'GWEN AND ART was exactly what I need right now - a delightful, heart-warming, hilarious historical romp, overflowing with queer panic and terrible jokes. I loved it.' ALICE OSEMAN, bestselling author of HEARTSTOPPER. 'Fun and genuinely funny, with lovely friendships and first-rate dialogue. Gwen...

Letter To My Little Queer Self (LTMLQS) is a collection written by invited contributors in their words and in their own styles. LTMLQS is the third publication from hotpencil press. hotpencil press was stablished by Libro Levi Bridgeman and Serge Nicholson in 2009.  Foreword...

A dark, twisty Scandinavian thriller from CWA shortlisted author, Alex Dahl. You are her therapist. Kristina is a successful therapist in central Oslo. She spends her days helping clients navigate their lives with a cool professionalism that has got her to the top. She is...

In a poverty-stricken neighbourhood wedged between the city and the sea, a father and son struggle to keep their heads above water. Rather than being discouraged by their difficulties and hardship, their response is to come up with increasingly bizarre and imaginative plans in...

Wanted: One (very real) husband. Nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best. Two years ago, Luc O'Donnell and Oliver Blackwood met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends... and somehow figured...

Gothic, intoxicating, feminist, darkly provoking and deeply romantic - this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula, by bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave in her much-anticipated YA debut. 'A Chilling and breathlessly paced thriller... Feminism, spirituality, legend and desire are...

In the slums of 19th-Century New York. A tattooed mystic fights for her life. Her survival hangs on the turn of a tarot card. Powerful, intoxicating and full of suspense. The Knowing is a darkly spellbinding novel about a girl, fighting for her survival in...

"A magical anti-capitalist adventure." -Annalee NewitzNino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the multiverse has to offer with the everyday awfulness of low-wage work. It explores queer relationships and queer feelings, capitalism and accountability, labor and love, all with a...

This title is being re-issued by a new publisher and the release date is Jul 2023. Barney and Norma are just trying to get by and keep their jobs, but working at Dead End also means battling demonic forces, vengeful ghosts, time travelling wizards and...

Read the instant New York Times bestseller and TikTok sensation -- THE new swoon-worthy hate-to-love romcom from #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Five Feet Apart Rachael Lippincott and debut writer Alyson Derrick. The perfect summer read for fans of Adam Silvera, Casey...

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...

Gordo Livingstone never forgot the lessons carved into his skin. Hardened by the betrayal of a pack who left him behind, he sought solace in the garage in his tiny mountain town, vowing never again to involve himself in the affairs of wolves. It...

'It's a terrible story and one way to tell it is this: two girls in love and a fog of wasps cursed the place forever after...' 1902, Brookhants School for Girls: students Flo and Clara are madly in love with each other, as well...

When Nishat comes out to her parents, they say she can be anyone she wants - as long as she isn't herself. Because Muslim girls aren't lesbians. Nishat doesn't want to hide who she is, but she also doesn't want to lose her relationship...

An interior designer who is never without the perfect plan learns to renovate her love life without one in this new romantic comedy by Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn't Care. Perfect for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur, Casey McQuiston and Rosie Danan....

The third novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman - one of the most talked about YA writers in recent years. For Angel Rahimi life is about one thing: The Ark - a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are taking the world by...

Regal romance abounds in this flirty, laugh-out-loud companion novel to Prince Charming, by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins. Millie Quint is devastated when she discovers that her sort-of-best friend/sort-of-girlfriend has been kissing someone else. Heartbroken and ready for a change of pace, Millie decides to apply...

The Irish contemporary classic in a beautiful new edition ~ 'Weren't you never out for an easy dip?' he asked... 'I don't mean the baths, I mean with a pal. For a lark like.' Out at the Forty Foot, that great jut of Dublin...

'The book of the summer... Kept me rapt until the final page' THE TIMES. 'A sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY. 'More than lives up to the hype... Likely to fill the Sally-Rooney-shaped hole in many...

'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washington 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...

From the creator of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes a story about loving, about searching - and about the courage you need when you find the unexpected. For fans of Stephen King, Serial, Twin Peaks and of course the eponymous...

A BBC must-read book of 2026 - 'Sharp, dark and humorous, it's a real nailbiter.''This is an incredible book... tough and raw and merciless but funny and kind at the same time.' Russell T. Davies, writer of It's a Sin. Anyone can write a...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER 'Moves at a cracking pace and, with neat plot twists and cliff hangers, is page-turning fun' Guardian. Seven resistance fighters will free the galaxy from the ruthless Empire - or die trying. After Eris faked her death,...

Welcome to your new favourite genre: the fucking fantastic. In these ten stories, everything is sex: walls, wax, the past, your future, your neighbours, hankies, candles, circuit boards, petri dishes, scrap metal - and language itself. Conjuring experiences for which there are no words,...

Have you ever met someone and just instantly felt like you had known them your whole life? Holly Garland is a successful lawyer from London, England. At just 28 years of age, her drive, ambition and smarts have firmly secured her position as one...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of...

"Bellefleur has a droll, distinct voice, and her one-liners zing off the page, striking both the heart and funny bone... There's a sparkling quality here, one that mirrors the starry title. Bellefleur writes as if she's captured fairy lights in a mason jar, twinkly...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES* From the ground, we stand. From our ship, we live. By the stars, we hope. The incredible new novel by Becky Chambers, author of the beloved The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet....

'Funny, touching and fabulous... a little slice of queer joy' Julie Cohen, author of Together. 'Hilarious, tender, raw, and heart-stoppingly moving' Amanda Eyre Ward, author of The Jetsetters 'Properly laugh-out-loud, bitingly funny' Laura Kay, author of Tell Me Everything Danny Scudd is absolutely fine....

A new King Arthur has risen and she's got a universe to save. Coming to terms with your identity is always difficult. But for Ari, the 42nd reincarnation of King Arthur, it just got a whole lot more complicated. Gender-bending royalty, caustic wit and...