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The Polari Prize program for UK and Irish books relative to LGBTQ themes announced its 2024 winners: Julia Armfield and Jon Ransom.

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Armfield’s novel Our Wives Under the Sea won the overall prize, while Ransom’s The Whale Tattoo took the first book award

“A lyrical, emotionally powerful . . . tale of queer parenthood, of the reality of the sharp fear of trans lives, and of complicated self-discovery.” — Booklist (starred review)

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The Polari Prize program for UK and Irish books relative to LGBTQ themes is to announce its shortlists in September, winners in November.

Red, White and Royal Blue is one of the great LGBTQ+ books that I have read, and here are some others.

Anya Johanna DeNiro's forthcoming OKPsyche is a short but powerful novel that just garnered a starred review from Booklist: “DeNiro’s novel is a lyrical, emotionally powerful story about what it means to try and find a place for yourself in the midst of a hurricane of climate disaster, violence, and fear. It’s a story told

Gina Chung's Sea Change is is often wry and funny, but the novel is just too busy, with multiple competing plot lines giving a lack of balance