It’s that time of year again! LGBT+ history month has come around, and we’ve got a tonne of new books to help you celebrate. It is truly always a joy putting this list together, every year the list gets bigger and bigger as more queer authors and publishers get their stories out there. We are in the golden age of LGBTQIA+ publishing, so thank you to all you readers and booksellers for your part in this wonderful bookish boom! As always, you can find the full list on our Bookshop.org shop page and reach out to your local Turnaround sales rep to place your orders. Without further ado, keep readi ..read more

As 2024 rapidly dawns on us, we’re sharing our last queer literature preview of the year with you all! Here you’ll find over forty titles that came out this Winter, or are upcoming for December. With superb reads from around the world, telling stories from dozens of talented authors, this is your one-stop-shop for this season’s biggest range of LGBTQIA+ stories. For our full 2023 list, you can catch up on our other Queer Lit Previews or browse all titles on our Bookshop.org page. Reach out to your sales rep to place your orders now! Wound By Oksana Vasyakina & Translated by Elina Alter 97 ..read more

Family! Politics! Relationships! Movies! Sports! Photography! Queer life and love in all its glory! That’s what you’ll find in today’s LGBTQIA+ non-fiction reading list! Covering a broad range of genres and subjects, you’ll find this summer’s unmissable LGBTQIA+ non-fiction titles below. if you want to stock your bookshop shelves with anything on this list then please reach out to your local Turnaround sales rep. MEMOIR Faltas By Cecilia Gentili 9781736716823 | Littlepuss Press | PB | 04/10/2022 | £14.99 A rich and moving epistolary memoir about transgender childhood, sexual trauma ..read more

So far this year we’ve given you our list of awesome queer fiction and non-fiction for 2023, but maybe your love language is pictures, colours, and stories told through images. If so, keep scrolling for this year’s Spring/Summer LGBTQIA+ releases in the worlds of comics, manga, and even photography — we’ve got plenty to catch your eye, and your heart! And if prose is more your thing, check out our 2023 Queer Lit Preview! As usual, you can find the entire list on Bookshop.org and if you want to stock your bookshop shelves with anything on this list then please reach out to y ..read more

Have you already caught the new season of Heartstopper? We’re already back in our Heartstopper obsession, and this season has made us fall even further in love with all of the characters, romances and storylines! But what happens after the credits roll or readers close the back cover of Volume 4? While we’re all anticipating Volume 5’s release in December, we have some incredible graphic novels that series fans will fall head-over-heels for. We’ve sprinkled plenty of queerness, coming-of-age joy, and heart-warmy-ness into this list, so make like our favourite bookworm, Isaac, and get reading ..read more

“‘I do not wish to be a woman.’ ‘My dear. I’m afraid we none of us has the choice.’ ‘I do not wish to be a lady, then.’ ‘I cannot blame you.'” It is rare to come across a tale as transporting and thorough as the latest epic novel from the author of Fall on Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald. Deeply embedded in Brontëan language, poetic descriptions, and a sense of gothic mystery, it is hard to believe that this tome of a book was originally published only last year in Canada. And, thanks to the powerhouse publishing company Tramp Press, Fayne is soon to be accessible in Ireland and the UK, and i ..read more

“Now is the time between birth and slaughter. Another summer has arrived…” June’s pick for one of our Books of the Month is a SCORCHER. Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth is the sapphic summer read you need in your life, so keep reading because we’re about to tell you exactly why. Sunburn is a literary coming-of age that captures the similar minutiae of romance as Normal People, and the gorgeous poetric descriptions of Call Me By Your Name. Before we get into all that, here’s what the story is really about: It’s the early 1990s, and in the Irish Village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. T ..read more

Making its English language debut this month is Last Gender, an exploration of sexuality and gender identity in Japan. Welcome to “BAR California”, a place where people with different genders, propensities, and sexual orientations gather to find a certain “something”. A transgender bisexual who has been hurt by the voices of others, a pansexual looking for true love, and a person who identities as both male and female. There are as many sexualities as there are people. One of the most fascinating things about Japan is the constant wavering between traditional and modern values. It’s one of t ..read more

QUEER IS HERE! New year, new TBR pile, baby!! And boy, do we have some juicy queer books for you to add to your bookshelves this year… From political gut punches, to a steamy western-come-scifi, to your next favourite romance. Keep scrolling to find out what the first half of 2023 has in store for you. As usual, you can find the entire 2023 Queer list on Bookshop.org and if you want to stock your bookshop shelves with anything on this list then please reach out to your local Turnaround sales rep! (Please note that some of these titles may not yet be available to pre-orde ..read more

A furiously fierce revenge thriller, this flaming feminist queer title is not one for the faint-hearted. Fuelled by vengeance, witchcraft, and a strong sense of justice, we present the second of our two June Books of the Month: LÁKÍRÍBOTO. Set in Nigeria from 2005 to 2015, Ayọ́délé Ọlọ́fintúádé shows insight into the many struggles women and the LGBTQIA+ community face in a country so bound by cis-heteronormative hegemony. Nigerian gender equality was reported at 0.33333% in 2020 (World Bank), and it’s a place where it’s still considered criminal to be queer, punishable by the death penalty ..read more