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.
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
Rainbow Milk is an intersectional coming-of-age story, following nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of a Jehovah's Witness upbringing and the legacies of the Windrush generation. In the Black Country in the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman A ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize 2020. 'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' Observer It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good fa ...Show more
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
You were right when you said that people can't always give us what we want from them. Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike su ...Show more
The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle by Neil Blackmore
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
Brothers Benjamin and Edgar have so far led a quiet life, but change is afoot as they enter a world of glorious sights and People of Quality on their Grand Tour of Europe. But a trunk full of powdered silver wigs and matching suits isn't enough to embed them into high society. As Edgar clings on to conv ...Show more
The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
__________________________mountweazel, noun- a fake entry deliberately inserted into a dictionary or work of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth has reached the letter 'S', toiling away for the much-anticipate ...Show more
What Girls Do in the Dark by Rosie Garland
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Rosie Garland’s poetry is rooted in the realm of gothic imagination, mythology and the uncanny. It contains magnitudes and magic, feminist fables starstruck with science and astronomy. Like comets, these dazzling poems explore containment, liberation, near-misses, extinction, and ultimately, they ask wh ...Show more
Women Don't Owe You Pretty: The record-breaking best-selling book every woman needs by Florence Given
$29.99 AUD
Category: Feminism & Womens Studies | Reading Level: very good
Women Don't Owe You Pretty tells you to love sex, hate sexism, protect your goddamn energy, life is short, dump them, and that you owe men nothing, least of all pretty. Florence's debut book explores all progressive corners of the feminist conversation; from insecurity projection and refusing to find co ...Show more