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FICTION AFFAIR OF THE MYSTERIOUS LETTER, THE
AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS
Solomon, Rivers
Hall, Alexis
For generations, the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship’s leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, who they consider to be less than human. When the autopsy of Matilda’s sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death and her mother’s suicide some quarter-century before, Aster retraces her mother’s footsteps. ISBN 13: 9781617755880, p/b, £11.99
Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universe, Captain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere to live, and expediency forces him to take lodgings at 221b Martyrs Walk. His new housemate is Miss Shaharazad Haas, a consulting sorceress of mercurial temperament and dark reputation. When Miss Haas is enlisted to solve a case of blackmail against one of her former lovers, Captain Wyndham finds himself drawn into a mystery. ISBN 13: 9780440001331, p/b, £12.99
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THE BOOK OF LOVE AND HATE
JONNY APPLESEED
Whitehead, Joshua
Sanders, Lauren
A debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reservation after a death in the family. ISBN 13: 9781551527253, p/b, £13.99
A literary international espionage novel set between Israel and New York. ISBN 13: 9781617755828, p/b, £13.99 Published by AKASHIC BOOKS
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November 2017
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September 2018
LIKE THIS AFTERNOON FOREVER
LITTLE FISH
Plett, Casey
Manrique, Jaime
Lambda Literary Award winner Casey Plett explores the experiences of a transgender woman as she tracks down the history of her family’s sexuality. ISBN 13: 9781551527208, p/b, £14.99
Jaime Manrique’s sixth novel weaves in two narratives: the shocking story of a series of murders known internationally as ‘the false positives,’ and the related story of two gay Catholic priests who become lovers when they meet in the seminary. ISBN 13: 9781617757150, p/b, £13.99
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MOVING FORWARD SIDEWAYS LIKE A CRAB
SKETCHTASY
Bernstein Sycamore, Mattilda
Mootoo, Shani
Meet Alexa: a resilient twenty-one-year-old queen who lives without rules or apologies in 1995 Boston. ISBN 13: 9781551527291, p/b, £14.99
A young man travels to Trinidad to reconnect with a transgender parent, uncovering the complex realities of love and family. ISBN 13: 9781617755347, p/b, £14.99
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FICTION SODOM ROAD EXIT
BEIJING COMRADES
A compelling family melodrama and lesbian supernatural thriller written by a Lambda Literary Award winner. ISBN 13: 9781551527161, p/b, £16.99
A tale of capitalism, love, power and secrecy, Beijing Comrades was published anonymously in 90s China due to its controversial content. It is often credited with starting the phenomenon of Chinese LGBTQ Internet fiction. ISBN 13: 9781558619074, p/b, £7.99
Dawn, Amber
Tong, Bei
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TARRY THIS NIGHT
BY CECILE
A powerful dystopian novel set during a new American civil war, about a polygamist cult leader and his followers. ISBN 13: 9781551527055, p/b, £12.99
A tale of identity in crisis in post WW2 France from the founder of Lesbian pulp fiction. ISBN 13: 9781558618053, p/b, £9.99
Dunnion, Kristyn
Torres, Tereska
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October 2012
GOD IN PINK
LA BASTARDA
February 2018
Namir, Hasan
Obono, Trifonia Melibea & Schimel, Lawrence
In war-torn Iraq in 2003, a young gay Muslim struggles to find a balance between his sexuality, religion and culture. ISBN 13: 9781551526065, p/b, £13.99
Forbidden from seeking out her father, orphaned teen Okomo enlists the help of other village outcasts: her gay uncle and a gang of mysterious girls revelling in their so-called indecency. Drawn into their illicit trysts, Okomo finds herself falling in love with their leader and rebelling against the rigid norms of Fang culture. ISBN 13: 9781936932238, p/b, £13.99
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HOW TO SURVIVE A SUMMER
MAGGIE TERRY
A debut novel about a gay conversion camp in Mississippi, and a man’s reckoning with the trauma he faced there as a teen. ISBN 13: 9780399573682, h/b, £16.99
A former police detective’s addictions jeopardise a murder case in this iconic queer writer’s return to pulp fiction. ISBN 13: 9781936932399, p/b, £14.99
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White, Nick
Schulman, Sarah
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FICTION STRANGER ON LESBOS
THE VEGETARIAN TIGERS OF PARADISE
Taylor, Valerie
Jeans, Crystal
Frances, a 1950s housewife, lives a stultifying life with her indifferent husband and distant teenage son. When she meets Blake, a butch lesbian, her life completely changes. ISBN 13: 9781558618008, p/b, £7.99
