A steamy sapphic romance about music, second chances, and falling for the one person you shouldn't—your new bandmate.Ever since she can remember, Florence Gibson has had one to tour the world as a musician, and outshine her absentee rockstar father. When her all-women, all-queer rock band Scorpio Season gets booked as the opening act for her idol’s European tour, Florence can’t believe their luck. There is only one the band needs a drummer. Luca Walsh has no idea where she’s going. Ever since she dropped out of university, her days have been a blur of shifts at the coffee shop, trying to remember if she took her ADHD medication, and lying in bed questioning her existence. When she stumbles upon a flyer searching for drummers in the area, she jumps at the chance to have a distraction. Their first band meeting devolves into chaos when Florence realizes that Luca isn’t any stranger—she’s the woman Florence went home with not even twenty-four-hours earlier to have a reckless, mind-blowing, life-altering one-night-stand. But the show must go on. Through four weeks of performing together, hour-long car rides across Europe, and nights sharing beds in seedy hotel rooms, they try to hide their growing attraction—for the sake of the band that’s starting to feel more like a family, and all the dreams that suddenly seem within reach. As their music rises in the charts, so does the tension between them. With every new song feeling more like an emotional confession, how long can they keep their distance?

Wedded Bliss is everyone’s favourite reality TV show where couples match, marry and compete for a grand prize. Dolly is in it for money. She doesn’t want a husband, but a partnership launched on international TV could definitely help her influencer career. Model Warren might just be her man. Carys is in it for love. It’s not like she’s had much luck in the romance department, so why not trust the show’s matchmakers with her heart? Could handsome veterinarian Patrick be the one? The tension building between them is as hot as the competition and the two women can’t deny their chemistry. For Carys, it’s an awakening, but any change of plan could ruin everything for Dolly. Will they find reality TV fame or the reality of love?

Exploring anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender identity, fatness, and health. To live in a body both fat and Black is to intersect at the margins of a society that normalizes anti-fatness as anti-Blackness: hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals, fat Black people in the United States are subject to culturally sanctioned discrimination, abuse, and trauma. In Belly of the Beast, author Da’Shaun Harrison–a fat, Black, disabled, and non-binary writer AMAB (assigned male at birth)–offers an incisive, fresh, and precise exploration of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Foregrounding the state-sanctioned murder of Eric Garner in a historical analysis of the policing, disenfranchisement, and invisibilizing of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary AMAB people, Harrison discusses the pervasive, insidious ways that anti-fat anti-Blackness shows up in everyday life. Fat people can be legally fired in 49 states for being fat; they’re more likely to be houseless. Fat people die at higher rates from misdiagnosis or non-treatment; fat women are more likely to be sexually assaulted. And at the intersections of fatness, race, disability, and gender identity, these abuses are exacerbated. Taking on desirability politics, f*ckability, healthism, hyper-sexualization, invisibility, and the connections between anti-fatness and police violence, Harrison viscerally and vividly illustrates the myriad harms of anti-fat anti-Blackness–and offers strategies for dismantling denial, unlearning the cultural programming that says “fat is bad,” and moving beyond the world we have now toward one that makes space for the fat and Black.

Norddeutsche Fantasy, bei der nur der Humor trocken bleibt. Magnus Knut Hansen führt ein entspanntes Leben als Deichgraf von Dagebüll. Aber als zwei Gestalten auftauchen und sein Schaf Dörte in eine fremde Welt entführen, zögert er keine Sekunde, eilt hinterher und findet sich schnell in einem Abenteuer wieder. Schon bald muss er sich nicht nur mit Raufbolden, Rittern und fantastischen Wesen herumschlagen, sondern auch mit einer viel zu gesprächigen Möwe und einer Prinzessin, die sich – warum auch immer – ausgerechnet in ihn verschossen hat. Nichts liegt Magnus ferner als Abenteuer oder Romanzen. Er will seinen Leuchtturm, seine Ruhe und sein Schaf – und er wird nicht aufgeben, bis er Dörte gerettet hat.