Booklists > Polari Prize 2021
The Polari Prize is the UK's only dedicated awards for LGBTQ+ literature, including an award for a first book. Featuring commercial bestsellers to digital-only release and a notable selection of books from independent publishers.
A Dutiful Boy: A memoir of a gay Muslim's journey to acceptance by Mohsin Zaidi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
A Guardian Best Book of the YearA GQ Best Book of the YearA New Statesman Best Book of the YearGrowing up in a devout shia Muslim household, it felt impossible for Mohsin to be gay. Unable to be open with his family, and with difficult conditions at school, he felt his opportunities closing around him. ...Show more
Beneath the Streets by Adam Macqueen
$0.00 AUD
Category: No Category
When Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe hired thugs to kill his ex-lover, they botched it. What if they had succeeded? It is February 1976, and the naked corpse of a shockingly underage rent boy is fished out of a pond on Hampstead Heath. Since the police don't seem to care, 20-year-old Tommy Wildeblood ...Show more
Charred - A Survivor Speaks Her Truth to Inspire by Andreena Leeanne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Eat, Gay, Love by Calum McSwiggan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
In the spring of 2012, Calum finds himself single again after his relationship of six years comes to an end. Heartbroken, unhappy and unsure of what to do next, he leaves the hometown he has been in all his life to embark on a journey that takes him all around the world, from teaching in a school on th ...Show more
Forced Out - A Detective's Story of Prejudice and Resilience by Kevin Maxwell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Kevin Maxwell was a dream candidate for the police force - he had a long-held desire to serve his community, a strong moral compass and a clear aptitude for both the strategic and practical aspects of policing. And, as a gay black man from a working class family, he could easily have been a poster boy f ...Show more
In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life by Jamie Windust
$34.99 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir
There is no one way to be non-binary, and that's truthfully one of the best things about it. It's an identity that is yours to shape.Combining light-hearted anecdotes with their own hard-won wisdom, Jamie Windust explores everything from fashion, dating, relationships and family, through to mental healt ...Show more
Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward
$22.99 AUD
Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Sophie Ward is a dazzling talent who writes like a modern-day F Scott Fitzgerald' Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail 'An act of such breath-taking imagination, daring and detail that the journey we are on is believable and the debate in the mind non-stop. There are elements of Doris Lessing in the wr ...Show more
Manatomy by MCDERMOTT
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Manatomy is a collection of wry, witty and cheeky poems exploring how nature, nurture, pop culture, prejudice and politics shape the identity of camp gay man James McDermott. Structured in three parts - 'Boy', 'Youth' and 'Man' - Manatomy interrogates how the experiences of growing up gay in a homophob ...Show more
No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami
$22.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
The story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place – Paris, Between the Wars – fostered the birth of the Modernist movement. One of Stylist 's best new books for April. 'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with g ...Show more
On Connection by Kae Tempest
$14.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Faber Social Ser.
Staggering talent Kae Tempest's first work of non-fiction: a hopeful theory of creativity - the power of creative connection to act as the antidote to numbness.The increasingly hyper-individualistic, competitive and exploitative society that we live in has caused a global crisis at the turn of the new d ...Show more
One of Them: From Albert Square to Parliament Square by Michael Cashman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
'An extraordinary life, depicted with searing honesty ... A colourful journey sprinkled with delicious anecdotes' Daily Express'Extraordinary ... You'll be ugly-sobbing at the end' Graham Norton'It tells not just the story of his life, but also the battle for LGBT equality in the UK' Guardian'A memoir t ...Show more