Our Books
Cipher Press publishes books by queer and trans-identified authors.
Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
By Davey Davis
Published December 2025
A novel about art, desire, and mortality, Casanova 20: Or, Hot World follows a young man isolated by his extraordinary beauty and his strange friendship with an older painter.
Terry Dactyl
By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Published November 2025
An electric dive into NYC club culture, the art world, the relationships we crave and addictions we hold dear, told through one iconoclastic trans girl’s search for connection
Zipper Mouth
By Laurie Weeks
Published April 2025
Dreamy, bratty and brash, Zipper Mouth is a potent gut-punch of a novel by an icon of 90's queer lit.
WITCH
Edited by Michelle Tea
Published May 2025
An exploration of the witch as radical archetype in ancient and contemporary life, edited by cult-favourite writer Michelle Tea.
EARLYFATE
By Nat Reeve
Publisher October 2024
Everyone’s favourite cravat designer is back, and on a chaotic mission to rescue their kidnapped lover, in this follow-up to Nettleblack!
The Woman in the Portrait
By Juliet Jacques
Published July 2024
The collected short fiction of Juliet Jacques, one of the UK's most pioneering transgender writers.
SLUTS
Edited by Michelle Tea
Published May 2024
An anthology of writing that explores what it means to be sexually promiscuous in contemporary culture
Heaven
By Emerson Whitney
Published March 2024
An electrifying, defiant, and unforgettable exploration of motherhood, transness, selfhood and family, from the author of Daddy Boy.
Brainwyrms
By Alison Rumfitt
Published October 2023
Shocking, grotesque, and downright filthy, Brainwyrms confronts the creeping reality of political terrorism while exploring the depths of love, pain, and identity.
Truth & Dare
By So Mayer
Published July 2023
The debut fiction collection from an inimitable critic, Truth & Dare is a deeply personal and fantastical ride through gender, trauma, queerness, science, history, and religion.
Daddy Boy
By Emerson Whitney
Published September 2023
Mixing essay, queer theory, and memoir, a smart, big-hearted and electrifying exploration of masculinity, inherited trauma, queerness, love... and tornadoes.
Never Was
By H. Gareth Gavin
Published April 2023
A beautifully strange, hallucinogenic novel about grief, addiction and working-class masculinity, taking us from a limbo of lost dreams to a small salt- mining town.
X
By Davey Davis
Published October 2022
An electrifying novel about the creeping reality of political terror, and the violent pleasures found in Brooklyn's queer heartlands.
Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger
By Brontez Purnell
Published September 2022
A queer cult classic by the author of 100 Boyfriends, published in the UK for the first time.
Front Lines
By Juliet Jacques
Published July 2022
A seminal collection of journalism on art, politics, and culture, by Juliet Jacques, one of the UK’s most pioneering transgender writers.
Nettleblack
By Nat Reeve
Published June 2022
A neo-Victorian queer farce that follows a runaway heir/ess and an organisation of crime-fighting misfits.
Limbic
By Peter Scalpello
Published march 2022
Peter Scalpello’s glittering ode to sex, intimacy, and queer discovery, this vital debut collection explores chemsex, addiction, masculinity, and joy.
Tell Me I’m Worthless
by Alison Rumfitt
A queer haunted house novel about transness, the internet, trauma, and the way fascism makes us destroy ourselves and each other.
100 Boyfriends
By Brontez Purnell
An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at messy queer love through the eyes of a cult hero.
Dryland
by sara jaffE
A tender, meditative, and quietly kaleidoscopic novel about the 90s, queer adolescence, and swimming.
Bone Horn
By Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain
Published June 2025
A newly registered Private Investigator attempts to track down Alice B. Toklas’s reputed horn in this smart, hilarious, sexy, and deeply poignant detective novel.
ROMEO & SEAHORSE
By Nikolaj Tang Lange
Published September 2024
A frantic love letter to love itself, Romeo & Seahorse is a sexy, frightening, tender, and visceral rush through Berlin’s chemsex scene.
Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt
By Brontez Purnell
Published February 2024
From the cult-favourite author of 100 Boyfriends, a wrenching, sexy, and exhilaratingly energetic memoir in verse.
Lákíríboto
By Ayodele Olofintuade
Published JUNE 2023
A twisty thriller about the fate of a sprawling family in Lagos, Lakiriboto is a queer, feminist revenge thriller like no other, in which murder, betrayal, and witchcraft collide.
Morbid Obsessions
By Frankie Miren & Alison Rumfitt
With an introduction by Morgan M Page
Published August 2022
A frank, funny, and hopeful conversation about writing fiction from the margins.
Unreal Sex
Edited by So Mayer and Adam Zmith
Published November 2021
Welcome to your new favourite genre: the fucking fantastic. An anthology of queer erotic sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.
Since I Laid My Burden Down
By Brontez Purnell
Published August 2021
A riotous, hilarious, and heart-breaking cult novel about growing up black, queer, and punk from cult writer Brontez Purnell.
Large Animals
Stories by Jess Arndt
Daring, witty, and strange, the twelve stories in Large Animals confront what it means to have a body.
There Will Always Be
Nights Like This
Cipher Shorts #1
From skin, sex, and supervillains to bodies, beds, and lunch, thirteen writers explore human interaction and what it means to be queer through the COVID-19 lockdown.
In The Past The Future Was Better
cipher shorts #2
The companion chapbook to a live reading event that took place on Zoom during a global pandemic.