The start of February marks the return of LGBTQ+ History Month in the UK! Today we're recommending some of our favourite historical narratives by LGBTQ+ authors with both fiction and non-fiction making it to the list. Scroll down to read more or visit the bookshop to see the list on display!
The Team
Published: 4th Sep '25
Format: Hardback
Price: £18.99
The Team
Published: 31st Mar '22
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
The Team
Published: 21st Sep '17
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
The Team
Published: 12th Feb '26
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
Based on the lives of John Addington Symonds and Havelock Ellis, Tom Crewe’s debut novel summons up the atmosphere of Victorian London only to expose its contradictions and hypocrasies surrounding love, sex and sexuality. Crewe’s scene-writing is artful and compact, and surprisingly spicy; but it’s the book’s dialogue, which reflects its specific context meticulously while also casting a glancing, hopeful eye to the future, that makes the most pressing emotive claims.
Marc
Published: 11th Jan '24
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
The Team
Published: 29th Feb '24
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
The Team
Published: 30th May '24
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
The Team
Published: 28th Jul '05
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
Nan Astley, the refreshingly chaotic protagonist of Sarah Waters' debut novel, walks away from her life as an oyster girl to join a drag king act in Victorian London. Tipping the Velvet is a subversive (and sexy!) testament to queer people's ability to carve out spaces of authenticity and joy in the face of a culture that tries to erase them; it is also a rich, twisting bildungsroman that foregrounds the unsung historical intersections between queerness and class liberation.
Amos
Published: 16th May '24
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
The Team
Published: 31st Mar '22
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
The Team
Published: 31st Aug '17
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
The Team
Published: 10th Oct '24
Format: Paperback
Price: £12.99
The Team
Published: 3rd Mar '22
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
The Team
Published: 1st Aug '19
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
The Team
Published: 6th Nov '25
Format: Hardback
Price: £20.00
The Team
Published: 29th Jan '26
Format: Hardback
Price: £20.00
The Team
Published: 2nd Oct '25
Format: Paperback
Price: £8.99
The Team
Published: 5th Jun '25
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
The Team
Published: 10th Jun '25
Format: Hardback
Price: £20.00
The Team
Published: 4th May '23
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
The Team
Published: 18th Nov '25
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
The Team
Published: 22nd Jan '26
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
It's all too easy to romanticise bookselling, but in this heartfelt and inspiring record of Silver Moon Women's Bookshop's existence Cholmeley lays bare the harsh realities of retail, particularly as a lesbian-owned business in Thatcher's Britain dealing with misogyny and homophobia daily. It's a personal yet all-encompassing history that drives home the importance of bookshops as safe community spaces, as information centres, and as meeting places of ideas.
Zoe
Published: 13th Feb '25
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99