Crystal’s mother is a woman to be wary of; a diet of deep fried snacks has hardened her heart and her arteries. One misstep and Crystal is ordered to pack her bags; she’s off to live with Freddy Krueger on the other side of the park. Near death avoided, back home with her mother, Crystal dotes on her pet bull terriers, struggles to keep her end up at a troubled inner city comp and begins to discover what life is all about. ISBN 13: 9781909983441, p/b, £8.99
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May 2016
WE WALK ALONE
LOVE NOTES TO MEN WHO DON’T READ
Aldrich, Ann
Morgan, North
With a recent diagnosis of attention deficit disorder and news that Bond’s first lover from childhood has been imprisoned for impersonating an undercover police officer, Bond recalls in vivid detail his coming-of-age as a trans kid. With inimitable style, Bond raises issues about LBGTQ adolescence, homophobia, parenting and sexuality, while being utterly entertaining. ISBN 13: 9781558615250, p/b, £13.99
North Morgan’s third novel moves beyond the confines of fiction to examine how homosexuality’s acceptance into society has created a new breed of demons for a generation of men born as outsiders yet living at the forefront of popular culture. ISBN 13: 9781907536816, p/b, £8.99 Published by LIMEHOUSE BOOKS
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November 2006
WE WERE WITCHES
SMALL BEAUTY
This experimental novel uses magick spells and inverted fairy tales to combat queer scapegoating, domestic violence, and highinterest student loans. ISBN 13: 9781558614338, p/b, £16.99
A transwoman must come to terms with her history after the death of a family member in this Lambda Award-winning novel. ISBN 13: 9780994047120, p/b, £12.99
Gore, Ariel
Wilson-Yang, Jia Qing
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WOMEN’S BARRACKS
WE GO AROUND IN THE NIGHT AND ARE CONSUMED BY FIRE
September 2017
Torres, Tereska
As the Blitz rains down over London, taboos are broken, affairs start and stop, and hearts are won and lost. Women’s Barracks was banned for obscenity in several states and denounced by the House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials in 1952. In spite of such efforts – or perhaps, in part, because of them – the novel became a record-breaking bestseller and inspired a whole new genre: lesbian pulp. ISBN 13: 9781558614949, p/b, £12.99
Grant, Jules
A glittering, gritty contemporary thriller set in an all-women gang in Manchester with a lesbian love story at its heart. ISBN 13: 9781908434869, p/b, £8.99 Published by MYRIAD EDITIONS
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FICTION QUEER AFRICA
HEARTLAND
Martin, Karen & Xaba, Makhosazana (eds)
Simo, Ana
The uproarious story of a thwarted writer’s elaborate revenge on the woman who stole her lover, merging elements of telenovela, pulp noir, and dystopian satire. ISBN 13: 9781632061508, p/b, £12.99
Queer Africa is a collection of unapologetic, tangled, tender, funny, bruising and brilliant stories about the many ways in which people love each other on the African continent. ISBN 13: 9781780264639, p/b, £8.99
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THE DIAMOND SETTER
ALL CITY
Inspired by true events, this best-selling Israeli novel traces a complex web of love triangles, homoerotic tensions, and family secrets across generations and borders. ISBN 13: 9781590518915, p/b, £12.99
In a near-future New York City in which both global warming and a tremendous economic divide are making the city unlivable for many, a huge superstorm hits leaving behind only those those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out. ISBN 13: 9781609809393, p/b, £12.99
September 2018
Sakal, Moshe
DiFrancesco, Alex
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March 2018
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June 2019
WANDERER
GONE TOMORROW
Hermin leads a secluded life near the Bourbonnais Mountains in France, composing a homage to Schubert. On a bitter January night, this studious peace is broken when his former pupil, Lenny mysteriously knocks at his door. The two men must confront the ghosts of their past, somewhere between musical harmony, erotic tension, and revelation. ISBN 13: 9781590519257, p/b, £13.99
A story of sex and madness on the set of an art film set in Colombia, as told by an actor who survived to look back on it in the cold light of day. ISBN 13: 9781609808631, p/b, £12.99
Leon, Sarah & Cullen, John (trans)
Indiana, Gary
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September 2018
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THE NIGHT OCEAN
HORSE CRAZY
A riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. ISBN 13: 9781101981092, p/b, £12.99
A tale of feverish love set against the backdrop of downtown New York amid the AIDS epidemic. ISBN 13: 9781609808617, p/b, £11.99
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La Farge, Paul
Indiana, Gary
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April 2019
September 2018
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FICTION MARRIAGE OF A THOUSAND LIES
LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN)
