Becki Jayne Crossley’s début novel, Tart, is a queer coming-of-age, friends-to-lovers story set in small British village where everyone knows everyone, and gossip is hard to avoid.

A lost miniature portrait, which until now has never been seen by the public, is thought to depict William Shakespeare’s secret gay lover and the subject of his erotic sonnets.

James Lees-Milne was an English writer born 1908 at Wickhamford Manor, Worcestershire.

“Santi and Naz is a coming-of-age story, set against the backdrop of the India/Pakistan partition," Farah Ashraf tells Midlands Rainbow