Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime,forgery, extortion, serial murder-Ripley still finds his appetite unquenched and longs to get back in the game.

Patricia Highsmith: Ripley Under Ground

UK 2021, 288 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK - Ripley 2

It's been six years since Ripley murdered Dickie Greenleaf and inherited his money. Now, in »Ripley Under Ground« (1970), he lives in a beautiful French villa, surrounded by a world-class art collection and married to a pharmaceutical heiress. All seems serene in Ripley's world until a phone call from London shatters his peace. An art forgery scheme he set up ... Weiterlesen

Denton Welch: In Youth Is Pleasure

UK 2021, 170 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK

Orvil Pym does not fit in. A waifish, eccentric, sensitive 15-year-old, he hates school and longs to be alone. Spending his Summer holidays in a genteel Surrey hotel with his mysterious father and two brothers who don't understand him, he explores ancient churches, spies on a man rowing in the river and collects antiques, escaping into his own singular aesthetic ... Weiterlesen

Bimini Bon Boulash: A Drag Queen's Guide to Life

UK 2021, 246 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 16.95
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Penguin UK

Bimini Bon Boulash is the nation's sweetheart, capturing hearts and minds as the gag-inducing, death-dropping, plant-based breakout star of RuPaul's »Drag Race UK Season 2«. Not only did she make us laugh and cry, she showed us how to develop a positive mental attitude and live happily and healthily outside society's idea of »normal«. Telling the story of how drag ... Weiterlesen

Shon Faye: The Transgender Issue

An Argument for Justice. UK 2021, 292 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Penguin UK

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war »issue«. Despite making up less than one per cent of UK's population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized »debate« which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, a conversation in which ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Savage: The Power of the Dog

UK 2007, 282 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK

Phil and George are brothers and joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular. George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller. George learns slowly, and devotes himself to the business. They sleep in the room ... Weiterlesen

Bernardine Evaristo: Manifesto

UK 2021, 208 pp., hardbound, € 19.99
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Penguin UK

In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earlier - a revolutionary landmark for Britain. Her journey was a long one, but she made it, and she made history. »Manifesto« is her intimate and fearless account of how she did it. From a childhood steeped in racism from neighbours, ... Weiterlesen

Chella Man: Continuum

UK 2021, 64 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Penguin UK - Pocket Change Collective

In »Continuum«, fine artist, activist, and Titans actor Chella Man uses his own experiences as a deaf, transgender, genderqueer, Jewish person of color to talk about cultivating self-acceptance and acting as one's own representation. What constructs in your life must you unlearn to support inclusivity and respect for all? This is a question that artist, actor, and activist Chella Man ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: Troy

UK 2021, 432 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK

The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against that great city, to which they will lay siege for ten whole and very bloody years. Zeus, the king of the gods, triggers war when he asks the Trojan prince Paris to ... Weiterlesen

Colm Tóibín: The Magician

UK 2021, 240 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK

From one of our greatest living gay writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. »The Magician« tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear ... Weiterlesen

Kevin van Whye: Date Me, Bryson Keller

True Love Is Just One Dare Away. UK 2020, 323 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK

Everyone knows about the dare: Each week, Bryson Keller must date someone new - the first person to ask him out on Monday morning. Few think Bryson can do it. He may be the king of Fairvale Academy, but he's never really dated before. Until a boy asks him out, and everything changes. Kai Sheridan didn't expect Bryson to say ... Weiterlesen

E.M. Forster: Maurice

UK 2005, 232 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK

Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual ... Weiterlesen
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Alok Vaid-Menon: Beyond the Gender Binary

UK 2020, 64 pp., pb., € 12.95
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Penguin UK - Pocket Change Collective

»Beyond the Gender Binary,« spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination.

Adam Eli: The New Queer Conscience

UK 2020, 64 pp., pb., € 12.95
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Penguin UK - Pocket Change Collective

Activist Adam Eli argues the urgent need for queer responsibility - that queers anywhere are responsible for queers everywhere. Adam Eli offers a candid and compassionate introduction to queer responsibility. Eli calls on his Jewish faith to underline how kindness and support within the queer community can lead to a stronger global consciousness. More importantly, he reassures us that we're ... Weiterlesen

L. C. Rosen: Camp

Putting the »Out« in the Great Outdoors. UK 2020, 374 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK

16-year-old Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens. It's where he met his best friends. It's where he takes to the stage in the big musical. And it's where he fell for Hudson Aaronson-Lim - who's only into straight-acting guys and barely knows not-at-all-straight-acting Randy even exists. This year, though, it's going to ... Weiterlesen

K-Ming Chang: Bestiary

UK 2020, 259 pp., hardbound, € 19.95
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Penguin UK

Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this debut about one family's queer desires, violent impulses and buried secrets. One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body. Her name was Hu Gu Po and she paid the price for her body in hunger. ... Weiterlesen

Anbara Salam: Belladonna

UK 2020, 342 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK

It is summer, 1954, when fifteen-year-old Bridget first meets Isabella. In their conservative Connecticut town, Isabella is a breath of fresh air. She is worldly, alluring and brazen: an enigma. When they receive an offer to study at the Academy in Italy, Bridget is thrilled. This is her ticket to Europe and - better still - a chance to spend ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: The Cancer Journals

UK 2020, 71 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK

Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women's pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women's body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not hidden by ... Weiterlesen

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