Lucky is an unemployed millennial programmer. Her husband, Krishna, is an editor for a greeting card company. Both are secretly gay, presenting their conservative Sri LankanAmerican families with a heterosexual front while dating on the side. When Lucky’s grandmother falls, Lucky returns to her mother’s home and unexpectedly reconnects with her childhood friend and first lover, Nisha. ISBN 13: 9781616957902, h/b, £21.99
Experimental novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) tells the unrequited love story of two transwomen. Using humour, meticulous character sketches, memories, and interludes with others who knew Vivian, our narrator painstakingly reveals the woman she loved, why she loved her, and the depths and details of what she has lost. ISBN 13: 9780994047199, p/b, £12.99
Sindu, SJ
Plante, Hazel Jane
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October 2019
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June 2017
NIGHT SOIL
THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU’RE GOTH IN THE COUNTRY
Peck, Dale
Woods, Chavisa
The first novel in 10 years by critically acclaimed author Dale Peck is a coming-of-age story about Judas, a gay teenager in the southern states. ISBN 13: 9781641290654, p/b, £12.99
The strange and unique characters in this collection include a woman who secretly resides in a local cemetery; a queer teen goth who is facing ostracism from her small-town evangelical church; a Brooklyn artist who learns more about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict than he ever wanted to; and the UFOs that trouble a group of friends in the rural Midwest. ISBN 13: 9781609809157, p/b, £12.99
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July 2020
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June 2019
FIERCE FEMMES AND NOTORIOUS LIARS
TROUTHE, LIES, AND BASKETBALL
In Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, a haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city where the sky is always grey in search of love and sisterhood. ISBN 13: 9780994047137, p/b, £12.99
Family, team, love, drugs, and Chaucer challenge and shape the life of a young man who lives his life on the court. ISBN 13: 9781609809416, p/b, £12.99
Thom, Kai Cheng
Rosen, Charley
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June 2019
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POETRY DISINTEGRATE/DISSOCIATE
TAKE ME WITH YOU
Weaving together a past made murky by uncertainty and a present which exists in multitudes, Arielle Twist poetically navigates through what it means to be an Indigenous trans woman, discovering the possibilities of a hopeful future and a transcendent, beautiful path to regaining softness. ISBN 13: 9781551527598, p/b, £12.99
For readers of Rupi Kaur and Alison Bechdel, a small book with big messages from one of the most quotable and influential poets of our time. ISBN 13: 9780735219519, p/b, £12.99
Twist, Arielle
Gisbon, Andrea
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HUSTLING VERSE
SUMMER OF DEAD BIRDS, THE
In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the industry (survival and trade, past and present) explore their lived experience through the expressive nuance and beauty of poetry. ISBN 13: 9781551527819, p/b, £15.99
Lesbian relationships rarely survive the death of a parent, Ali Liebegott’s therapist tells her in the pages of this novel-in-verse. Despite Ali’s defiance, the prediction comes true. In The Summer of Dead Birds, she explores the toll of mental illness and grief on romantic partnerships - fragile things anyway - through a lesbian lens. ISBN 13: 9781936932504, p/b, £15.99
Dawn, Amber & Ducharme, Justin
Liebegott, Ali
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TONGUEBREAKER
Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and desire. ISBN 13: 9781551527574, p/b, £13.99 Published by ARSENAL PULP PRESS
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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR DOUBLE MELANCHOLY
ELEANOR AND HICK
Part memoir, part cultural commentary, Double Melancholy is a passionate lover letter to art and the depths to which it both enriches and colonises us. ISBN 13: 9781551527536, p/b, £14.99
Published to wide acclaim in hardcover, a warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok. ISBN 13: 9780143110712, p/b, £14.99
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TANGO
THE TRAUMA CLEANER
A moving and hilarious coming-of-age memoir about love, sex and Attention Deficit Disorder. ISBN 13: 9781558617476, p/b, £14.99
The Wellcome Prize-shortlisted celebration of one remarkable woman’s unrelenting drive to make order from chaos. ISBN 13: 9781925603897, p/b, £8.99
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INDESTRUCTIBLE
HOW WE DESIRE
An illustrated punk memoir about growing up queer, punk and Cuban in Miami. ISBN 13: 9781621061014, p/b, £8.99
A thoughtful and highly readable exploration of sexuality and identity. ISBN 13: 9781925603613, p/b, £12.99
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TRUE TRANS BIKE REBEL
LOVE LIVES HERE
Gatchalian, C.E.
