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|author=Arvin AhmadiJames Baldwin|title=Giovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=''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 engaged 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=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-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. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How It All Blew Updid he finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=18 year old Amir is American IranianWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a Muslimmost delightful way. In this story, Gwen and gay. He struggles with his identityArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, unable much to face telling his parents who he really istheir mutual disgust! Gwen, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing himyou see, threatening to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs awayis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries...to Italy! So begins And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a journey for Amirboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and his familycreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, where when really they all discover more about himare enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and who he really iswill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, and who he really wants or are they destined to be.live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=14714099291526651793

|author= Maggie Tokuda-HallPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= On the pirate ship DoveAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, Flora the girl and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has assumed the identity been restructured, so his desk is one of Florian four with both his best buddy from the man football team, and two other old muckers – in an attempt fact they all go back to fit primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in with the crewclass and out often turns to sex. Life Which is hard 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 piratesecret one, for several months now, trust and empathy are so has effectively progressed up the first things to be discardedladder headed by 'experienced', but anything has to whether that's set in stone, he can't be better than starving on the streetssure. Meanwhile, the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards the Dove, headed off to be married to a military man she And that's never met on some far-flung colony mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the Nipran Empiresex with. Neither of them expects to be thrown together by fate, never mind fall in love…|isbn=15362043151529509491

|isbn=14711809211542037239|title=FirewatchingDeath in Heels|author=Kitty Murphy|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Set against the backdrop of Dublin's drag scene, ''Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae B. What is meant to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the 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 solve the mystery as she fears for her 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 the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo'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.}}{{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. |isbn=1529080886}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471181405|title=Nighthawking

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|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.

|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

|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