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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 39 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Just By Looking at Him by Ryan O
    Just By Looking at Him - by Ryan O'Connell

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780751585469 | ISBN 10: 0751585467

    ‘A horny romp that makes you think, laugh, and feel. O’Connell is one of my favourite writers’ MONICA HEISEY, author of Really Good, Actually   ‘A very funny novel about falling for a fantasy and finding love for one’s own self’ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
    Under the Whispering Door - by TJ Klune

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529087994 | ISBN 10: 1529087996

    Witty, haunting and kind, Under the Whispering Door is a gift for troubled times. TJ Klune brings us a warm hug of a story about a man who spent his life at the office – and his afterlife building a home.  From the author of joyous New York ... more

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  • Cover image of book To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
    To Paradise - by Hanya Yanagihara

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529077490 | ISBN 10: 1529077494

    From Hanya Yanagihara, author of the modern classic A Little Life, To Paradise is a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. ... 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 The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J Klune
    The House in the Cerulean Sea - by T.J Klune

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529087949 | ISBN 10: 1529087945

    An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place – and realizing that family could be yours.   He expected nothing. But ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Brutal House by Niven Govinden
    This Brutal House - by Niven Govinden

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780349700694 | ISBN 10: 0349700699

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019   On the steps of New York's City Hall, five ageing Mothers sit in silent protest. They are the guardians of the vogue ball community - queer men who opened their hearts and homes to countless lost Childr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Call Him Mine by Tim MacGabhann
    Call Him Mine - by Tim MacGabhann

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781474610469 | ISBN 10: 1474610463

    A TELEGRAPH THRILLER OF THE YEAR  Nobody asked us to look. Every day, every since, I still wish we hadn’t.  Jaded reporter Andrew and his photographer boyfriend, Carlos, are sick of sifting the dregs of Mexico’s drug war: from ca ... more

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  • Cover image of book Murmur by Will Eaves
    Murmur - by Will Eaves

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786899378 | ISBN 10: 178689937x

    Murmur evokes the extraordinary life of Alan Turing, the beauty and sorrows of love, and the nature of consciousness. Winner of the Wellcome Prize and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.  Winner of the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize Winner of th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
    The Sparsholt Affair - by Alan Hollinghurst

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447208228 | ISBN 10: 1447208226

    In October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others – particularly on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist and destin ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci
    My Cat Yugoslavia - by Pajtim Statovci

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781782273608 | ISBN 10: 1782273603

    Yugoslavia, 1980s: a 16-year-old Muslim girl named Emine is married off to a man she hardly knows. But what was meant to be a happy match soon goes terribly wrong. Her country is torn apart by war and she flees with her family.   Decades later Emi ... 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 Everything Is Awful And You
    Everything Is Awful And You're A Terrible Person - by Daniel Zomparelli

    £13.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781551526751 | ISBN 10: 1551526751

    A YouTube star becomes famous after he documents his breakup online. An anxious, lactose-intolerant office worker obsesses over a stranger who says "Nice shorts, bro" to him in passing. A couple wants to open up their relationship to a ghost. A monst ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our Young Man by Edmund White
    Our Young Man - by Edmund White

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408858967 | ISBN 10: 1408858967

    '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 eigh ... 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 The Disappearance Boy by Neil Bartlett
    The Disappearance Boy - by Neil Bartlett

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408850473 | ISBN 10: 1408850478

    Reggie Rainbow has found the perfect profession for someone who likes to keep himself to himself: it's his job to make sure that some things stay out of sight and out of mind. Reggie Rainbow is an angry young man who treads the backstage corridors of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
    The Swimming Pool Library - by Alan Hollinghurst

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784870317 | ISBN 10: 1784870315

    Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself. The man is Lord Nantwich, a ga ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best Gay Romance 2014 by Timothy J. Lambert and R. D. Cochrane (Editors)
    Best Gay Romance 2014 - by Timothy J. Lambert and R. D. Cochrane (Editors)

    £11.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781627780117 | ISBN 10: 1627780114