Quinn, Susan
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June 2019
October 2017
Bond, Justin Vivian
Krasnostein, Sarah
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Published by TEXT
October 2011
November 2019
Road, Cristy C.
Emcke, Carolin
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April 2017
November 2018
Blue, Elly; Rogue, Lydia & Vercher, Trista
Knox, Amanda Jette
Amanda Jette Knox was unprepared when the child she knew as her son came out as transgender at the age of eleven. Shocked, but knowing how important it was to support her daughter, Jette Knox became an ardent advocate for trans rights. A little over a year after their child came out, her partner also came out as transgender. Jette Knox searched for positive examples of marriages surviving transition, but when she found no role models, she determined that her family would become one. ISBN 13: 9780735235175, p/b, £14.99
True Trans Bike Rebel is the fifteenth issue of Taking the Lane feminist bike zine. This issue is dedicated to trans, genderqueer, and agender folks talking about the power of bicycling in their lives. ISBN 13: 9781621060017, p/b, £8.99 Published by MICROCOSM PUBLISHING
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CULTURAL & SOCIAL STUDIES I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE
I’M AFRAID OF MEN
In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. ISBN 13: 9781551527758, p/b, £12.99
A powerful meditation on the damaging effects of masculinity from celebrated trans writer and artist Vivek Shraya. ISBN 13: 9780735235939, h/b, £12.99
Thom, Kai Cheng
Shraya, Vivek
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August 2018
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ORIGINAL PLUMBING
TRUE HOMOSEXUAL EXPERIENCES
Mac, Amos; Kayiatos, Rocco (eds) & Milan, Tiq
Jones, William E.
Boyd McDonald pretty much kickstarted queer zine culture when he abandoned his career to make a chapbook about the homosexual experience. Here, his life and work is celebrated. ISBN 13: 9780996421812, h/b, £21.99
Independently published from 2009 to 2018, Original Plumbing grew from a Bay Area zine to a nationally acclaimed print quarterly dedicated to trans men. For nearly ten years, the magazine was the premier resource focused on their experiences, celebrations, and imaginations, featuring writing on both playful and political topics, interviews with queer icons, visual art, photography, and short fiction. ISBN 13: 9781936932597, p/b, £30.99
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September 2016
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May 2019
LIFE & TIMES OF BUTCH DYKES, THE
STONEWALL
Duberman, Martin
Aquino, Eloisa
On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village, was raided by police. But instead of responding with the routine compliance the NYPD expected, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. In Stonewall, renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman tells the full story of this pivotal moment in history. ISBN 13: 9780593083987, p/b, £15.00
Throughout history, many women have defied society’s expectations of feminine behaviour and appearance in order to live a more authentic life. These short vignettes combine biographical sketches with evocative illustrations for an impact that is as bold, powerful, and inspirational as the brilliant artists, writers and musicians they represent. ISBN 13: 9781621062288, h/b, £14.99 Published by MICROCOSM PUBLISHING
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100 TIMES
Woods, Chavisa A catalogue of one hundred incidents of sexism, harassment, and assault from age five to now by Lambda Literary Award finalist, Chavisa Woods. ISBN 13: 9781609809133, p/b, £11.99 Published by SEVEN STORIES PRESS Rep Territories: UK, Ireland & Europe
May 2019
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ART & PHOTOGRAPHY HEROES: A TRIBUTE
SCORPIO RISING
Through captivating portraits that reflect core aspects of each individual, artist Doug Meyer celebrates the lives and accomplishments of creatives who were victims of HIV/AIDS people such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring, Freddie Mercury, Tina Chow, and Klaus Nomi. In addition to honouring the individuals portrayed, Meyer hopes to highlight their contributions for younger generations. ISBN 13: 9781732297807, h/b, £37.99
The final title in the Queer Film Classics series, on Kenneth Anger’s remarkable 1963 film about a gay biker gang. ISBN 13: 9781551527611, p/b, £15.99
Meyer, Doug
Cagle, R.L.
