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[[Category:New Reviews|LGBT Fiction]] __NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Allie RogersJames Baldwin|title= Little GoldGiovanni's Room|rating= 4.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= The heat is oppressive and storms are brewing in Brighton in ''Giovanni's Room'' follows the summer of 1982. Little Goldnarrator David, a boyish girl on the brink of adolescencean American man living in Paris, is struggling as he navigates his torturous affair with the reality of her broken family and Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a home descending into chaosgay bar. Her only refuge While David is the tree at the end of her garden. Into her fractured life steps elderly neighbourengaged to Hella, Peggy Baxter. The connection between the two who is instanttravelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but just when it seems that Little Gold has found solace, outsiders appear who seek to take advantage of her frail family in from the worst way possibledeeper conflict within himself. In an era when so much It is hard to speak aloud, can Little Gold share enough David's crippling shame and denial of her life to avert disaster? And can Peggy Baxter, a woman running out of time and his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with her own secrets to bear, recognise the danger before it's too late?Giovanni.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787199959</amazonuk>0141186356

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg Grehan1529077699|title=The Space BetweenRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different 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|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Set against the backdrop of Dublin's drag scene, 'The Space Between'Death in Heels'' tells the story of BethFi McKinnery and her best friend, over the course Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae B. What is meant to be a night of excitement soon takes a yeardownward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae B. We see Beth dealing with her mental illnessAs if the night could not get any worse, locked away 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 solve the mystery as she fears for her ownfriends, personal but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeper.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008441618|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=5|genre=Women'safe' world where s Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she feels was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she can maintain didn't live up to her happiness by remaining isolatedretired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. Mouse The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the dogfunds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, howeverthough - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', has other ideas about this! With the entrance of Mouse into her life there comeswith two members, alsoin particular, Alice causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and slowly Alice brings both light and love Kate Monroe objected to BethJo's worldrestrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.}}{{Frontpage|author=Freya Marske|title=A Marvellous Light|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411590</amazonuk>1529080886

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nicole Dennis-Benn 1471181405|title= Here Comes the Sun Nighthawking|author=Russ Thomas|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction Crime|summary= You Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of a young woman was discovered. It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who would have started to assume dig her up? It had been in the team behind the cover sleeve earth for months and could have been undiscovered for Nicole Dennisyears. The police need to establish who stabbed her -Bennand who left the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's debut novel Here Comejust returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's the Sun have a keen sense of irony. Either as obnoxious as ever but suspects that or none of them read beyond the first pagehe's not fully recovered from his injuries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607124X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Stewart0857527231|title=Whilst I Was OutDog Days|author=Ericka Waller|rating=2.5|genre=General Fiction |summary= Sara StewartGeorge Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's debut noveleight days since his wife, Ellen, died and it's the first time that she'Whilst I Was Outs let him down. He's lost, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, opens with all the promise of like a book intent snail needs its shell''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to delve head-first into invention and oddness. The narrator of leave on the storydoorstep, Alice, is stuck in traffic he'd much rather have a good row with her husband – who someone. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she refers died. She even dared to throughout the book as My Dear Husband (or MDH for short) – contradict him when he suddenly jumps out of their car and runs off for seemingly no reasontold her that the dog wasn't staying. The scene opens Now he's lumbered with a mention dog he doesn't want and a load of domestic abuse but seems much more interested busybodies who are trying to interfere in the inherent malfunction his life. Worst of Aliceall is Betty, who won's husband as she describes his fixation with his bicycle and how t take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her and their three children have taken greyhound. Lucky spends a back seat lot of time trying to his 'finding himself' through affairs escape from and cross-country cyclingdestroy them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910903035</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Edmund WhiteEverina Maxwell|title= Our Young ManWinter's Orbit|rating= 45|genre= LGBT Science Fiction|summary= New York City in the eighties, and at its decadent heart Prince Kiem is Guya famous political disappointment. Guy is taking on the fashion world and fast becoming the darling of the Fire IslandHe's gay community. Fredoutgoing, Andre and Pierre-Georges are all fixated on Guycarefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the Dorian Gray like Guy commands their attention, whilst seemingly never agingpast few years. Still modelling at thirty-five, enjoying lavish gifts from these admirers who believe him far younger, Guy lets them believe So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – but then finds this way of life one that is destroying supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the men he lovesrole. Stretching from the disco era to the age Least of AIDS, Edmund White explores beauty, and the power is has to enslave, fascinate and deceiveall him. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858932</amazonuk>0356515885