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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 19 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah
    Small Joys - by Elvin James Mensah

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398514881 | ISBN 10: 1398514888

    The sensational debut novel about love, friendship and finding happiness in the most unexpected places.  'It's as fun as it is thoughtful: a tender and generous novel about finding your people, getting vulnerable, and celebrating every joy ... more

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  • Cover image of book Captain Ni
    Captain Ni'mat's Last Battle - by Mohamed Leftah

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781635420647 | ISBN 10: 1635420644

    First published after the author’s death in 2008, this provocative novel charts the late-in-life sexual awakening of a retired air force pilot who begins a dangerous affair with a male servant.  Captain Ni’mat, a reservist from the Egypti ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
    Rainbow Milk - by Paul Mendez

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349700588 | ISBN 10: 0349700583

    "When did you last read a novel about a young, black, gay, Jehovah Witness man from Wolverhampton who flees his community to make his way in London as a prostitute? This might be a debut, but Mendez is an exciting, accomplished and daring storyteller ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Earth We
    On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - by Ocean Vuong

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529110685 | ISBN 10: 1529110688

    **THE SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**  Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original – poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytellin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ministry of Guidance - and Other Stories by Golnoosh Nour
    The Ministry of Guidance - and Other Stories - by Golnoosh Nour

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781916129283 | ISBN 10: 1916129285

    Set mostly in Iran, but making forays to London, Germany, and the transit area of a Ukrainian airport, the stories are brilliantly deft in summoning up the dilemmas of their protagonists, be they characters who are kicking against the confines of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Guapa by Saleem Haddad
    Guapa - by Saleem Haddad

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787702059 | ISBN 10: 1787702057

    A novel of the Arab Spring  Winner of the Polari First Book Prize 2017  A Middle-Eastern capital caught in the revolutionary wave of the Arab Spring. A day in the life of a young man disillusioned with both East and West and struggling to fin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
    Speak No Evil - by Uzodinma Iweala

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780719523908 | ISBN 10: 0719523907

    In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences.  On the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Drapetomania: Or The Narrative of Cyrus Tyler & Abednego Tyler, Lovers by John R Gordon
    Drapetomania: Or The Narrative of Cyrus Tyler & Abednego Tyler, Lovers - by John R Gordon

    £15.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780995516274 | ISBN 10: 0995516278

    Drapetomania n. (obs): the pathological psychological condition wherein a slave feels compelled to escape his master, however well that master treats him. Recommended treatment for this condition: firm discipline.  When house-servant Abednego ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
    The Angel of History - by Rabih Alameddine

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472152381 | ISBN 10: 1472152387

    Following the critical and commercial success of An Unnecessary Woman, Alameddine delivers a spectacular portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval.   Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Day Ends Like Any Day by Timothy Ogene
    The Day Ends Like Any Day - by Timothy Ogene

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910688298 | ISBN 10: 1910688290

    Sam, a young Nigerian whose father only speaks to the children once he has taken on enough alcohol, and whose mother won’t accept that Sam is different from his siblings, is formed by the people he meets, the gay young man he cannot rescue from his ... more

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  • Cover image of book God in Pink by Hasan Namir
    God in Pink - by Hasan Namir

    £13.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781551526065 | ISBN 10: 1551526069

    A Globe 100 Best Book of the Year Lambda Literary Award winner  The debut book by Hasan Namir is a revelatory novel about being queer and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003.  Ramy is a closeted university student whose parents have died ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai
    The Hungry Ghosts - by Shyam Selvadurai

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846592003 | ISBN 10: 1846592003

    In Buddhist myth, those that have desired too much during their lifetime may be reborn as ‘hungry ghosts’ – spirits with a stomach so large they can never be full.   Six-year-old Shivan is boarded up in his grandmother’s mansion in Sri Lanka. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Don
    Don't Let Him Know - by Sandip Roy

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408856666 | ISBN 10: 1408856662

    In a boxy apartment building in an American university town, Romola Mitra, a young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit finds the l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
    Mr Loverman - by Bernardine Evaristo

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241145784 | ISBN 10: 0241145783

    Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo is a tragi-comic tale of homosexual love set in contemporary London.   Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. ... more

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  • Cover image of book French Sahib by Pierre Freha
    French Sahib - by Pierre Freha

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9789380905266 | ISBN 10: 9380905262

    What happens when a Frenchman falls in love with a young Indian guy?   Set in India with a French protagonist, and written by a Frenchman, French Sahib is a French-Indian love story revealing the taboos of Indian society and the hypocrisies of Fre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Got
    Got 'til it's Gone - by Larry Duplechan

    £14.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781551522449 | ISBN 10: 1551522446

    As funny, warm, and sexy as its protagonist, Got 'til it's Gone is the first novel by Larry Duplechan in fifteen years, and the fourth to feature his alter-ego Johnnie Ray Rousseau, a gay black man of Louisiana Creole stock.  When we first met ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Color of Love by Kiyo Ueda
    The Color of Love - by Kiyo Ueda

    £11.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781569707463 | ISBN 10: 1569707464

    High schooler Nao is in love with his best friend, Taira, but is adamant about keeping his feelings secret. When Taira begins to notice a change in his friend, will Nao deny his feelings or accept them? Meanwhile, Makino has a history of bad luck whe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
    Confessions of a Mask - by Yukio Mishima

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780720612851 | ISBN 10: 0720612853

    This autobiographical novel, regarded as Mishima’s finest book, is the haunting story of a Japanese boy’s development toward a homosexual identity during and after the Second World War.   Detailing his progress from an isolated childhood thro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Down for Whatever by Frederick Smith
    Down for Whatever - by Frederick Smith

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780758209795 | ISBN 10: 0758209797

    From the sexy to the sensational, The City of Angels is a city of stories. This one follows the lives of four friends each hoping to realize their dreams. But can true love triumph in the town where all the world’s a stage — and everyone’s a player? ... more

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