BOOKS
Solomon’s third novel is a fantastical genre-bending story of a young woman escaping to make a new life for herself and her kids. Solomons says they wanted to explore how those of us deemed horrific and unnatural may in fact have special, unseen superpowers. Comes with high praise from Booker-winning author Marlon James.
Eamon Summers Dolly Considines Hotel Unbound, 8th July, £9.99, 9781789651294 Eighteen-year-old writer Julian befriends Dolly, who runs a hotel, and soon begins to use her life for inspiration, along with the stories and struggles of 1980s Ireland and all the political complications of the time.
Klare Ladner Nightshift Picador, Feb 2022, £8.99, 9781529010404 In the vein of Patricia Highsmith, Nightshift is the explosively dark story of Meggie, who becomes enthralled with nightshift worker Sabine and is dragged into a dark, dangerous night-time world where anything can happen. A début from Londoner Klare Ladner.
Douglas Stuart Loch Awe Picador, April 2022, £16.99, 9781529068764 Not much is yet known about it, but the next novel from Douglas Stuart, Glasgow-born Booker Prize-winning author of uber hit Shuggie Bain, is released next April. It will no doubt cause a sensation.
Category Spotlight LGBTQ+ Publishing
Emily Austin Everyone in this Room Will Someday be Dead Simon & Schuster, 8th July, £11.64, 9781838953737 A buzzfeed “highly anticipated” book from Canadian author Austin, in the vein of Eleanor Oliphant... and Exciting Times, this is the story of lesbian atheist Gilda, who takes the job of a dead receptionist at a Catholic Church. Ponders on life, love, religion and other major questions.
their new home. This is a down-to-earth and funny, with a diverse take on superheroes.
Micaiah Johnson The Space Between Worlds Hodder, pb, 1st June, £8.99, 9781529387117 Hailed as a stunning début for Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds looks at issues of race, class, privilege and sexuality by exploring 380 alternate realities for the lead character Cara; she is only alive in eight of them.
of community relations, addiction, hope, huge heels, devastation and Donald Trump, this sounds like a riveting read.
Patrick Gale Mother’s Boy Tinder Press, March 2022, £18.99, 9781472257413 Iconic gay author Patrick Gale continues his prolific and impressive output with a new story of class, desire and two world wars. It’s set in Cornwall, and is about a man and wife; he a soldier who keeps his clandestine love a secret... Several of Gale’s other works are getting reissues over the next two years.
Te Mit Press, 8th June, £14.99, 9781635901429 Three stories published separately in the 1990s by acclaimed French writer Dustan, brought together here, which tell the story of gay life in the 1990s amid the devastation, and hedonism, of AIDS. Considered to be a close contemporary of writers such as Dennis Cooper, Brett Easton Ellis and Gary Indiana.
Dialogue Books, out now, £14.99, 9780349700717 A moving short novel about a film director starting up an intriguing relationship while on a press tour in Europe. Perfect for fans of film and queer love stories, and anyone interested in the toll being creative can take on artists.
Jen Silverman We Play Ourselves Atlantic, 3rd June, £14.99, 9781838954307 The story of a successful playwright who, after being publicly shamed, flees to LA and meets an enigmatic, complicated filmmaker. This is a début novel by Jen Silverman, a writer on Netflix’s reboot of “Tales of the City”. A razor-sharp story of ambition and the cost of success, it comes recom- mended by Oprah, no less.
Linden A Lewis The Second Rebel Hodder, pb, 24th August, £16.99, 9781529386950 The sequel to First Sister, described as a gender- queer soap opera, won praise for its solid and diverse representation of LGBTQ+ lives. This continues the story of Astrid. One for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Expanse.
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Clarissa Goenawan The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida Scribe, pb, May 2021, £8.99, 9781913348847 This novel, set in Japan, is about the friends of a woman who took her own life; they are trying to find out why she did it, and to discover what they didn’t know about her.
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& Pippa Marland Gifts of Gravity and Light Hodder & Stoughton, 8th July, £20, 9781529363159 This wonderful-sounding almanac presents various takes on nature and the living world by a diverse group of writers. The LGBQT+ community seems detached from the concerns of climate change, so this makes for important reading.
T J Klune Flash Fire Hodder & Stoughton, 13th July, £16.99, 9781473693104 The explosive sequel to The Extraordinaries is about Nick, who has met the superhero of his dreams but now must decide who the good and bad guys are in
Max Schaefer Children of the Sun Muswell Press, June 2021, £8.99, 9781916207752 The latest title in Muswell Press’ series of reissues is this story of a TV researcher looking into the murky history of participation of some gay men in the far-right move- ment. James becomes obsessed with the story of Nicky Crane, who died of AIDS in 1993.
Brian Malloy After Francesco PGUK, 25th May, 9781496733511 Published on the 40th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS, this moving-sounding novel tells the story of Kevin, a 28-year-old in New York City in 1988, two years after losing his partner Francesco. Sick of funerals, he returns to Minnesota, where he must make tough decisions about his future.
Indyana Schneider 28 Questions Scribner, Jan 2022, £14.99, 9781398501096 Billed as “When Harry met Sally’ for the Sally Rooney generation”, this romantic comedy is about music student Amalia realising her feelings for her close friend could be something more—but dare she risk the friendship? Full of music, art and cultural references for the more artistic reader.
Ivan Monalisa Ojeda Las Biuty Queens W&N, 1st June, £12.99 9781474621793 With an introduction by iconic queer filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, two- spirit identified author Ojeda’s novel features stories about the Latin American trans commu- nity. Consisting of stories
Justin David & Nathan Evans (eds) Mainstream Inkandescent, 1st July, £9.99, 9781912620081 An anthology of stories from 30 writers from the edges. Queer, Black, work- ing classes are certainly underrepresented in publishing, and this impressive and important new title from David and Evans, who are doing important work trying to redress the balance with Inkandescent, aims to place them at the centre of the page.
Robert Jones Jr The Prophets Quercus, out now, £9.99, 9781529405712 A New York Times bestseller, with shadows of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. The Prophets tells the story of a relationship between two enslaved men in Mississippi and its impact on those around them. Rave-reviewed from the Guardian to Cosmo, this is a stunning début from a major new voice.
Guillaume Dustan & Thomas Clerc The Works of Guillaume Dustan
William Talsman The Gaudy Image Muswell Press, £8.99, 9781999313555 Muswell Press is releasing lost gay classics, and this is its lead title. The story of trans character Titania’s quest for love, set in the French Quarter in New Orleans, this was originally published in Paris in 1958 to avoid obscenity laws. It’s published here for the first time in 30 years.
Niven Govinden Diary of a Film
Rosa Rankin-Gee Dreamland Scribner, out now, £14.99, 9781471193811 Rankin-Gee’s first novel The Last Kings of Sark won Shakespeare and Company’s Paris Literary Prize. This contemporary novel is set in the new gay haven of Margate, where young girl Chance and her family are offered cash to move away from the coast and the advancing sea levels. Based in an apocalyptic future with struggles, inequality and rising fascism.
Russ Thomas Nighthawking Simon & Schuster, 29th April, £14.99, 9781471181405 From the acclaimed author of Firewatching, this is the second book in the DS Adam Tyler series; a rare mainstream and commercial crime novel series with a gay male protagonist. With rave reviews from the likes of Lee Child, this is one for anyone invested in great crime fiction with a touch of gay interest.
Calla Henkel Other People’s Clothes Sceptre, 8th July, £14.99, 9781529357639 A disturbing and darkly comic thriller about a pair of New York female friends who travel to Berlin to get away from tragedy. They rent an apartment from a mysterious crime writer, who they come to
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