    Passion and Possibility...   The best part of romance is what might happen next...that pivotal moment where we stop and realize, This is wonderful. Romance can be many things: thrilling, inspiring, passionate and life altering. But most of all ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hairdresser on Fire by Daniel LeVesque
    Hairdresser on Fire - by Daniel LeVesque

    £14.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781933149738 | ISBN 10: 1933149736

    Meet Francis, whose quirky childhood was marred by a strange religious cult yet enhanced by the rock band KISS; his teen years spent dawdling with daytime television talk show appearances and weekend art classes, followed by a dubious career in a sou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beach Bums: Gay Erotic Fiction by Neil Plakcy (Editor)
    Beach Bums: Gay Erotic Fiction - by Neil Plakcy (Editor)

    £11.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781573449281 | ISBN 10: 1573449288

    Beach bums are the stuff of gay fantasy — from sleek swimmers and muscular surfers to sun-worshipping naturists, showing off what God or genetics gave them — nothing is sexier than boys on a beach!   Award-winning editor Neil Plakcy showcases ... more

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  • Cover image of book Briefs Encountered by Julian Clary
    Briefs Encountered - by Julian Clary

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780091938857 | ISBN 10: 0091938856

    Whoever said the afterlife would be easy...?   The new inhabitants of an old house in deepest darkest Kent are about to discover the previous owner – a certain Mr Noël Coward – never quite left the building...   A wickedly dark ghost st ... more

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  • Cover image of book 98 Wounds by Justin Chin
    98 Wounds - by Justin Chin

    £13.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781933149578 | ISBN 10: 1933149574

    98 Wounds is a series of improbably linked stories that reimagines and reconciles the abject, the outlaw, the ostracized, the misfits, and the cranky contrarians among us.  Gay people have never been as free — or divided — as in today's s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse by Lonely Christopher
    The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse - by Lonely Christopher

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781936070800 | ISBN 10: 1936070804

    Two boys lie on a bed, one of them is already dead; they listen to Glenn Gould playing Bach and talk about suicide and love. A lonely narrator mourns the end of a relationship and the disappearance of a mysterious object as a frustrated artist jumps ... more

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  • Cover image of book Krakow Melt by Daniel Allen Cox
    Krakow Melt - by Daniel Allen Cox

    £13.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781551523729 | ISBN 10: 1551523728

    This second novel by Lambda Literary Award finalist Daniel Allen Cox (Shuck) is an incendiary story about two pyromaniacs who fight homophobia in Krakow, Poland, one of the fronts of the Solidarnosc revolution that eventually toppled the Berlin Wall ... more

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  • Cover image of book Queer (25th Anniversary edition) by William S. Burroughs
    Queer (25th Anniversary edition) - by William S. Burroughs

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141189918 | ISBN 10: 0141189916

    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 pa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Yield by Lee Houck
    Yield - by Lee Houck

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780758242655 | ISBN 10: 0758242654

    In his evocative and mesmerizing debut novel, Lee Houck depicts a contemporary Manhattan thrumming with sex and violence as seen through the eyes of Simon — a twenty-something part-time hustler with a cadre of loyal, sometimes floundering friends. As ... more

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  • Cover image of book Devil in Disguise by Julian Clary
    Devil in Disguise - by Julian Clary

    £13.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780091927356 | ISBN 10: 0091927358

    How far would you go for fame and fortune?  Would you change your name?  Change your personality?  Reveal your inner drag queen?  Betray your friends?  Would you kill?  Fab, filthy and funny, Julian Clary’s Devil in Disguise is a ta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gay Love Stories: An Anthology of Erotica by Hank Brooks
    Gay Love Stories: An Anthology of Erotica - by Hank Brooks

    £13.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781935509240 | ISBN 10: 1935509241

    "These stories were written by a hopeless romantic. I believe everyone should be in love; young, old, and in between; men and women. Consequently, every story has a Hollywood ending and all my live happily ever after.  Almost every love st ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gay Divorcee by Paul Burston
    The Gay Divorcee - by Paul Burston

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780751542363 | ISBN 10: 0751542369

