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English Lesbian and Queer Fiction
It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother's country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel's doorstep - as a guest, there to stay for ....
Autor_innen: Van der Wouden, Yael
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. As his grandmother’s sole caretaker, he spends his days cooped up in their apartment, avoiding his neighborhood masjid, his estranged sister, and even his best friend (who also happens ....
Autor_innen: Joukhadar, Zeyn
The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short - and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to women. Charting her romantic and professional adventures during the First World War and beyond, the novel provoked a furore on first publication in 1928 for its ....
Autor_innen: Hall, Radclyffe
Collected Short Stories 2008-2024
In 1920's Berlin, the recovered diaries of transgender model Heike expose her as the mysterious muse and subject behind Christian Schad's best-known painting. After signing her Gender Recognition Certificate, a trans woman channels the offbeat glamour of a forgotten movie star at a Brighton gay bar. A well-known journalist finds herself ....
Autor_innen: Jacques, Juliet
Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists
Through stories at once poetic and poignant "There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart" offers a powerful elixir for all who rebel against systemic violence and injustice. The contemporary renewal of Jewish anarchism draws on a history of suffering, ranging from enslavement and displacement to white nationalism and genocide. Yet it also ....
Autor_innen: Milstein, Cindy (Hg.)
An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
This Arab is queer, proud, profound, curious, content, angry - a force for change. This Arab cannot be put in a box, closet or kept out by damaging stereotypes, regimes or orthodoxy. Elevating 18 writers from around the world, this ground-breaking anthology of short memoirs and essays is for anyone who finds reductionist identity politics ....
Autor_innen: Jahshan, Elias (Ed.)
"I had a dream once where I found a hyper-cube that was also a book. It was opalescent and glistening, with gold edges. I couldn't figure out how to read it because I didn't know how to read in four-dimensional space. I had the sense that if I could figure out how to read this book it would change the way I lived. And then, years later, ....
Autor_innen: Baer, Hannah
"Unsex Me Here" is a prayer book tied together by the strings of a corset. Glamorous ramblers, haunted by the sense of another world drawing near, wander in and out of its inexplicable twilight. From a West Texas town with a supernatural past to a stalactite cavern in the birthplace of Aphrodite, from hotel rooms to gardens to the far ....
Autor_innen: Mattia, Aurora
As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and rogue spirits. They are those who inhabit transient spaces, who make their paths and move invisibly, who embrace apparitions, old vengeances and alternative realities. Eloghosa Osunde’s brave, fiercely inventive ....
Autor_innen: Osunde, Eloghosa
Variations is the debut short story collection from one of Britain's most compelling voices, Juliet Jacques. Using fiction inspired by found material and real-life events, Variations explores the history of transgender Britain with lyrical, acerbic wit.
Autor_innen: Jacques, Juliet
Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for "talkin' like a poof" after school. Sick of dad - the weightlifting, womanising Gaz - and Mam, who pissed off to Turkey like Shirley Valentine. Sick of all the people in Hucknall who shuffle about like the living dead, going on about ....
Autor_innen: Lees, Paris
The venerated Reverend Doctor John Freeman did not raise his son, Davis, to be touched by any man, let alone a white man. He did not raise his son to whisper that man’s name with tenderness.But on the eve of his wedding, all Davis can think about is how beautiful he wants to look when he meets his beloved Everett at the altar. Never ....
Autor_innen: Norris, Denne Michele
