Variations | Juliet JacquesVariations is the debut short story collection from one of Britain's most compelling voices, Juliet Jacques. Using fiction inspired by found material and real life events, Variations explores the history of transgender Britain with lyrical, acerbic wit. Variations travels from Oscar Wilde's London to austerity era Belfast via inter war Cardiff, a drag bar in Liverpool just after the decriminalisation of homosexuality, Manchester's protests against

By law of trespass

and Emeline patiently takes care of them all

When a surprising connection emerges between the two women

their words offer comfort

Brought together for the first time in one volume

but the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show

distinguishing himself for Watford

Heather's favourite number is two - she has two arms

the essays in It Came from the Closet bring the particulars of the writers' own experiences

and begins the process of transition

and charting acts of civil disobedience that challenge orthodox power at its heart

A cop begins seeing huge