Coming of Age

Luc O'Donnell is tangentially - and reluctantly - famous. His rock-star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next 20 years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to...

In Boyfriend Material, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends...and somehow figured out a way to make it work. Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc's feeling the social...

What if you had escaped your devout family in Ireland to live your best queer life - then your brother became a candidate for sainthood? An unmissable, award-winning, moving and funny exploration of family, grief and queer identity. *SELECTED AS A RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A “lustrous debut”* and a sundrenched and dewy snapshot of modern girl culture set in the blaze of one suburban Midwest summer “Feldman brings an Austenian attentiveness to the foibles of suburban adolescence. . . . The pleasure of Girl’s Girl is that it reveals...

From the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER comes a new novel of boyhood, coming of age, and the confusions of desire and reality. For all readers of Ian McEwan's ATONEMENT or L P Hartley's THE GO-BETWEEN. 1970s Weston-Super-Mare and ten-year-old oddball Eustace, an only child, has life...

Two teens, divided by class, find each other in this heart-wrenching coming-of-age short story about belonging and second chances by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dustin Thao.

Bold, nostalgic, and unapologetically queer, Pride High is a coming-of-age romance series for adults who want to experience the thrill—and the heartbreak—of falling in love for the first time.

Steamy and fiercely emotional, this coming-of-age romance captures the raw ache of an all-consuming crush.

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly....

Bloomsbury presents Hideous Kinky, written and read by Esther Freud Quirky, charming and suffused the footloose spirit of the sixties, this is the irresistible story of an English woman who decides on a whim to move herself and her two young daughters to Morocco. The ensuing adventure takes them...

Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut...

Buying into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a mom takes a chance on bettering herself, and talks her way into college. But once she's there, phallocratic narratives permeate every subject, and writing professors depend heavily on Freytag's pyramid to analyze life....

In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention in an own-voices story of trans witchcraft.

Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising - and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink....

Finalist for the 2026 LAMBDA Literary Award Finalist for the 2026 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize Finalist for the 2025 CALIBA Golden Poppy Award Longlisted for the 2026 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award "Jam-packed with queer angst and queer joy . . . and a truly incredible amount of heart. I...

Meet Orlando: a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, poet, lover, adventurer—and, after a transformational sleep, a woman.

The Bestselling Richard & Judy Summer Book Club Pick 2021 The Bestselling Radio 2 Book Club Selection ‘Tight, clever and riddled with wit. Like discovering Adrian Mole or Bridget Jones for the first time.’ Joanna Nadin, author of The Queen of Bloody Everything ‘A sweet, fizzy sherbet...

A novel of love, homelessness and learning to be fearless. In the garden, there were three flamingos. Not real flamingos, but real emblems, real gateways to a time when life was impossibly good. They were mascots, symbols of hope. Something for a boy to confide in. First, there were the...

From the award-winning author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies comes a brilliantly written, globe-spanning novel about identity, faith, family, and sexuality. In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who...

Seine Endzwanziger hat sich Hendrik Popom anders vorgestellt. Nichts will ihm so richtig gelingen. In seinem Agenturjob sitzt er seine Zeit ab, mit seiner Freundin lief es schon einmal besser, und dann ist da plötzlich dieser Mann – Popóm.