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1791. The dressmaker, his lover and his lover's wife. A house full of secrets where danger lies behind every door. Matthew came from nothing. Now he is a skilled corset-maker adored by high society. But he must hide his true self from prying eyes, seeking love in the riotous underbelly of...

A gay president? In 1857?Jeff Berman, a Pennsylvania history professor, discovers correspondence between President James Buchanan and his male aide which depicts their sexual and emotional relationship.With the help of handsome Pascal Montrouge, a disgraced reporter hungry to return to the big...

Dramatisations of two novels by the Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick White Australian author Patrick White is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century. His debut novel, 1939’s Happy Valley, was awarded the Gold Medal of the Australian...

En cette année 1916 où la guerre dévore chaque jour sa ration de chair humaine, les survivants n'ont d'autres ressources que d'offrir leur corps en sursis à la douceur du désir et à la violence des étreintes. Vincent, le narrateur, est un très jeune homme particulièrement beau et intelligent. Il découvre la passion dans les bras d'Arthur, un jeune soldat qui tente d'échapper pour quelques jours à l'horreur des tranchées ; et dans le même moment, il noue une amitié amoureuse avec Marcel Proust que la séduction de cet adolescent trouble.

Miquel and his father are living an uneasy life together in his mother's house in the Pyrenees, the house she had been returning to on the day she died. A new bridge connecting the remote valley with a changing world is almost complete, which will end its isolation and create an easier route for...

A spellbinding tale of hidden desires, whispered secrets, and a darkness that lingers behind every locked door. Yorkshire, 1898. When twenty-one-year-old Lilianne Loxley is sent to Lord Bexton's isolated estate to work off her uncle's debts, she expects drudgery—not danger. With her gift for...

Yoshiba y Fumi se han amado durante toda su vida. El único temor que les asalta es morir y separarse para siempre. Un día, Yoshiba descubre el lugar del que hablaban los viejos: la fuente de la eterna juventud. Pero los viejos amantes pronto entenderán las consecuencias de haber bebido de sus aguas.

Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as ‘Christopher Isherwood’. Down There on a Visit tells the vivid stories of Isherwood’s life that, together with The Berlin Novels (Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin), were to have comprised his great unfinished epic novel. Delivering the reflective, candid narration that touches on identity, desire, alienation and the urge to belong, Simon Callow brings an exquisite sparkle to each character sketch.

Uma história de amor arrebatadora no Cairo dos anos 1980. O premiado romance de estreia de Éric Chacour na voz de Johnny Massaro. No Cairo dos anos 1980, Tarek é um médico casado, respeitado e bem estabelecido. Quando ele abre uma clínica popular em um bairro pobre da cidade, conhece Ali, um rapaz com quem vive um romance turbulento, que vira sua vida do avesso.

Der Auftakt der neuen Reihe von Bestseller-Autorin A.D. WiLK über starke Frauen. Es ist falsch. Doch sie kann nicht aufhören, an sie zu denken. Will nicht länger an sie denken. Soll sie sich ihren Gefühlen ein weiteres Mal hingeben, obwohl sie weiß, dass sie dabei alles verlieren kann? Sommer 1974. Nici und Kate sind 17. Abgeschieden von der Hektik der Großstadt und dem bunten Treiben der Siebziger Jahre verbringen sie sechs Wochen bei ihren Großeltern in einem kleinen Dorf in den Bergen.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Sparrow comes another spellbinding historical epic set in the last days of a dying Roman empire . . . Sparrow has flown from the confines of the Roman brothel where he was raised. Now older and smarter, and having learned the arts of deception and...

Drei Romane über die Frauen von Bloomsbury von Stefanie H. Martin. Ein so überraschender wie mitreißender Roman über Virginia Woolf – Ikone der literarischen Moderne und der Frauenbewegung. Die Bloomsbury Group steht bis heute für geistige Freiheit und Liebe in all ihren Facetten. Eine große Liebesgeschichte zwischen zwei Frauen, die für Literatur leben: Virginia Woolf und Vita Sackville-West.

A Pilgrim’s Journey to Love, Faith and EternityUndying Diamond Heart is a biographical novel that transforms the extraordinary life of Khyungpo Naljor into magical realism. Often celebrated as the “Xuanzang from Tibet,” he abandoned his esteemed position as the dharma king of the Bon religion, undertaking seven pilgrimages to India and Nepal in his quest for authentic Buddhist wisdom. Throughout this spiritual odyssey, he faced a myriad of challenges, including being pursued by Bon protective deities, surviving an avalanche, and fending off a wolf attack.

Sadie "the Goat" Ferrell is one of the criminal superstars of the gangs of New York. Gallus Mag is her mortal enemy…and in an epic bar fight Gallus Mag bites off Sadie's ear — and puts it in the pickle jar of other ears she has bitten off! — as the bouncer for the Hole-in-the-Wall bar in the notorious Fourth Ward.

**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026** **Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature** A sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South America’s best-known trans men, Antonio de Erauso From deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso...

Als Timothy seinen einst besten Freund nach Jahren aufsucht, ist von Vertrautheit kaum etwas geblieben. Warren ist nicht länger der Junge von früher, sondern der unnahbare Duke of Evermoore. Ohne ein Wort hat Warren damals den Kontakt abgebrochen – und nun auch noch seine Verlobung mit Timothys Zwillingsschwester gelöst, wodurch ihr Ruf in der Gesellschaft auf dem Spiel steht. Für Timothy gibt es nur eine Antwort: ein Duell. Doch aus einem werden viele. Mit jeder Begegnung geraten nicht nur Stolz und Pflicht ins Wanken, sondern auch Gefühle, die nie verschwunden sind.

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The Nerd Daily, Queerty, She Reads, and more! A cinematic, razor-sharp novel following a backlot fixer’s daring investigation into the suspicious death of a closeted Black actor within the glamorous world of Hollywood "[Narrator Jelani] Alladin vividly...

'A joy to read' Sophie Ward 'Funny, sexy, heartbreaking' Ann Napolitano 'Wildly inventive and moving' Patrick Ryan East Village, summer of 1984. Renata is a young dyke-about-town who has the ability to see ghosts, which has been happening more and more frequently as her friends have started...

Dramatisch, abenteuerlich, hochspannend: der erste Roman aus Diana Gabaldons historischer Bestseller-Reihe um die beliebteste Nebenfigur der Outlander-Saga, Lord John Grey. Der britische Offizier Lord John Grey ist eben erst aus dem schottischen Exil nach Hause zurückgekehrt, als ihn im London des Jahres 1757 neues Ungemach erwartet: Er erhält den prekären Auftrag, vertrauliche Papiere aufzuspüren, die der britischen Armee gestohlen wurden – vermutlich von einem der eigenen Soldaten!

Jilted bride. Mad witch. Tragic villainess. This time, she will have her revenge. ‘Dazzling’ HEAT MAGAZINE ‘This is a novel of enormous élan’ THE TIMES  Charlotte Havisham has a secret. She's been underestimated for too long: by her former fiancé, Compeyson; by her family; and by...