RAINBOW BOOKS

Books by Local Queer Authors, Poets,
and Publishers

Kick Ass at Work

JOSH MACKINNON
A collection of critical on-the-job lessons designed to help you master the seven aspects of work and accelerate your career success. It will teach you how to take pride in your work, earn the income you desire, achieve the advancement you seek, reach your full potential, and create the career of your dreams.
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People of the Rock

SOPHIA KELLY
A hopeful story of time-travelling lesbians, quantum entanglement and goats.
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Weekend - a novel

JANE EATON HAMILTON
Prize-winning writer Eaton Hamilton's novel explores the complexities of contemporary queer love.
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What the Mouth Wants

MONICA MENEGHETTI
This mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghetti’s unique life journey through her relationship with food, family and love.
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Burning Sugar - Poems

CICELY BELLE BLAIN
Activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain describes themselves as a Black/mixed, queer femme from London now living on the traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
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It Was Never Going To Be OK

JAYE SIMPSON
A collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman.
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Hider / Seeker

JEN CURRIN
The twenty stories chart the complex relationships of LGBTQ+ characters as they navigate spirituality, sometimes addiction, and always, the never-ending tides of change.
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Born Sacred - Poems for Palestine

SMOKII SUMAC
A journalistic poetry collection reflecting on Palestinian and Indigenous solidarities, genocides, life, and liberation.
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The Gospel of Breaking

JILLIAN CHRISTMAS
Befitting someone who speaks things into being, Christmas extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems.
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The Sacred Heart Motel

GRACE KWAN
A multiverse narrative, from amenities to rooms to back alleys, through the generations of ghosts and queer love stories, until the heart at the centre. A disorienting, startling collection about placelessness and longing.
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Rearranged

A Memoir By
KATHLEEN WATT
When bone cancer in her cheek brought a sudden curtain call to her operatic career, Kathleen Watt was forced to trade the stage for a brutal masterclass in mortality and disfigurement.
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