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October 2019
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HEROES: A TRIBUTE, BLUE ART EDITION
TO SURVIVE ON THIS SHORE
Dugan, Jess T. & Fabbre, Vanessa
Meyer, Doug
A nuanced view into the complexities of aging as a transgender person. ISBN 13: 9783868288544, p/b, £40.00
Heroes: A Tribute pays homage to fifty brilliant, creative figures who were early victims of AIDS and AIDS-related illnesses. Through captivating, three-dimensional portraits that reflect core aspects of each individual, artist Doug Meyer celebrates the lives and accomplishments of pioneers from the worlds of art, design, film, and dance. ISBN 13: 9780998693156, h/b, £79.99
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HEROES: A TRIBUTE, COLLECTOR’S EDITION
MY GAY EYE
Hopf, Rinaldo & Schock, Axel
Meyer, Doug
A tribute to the legendary Tom of Finland, LGBTQ icon and the most influential creator of gay pornographic images. ISBN 13: 9783887699444, p/b, £19.99
Heroes: A Tribute pays homage to fifty brilliant, creative figures who were early victims of AIDS and AIDS-related illnesses. Through captivating, three-dimensional portraits that reflect core aspects of each individual, artist Doug Meyer celebrates the lives and accomplishments of pioneers from the worlds of art, design, film, and dance. ISBN 13: 9780998693187, h/b, £245.00
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May 2018
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June 2019
HEROES: A TRIBUTE, PINK ART EDITION
DARK TEARS
Jares, Claudia
Meyer, Doug
Award-winning Argentinian photographer and performance artist Claudia Jares takes her lens to the reality of queer experience across Latin America, exploring questions of sexuality, religion, and identity with the raw eroticism that is the hallmark of her style. ISBN 13: 9781620974070, p/b, £19.99
Heroes: A Tribute pays homage to fifty brilliant, creative figures who were early victims of AIDS and AIDS-related illnesses. Through captivating, three-dimensional portraits that reflect core aspects of each individual, artist Doug Meyer celebrates the lives and accomplishments of pioneers from the worlds of art, design, film, and dance. ISBN 13: 9780998693170, h/b, £79.99
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June 2019
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ART & PHOTOGRAPHY SVETLANA & NADEZHDA
LGBT SAN FRANCISCO
Friedman, Misha & Gessen, Masha
Nicoletta, Daniel; Van Sant, Gus; Mobley, Chuck; et al
In Svetlana and Nadezhda, award-winning documentary photographer Misha Friedman and New Yorker reporter Masha Gessen gives an intimate look at the fiercely creative Belarus Free Theatre drama troupe, who cannot officially perform in their homeland. ISBN 13: 9781620974056, p/b, £19.99
LGBT: San Francisco is the first book dedicated to photographer Daniel Nicoletta’s archive of powerful images tracing the burgeoning lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender mecca that was San Francisco in the 1970s, through to its present. ISBN 13: 9781909526396, h/b, £40.00
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THIS IS HOW THE HEART BEATS
Naughton, Jack
Part of a groundbreaking series of photobooks on LGBTQ communities around the world, this is a moving portrait of a group of queer East Africans who fled their home countries for the United States ISBN 13: 9781620974889, p/b, £19.99 Published by THE NEW PRESS Rep Territories: UK & Ireland
March 2019
Sample images from THAT IS HOW THE HEART BEATS
Sample images from LGBT SAN FRANCISCO 11
GRAPHIC NOVELS LIFE WITH KEVIN VOL. 1
DEATH THREAT
Archie’s most popular new character in decades, Kevin Keller, is back and living the dream in NYC. ISBN 13: 9781682559406, p/b, £12.99
In the fall of 2017, acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Acclaimed artist Ness Lee brings these letters and Shraya’s responses to them to startling life in Death Threat, a graphic novel that, by its existence, becomes a compelling act of resistance. ISBN 13: 9781551527505, h/b, £12.99
Parent, Dan
Shraya, Vivek & Lee, Ness
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January 2018
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June 2019
