Bent Spines

Bent Spines Book shop specialising in LGBTQIA+ works.

Much as they probably don't like it, the books are out for what looks like to be a wet market day. Save one or two of th...
19/08/2026

Much as they probably don't like it, the books are out for what looks like to be a wet market day. Save one or two of them from the elements if you're out today.

New in
Bill Crisafi, The Glam Reaper's Guide to Slaying
The artist behind weird, slutty demons and creepy crawlies has a book out. It's this one! Join the glam reaper and friends as they stumble, slay and soul-search their way to the afters. Self help, comic humour and weird little guys all packed into a slim graphic novel.

A. E. Bosworth, Awakened
Customer order this one and I liked the sound of it enough to order a second. A national bestseller in the US, here we have a coven of q***r witches fight a rogue AI that threatens the world as they know it.

Likely here until 4pm. Might stay out longer if the weather improves

It's all out early for a change! And I've already heard the latest conspiracy theories from a Local Man!!We've got our ...
15/08/2026

It's all out early for a change! And I've already heard the latest conspiracy theories from a Local Man!!

We've got our hands on Chuck Tingle's latest work, Fabulous Bodies, as well as Tony Santorella's Shy Trans Banshee, and have re-stocked of the gorgeous 10th anniversary edition of N D Stevenson's Nimona.

New in
Chuck Tingle, FABULOUS BODIES
Fashion influencer and grave robber Poppy Stringer is asked to retrieve a q***r icon's body following his death. The only problem is he wakes up and Poppy finds herself in the middle of a blood-soaked night of carnage and fabulous entertainment playing out across Palm Springs.

Tony Santorella, SHY TRANS BANSHEE
Following on from Bored Gay Werewolf is Santorella's next horror comedy. Brian, Nik and Darby are used seasoned fighters of supernatural crime, currently trying to track down their missing colleague in London. As they do, they stumble across a fortune teller smuggling ring. Who's trafficking clairvoyants? And why is a timid trans woman named Maeve aware of all the deaths coming up?

Set up ON TIME for once, on what looks to be a hot hot day. Usual place on Cheapside, here until 4pm today. Spotlight Al...
12/08/2026

Set up ON TIME for once, on what looks to be a hot hot day. Usual place on Cheapside, here until 4pm today.

Spotlight

Alison Bechdel, SPENT
From her pygmy goat farm in Vermont, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel wonders: can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathing memoir about her own greed and privilege?
From the author of Fun Home and inventor of the Bechdel Test comes this memoir thay tackles climate anxiety with her Usual comic calmness.

Isabella Galbraith, THE ONE
Murderous Love Island.
Constance Berandi signs up to teen reality dating show The One to prove that she's over her ex-girlfriend. Then the plane there crashes. Then one of the contestants is murdered in the night.
A thrilling debut that seems perfectly trashy and thrilling. Ideal holiday reading.

Set up and ready for today's market. In light of recent events, consider expanding your trans education, supporting tran...
08/08/2026

Set up and ready for today's market. In light of recent events, consider expanding your trans education, supporting trans writers and/or deepening your empathy with trans people.

Highlights
Shone Faye, The Transgender Issue, Love in Exile
Possibly one of the best non fiction writers on trans experience, the Transgender Issue is kind of a masterpiece in showing how trans people are blamed and made into scapegoats for broader issues of gender oppression. This paperback version has an extra chapter, bringing it more up to date with the current state of anti-transness that pervades the UK.
Love in Exile is another non fiction work by Faye that examines Love from the perspective of trans identity. Faye's own experience is wound throughout the analysis of what love means when you're place in a category of human deemed unworthy of love.

Charlie Craggs (ed), TO MY TRANS SISTERS
A collection of writing by trans women for trans women, providing advice from survival to makeup application. Wound throughout, examinations of transfeminine experience.

Torrey Peters, DETRANSITION, BABY
a sex-in-the-city style romcom centring trans characters trying to have a baby. Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn't hate. For her, the only thing missing was a child. The opportunity arises when an ex comes back into her life with a tempting offer to form an unconventional family?

A glut of new titles came in last week, ready for their debut (if they don't get blown away). Here's one from each secti...
05/08/2026

A glut of new titles came in last week, ready for their debut (if they don't get blown away). Here's one from each section

Sci-fi
Isle McElroy, People Collide
Married couple swap bodies and one partner goes missing. Can Eli solve the mystery and get back in the right body all while navigating the new body he inhabits, with all the gender confusion that comes with it?

Fantasy
V. E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (paperback, sprayed edges)
Women selling their soul at different points in history to have a little bit of power and defy men. Rich, lush and labyrinthine, a story that grabs you by the throat.

