World champion runner Caster Semenya offers an empowering account of her extraordinary life and career, and her trailblazing battle to compete on her own terms. Banned from the sport she loved because she was labelled 'different', Olympic and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally...

‘Funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real’ SARAH WATERS 'I can’t think of another author who can make me ricochet so quickly from painful empathy to helpless laughter' ERIN KELLY From the Polari Prize-winning author of IN AT THE DEEP END When Lena buys DNA testing kits...

"Winter Love is startlingly good: an intense, compelling story of illicit desire and heartbreak that’s also a fabulous evocation of worn-out wartime life. A blistering, unsettling, darkly romantic read." - SARAH WATERS “This short and intense shock of a book transports us to the...

For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a...

'One of my favourite reads of 2023. A totally gorgeous read' BETH O'LEARY.'Perfectly observed and brilliantly funny, I adored it' EMMA HUGHES. TWO BEST FRIENDS. ONE HUGE CRUSH. A YEAR THAT COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING... El Evans is stuck in a dead-end job, hopelessly in...

How a Group of Women Set out to Change the World The captivating true story of an underdog business – a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher’s Britain – from a woman at the heart of the women’s liberation movement.  What was it like to...

Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, suppressing both her heritage and her growing love for her best friend Fran.  Yuki leaves the Japanese countryside to pursue her dream of becoming a concert violinist in...

Fran’s done with looking for long-term love.  Serial monogamist Fran has waited years for her chance to be single, and now’s her time to shine. She wants to date as much as she can - she’s got Big Date Energy.  But her Mum has...

Enid is many things: lesbian, serial dater, deaf in one ear, space obsessive, true crime fanatic. When she's not listening to grizzly murder podcasts, she's managing her crippling phobia of bald people and trying hard not to think about her mortifying teenage years -...

A woman walks into a tattoo parlour. But this is no ordinary woman, and this is Hackney in 2233.  Jones' body is covered in tattoos but she wants to add one final inking to her gallery - a thin line of ink mixed with...

Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst's chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, the daughter of a Scottish baron and fourteen years older than Jack. They met in 1909, fell in love,...

Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler's Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez's sexy vampire novel. "The Gilda Stories is ground-breaking not just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays them-communally, unapologetically, roaming fiercely over space and time."-Emma Donoghue,...

Two elven sisters become imprisoned in the hidden world of the fae where danger, and love, lies in wait. Faebound is the first book in an enchanting new trilogy from the internationally bestselling author of The Final Strife. A thousand years ago, the world held three beings:...

Her Diaries and Notebooks : The New York Years, 1941–1950 'My secrets - the secrets that everyone has - are here, in black and white.' Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before Thomas Ripley snaked...

'A BIG-HEARTED STORY ABOUT FINDING YOUR FEET AND FOLLOWING YOUR HEART' SARAH WATERS'JOYFULLY QUEER, FILTHY AND FUN' CHLOE TIMMS'A HUG AND A SNOG OF A BOOK' SO MAYER Eluned Hughes is stuck. It's 1984 in a valley in south Wales: the miners' strike is...

'One Day for a new generation'  A beautifully written, generous-hearted, clever, tender, fresh and unputdownable novel about queerness, family and forgiveness. I loved This Love.' Elizabeth Day Find yourself in this sweeping tale of queer friendship and chosen families that will keep you laughing,...

Hannah has an open relationship with her boyfriend, and it's never been a problem. Until she hooks up with the mysterious Morana via a phone app and wakes up the next morning with an insatiable taste for blood. Araceli enters Hannah's life and helps...

A bloody and unforgettable tale of transformation and survival, told by three women surviving in a world devastated by a disastrous transformation from multiple Bram Stoker Award-winner. Humanity has been irrevocably changed by a virus that radically alters its victims... yet life goes on....

EVERYTHING THAT COMES FROM THE GROUND HAS TO GO BACK DOWN, EVENTUALLY… Merryn grew up on the wilds of Bodmin moor, raised by her mother and her aunt in an old farmhouse. Here, the locals never leave the decaying village, fear for the future...

Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen. 'Erotic and absorbing... Written with startling...

The long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series  Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation...

When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter - dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognised as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a...

Squid Game meets Wilder Girls in this debut sapphic supernatural thriller set in the glittering, cut-throat world of K-pop rivalry. A disgraced idol comes face-to-face with the demons of her past when the competition she enters turns out to be a deadly trap. After...

Another girl has gone missing in Cardinal Creek. Sid knows their dad didn’t do it this time. He’s currently serving a life sentence for the five girls he murdered ten years ago. Girls whose bodies he dumped into the lake. The same lake where...

BOW DOWN WITCHES It's 1536 and the Queen has been beheaded. Lady Grace Fairfax, witch, knows that something foul is at play - that someone had betrayed Anne Boleyn and her coven. Wild with the loss of their leader - and her lover, a...

Taking us from the mundane to the magical, this collection of short stories will entertain and delight. Drawing inspiration from East Asian and Malaysian myth and folklore, Zen Cho guides the reader through enchanted realms inhabited by dragons, vampires and incorrigible grandmothers. We'll meet...

Stonewall Honor author Jake Maia Arlow delivers a sapphic Jewish twist on the classic Christmas rom-com in a read perfect for fans of Kelly Quindlen and Casey McQuiston. It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom's Subaru. Attempted vehicular...

THE INSTANT NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A wonderful, gritty, explosively violent, and beautifully realised debut' DAILY MAIL.  'GODKILLER will have you in its grasp from the first pages' Samantha Shannon, bestselling author of PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE. You are not welcome here,...

'Incredible... This is a world of dizzying tech, gorgeous illusions and twisty political thrills - catnip for readers who enjoyed Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy or Jacqueline Koyanagi's Ascension' NEW YORK TIMES. The Scattered Pearls Belt is a string of habitats under tight military rule... where...

A queer tale about kid werewolves, big bad mistakes, and terrifying creatures in Natalie C. Parker's exciting middle grade debut. Little wolf, little wolf, here I come. They say that the Devouring Wolf isn't real, just an old legend, a giant creature who consumes...