FORWARD
A CITY INSIDE
A moving and intimate LGBTQ graphic novel about two women, both of whom are trying to put the pieces of their lives back together. ISBN 13: 9781551527222, p/b, £15.99
Shifting between the everyday and the surreal, A City Inside recounts one woman’s life from childhood home, to the first love that she will never forget, to the creation of the idea of herself that she can grow old with and the home that she can grow old in. ISBN 13: 9781910395417, h/b, £12.99
Maas, Lisa
Walden, Tillie
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July 2018
Published by AVERY HILL
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September 2018
BLUE ANGEL (BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR)
I LOVE THIS PART
Walden, Tillie
Maroh, Julie
Two girls in a small town in the USA kill time together as they try to get through their days at school. They watch videos, share earbuds as they play each other songs and exchange their stories. In the process they form a deep connection and an unexpected relationship begins to develop. ISBN 13: 9781910395325, h/b, £12.99
The sensational graphic novel behind the Palme D’or-winning movie Blue is the Warmest Color. ISBN 13: 9781551525143, p/b, £16.99 Published by ARSENAL PULP PRESS Rep Territories:
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November 2013
Published by AVERY HILL
Rep Territories: UK & Ireland
October 2017
BODY MUSIC
ON A SUNBEAM
From the author of Blue Is the Warmest Color: a beautiful, bittersweet graphic novel on the complexities of love. ISBN 13: 9781551526928, p/b, £22.99
The hotly-anticipated print edition of the Eisner nominated webcomic exploring love, self-discovery, and piecing together the past. ISBN 13: 9781910395370, h/b, £24.99
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Rep Territories: UK & Ireland
Maroh, Julie
Walden, Tillie
Published by ARSENAL PULP PRESS
Published by AVERY HILL
December 2017
October 2018
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GRAPHIC NOVELS THE FLUTTER COLLECTION
LUISA
An ambitious and critically acclaimed LGBT indie about a shape-shifting teen after the girl of her dreams, now in a single volume. ISBN 13: 9781506708867, p/b, £20.99
At 33, Luisa encounters her 15-year-old self in this bold romance about self-acceptance and sexuality. ISBN 13: 9781594656439, p/b, £22.99
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Wood, Jennie
Maurel, Carole
Published by DARK HORSE
Published by HUMANOIDS
October 2018
East
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June 2018
MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS
SENSIBLE FOOTWEAR
Charlesworth, Kate
Ferris, Emil
Sensible Footwear is a glorious political and personal history that gives Pride a run for its money; it wears its heart at the centre, making the invisible visible, and celebrating lesbian lives from the domestic to the diva. ISBN 13: 9780993563348, p/b, £17.99
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late 60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with Bmovie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. ISBN 13: 9781606999592, p/b, £35.99
Published by MYRIAD EDITIONS
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Published by FANTAGRAPHICS
July 2019
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February 2017
CHILDREN’S & YOUNG ADULT SYNCHRO BOY
PICTURE US IN THE LIGHT
A teenaged boy is drawn to synchronised swimming, which puts his masculinity - and worse, his own expectations - into question. ISBN 13: 9781551527444, p/b, £12.99
When Danny Cheng discovers a taped-up box in his father’s closet, he realises there’s much more to his family’s past than he ever imagined. Worse, contemplating a future without his best friend by his side makes Danny feel a panic he can barely put into words. ISBN 13: 9781484734117, p/b, £8.99
McFerran, Shannon
Gilbert, Kelly Loy
Published by ARSENAL PULP PRESS
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January 2019
Published by DISNEY-HYPERION Rep Territories: UK & Ireland
August 2019
LAST TRUE POETS OF THE SEA, THE
WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN
Drake, Julia
Norton, Preston
