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Inkandescent is a new publishing venture by Justin David and Nathan Evans focussing on queer and outsider voices.🏳️‍🌈

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Book Cover for: The Big Sea: An Autobiography, Langston Hughes

The Big Sea: An Autobiography

Langston Hughes
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“…the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it,….” – The Big Sea, 1940 The stars must be aligned that we can celebrate Langston Hughes on his birthday as #LGBTplusHM begins. #Harlem #Poetry https://t.co/vjWbAgn2fz

Paperback, 1993

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Writing Ourselves: Essays on Creativity, Craft, and Mormonism, Jack Harrell

Writing Ourselves: Essays on Creativity, Craft, and Mormonism

Jack Harrell
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On September 23rd @nathanevansarts chairs WRITING OURSELVES IN @Ryearts .Three magnificent wordsmiths:@ogleforth, @JTaylorTrash and @NeilVBartlett will discuss and celebrate queer histories in queer stories. It will be fabulous! Book your tickets here https://t.co/WUJ7ndZhIn https://t.co/4sukd0YZYh

Paperback, 2016

$18.95Member price:$17.06 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me, Maya Angelou

Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me

Maya Angelou
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“My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.” ― Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom #MothersDay #WomensHistoryMonth

Hardcover, 2006

$14.00Member price:$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Kissing the Lizard: Part Two of the Welston World Sagas, Justin David

Kissing the Lizard: Part Two of the Welston World Sagas

Justin David
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Need a new eBook? Skint? We have the solution : KISSING THE LIZARD by @Justin_Writer is on offer at only 99p on #kindle. Go on, grab yourself a copy of this creepy coming-of-age story now! #DarkHumour #LGBTQ+ https://t.co/REkog5EZIj https://t.co/OD7Cf394iF

Paperback, 2020

$11.10Member price:$5.55 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: I Am Not Raymond Wallace, Sam Kenyon

I Am Not Raymond Wallace

Sam Kenyon
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"A triumph. A primer for all ages." – Murray Melvin. This multi-stranded story of queer redemption, spanning multiple generations is THE perfect read for #LGBTplusHM. Get your copy of @ogleforth's stunning debut I AM NOT RAYMOND WALLACE here: https://t.co/4BkILyOhCZ https://t.co/VmcrfakqyZ

Paperback, 2022

$13.23Member price:$11.91 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Black Beauty, Anna Sewell

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell
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Celebrating Anna Sewell on her birthday. The ever popular novel Black Beauty helped change how horses were regarded and cared for. 🐎 #WomensHistoryMonth #AnimalRights https://t.co/LYpYtBALnt

Paperback, 2008

$8.99Member price:$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee 1911-1983 Williams

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee 1911-1983 Williams
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"What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can..." Celebrating Tennessee Williams. #BornOnThisDay https://t.co/TiQXKAD3N6

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Book Cover for: Orlando: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Virginia Woolf

Orlando: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Virginia Woolf
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Just out of our @NeilVBartlett’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando starring #EmmaCorrin @Garrick_Theatre. Stunning! What better time than now to revisit the classic gender-bending work of fiction. https://t.co/PbwJRNdbkk

Paperback, 2024

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Millions of Cats, Wanda Gág

Millions of Cats

Wanda Gág
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It's #Caturday and #WomensHistoryMonth, so it couldn't be more purrrfect to celebrate Wanda Gág – born on this day – the author, artist, illustrator and translator AND whose Millions of Cats is the oldest American picture book still in print today! #Illustrator #picturebooks https://t.co/7I5YXvthht

Paperback, 2006

$8.99Member price:$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Dracula, Bram Stoker

Dracula

Bram Stoker
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Today marks the birth of Bram Stoker, creator of the masterpiece Dracula. The classic gothic horror that launched a thousand films, spinoffs, spoofs, theatricals, comics, cartoons, memes, costumes, plastic teeth, capes, fake blood and fears. https://t.co/hDKDvfKMSf

Paperback, 2003

$11.00Member price:$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book