Books For Unconventional Lovers

If you love snogging, this one is packed with it. If You Can Reach My Heart, You Can Keep It is the sixth book by photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist Matt Lambert and serves as a comprehensive chronicle of Lambert's experimental film archive spanning the years 2015 to 2025. The work centres on the artists engagement and exploration of queer history, which he employs as a framework for investigating contemporary notions of intimacy.

Sometimes Valentine’s Day couldn’t come at a worse time, escape the reality of your broken heart with Gritli – the Moth Diaries, A Mistake has been made about Heartbreak where the authors assume the voices of anthropomorphic animals to write about labour, companionship and crushing.

You can’t choose who you fancy, and Flowers of Romance is the perfect tribute to the childhood crush, “I’ve always been a romantic. I fancied the skunk from Bambi, I love Sade – as in Diamond Life, not Justine... I wanted to make a dissociative zone where all kinds of magical objects could flirt with each other and seduce you, like a fucked-up Disney version of the Garden of Eden, full of wild animals freaking out, weird music, hallucinogens weaved on the breeze. Dreamy and dangerous.” – Charlie Fox

If you sometimes struggle to find the right words, let Ashley D. Escobar write them for you. Her collection of poems, GLIB,  proceeds by marking—usually without further remark, never forcing an insight or observation, just pointing out, simply—the myriad contradictions, miracles, incoherences, and indignities that make up the world.

Got a lover prone to lying?! Give them a not-so-subliminal hint with Mimosa Echard’s Lies where the artist draws from biological research, the history of experimental cinema, and her personal biography to create works that intertwine sexuality, perception, and artifice.

Nothing says ‘I want you’ like an ultra-limited edition full-colour perfect bound book zine of pure uncensored filth, so gift The Dominators to your discerning lover of vintage erotica and incite that ‘ravenous lust in their loins’.

Saint Valentine is old news, WOMANWOOD: THE SMUT GAZETTE #1 features a chance encounter with a horny lesbian saint! This biannual gazette is inspired by The Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig, The Virosexuals by Orion J. Facey, and Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture by Arthur Evans and seeks to expand notions of ‘smut’.

Love is NOT linear, and this subversive book of love is made with love, about love. Here 10 neuroqueering artists offer embodied insight and affect in this sensuous collection of text and image.

As we say, no two lovers are alike, but if your styleismore old school, show your love by cooking up something good from Five Morsels of Love – a collection of over 100 heirloom recipes based on G Nirmala Reddy’s 1974 South Indian cookbook Vanita Vanṭakālu.

Sneaky lovers rejoice! Hotel Amour is for those who catch each other outside the home…Lara Verheijden’s iconic nude photographs have paved the way for an intimate and ethereal aesthetic in photography; brooding and romantic, this is for lovers who hide in the shadows.