Horror
Vincent Tirado, We Came To Welcome You
Suburban horror. People move to a new (definitely not a cult) neighbourhood. If you've ever felt like being neighbourly was more a threat than a courtesy, you might relate to what this pair are about to experience.

Thriller
Bea Fitzgerald, Then Things Went Dark
Murder mystery on reality tv. 12 million people saw Rhys Sutton die on a remote island, but no one knows who did it. The other fice contestants on the show all have a motive because Rhys was the most hated man on tv. Shocking, addictive, perfect holiday thriller.

Romance
Catherine Cowles, Across the Vanishing Sky
Small-town romance meets mystery thriller. Braedyn Winslow has come to Starlight Grove to solve the disappearance of her best friend. A reclusive mountain man is the main suspect, but is that just because he spends quite a bit of time away from people?

There are also more graphic novels, some new children's books (one about a trans crayon) and a couple of new poetry collections as well. Here until we get blown away.

Ready and raring to go for today's market. Let's of new stuff, blind dates are back with a (played around with the brand...
01/08/2026

Ready and raring to go for today's market. Let's of new stuff, blind dates are back with a (played around with the brand palette) vengeance and "a 10% discount if you call me cute" (words from the chief book elf)

New in
Morag Hood, Aalfred and Aalbert: A Love Story
THIS IS SUCH A CUTE CHILDREN'S BOOK. Aalfred and Aalbert are looking for love, but never meet because one sleeps all day and the other all night. A pesky bird decides to engineer a meet-cute so the little gay aardvarks can get together.

Grace Curtis, Floating Hotel
Sci-fi mystery novel made up of interconnected stories, all set aboard luxury hotel that travels the stars. Mysteries include: why are there love poems in the lobby intray? How many Imprerial spies are currently on board? And who is driving the ship?

ALSO NEW
Horrors
De Elizabeth, The Raging Sea
Ryan Douglass, The Taking of Jake Livingston
Caroline O'Donoghue, All Our Hidden Gifts
Claire Oshetsky, Chouette,
Jade Song, Chlorine

Fantasies
Maria Ingrande Mora, A Wild Radiance
V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (sprayed edges)

Romances
Lily Easton, Afterglow
Lily Easton, Summer of Love
Becca Grischow, For the Bride
Kai Spellmeier, Boy Friends
James L. Sutter, The Ghosts of US

Graphic Novels
Robin Ha, The Fox Maidens

Children' Books
Jessica Love, Julian at the Wedding
Sarah S. Brannen & Lucia Soto, Uncle Bobby's Wedding
Brother Mackenzie & Rhiannon Archard, Great-Aunt Margot and Me

As you can see, a lot came in and I'd like for them to find their true homes

All the stuff is out and the courier just dropped off more books, so there's some very fresh titles on the stall today. ...
29/07/2026

All the stuff is out and the courier just dropped off more books, so there's some very fresh titles on the stall today. We're also trying out our very first sale. Selected titles at a reduced price, all gathered up.

Oh, my car also got a flat tyre during set up today so stop by to help the shop pay for an unexpected bill 🫠 THANKS

Books and bits are out for those coming to town who have got sick and tired of the sun and the heat. Brave the elements ...
25/07/2026

Books and bits are out for those coming to town who have got sick and tired of the sun and the heat. Brave the elements (or get here before the heavens open), rescue some books and curl up with them at home!

Back in
Amie Kaufman & Megan Spooner, One Knight Stand & Lady's Knight
Medieval sapphic romcom where a female Knight Gwen seeks to win the heart of Lady Isobelle. Silly, cosy, fantastical.

Book elf recommendations
Josh Silver, FRUIT FLY
Go gay, go sad, go dark is the recipe for a bestseller and author Mallory will find her bestselling story by any means. Horrible MC that's fun to follow, darkly funny, thrilling.

Show Faye, The Transgender Issue
The landmark bestseller examining British anti-trans attitudes, re-released with a new chapter. A difficult, but rewarding read.

All to be found in the book cave

We've got books, we've got bits, we've got people smoking outside Betfred talking about the Epstein Files. It's all happ...
22/07/2026

We've got books, we've got bits, we've got people smoking outside Betfred talking about the Epstein Files. It's all happening down on the market this morning.

NEW IN
Bea Fitzgerald, Better Than Revenge - in line for cuntiest book cover of the year, here is a thriller about a celebrity feud that becomes equal parts sapphic and deadly.

Ione Gamble, The Polyester Book of (Bad) Taste - an essay collection on the cultivation of personal taste and celebration of bad taste as a countercultural aesthetic move.

Ryan Gilbey, It Used to be Witches: A Journey Through Q***r Cinema - a treasure hunt through q***r cinema

Back in
Emi Yagi, When the Museum is Closed - I think the mc has sapphic feelings for a sculpture

Usual spot, opposite greggs, until 5

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Saturday 9am - 5pm

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