Christos Tsiolkas: Merciless Gods

UK 2016, 336 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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The Australian author with Greek roots wrote the gay novels »Loaded« and »Barracuda«. His novel »The Slap« has been made into a mini-series. In the short stories of »Merciless Gods«, the author takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and introduces you to characters that will haunt you long after you have turned the final page. A ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

UK 2013, 289 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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It's 1985, and Greta Wells wishes she lived in any other time but this one: she has lost her beloved gay twin brother, Felix, to AIDS, her lover Nathan to another woman, and cannot seem to go on alone. To ease her sadness, her doctor suggests an unusual procedure, one that opens doors of insight into her relationship, her conflicting ... Weiterlesen

Neil McKenna: Fanny and Stella

The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England. UK 2013, 396 pp. illustrated, pp, € 17.95
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This is the story of the trial that shook Victorian England - a tale of cross-dressing, cross-examination and the invention of camp. Fanny and Stella were no ordinary young women. They were young men who liked to dress as women: Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton, two young clerks, part-time actresses and part-time prostitutes. Stella was the most beautiful female impersonator ... Weiterlesen

Lawrence Durrell: The Alexandria Quartet

UK 2012, 880 pp.,brochure, € 24.95
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An exotic and stunningly accomplished work of fiction in four interlocking novels. Set amid the corrupt glamour and multiplying intrigues of Alexandria in the 1930s and '40s, these novels follow the shifting alliances – sexual, cultural, and political - of characters whose motives change dramatically from one book to the next: Darley, the adulterous Irish schoolmaster; Pursewarden, an English writer ... Weiterlesen

Kat Banyard: The Equality Illusion

The Truth about Women and Men Today. UK 2011, 291 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Women (in the Western world) have apparently never had it so good. In today's supposedly post-feminist world, cosmetic surgery is seen as empowering, lap dancing as a sexually liberating career, and the lack of women in the boardroom a result of women's free choices. But the author isn't buying it. Only 22 per cent of British MPs are women. 100,000 ... Weiterlesen

Manju Kapur: A Married Woman

UK 2011, 310 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Astha has everything an educated, middle-class woman could ask for: comfortable surroundings, children and a dutiful, loving husband. So why should she be consumed by a sense of unease and dissatisfaction? And when she begins a relationship with another woman, is she liberating herself from her marriage, past and culture - or foolishly jeopardising everything she has? Her husband genuinely ... Weiterlesen

Alan Bennett: The Habit of Art

A Play. USA 2010, 88 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, »Death in Venice«, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H. Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first in twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, among others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. Alan Bennett’s new play is ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: The Story of a Marriage

UK 2008, 233 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District of San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep and everything changes. Her husband Holland and this man have had a gay relationship ... Weiterlesen

W. H. Auden: Selected Poems

Edward Mendelsohn (ed.). UK 2009, 344 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of Auden's »Selected Poems« (first published in 1979), adding twenty items to the hundred in the original edition, and broadening the focus to reflect the wealth of forms, the rhetorical and tonal range, and the variousness of content in Auden's poetry, in the confines of one volume. In particular, there ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: The Confessions of Max Tivoli

UK/USA 2004, 271 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Set in San Francisco a hundred years ago, it is the story of a man who suffers from a rare medical condition and, in a sense, lives life backwards. Max Tivoli is writing the story of his life. He is nearly seventy years old, but he looks as if he is only seven - for Max is ageing backwards. The ... Weiterlesen