Polari Prize Shortlists 2024

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'TENDER, SEXY, UPLIFTING AND FUN' SARAH WATERS - a queer coming-of-age love story that's funny, filthy and full of heart, set in 1980s Wales and London.SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR…

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARDChloe enters the local talent show, seeking fame, fortune and a ticket out of town. Meanwhile, her mother, Angie, wakes up hungover on the morning of her…

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It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even…

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A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love, brimming with humour and heartbreak, Bellies asks: is it worth losing a part of yourself to become who you are?Discover the beautiful coming-of-age story about falling…

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Moving between lament and celebration, Greekling reflects on a changing and often misrepresented country, the nature of motherlands and mother tongues.Greekling,the much-anticipated debut poetry collection by Kostya Tsolakis,…

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LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE FIRST BOOK AWARD 2024WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023: POLITICS'A riveting blend of memoir and manifesto ... I found myself dog-earing every page' Elizabeth Day'Profoundly articulate. Entirely wise.…

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The gothic, helter-skelter thriller debut that introduces crime fiction's first ever Traveller detective, Scott Jericho.**WINNER OF THE GENRE-BUSTING BOOK OF THE YEAR FINGERPRINT AWARD 2024****SHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER…

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1953. Eli is nineteen years old and lives alongside a cursed field with his strange aunt Dreama. Six months before, his mother disappeared during the North Sea flood. Unsure of his place in the world and of the man he is becoming, Eli is…

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An anagram of a book, here is a vaguely chronological patchwork of Forty(ish) personal stories, following the trials of Coming Out, the Age of Consent, family rejection, dodgy boyfriends, police swoops, the enemy without, queer bashers, the…

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An Irish Times Book of the YearAn electrifying descent from loneliness and grief into obsessive, all-consuming love, by an Italian literary star.‘When Xu bites me, when she has me in her teeth, naked and bad on top of me,…

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When his partner suddenly died, life changed utterly for Paul Stephenson. Hard Drive is the outcome of his revisiting a world he thought he knew, but which had been upended. In poems that are affectionate, self-examining, sometimes funny…

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Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for WritingShortlisted for the Nero Book AwardLonglisted for the Polari PrizeA darkly seductive sapphic Gothic romance inspired by classic fairytales like Beauty and the Beast.‘Kat Dunn has spun a…

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ONLY BLUE ALLOWED, by Blue government demand.Anything that isn't blue, by colour law, is banned.In a very blue house on a very blue street, sits a little boy who feels as blue as the world around him.For this little boy has a BIG secret: he…

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"The Fights That Make Us is a thought-provoking, heartwarming wonder." Maz Evans, author of Who Let the Gods Out?"Highly engaging, completely relatable and truly empowering, I loved this book." Jen Carney, author of The…

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'Exactly what I needed right now – a delightful, heartwarming, hilarious historical romp, overflowing with queer panic and terrible jokes. I loved it' - ALICE OSEMAN, bestselling author of HEARTSTOPPER'Fun and genuinely…

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"Utterly unique and movingly memorable, a wonderful story about what happens when we take control of our own narrative, and find ways to communicate across the gaps in language. Clever, brilliantly written, and thought-provoking, it will…