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NON-FICTION

The Inklings series

Big ideas to fit in your pocket. #1 through to #11 available now!

Inklings #1: Love That Journey For Me - Emily Garside (ebook)
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Inklings #1: Love That Journey For Me - Emily Garside (ebook)
£4.50

An ode to the cultural sensation Schitt’s Creek - a watershed moment for queer rep on TV. In the words of David Rose himself, we feel it needs to be celebrated.

Inklings #2: On His Royal Badness - Casci Ritchie (ebook)
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Inklings #2: On His Royal Badness - Casci Ritchie (ebook)
£4.50

A look at Prince’s distinctive style both on and beyond the screen, examining and celebrating the construction and impact of Prince upon contemporary fashion. A must read.

Inklings #3: The Appendix - Liam Konemann (ebook)
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Inklings #3: The Appendix - Liam Konemann (ebook)
£4.50

An exploration of transphobia and the trauma of living in a society constantly debating you. It turns to positive representations and experiences, capturing - as sought - the beauty in transmasculinity.

Inklings #4: The New University - James Coe (ebook)
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Inklings #4: The New University - James Coe (ebook)
£4.50

The New University reimagines the University as a more civic and personal institution, one that can draw people together in a society that currently feels fractured.

Inklings #5: The End - Katie Goh (ebook)
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Inklings #5: The End - Katie Goh (ebook)
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Shortlisted for the Kavya Prize. The End studies apocalypse fiction and its role in how we manage, manifest and imagine social, economic and political disaster and crises.

Inklings #6: Flip The Script - Arusa Qureshi (ebook)
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Inklings #6: Flip The Script - Arusa Qureshi (ebook)
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Flip the Script is a love letter to many of the phenomenal women who have paved the way in UK hip hop both at the forefront and behind the scenes. They are changing the game.

Inklings #7: Blind Spot - Maud Rowell (ebook)
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Inklings #7: Blind Spot - Maud Rowell (ebook)
£4.50

In educating us about the realities of sight loss, Maud shows us how to be aware of our own blind spots, offering the knowledge needed to become better, more tolerant members of diverse communities.

Inklings #8: No Man's Land - Anne East (ebook)
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Inklings #8: No Man's Land - Anne East (ebook)
£4.50

Anne explores this chasm between two cultures, how it is to feel one thing and yet be perceived as another. What are the emotions that people feel in this limbo? Why is culture so important?

Inklings: The full 2021 set. (ebook)
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Inklings: The full 2021 set. (ebook)
£30.00

Big ideas to carry in your pocket. Treat yourself to our eight thought provoking Inklings titles for 2021.

Inklings #9: They Came to Slay - Thom James Carter (ebook)
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Inklings #9: They Came to Slay - Thom James Carter (ebook)
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Journey on, adventurer, as Thom invites readers into the exciting queer, utopian possibilities of Dungeons & Dragons. Grab a sword and get your dice at the ready, this queer adventure is about to begin.

Inklings #10: Whatever Next? - The Whatever Next? Team (ebook)
£4.50

Winner of the Young Scot Equality and Diversity Award 2022. Inspired by the conversations within their Whatever Next? community project, Jo, Addie and Hannah explore the key tropes that adoptees grapple with and how these conversations are evolving, with the goal of kickstarting new dialogues around the adoption experience more broadly, and showcase how beneficial shared discussion can be.

Inklings #11: Sons and Others - Tanaka Mhishi (ebook)
£4.50

Sons and Others challenges misconceptions and misrepresentations of sexual violence against men across media and society and offers a new way of seeing and understanding these men in our lives, asking how the violence they experience affects us all.


REAL LIVES, DEEP DIVES, ADVICE & MORE

Treat yourself to books that’ll make you think differently about the world around.

Checkpoint - Joe Donnelly (ebook)
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Checkpoint - Joe Donnelly (ebook)
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Shortlisted for Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the Scottish National Book Awards. Part exploration, part memoir, Joe Donnelly is here to tell you that video games, in fact, save lives. They saved his.

