A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, »The Swimming-Pool Library« is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of everything, it focuses on the friendship of ... Weiterlesen

Robert Beachy: Gay Berlin

Birthplace of a Modern Identity. USA 2015, 305 pp., brochure, € 21.95
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A book about the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity. Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its »warm brothers«, Berlin, before the turn of the 20th century, became a place where scholars, activists, and medical ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry

UK 2014, 169 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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»Sexing the Cherry« celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality. It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.

Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy: The Animals

Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy. UK 2014, 528 pp., brochure, € 22.95
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In 1952, Christopher Isherwood (the middle-aged British author of »Goodbye to Berlin«) met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach. Defying convention, the two created an enduring relationship out of that initial spark - living as an openly gay couple for more than three decades in the closeted world of Hollywood. »The Animals« is the testimony in ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: Written on the Body

UK 2014, 190 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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A seductive novel by the lesbian author of »The Passion« and »Sexing the Cherry«. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. »At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.«

Christopher Isherwood: The Condor and the Cows

A South American Travel Diary. USA 2013, 256 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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In September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and his lover Bill Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. Isherwood's account of this journey, The Condor and the Cows, is one of very few classic travel books on South America and was among the books Isherwood considered ... Weiterlesen

Simon Raven: Alms For Oblivion Volume III

UK 2012, 884 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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The »Alms for Oblivion« sequence - an extraordinary series of murders, suicides, affairs, fighting, fires and at least one explosion, blackmail, gambling, illness, madness, lots of parties and plenty of sex - draws to a close with two novels about death and retribution. But Simon Raven's achievement and the conflicted, colourful or uniquely vile characters he created are not easily ... Weiterlesen

Simon Raven: Alms For Oblivion Volume II

UK 2012, 884 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. Dazzlingly witty and thoroughly depraved, Raven's world is also a dark mirror to our times - one that is sure to make you blush, shriek, laugh out loud and ... Weiterlesen

Simon Raven: Alms For Oblivion Volume I

UK 2012, 884 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Alms for Oblivion is a series of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: schoolboys and businessmen, writers and soldiers, prostitutes and patient wives, actresses and models. In the first four novels Raven's wayward band of upper-class anti-heroes lurch from debauched parties to rehearsals for nuclear war; ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: The Memorial

UK 2012, 272 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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With »The Memorial«, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society. Set in the aftermath of World War I, »The Memorial« portrays the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life ... Weiterlesen

Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Uk 1987, 505 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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»The day Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison opened the Whistle Stop Cafe, the town took a turn for the better. It was the Depression and that cafe was a home from home for many of us. You could get eggs, grits, bacon, ham, coffee and a smile for 25 cents. Ruth was just the sweetest girl you ever met. And ... Weiterlesen

Truman Capote: The Grass Harp

Including »A Tree of Night« and Other Stories. USA 2012, 272 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, »The Grass Harp« tells the story of three endearing misfits - an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies - who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, »The Grass Harp« manages to convey all the pleasures and ... Weiterlesen

Joseph Lelyveld: Great Soul

Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India. USA 2012, 426 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 24.95
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When this biography on the »Father of the Indian Nation«, Mahatma Gandhi, was released a big storm of protest in the Indian media broke loose. What was it all about? The biographer claimed that Gandhi has never been very much interested in women because the real love of his life was a German-Jewish architect and bodybuilder, Hermann Kallenbach, for whom ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

UK 2012, 230 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, »Oranges Are not the Only Fruit«, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival. This book is that story's silent ... Weiterlesen

Edmund de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes

USA 2011, 354 pp, pb, € 15.95
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264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the »netsuke«, they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de ... Weiterlesen

Samuel R. Delany: Babel-17 / Empire Star

USA 1994, 315 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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»Babel-17« is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy's deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack. For the first time, »Babel-17« is published as the author intended with the short novel »Empire Star«, the ... Weiterlesen

Robert Byron: The Road to Oxiana

UK 2010, 393 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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In 1933, the delightfully eccentric gay descendant of the famous Lord Byron, Robert Byron, set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which formed part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. While his arrival ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Spell

UK 2006, 257 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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»The Spell« is a comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin, an architect in his late forties, who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his younger lover, Justin, Robin's 22 year old son Danny, a volatile beauty who lives for clubbing and casual sex, and the shy Alex, who is ... Weiterlesen

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