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Patricia Highsmith
Heralded as the novel of a love society forbids, Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 lesbian cult classic recounts a chance meeting between two lonely women that leads to a passionate romance.
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Andre Aciman
The novel that inspired the major motion picture. Released in Autumn 2017, the glittering team behind last year’s cinematic sensation, A Bigger Splash, brings you a sultry, sensual film of…
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Timothy Conigrave
At an all-boys school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So begins a relationship that weathers disapproval, separation and…
Audre Lorde
The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those ‘outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women’.
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Jeanette Winterson
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette’s version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted…
Erin Gough
From Ampersand Prize-winning author Erin Gough comes this ferociously funny romp through an elite private school, and a brilliant feminist hoax that could change - or ruin - everything.
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Nicola Griffith
A masterwork of feminist SF - winner of the 1997 NEBULA AWARD for Best Novel.
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s seductive, provocative masterpiece is a whirlwind adventure through time, gender and identity. Introduced by Tilda Swinton
Chelsey Johnson
A hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age and modern family drama, set in the queer underground of late 90s Portland, that explores the complications of belonging–to a city, a culture, and a…
Ali Smith
Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning masterpiece from one of the all-time greats of Science Fiction.
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Annalee Newitz
A wildly inventive science fiction debut from the co-founder of io9 - ‘Something genuinely and thrillingly new’ William Gibson
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Patrick Ness
A startling and tender novel about how to let yourself love and set yourself free by Patrick Ness, the twice Carnegie Medal-winning author of A Monster Calls.
Plato
This translation of the Greek text of R.G. Bury is arranged with the Greek and English on facing pages and printed on fine paper with a cloth binding, and illustrated…
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E.M. Forster
Written during 1913 and 1914, Maurice deals with the then unmentionable subject of homosexuality. More unusual, it concerns a relationship that ends happily.
David Sedaris
A hilarious and clever book about modern life from the No.1 best selling writer.
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Armistead Maupin
Finding a job as a secretary at an ad agency, Mary Ann wants to start her own life, away from her parents and with the flower-power freedom to make her…
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Juno Dawson
A razor-sharp, adrenaline rush of a novel from award-winning author Juno Dawson, Clean is Gossip Girl meets Girl, Interrupted
Benjamin Law
Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend’s hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognise same-sex marriage. As the child of…
Holly Throsby
It wasn’t just one person who went missing, it was two people. Two very different people. They were there, and then they were gone, as if through a crack in…
Mariko Tamaki
From This One Summer co-creator Mariko Tamaki comes a hilarious and poignant story of teen heartbreak and friendship.
