Less by Andrew Sean Greer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: An Arthur Less Novel | Reading Level: very good
Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on ...Show more
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
$21.99 AUD
Category: Queer
ANew York Times Notable Book of 2020 Named one of the best books of 2020 byThe New Yorker; BBC; NPR;Time("100 Must-read Books");Kirkus; and The Washington Post ("50 Notable Works of Fiction") In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut,What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deepens his explor ...Show more
Lie With Me by Philippe Besson
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventee ...Show more
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
$27.99 AUD
Category: Vintage Classics
Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evokin ...Show more
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't k ...Show more
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan by Lou Sullivan; Ellis Martin (Editor); Zach Ozma (Editor); Susan Stryker (Preface by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Queer
We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan narrates the inner life of a gay man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half of the 20th century. Sullivan kept comprehensive journals from age 11 until his AIDS-related death at 39. Sensual, la ...Show more
Pretty Baby by Chris Belcher
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Chris Belcher appeared destined for a life of conventional femininity after she took first place in an infant beauty contest - a minor glory that followed her around her small, working-class town in rural West Virginia. But when she came out as queer, the conservative community that had once celebrated ...Show more
Fire Island - A Queer History by Jack Parlett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Queer
Fire Island: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and a place of hedonism, reinvention, liberation. Arriving on the island after a break-up back home in England, scholar and poet Jack Parlett was beguiled by what he found. Here were the halcyon scenes of Frank O'Hara's poetry; the bars where ...Show more
A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Queer
No, they weren’t ‘just friends’! Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. ‘But historians famously care about women!’, said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read who sailed the seas together disguised as pirates, to US football captain Megan Rapinoe declaring ‘You can’t win ...Show more
The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World by Alan Downs
$29.99 AUD
Category: Queer
This is the groundbreaking examination of the psychology of homosexuality and why it leads to shame over one's identity, and how to overcome it - now expanded and fully updated. Today's gay man enjoys unprecedented, hard-won social acceptance. Despite this victory, however, serious problems still exist. ...Show more
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. ...Show more
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Blue Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Henri had a passion for Napoleon and Napoleon had a passion for chicken. From Boulogne to Moscow Henri butchered for his Emperor and never killed a single man. Meanwhile, in Venice, the city of chance and disguises, Villanelle was born with the webbed feet of her boatman father - but in the casinos she ...Show more