LGBTQ+ Collection

We are proud to publish incredible fiction, non-fiction and poetry from queer voices to discover now, and adore for life. This LGBTQ+ History Month read a story of parenthood and the trans experience in Torrey Peters’ Detransition, Baby, 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 Twitter – @serpentstail

The Burning Boy
Nicola White
The much-anticipated sequel to the award-winning novel The Rosary Garden, set in 1980s Dublin

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

A Ruined Girl
Kate Simants
Winner of the Bath Novel Award, this is an immersive and heartrending thriller, set in the world of the foster system and forgotten children

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 prizewinning 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 – now in paperback

Say Say Say
Lila Savage
A beautiful, bracingly honest debut novel about the triangle formed between a young woman and the couple whose life she enters: a story about love and…

The Natashas
Yelena Moskovich
A brave, original work… Moskovich's prose radiates with heat… written in a Cubist jumble of voices, languages, and textures, The Natashas read…

Her Body And Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado
Wonderful and terrible humans skulk in the myths of Carmen Maria Machado's genre-bending debut – perfect for fans of Angela Carter's Fairy Tal…

Eat Up
Ruby Tandoh
Ruby Tandoh's radical manifesto takes the guilt out of eating and puts the pleasure back in.

I Must Be Living Twice
Eileen Myles
Selected works new and old from the celebrated poet and radical icon

Chelsea Girls
Eileen Myles
A groundbreaking and candid novel-in-real-time, considered a cult classic, from the 'rock star of modern poetry'