Busch that reflect, in her classic style of observation, on the human condition and offer insights...

Who doesn t want their sex lives to be steamy and passionate, thrilling and fulfilling? If you don t, stop reading now. But if you want to learn the secrets...

'A masterful love letter to queer joy' Justin Myers, author of The Fake-Up'Heartbreaking, hopeful, funny. Rarely have I rooted so hard for a character. I loved it!' Suzi RuffellIssy is...

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In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE'Adore, adore, adore' THE GUARDIAN'Simply phenomenal' BITCH MEDIA'Brave, inspirational, ground-breaking' BARBARA CARELLAS'Deeply personal, honest and instructive' CARYN FRANKLIN'A gift to anyone looking to open...

A beautifully written slow-burn sapphic second-chance love story drenched with longing, loss and mystery from acclaimed author of Afterlove.Mara's ex, Nico, is the girl of her dreams: beautiful, wild and...

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The shocking true story of one of Britain's most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operations Bristol, 1979.An attacker roams the streets...Young women are warned not to go out alone...Enter...

'A revelatory re-conceptualization of how we create love' Dr Emily Nagoski We are so used to hearing that 'love is blind', 'you will know when you meet the one' and...

Kirkus Reviews Best BookSchool Library Journal Best BookThe Horn Book FanfareCommon Sense Media Best BookNew York Public Library Best BookNPR Books We Love"Hilarious, inventive, smart, and silly." -Alice Oseman, bestselling...

In this gorgeous standalone fantasy with a "sweet sapphic romance" (Booklist), a young musician sets out to expose her rival for illegal use of magic only to discover the deception...

'Radical, honest and timely' FOX FISHER'Fascinating' ASH PALMISCIANO'A cracking read' MEG-JOHN BARKER"This book is about my penis. This is my story of going through lower surgery, specifically phalloplasty, and the...

The extraordinary life of a brilliant woman whose contributions to science have been lied about and misused-the Henrietta Lacks of psychoanalysis-and whose mental health struggles look different in light of...

A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain -...

The issue of a woman's place-and the possibility that she might stray from it-was one of early modern Italy's most persistent social concerns. Ladies Errant takes as its starting point...

Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous. The contributors to Speaking of the Self challenge this presumption by examining a wide...

In Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s, Rox Samer explores how 1970s feminists took up the figure of the lesbian in broad attempts to reimagine gender and sexuality....

A defining manual on using creativity as a tool for empowerment and allowing your personal identity to live in and guide all parts of your life, Kevin Morosky shares stories...

'A roadmap for a new generation' VOGUE'Radical, funny and fearless' VANITY FAIR'Gripping' NYLONAn electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre...

A stunning life of the iconic American artist, Keith Haring, by the acclaimed biographer Brad Gooch. In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In...

A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain -...