LGBTQ+ Collection
We are proud to publish incredible fiction, non-fiction and poetry from queer voices to discover now, and adore for life. This Pride Month, explore trans life past, present and future in Torrey Peters’ Stag Dance, delve into a genre-bending memoir of domestic violence in Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House, and be taken on a wild ride by ‘the rock star of modern poetry’, Eileen Myles. Want a recommendation? Get in touch on Instagram – @serpentstail
Valencia
Michelle Tea
A fast-paced account of one year in San Francisco's underground scene, filled with sex, drugs and the never-ending search for true love.
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Constance Debré
France's most incendiary star continues her ascent with an excavation of her famous family's legacy
Stag Dance
Torrey Peters
Trans life past, present and future is explored in this kaleidoscopic follow-up to the Women's Prize-nominated Detransition, Baby
Medusa of the Roses
Navid Sinaki
A transgressive, lyrical and deeply moving literary debut about forbidden gay love in Iran
The Disenchantment
Celia Bell
Two women in seventeenth-century Paris are drawn into the volatile and mysterious Affair of the Poisons after a bid to keep their passionate romance a…
Playboy
Constance Debré
In this prequel to the critical sensation Love Me Tender, Constance Debré breaks free from conformity to live her life as a butch lesbian
The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
Soraya Palmer
A dazzling debut novel weaving together Caribbean myth and the contemporary story of multiple generations of one immigrant family
Love Me Tender
Constance Debré
A provocative and fierce novel about motherhood, self-discovery and defiance
Closer
Dennis Cooper
The brutally frank and daring gay classic from countercultural icon Dennis Cooper
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life
Paul Dalla Rosa
A story collection that perfectly captures life in the internet age
All of You Every Single One
Beatrice Hitchman
An exhilarating queer love story set in early twentieth-century Vienna
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit
To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
Hervé Guibert
The cult classic that describes with devastating, darkly comic clarity the experience of living with and dying from AIDS
Man Enough to Be a Woman
Jayne County
The true story of trans punk performance art sensation Jayne County's wild and daring life
And the Band Played On
Randy Shilts
A masterpiece of investigative reporting on the AIDS crisis in the USA
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Saidiya Hartman
Revolution in a minor key: how young black women invented freedom
In the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties
Selected Poems
Langston Hughes
Classics edition with new introduction by Kayo Chingonyi of the essential poems of 'the poet laureate of black America' New Yorker.
There Will Be No Miracles Here
Casey Gerald
The testament of a life in the shadow of the American Dream