Wrecks seem to run in the Larkin family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can’t stop partying with the wrong people, and her brilliant, sensitive younger brother Sam attempts to take his own life. Shipped back to their family’s hometown while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family’s missing piece - a lost shipwreck. There she discovers something new about herself when she meets fellow wreck hunter Liv, and learns what it takes to swim up from disaster. ISBN 13: 9781368048088, h/b, £14.99
Ezra is an anxious insomniac with a huge crush on Imogen. Unfortunately, her best friend Wynonna has made a career out of tormenting him. After a solar eclipse, Wynonna and Ezra wake up - body-swapped! ISBN 13: 9781484798355, h/b, £14.99 Published by DISNEY-HYPERION Rep Territories: UK & Ireland
June 2019
Published by DISNEY-HYPERION Rep Territories: UK & Ireland
October 2019
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CHILDREN’S & YOUNG ADULT CHICKEN GIRL
ALL OF US WITH WINGS
After a photo of Poppy goes viral, she’s having trouble seeing the good in the world. So she accepts a job as a chicken-suited sign waver outside a restaurant. It opens her eyes to the people around her, but just as she comes to terms with the fact that there is good and bad in everyone, she is tested by a deep betrayal. ISBN 13: 9780143198680, h/b, £14.99
As a runaway in San Francisco, seventeen year old Xochi never expected to encounter the precocious preteen Pallas. Soon, Xochi has taken up residence at the sprawling Victorian mansion belonging to Pallas’ family, the glamorous rock band Lady Frieda. Then one night Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrl ritual in good fun, accidentally summoning a pair of ancient creatures determined to exact vengeance. ISBN 13: 9781641290340, h/b, £14.99
Smith, Heather T.
Keil, Michelle Ruiz
Published by PENGUIN TEEN
Published by SOHO PRESS
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February 2019
Rep Territories: UK & Ireland
June 2019
DEAR TWIN
THE BOY & THE BINDI
Ever since her mirror twin sister, Lola, mysteriously vanished, Poppy’s father has been depressed and forces her to stick around. She hopes she can convince Lola to come home, by sending her twin a series of eighteen letters, one for each year of their lives. When not excavating childhood memories, Poppy is sneaking away with her girlfriend Juniper, the only person who understands her. But negotiating the complexities of queer love and childhood trauma are anything but simple. ISBN 13: 9781999058807, p/b, £12.99
Exploring cultural and gender difference, through the eyes of a five-year-old South Asian boy. ISBN 13: 9781551526683, h/b, £14.99
Tsai, Addie
Shraya, Vivek
Published by ARSENAL PULP PRESS
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April 2017
Published by METONYMY PRESS
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November 2019
OUT OF SALEM
HO’ONANI: HULA WARRIOR
Schrieve, Hal
Gale, Heather & Song, Mika
When a local psychiatrist is murdered by what seems to be werewolves, the town of Salem, Oregon, becomes even more hostile to ‘monsters,’ and genderqueer zombie Z and unregistered wearwolf Aysel are driven together in an attempt to survive a place where most people wish that neither of them existed. ISBN 13: 9781609809010, h/b, £14.99
Based on a true story, Ho’onani: Hula Warrior is a celebration of Hawaiian culture and an empowering story of a girl who learns to lead and learns to accept who she really is. ISBN 13: 9780735264496, h/b, £14.99
Published by SEVEN STORIES PRESS
Published by TUNDRA
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April 2019
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October 2019
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Congratulations to our publishers for their successes in the 31st Lambda Literary Awards.
Tiger Flu
by Larissa Lai Arsenal Pulp Press WINNER: Lesbian Fiction
Jonny Appleseed
by Joshua Whitehead Arsenal Pulp Press WINNER: Gay Fiction
The Lie and How We Told It
by Tommi Parrish Fantagraphics Books
WINNER: LGBTQ Graphic Novel
Little Fish
by Casey Plett Arsenal Pulp Press WINNER: Transgender Fiction
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