Never, Ever Take Anybody's Advice on Anything - Euan Lownie (ebook)
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Never, Ever Take Anybody's Advice on Anything - Euan Lownie (ebook)
£4.50

From actor Alan Cumming and Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches, Wimbledon champ Andy Murray to Scotland’s Makar Jackie Kay, read the advice successful Scots have for you. (PDF only)


FICTION

NOVELS & SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

Honestly why lie, they’re just amazing. You’ll love them all.

The Arena of the Unwell - Liam Konemann (ebook)
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The Arena of the Unwell - Liam Konemann (ebook)
£4.50

“A sweaty, sticky mosh pit of a novel” - i-D | “An exhilarating reflection on abuse, the NHS, and queerness in the music industry, this is a debut that will surely make waves.” - Dazed

Nudes - Elle Nash (ebook)
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Nudes - Elle Nash (ebook)
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“Both disturbing and compulsive” - Cosmopolitan | Nash writes across the complications of working class women, rendering their desires with visceral prose and psychologically dissecting the craving and the conflicts within.

Animals Eat Each Other - Elle Nash (ebook)
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Animals Eat Each Other - Elle Nash (ebook)
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‘A desire map. A heartbomb’ - Lidia Yuknavitch. A young woman embarks on a fraught three-way relationship. With stripped-down prose and unflinching clarity, Nash examines madness in the wreckage of love, and the loss of self.

The Goldblum Variations - Helen McClory (ebook)
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The Goldblum Variations - Helen McClory (ebook)
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‘Fantastic’ - actual Jeff Goldblum. The only review you need tbh. Flash fictions following Jeff Goldblum as he, and alternate versions of himself, travels through the known (and unknown) universe in a mighty celebration of weird and wonderful Goldbluminess.

Mayhem & Death - Helen McClory (ebook)
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Mayhem & Death - Helen McClory (ebook)
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‘Shiny dark licorice mind candy’ - Margaret Atwood. Stories that show McClory’s ever expanding ability to envelop and entrance with lyrical language of lore, stunning settings and curious characters.

On The Edges of Vision - Helen McClory (ebook)
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On The Edges of Vision - Helen McClory (ebook)
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‘A writer completely unafraid’ - Ali Smith | In this award-winning, daring debut collection, the skin prickles against sweeps of light or darkness, the fantastic or the frightful; deep water, dark woods, or scattered flesh in desert sand.

Hings - Chris McQueer (ebook)
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Hings - Chris McQueer (ebook)
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From the streets of Scotland and a little beyond our solar system, comes one of the country's most hilarious writers. Putting surreal and witty twists on the everyday, Hings creates recognisable characters you will love and want to avoid like the plague.

HWFG - Chris McQueer (ebook)
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HWFG - Chris McQueer (ebook)
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’Hilarious, heartfelt and utterly unhinged. Charlie Brooker on Buckfast’ - Martin Compston. Here We F**king Go (HWFG) is the much-anticipated follow up to Chris McQueer’s hilarious, award-winning debut. It’s just a load more short stories ‘n that. hwfg x


POETRY

THE BEST POETS AROUND, IMO

Poetry from a range of brill poets.

At Least This I Know - Andrés N. Ordorica (ebook)
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At Least This I Know - Andrés N. Ordorica (ebook)
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These poems are a means of working through the belonging in both the physical sense and emotional, be it the belonging of immigrant bodies in new countries, or that of the queer self within found families and safe spaces.

Let Me Tell You This - Nadine Aisha Jassat (ebook)
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Let Me Tell You This - Nadine Aisha Jassat (ebook)
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A vital exploration of racism, gender-based violence, and the sustaining, restorative bonds between women. These poems demonstrate the power of heart and voice, and will stay with readers long after the last page is turned.

We Were Always Here (ebook)
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We Were Always Here (ebook)
£5.00

The queer words anthology. From drag queens and discos, to black holes and monsters, these stories and poems wrestle with love and loneliness and the fight to be seen. A showcase of amazing queer talent.


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