Alon Hilu: Death of a Monk

UK 2006, 308 pp.,brochure, € 14.95
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In 1840s Damascus, Aslan Farhi leads a miserable life. Despised by his wealthy father, bullied by his siblings, and humiliated by his mother, he forms a close friendship with another boy, only for him to mysteriously disappear when their relationship becomes public knowledge. Aslan is horrified when his father arranges for him to be married to the rabbi's daughter, but ... Weiterlesen

Gore Vidal: Julian

USA 2003, 528 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, »Julian« is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels. - Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of ... Weiterlesen

Gore Vidal: The City and the Pillar

USA 2003, 207 pp., Pb, € 17.95
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Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in »awful kid stuff«, the experience forms Jim's ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents' expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship. Along the way he struggles with what he feels ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Charioteer

USA 2003, 347 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during WW II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. As they find solace and companionship together in the idyllic surroundings of the hospital, their friendship blooms into a discreet, chaste romance. Then one ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: Fire From Heaven

USA 2002, 375 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India and a new cosmopolitan model for western civilisation. In Alexander's childhood, his defiant character was molded into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: Funeral Games

USA 2002, 335 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Alexander the Great died at the age of 33, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India and a new cosmopolitan model for western civilization. