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'A bracingly frank exploration of life's most vital entanglements ... A novel of complicated love, complicated desire, and complicated compassion' - Colin Walsh, author of Kala 'An exciting new voice in contemporary Irish fiction' - Roisín O'Donnell, author of Nesting 'A moving, lyrical...

From GLAAD Media, Stonewall Book, and Lambda Literary Award winner Bill Konigsberg comes Cage Free, a midlife coming-of-age story that bursts with the heat of a Florida summer. Kurt is staring down his fiftieth birthday when he walks into his Manhattan apartment and discovers his longtime...

They are just two girls sitting on a bench on a windy pier but this summer will change them both forever. A captivating story of love, betrayal and family secrets set in a Victorian seaside holiday town. Martha’s life has been turned upside down. Her father, her home, her prospects – all...

Was passiert, wenn du von deinem ärgsten Feind, der zudem hetero ist, Sex als Wettschuld einforderst? Es könnte im Desaster enden … oder auch nicht. Im Sport läuft es hervorragend, in der Liebe dafür umso weniger. Erst lässt Jair mich abblitzen, dann vergucke ich mich ausgerechnet in Hayes, der nicht nur hetero ist, sondern mich ständig reizt. Obwohl ich mich dagegen wehre, kann ich seiner faszinierenden Anziehungskraft nicht entkommen. Je mehr er mich gegen sich aufbringt, desto besessener bin ich davon, ihn in meinem Bett zu haben.

Filippo percorre una strada difficile fra il desiderio e la sottomissione, l'istinto di sopravvivenza e l’artificio che lo conduce ad annullare il suo vero io dietro una maschera indossata ogni giorno per essere accettato. Figlio distratto di una borghesia disfunzionale, cerca il senso attraverso corpi e travestimenti, dietro porte chiuse dove l’amore diventa prestazione e i confini dell’umiliazione sfumano. Ma nel vuoto che lo avvolge, si fa strada una domanda più grande della vergogna...

Set over one hot summer, a startlingly assured debut about the kinds of love that break us and make us whole. Seventeen–year–old Jean, a troubled Jewish boy caught in the countercultural swirl of 1970s London, arrives at Compton Manor, a rural alternative boarding school for boys with...

‘WOW, what a book… I don’t remember the last time I stayed up until 4am because I couldn’t put a book down… Absolutely loved… I was on the edge of my seat’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ganymede’s is no ordinary boarding school. Behind its spiral towers and manicured lawns, boys are forged...

NUEVA EDICIÓN Un libro que, en cuanto terminamos de leer, queremos que lo lea el mundo entero. Las malas es el retrato de un grupo de travestis deslumbrantes, de sus experiencias y su solidaridad en un mundo que las condena. Amparadas bajo el afecto y la rabia de La Tía Encarna, serán...

A Most-Anticipated Novel of 2025 - DAZED, Irish Times, RTÉ 'Hilarious and gut-wrenching' - Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller Sometimes friends hold you together. Sometimes they’re why you’re falling apart. Maggie, Harley and Róise are friends on the brink: of triumph...

A wry, tender and funny debut novel about art and love – and how the act of seeing lies at the heart of both. All Ellie Robertson has wanted to be since childhood is a painter: after all, that’s the easiest way to speak without actually having to say anything. But now she’s turning thirty...

In 1990, Vijay and Indu leave India for Australia, seeking a better life for their family. But the move isn’t easy on anyone. Not gentle Indu who becomes disconnected from her family and her life; nor the ambitious Vijay, who finds himself unmoored in a culture he doesn’t understand. At the...

'Call Me By Your Name meets Evelyn Waugh in a gorgeous novel about the generations-long aftershocks of a youthful tryst' — Esquire From the winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly novel that spans seven transformative decades as it plumbs the complex relationships of a remarkable family. In...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' AND 'DEBUT OF THE YEAR' AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER 'An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' – The judges of the Booker Prize 'Douglas Stuart has written a first...

The Flight is the fourth thrilling installment in Matthew Hall's gripping, CWA Gold Dagger shortlisted Coroner Jenny Cooper series, from the creator of BBC One's Keeping Faith. A tragic accident or a terrible crime? When Flight 189 plunges into the Severn Estuary, Coroner Jenny Cooper finds...

As an empire burns, he will rise from the ashes. Sparrow, the Sunday Times bestselling historical epic by James Hynes, is the incredibly moving story of one boy’s journey to freedom in the harsh world of the Roman Empire. Raised in a brothel at the edge of a dying empire, a boy of no known...

'You know those books that you take with you everywhere? That you won’t stop talking about to your friends? That bring it all back? That change you? Anyone’s Ghost is that book' - Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao IT TOOK THREE CAR CRASHES TO KILL JAKE The lonely...

Casey McQuiston's royally romantic enemies to lovers bestseller. Now a Prime Original movie starring Nicholas Galitzine, Taylor Zakhar Perez, Uma Thurman, and Stephen Fry. What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? Alex Claremont-Diaz is handsome, charismatic...

Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE 2025 'I loved it' Hannah Kent 'An instant queer classic' Benjamin Law The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire is her best friend, also a girl. It's the kind of power that could implode a family, a...

The feel-good read of 2024. Perfect for fans of Mike Gayle, Beth O’Leary and Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper. Selected as one of the Independent’s 19 debut authors set to make their mark in 2023 ‘Gentle, honest and beautifully authentic’ Julietta Henderson ’Touching and sincere’ The...