Bone Broth by Alex Taylor
Taylor has created something original: a thriller with real heart, horror laced with tenderness, and a trans protagonist we can recognize ourselves in.
Book review by Eric Page
Chloe Michelle Howarth's Heap Earth Upon It
Howarth's intricate web of suspense proves masterful: trust becomes currency, and she spends it with devastating precision — a writer excavating how we bury feelings at our peril, and how queer desire persists, insists, even in the most inhospitable soil.
Summer Hours by Alessandra Thom
Thom writes with precision and tenderness in equal measure—a formidable combination. One leaves Summer Hours slightly dazed, as if emerging from someone else's fever dream into the cold Scottish morning.
Family Matters: A Celebration of Queer Arab Kinship
Within these stories shine moments of hope and audacious resistance. With profound beauty in surprise friendships, patient lovers, and time's gentle healing. This anthology weaves individual testimonies into a sweeping portrait of queer Arab existence across continents.
Review: The Little I Knew by Chiara Valerio, translated by Ailsa Wood
A meditation on small-town life, female relationships, and the secrets that pulse beneath seemingly placid surfaces. This novel unwinds with careful intensity, its narrative architecture mirroring the slow, sun-drenched rhythms of southern Italian coastal existence.
The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex, gender and mating shape modern relationships by Nathan H. Lents ★★★★★
This injects a timely splash of colour into a field increasingly given to dreary black-and-white thinking. Essential reading that proves Nature has always been the ultimate advocate for diversity, and has been having a perfectly marvellous time at it.
Queer Georgians: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers and Homemakers By Dr Anthony Delaney ★★★★★
Queer Georgians is both deeply serious scholarship and a celebration of queer resilience. It takes the mythic sheen off our ancestors while making them infinitely more precious—as recognisably queer people who loved, struggled, thrived, and endured. unmistakably queer.