    Phil Davies should be happy. He has a flourishing bar in the heart of Soho and in six months he will be marrying Ashley, the man he adores (even if his nickname is ‘The Incredible Sulk’). In short - he’s living every gay man’s dream. There’s just one ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chaos by Edmund White
    Chaos - by Edmund White

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408803899 | ISBN 10: 1408803895

    At once hilarious, sexy and heartbreaking, Chaos is a new novella and collection of short stories from hugely acclaimed writer Edmund White.  What happens when a life implodes? When a respected older man, a product of the liberated 1970s, is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beantown Cubans by Johnny Diaz
    Beantown Cubans - by Johnny Diaz

    £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780758234254 | ISBN 10: 0758234252

    From the acclaimed author of Miami Manhunt and Boston Boys Club, comes a witty, new, warmhearted novel of friendship, familia, and finding a place to call home — even in a city where it’s almost impossible to get an authentic Cuban sandwich...  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Johnny Come Home by Jake Arnott
    Johnny Come Home - by Jake Arnott

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780340818596 | ISBN 10: 034081859x

    It's 1972 and as the dreams of the Sixties give way to anger and political unrest, the charismatic anarchist Declan O'Connell commits suicide, leaving his boyfriend Pearson amd fellow squatter Nina to try and make sense of what has happened. Enter Sw ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best Gay Romance by Edited by Tom Graham
    Best Gay Romance - by Edited by Tom Graham

    £11.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781573442626 | ISBN 10: 1573442623

    Openly erotic and smart, the stories of Best Gay Romance deliver hope and happy endings.  Dale Chase’s “The Early Show” describes the tantalizing flirtation of two writers who share an eccentric habit of showing up early to Sunday matinees, to e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blasphemy by Roger N Taber
    Blasphemy - by Roger N Taber

    £13.50   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781879194618 | ISBN 10: 1879194619

    Laurence Fisher, a gay Londoner stuck in a go-nowhere job, is too wrapped up in his own unhappiness to spare concern for anyone else - until he meets Danny, a street-wise, troubled, hustling kid in danger from pimps, drug-dealers and kidnappers. Rog ... more

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  • Cover image of book Maurice by E.M Forster
    Maurice - by E.M Forster

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141441139 | ISBN 10: 0141441135

    Born into a priviledged way of life, Maurice grows up confident in status, precise in social ritual. Yet although priggish and conforming, he finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and thr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sticky Kisses by Greg Johnson
    Sticky Kisses - by Greg Johnson

    £9.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781555837709 | ISBN 10: 1555837700

    It has been four years since Thom Sadler last spoke to his sister, Abby. Yet his out-of-the-blue phone call wrenches her away from her staid life as a teacher in Philadelphia and sends her home to Atlanta, where Thom still lives. As Thom and Abby ten ... more

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  • Cover image of book Giovanni
    Giovanni's Room - by James Baldwin

    £8.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141186351 | ISBN 10: 0141186356

    David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancee to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsom Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancee returns, and, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
    The Night Listener - by Armistead Maupin

    £8.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780552142403 | ISBN 10: 0552142409

    Gabriel Noone is a writer whose late-night radio stories have brought him into the homes of millions. Noone is in the midst of a painful separation from his lover of ten years, when a publisher sends him the memoir of a 13 year old boy who suffered h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst
    The Spell - by Alan Hollinghurst

    £9.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780099276944 | ISBN 10: 0099276941

    'Alex is 36, something in the Foreign Office, discreetly gay...his ex-lover Justin invites him to a weekend in the Dorset village of Litton Gambril with his new boyfriend, forty-something architect Robin, and Robin's twenty-two-year-old gay son, Dann ... more

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  • Cover image of book Like People In History by Felice Picano
    Like People In History - by Felice Picano

    £12.99   paperback   (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780349108384 | ISBN 10: 0349108382

    Flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge and steadfast, cautious Roger Sansarc are second cousins who are both gay and whose lifelong friendship begins when they first meet as nine-year-old boys in 1954. At crucial moments in their personal histories the ... more

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