'Funny, beautifully observed and moving' Adam Kay' Tales Of The City for a new generation... smart, touching, razor-sharp one-liners, a life-affirming read... I fell utterly in love with it' John Marrs. 'Funny, kind, insightful book, about those who get left behind' Russell T Davies. Two brothers....

`A love letter written for a lost lover... mesmerizing' Helen Dunmore, The Times. When Flannery Jansen arrives at university, she is totally unprepared for an encounter that will rock her existence. But when she comes across Anne Arden in a local diner, Flannery falls dramatically...

"So what can happen when Tove Jansson turns her attention to her own favourite subjects, love and work, in the form of this novel about two women, lifelong partners and friends? Expect something philosophically calm - and discreetly radical. Its publication is cause for...

WINNER OF The Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella, the Reddit Stabby Award for Best Novella AND The British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novella A fireworks display from two very talented storytellers' Madeline Miller, author of Circe. Co-written by two award-winning...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALAN HOLLINGHURST. 'Astonishingly beautiful... The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation' Harpers. 'A life changing read for me. Describes a New York that has completely disappeared and for which I longed - stuck in closed-on-Sunday's London' Rupert...

'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton Post. When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID. Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock...

It is 3 a.m. in The City, and in a dark corner of The Bar, two lovers collide in the beginnings of a passionate and violent affair. Boy: nineteen, beautiful, ready for anyone to take him home, and 'O': the Older Man, cynical, unpredictable,...

More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores all of the material removed by...

New to Penguin Modern Classics, the seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestseller. The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair...

The mesmerising New York Times bestseller! Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honour they could hope for... and the most demeaning. This year, there's a ninth.And instead of paper, she's made of fire. 'A...

Meet Eric and Morgan. Born on the same day, at the same time, in the same place. They've always shared this one day together, but as they grow up they begin to grow apart.Everyone expects Eric to get a football scholarship, but no one...

'Keris is one of my favourite YA authors' Sophia Bennett, author of LOVE SONGE. lla, Lou, Issey, Liane and Paige are determined to make the most of this second year at uni. They want to have fun, but they want to focus on work....

Winner of the Comedy Women in Print Prize 'Inspired and stylish' Jenny Eclair 'Original and witty' Helen Lederer. When her father falls ill, Billie returns home to the Yorkshire farm which she left behind for life in London. The transition back to country lass...

A novel of self-discovery following a Palestinian-American girl as she navigates queerness, love addiction and a series of tumultuous relationships' The Millions, One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year. Told in vignettes that flash between the US and the Middle East, Zaina...

The debut novel from the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2020: 'This feels like a new vision for the 21st century novel... It made me happy' Ocean Vuong, author of on Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. Benson and Mike are two young guys who...

Forget how do we find lasting happiness in a quick-swipe dating world. How do we find just a few moments of it? The quest for love - or a pleasant evening - is captured here in a series of flickering anecdotes that are sometimes...

The cult gay classic of the early 1990s, reissued to mark the year of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Between nights, earning his keep at Excellent, Idaho's outrageously pink whorehouse, Shed or, Duivichi-un-Dua - lives a life of drinking, talking and smoking...

Ari is nineteen, Greek, gay, unemployed, looking for something, anything, to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne. Torn between the traditional Greek world of his parents and friends and the alluring, destructive world of clubs and drugs and anonymous sex,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD. From the internationally bestselling author of WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT comes a heart breaking celebration of love in all its forms, and the moments that illuminate the life of one man. This is almost a love...

In this highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor-even if she has to scheme her way across...

A short novella based on the beloved characters from the graphic novel Heartstopper and Alice Oseman's debut novel Solitaire, which was praised as 'The Catcher in the Rye for the digital age' by The Times. The festive season isn't always happy for Tori Spring...

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER '[Mr Loverman is] Brokeback Mountain with ackee and saltfish and old people' Dawn French. WINNER OF THE JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2014 and FERRO GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBT FICTION 2015. Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four...

'What you risk reveals what you value...' The Passion is a fairy tale about survival and broken-heartedness, cruelty, obsession and madness. Henri had a passion for Napoleon and Napoleon had a passion for chicken. From Boulogne to Moscow Henri butchered for his Emperor and...

In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it sees...

25th Anniversary Edition. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his...

'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain.' A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and...

'Brilliant'Paula HawkinsIn 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive too - a secret romance with a married lover based in London. Unfortunately it...

'Has everyone always been in love with you? Of course they have, who am I kidding? What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships'. New York City in the...

THE NO.1 FRENCH BESTSELLER. Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984,...