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  Built for This

  Brad Poulter

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  This honest, funny and at times heartbreaking memoir follows Brad Poulter, with his almost 20 years in the New Zealand Navy. From small-town New Zealand to serving in Afghanistan, his own journey being comfortable with his sexuality mirrors that of the navy itself: from a time of 'don't ask, don't tell' through to being named the most inclusive defence force in the world. 
   
   
  Raised among strong women, butcher's benches and hard ideas about what men are meant to be, Brad Poulter grows up knowing he's different long before he has the words for it.  
   
  But in late '90s small-town New Zealand, 'different' isn't discussed, it's managed. Joining the Royal New Zealand Navy offers escape, certainty and belonging. The rules are clear, the uniform fits. Silence feels like part of the job. 
   
  But passing as straight comes at a cost. As deployments stack up, including service in Afghanistan during the War on Terror, the pressure of pretending collides with trauma, grief and the struggle for identity, and something gives way. From ship's galleys to combat zones, investigation rooms to leadership tables, Built For This charts a life shaped by discipline, loyalty and unspoken rules – and explores what happens when you stop accepting them. 
   
  Honest, sharp and often funny, this is a memoir about masculinity – how it's built, inherited and performed – and what it takes to rebuild it on your own terms. 
   
  ‘Inspiring, funny and moving… a must-read.’ DR PAUL WOOD, author of How to Escape from Prison

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  Dangerous Ground The Complete...

  Josh Lanyon

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  Dangerous Ground 
  Special Agents for the Department of Diplomatic Security, Taylor MacAllister and Will Brandt have been partners and best friends for three years, but everything changed the night Taylor admitted his feelings for Will. Yeah, it's complicated...  
  Old Poison 
  Friends, partners, and now lovers. If it was complicated before, it's even trickier now that Will has been assigned a case which guarantees he'll be working side-by-side with ex-boyfriend David Bradley.  
  Blood Heat 
  It's a bad time for DSS Agents Brandt and MacAllister to find themselves stranded in the middle of the New Mexico wilderness responsible for the health and welfare of a suspected terrorist. In other words, another day at the office. 
  Dead Run 
  The strain of a long distance relationship is beginning to tell after eleven months of Will being posted in Paris. A romantic holiday in the City of Lights could be just the thing to bridge the ever-growing distance--if it doesn't kill them first. 
  Kick Start 
  Will is finally braced to bring Taylor home to meet the folks. Unfortunately, not every member of the Brandt clan loves Taylor the way Will does. Then again, not everyone loves the Brandts. 
  Blind Side 
  With resources already overstretched, the last thing Will and Taylor need is another client. And the last thing Will needs is for that client to turn out to be an old boyfriend of Taylor's

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  The Dreaming

  Andre Bagoo

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  These stories have the virtue of taking the everyday lives of gay Trinidadian men utterly for granted in their searches for adventure, pleasure, self-realisation, loving contact and sex. Written with a sharpness of perception and in a variety of engaging personal voices, these narratives find room for humour, tragic haircuts, and a connection between tattoos and terrible poetry. But they also acknowledge very real fears in a society where there is still prejudice, discrimination and homophobic violence. The narrator of several of these pieces is a writer who wants to focus on the pleasures and inner dramas of these lives as the truth about gay experience. But there are also the stories of brutal murders reported with coy innuendo in the press. If he is tempted to see his lovers as characters in a witty fiction of manners, is this the novel that can be written in Trinidad? And since this is Trinidad, could the conflicted, self-hating Dorian really be a serial killer? But then when one of Bagoo's writer narrators unwittingly alarms his writing buddies by the freedom of his gothic imagination, who knows what might be true. Not for nothing does the author include the singer Kate Bush with her Wuthering Heights in his acknowledgements. Bagoo's stories offer a witty and incisive portrait of contemporary Trinidad in all its intersections of race, class and gender politics. Not least, they have a strong sense of place – Bagoo's gay Woodbrook offers a fine sequel to V.S. Naipaul's Woodbrook in his classic Miguel Street.

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  Incognito

  Nanisi Barrett D'Arnuk

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  DEA Operative Cameron Andrews can finally use her Master's Degree in International Affairs when she's assigned to help Ambassador John Taylor in Argentina negotiate a trade treaty. But it's a front for her real objective: extricate the ambassador's eighteen-year-old son, Tad, from the trouble he is in with the Salavados Cartel and then work with the Argentine authorities to trap the Cartel in a sting.
  Since her boss gave her the authority to use any means at her disposal, Cam falls back into a cover she's used before: the very wealthy and independent Canadian, Laura Stuard. 
  By playing the headstrong Laura to the hilt, Cameron is invited to the Salavados compound where they make a business proposal to her: use her SeaFarer Cruise Liners to move the drugs to Canada. 
  It is a dangerous and exhausting game Cameron and Tad are playing, because not all the Salavados brothers are convinced by "Laura Stuard." Cameron will have to stretch her considerable skills to not get killed during this scheme.

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  Until You

  Briar Prescott

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  I’m the first one to tell you I have issues. 
  Trust issues. 
  Family issues. 
  Probably a few others I haven’t discovered yet. Which is why I prefer to keep my life as simple and uncomplicated as possible. 
  Until him. 
  Blake McAdams barrels into my life and refuses to leave. He’s relentlessly optimistic, sexy as hell, annoyingly persistent, and… wants to be friends? Because… he thinks I’m interesting? 
  Yeah, I’ll pass. Thanks. 
  Only, somehow, we end up doing just that. 
  And then that friendship evolves into something more, and suddenly, I find myself navigating a completely foreign territory: a relationship. 
  But Blake has his own issues, and once those clash with mine my simple and uncomplicated life? Turns into anything but.

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  Tender

  Eleanor Tindall

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  'You might say that my life is perfect.'
  Ivy has life sorted; she's got a flat, a boyfriend and she knows exactly where it's all headed. Except there is this thing that she tries not to think about. The thing she left in her childhood bedroom.
  Ash is having the time of her life. Fresh from leaving a bad relationship, she's got no idea what's next. But there's something about her new flat. The wallpaper pulses and sometimes it sounds like a heartbeat.
  Two women. A chance meeting. Giddy kisses they never should have shared. Eleanor Tindall's play Tender is the story of two people who find each other without even knowing they were looking. It was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Emily Aboud and produced by Broccoli Arts and Jessie Anand Productions. It was revived at the Bush Theatre in 2026.

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