No & Other Love Stories

The perfect anti-Valentine—a deliciously dark collection of love stories, from a prizewinning LGBTQI+ writer who has been compared to Angela Carter.

A deliciously dark collection of love stories to sink your teeth into, from the prizewinning author of Now She Is Witch.

Can 'no' be a declaration of love? What happens when love is savage, dangerous, and all-consuming? In this gorgeous and unsettling collection, women navigate the complexities and cruelties of desire across time and place, from a medieval convent to a Victorian parlour to a 1990s high school.

An expectant mother feeds raw meat to the wasp's nest in her shed.

A pair of sapphic lovers use ghost possession to fleece money from lecherous men.

One woman in wartime London discovers that she loves her husband much more as a ghost.

A teenage girl becomes infatuated with a bloodthirsty succubus.

Intensely atmospheric, surprising, and darkly funny, this collection is a richly flavoured feast from a brilliant writer in full command of the form.

Absolutely obsessed. Savage, strange and spicy - Lucy Rose, author of Lamb

Gleefully depraved, gloriously queer and thrillingly bold - Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells

A dark delight, steeped in blood-red honey - Heather Parry, author of Orpheus Builds A Girl

A gothic homage to the visceral, haunting, unnerving nature of human connection - Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller

No one writes about the horrific and the erotic, and the tangled up intersections of both, like Kirsty Logan - Anna Bogutskaya, author of Feeding The Monster

Darkly graceful, innovative, sexy and funny. Kirsty Logan is a jewel - Camilla Grudova, author of The Doll's Alphabet

Crackling with smarts, marvellously formally varied, deliciously strange - Laird Hunt, author of Zorrie

Kirsty Logan was selected as one of Britain's ten most outstanding LGBTQI+ writers by Val McDermid for the International Literature Showcase in 2019.