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男たちへの絶望を感じながら、二人の女が体を求め合う表題作「白鳥」。少年の肉体から離脱した"ボーイ"が暴力的な街を行く「ムーン・リバー」他。絶望を突破してゆく者たちを捉えた鮮烈な小説集。

Unpicking the stitches of gender and genre, the stories in this searing, funny, haunting debut explore how our ideas of womanhood shape us, and what they cost us. Winner of the 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Award, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary...

Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike summer swimming in secluded lakes, reading forbidden books - and falling in love. But with summer over, the two are sent back to Warsaw, and to the harsh realities of life under the Party. Exiled from paradise, Ludwik and Janusz must decide how they will survive; and in their different choices, find themselves torn apart.

A collection of sexual fantasies from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational, and game-changing exploration of women’s sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous? “The book you hold in your hands started...

A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him. His parents are devastated.

What happens after the happy ending? Drawn together for the first time, this is a collection of Lily’s short stories about some of the much-loved men from her books. Follow them through wet and windy marriage proposals, surprise workplace visits, and a very entertaining ghost tour. It includes stories previously written for her website, newsletter, and readers’ group, along with four brand new and exclusive short stories—Gertie and the Glitch, A Red Ribbon, When Will Met Jem, and Sun Cove.

A story described by Katherine Paterson as "didactic camp", a very funny but also thought-provoking fantasy about the issue of gayness. This controversial tale has given enormous comfort to many young people struggling with their own sexual identity.

An O, The Oprah Magazine LGBTQ Book ""Changing the Literary Landscape"" A gorgeously illustrated collection of essays written by today’s queer heroes—featuring contributions from Elton John, Tan France, Gus Kenworthy, Paris Lees, Russell Tovey, Munroe Bergdorf, and many others. The Queer...

He went searching for a fresh start. He didn’t expect to find unusual friends, fierce enemies, and primal powers. Jason thought that it was the end of his life after being hunted and attacked by a band of ruthless thugs. Instead, he tapped into the source of creation and emerged from his death experience with magical powers. As a new mage, Jason finds himself part of a wonderful - and dangerous - new supernatural world.

When Theo Samuels heads off to film on location in the village of Stoneydale, he's expecting drama to take place on camera, not off. But when he meets gorgeous local lad Eddie Henderson, he struggles to ignore his attraction. A relationship between the two of them would be utterly impractical, yet they're drawn together nonetheless. Can they overcome the seemingly endless hurdles between them? Or is their fling destined to remain as just that?

By late 1939, three months after declaring war on Germany, and seven before the Battle of Britain, Britain's Air Ministry realized it was going to need more fighter aircraft than Britain alone could produce. In 1938, the Air Ministry had licensed the Canadian Car and Foundry Company to build the Hawker Hurricane, powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin 29 engine built by the Detroit automaker Packard Motor Company, under license and redesigned by them for mass production. But the Ministry knew that even with this added capacity, it was not going to be nearly enough.

Saddle up and go for a long, hot ride. There's nothing in this world like a sexy cowboy...mounting another cowboy. In this fiery collection of gay erotic fiction, today's top erotica writers offer up stories of devious cattle rustlers seducing naive farm hands; dangerous outlaws breaking in small-town deputies; young, hung buckaroos wrangling each other; and duels not on the streets but between the sheets.

What happens at a destination wedding is supposed to stay at the destination wedding. Molly Bennett had a plan. Get her brother married. Keep the peace between her divorced parents. Survive maid-of-honor duties without a meltdown.

Whimsical and zany but edged with darkness, evocatively lyrical with goosebump-eliciting endings, Gretchen Astro Turner's 13 short stories in But I Digretch are for the romantic in all of us-but also the cynic. This fiction collection is for the surrealist and the dreamer.

From the author of the modern classic Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl comes a sly and sultry, subversively funny, and unabashedly queer anthology centered on the zodiac. Mary Oliver strives to save a harried, hissing, and half-drowned muskrat from the banks of a river. A centaur beats his...

The daring follow-up to the #1 bestseller Want, presenting an extraordinary new collection of letters that reveal the unfiltered desires and sexual fantasies of anonymous women across the globe "Am I a bad person? Or am I allowed to wonder ‘what if'?" "Is this kind of desire simply something...

Fake boyfriend & pup-play all on a cruise just in time for PRIDE! Our favorite pup, Jax, is christening a new yacht, and he's inviting all his friends to join him, including Todd aka Sunshine. But everyone is bringing their billionaire dates. This isn't a singles cruise, and Todd is still all alone. Welcome to Pride Cruise 2024!

Lisa Keepence grew up playing football, climbing trees and racing pushbikes with the lads. Lisa had no doubt that she was a boy, but every time she looked in the mirror, she saw what everyone else saw – the face and body of a girl. When her world was plunged into disaster by a broken home, she drifted into a life of despair, drugs, abuse, crime and imprisonment.

Un chiquillo muestra el camino que conduce al Altísimo por la senda de la desviación, el dueño de un perro difunto necesita a un taxidermista que lo inmortalice, dos comadres dictan sentencia sobre las impudicias del prójimo, un mariquita chismoso despelleja a un mariquita indeciso, un buscón arduamente casado se topa con el crimen y cae en él, un hombre abraza a su amado moribundo, dos figurines contemplan el fin de su propia exquisitez: no pueden soportar la indiferencia. La crueldad del mundo es un gozoso dolor que Luis Negrón plasma en todos los registros del alma y del habla.

In a series of intimate and humorous dispatches, McOuat examines her identity as a queer woman, and as a mother, through the lens of the pop culture moments in the '80s and '90s that molded her identity. McOuat stirs the ingredients required to conjure an unsettled spirit: the horrors of pregnancy and motherhood, love and loss, the supernatural, kaleidoscopic sexuality, near-miss experiences, and the unexplained moments in life that leave you haunted.