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[[Category:New Reviews|LGBT Fiction]] __NOTOC__
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|author=Everina MaxwellJames Baldwin|title=WinterGiovanni's OrbitRoom|rating=4.5|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary= Prince Kiem ''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is a famous political disappointmentengaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4. He5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's outgoingall bloody peculiar, carefreeisn't it, and has gotten Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into many drunken scandals over the past few years. So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – local pub one that is supposed to prevent evening in the middle of an interplanetary war – no one expects him autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to be chosen for the rolevillage of Greystone, in Devon. Least Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all him-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book.|isbn=0356515885 Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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|author=Becky AlbertalliLex Croucher|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54
|genre=Teens
|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a great life. He has a close group of friendsgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a loving family, and even an adorable dog. But he has a secret: he's gaymost delightful way. Only one person knows In thisstory, Gwen and thatArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out only female knight) - something that there was another closeted guy at his schoolArt discovers from her private diaries. Their emails are And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a safe space for Simon; it's his own private universe without boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the fear subterfuge of being judgedfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Until one day But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, these emails fall into the wrong handswill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, and everything Simon knows is turned upside down.or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=014135609X1526651793
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|author=Arvin AhmadiPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=How It All Blew UpDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1542037239|title=Death in Heels|author=Kitty Murphy
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|genre=TeensCrime|summary=18 year old Amir is American IranianSet against the backdrop of Dublin's drag scene, a Muslim''Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, and gay. He struggles with his identityRobyn, unable who is about to face telling his parents who he really debut as drag queen Mae B. What ismeant to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing himEve, threatening takes to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs awaythe stage to mock Mae B.As if the night could not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter.Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag community, and the Guards, accept it as an accident.Fi takes it upon herself to Italy! So begins a journey solve the mystery as she fears for Amirher friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeper.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008441618|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and his familythe funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, where though - they all discover more about himwere ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, and who he really isin particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and who he really wants Kate Monroe objected to beJo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.|isbn=1471409929
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|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallFreya Marske|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaA Marvellous Light|rating= 54|genre= TeensHistorical Fiction|summary= On Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the pirate ship DoveCivil Service, Flora much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the girl has assumed the identity streets of Florian the man in an attempt to fit in London are threaded with the crewmagic. Life is hard as Desperate to remove a pirate, trust and empathy are the first things curse that threatens to be discardedswallow him, but anything has Robin follows Edwin to be better than starving on the streets. Meanwhilecountryside, where the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the Dove, headed off to be married to people shimmer with power. There they uncover a military man she's never met on some far-flung colony sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the Nipran EmpireBritish Isles. Neither of them expects to be thrown together by fate, never mind fall in love…|isbn=15362043151529080886
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|isbn=14711809211471181405|title=FirewatchingNighthawking
|author=Russ Thomas
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that hewhat's lucky to be there, given that he decked otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of a superior officeryoung woman was discovered. He's there because Tyler came off worse It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who would have started to dig her up? It had been in the exchange - there's a scar on his face earth for months and could have been undiscovered for years. The police need to prove it establish who stabbed her - and who left the superior officer was forced to take early retirementtwo, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. There's a suggestion too that DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tylerand DC Mina Rabbani. They's godmother (shere joined by DS Guy Daley who's on the force too) has looked after him and that his current boss is keen to have a tame gay to put on the town hall steps come Pridejust returned from extended sick leave. Either way, Mina thinks he's there, as obnoxious as ever but without anything really interesting to get suspects that he's not fully recovered from his teeth intoinjuries.
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|authorisbn=Akwaeke Emezi0857527231|title=PetDog Days|author=Ericka Waller|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=The people of the town Lucille believe that all the monsters are goneGeorge Dempsey is exceedingly angry. Their children are raised to understand that they were saved by the angelsIt's eight days since his wife, those who rid the town of evilEllen, died and there are no monsters anymoreit's the first time that she's let him down. But one dayHe's lost, Jam accidentally cuts herselfbereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, and bleeds like a little onto one of her mothersnail needs its shell''s paintings). The blood awakens a bizarre, terrifying-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes to He misses their ordered life and declares that it is here rather than bringing him meals to hunt leave on the monsterdoorstep, he'd much rather have a good row with someone. Though Jam tries He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared to convince it contradict him when he told her that all the monsters dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who are gone, Pet trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all is certain that there is oneBetty, stillwho won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and that the monster is hiding in the home of her best friend, Redemptiondestroy them.|isbn=0571355110
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|isbnauthor=1509889566Everina Maxwell|title=The Long Call (Two Rivers)|author=Ann CleevesWinter's Orbit|rating=45|genre=LGBT Science Fiction|summary=When we first meet DI Matthew Venn hePrince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's at his father's funeraloutgoing, carefree, although 'at' rather overstates the proximity. He sees everyone - his mother and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the preacher included from a distance - but he doesn't go inpast few years. He wouldn't So when an important political alliance is to be welcome. Those attending are part of the Barum Brethren and the teenage Matthew was thrown out when he told the congregation how wrong they were in their beliefs. It coincided with arranged – one that is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him leaving university and joining to be chosen for the police forcerole. The announcement Least of Matthew's marriage to Jonathan Church was in the local paper and whilst he doesn't know if his father saw it, he can't imagine that it will have gone down wellall him.|isbn=0356515885
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