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JEANNIE

JEANNIE

by Aimee Stuart

Samuel French Ltd

It is 1936 in a “wee one-eyed” town in Scotland. Jeannie is a drudge for her mean controlling father, but dreams of a different life. When she receives a large inheritance, she seizes the opportunity …

Homos, or Everyone in America

Homos, or Everyone in America

by Jordan Seavey

Nick Hern Books

Equality is here – now what? In a supposedly 'post-gay' America on the brink of passing marriage equality, a first date at a New York bar starts two men on a fearless, funny and fragmented journey lea…

Checkpoint Chana

Checkpoint Chana

by Jeff Page

Bloomsbury Publishing

Poet Bev Hemmings is in the eye of a storm after she publishes a poem that the world seems to believe is anti-Semitic. She's convinced she's innocent, but everyone else – including her PA, Tamsin – wa…

Returning to Haifa

Returning to Haifa

by Ghassan Kanafani, Adapted by Ismail Khalidi and Naomi Wallace

Faber & Faber

A compelling story of two families - one Palestinian, one Israeli - forced by history into an intimacy they didn't choose. In 1948, Palestinian couple Said and Safiyya fled their home during the Nakba…

 Booby’s Bay

Booby’s Bay

by Henry Darke

Bloomsbury Publishing

Above a secluded cove in Cornwall, Huck, a former fisherman, is squatting in an empty second home. The holiday season is fast approaching, but he refuses to budge. Huck grew up here, but he can't affo…

Quaint Honour

Quaint Honour

by Roger Gellert

Bloomsbury Publishing

A boy's boarding school in the late 1950s. Homosexuality in the UK is illegal, but behind closed doors and behind the back of the Headmaster, gay sexual activity between the students is rife. When one…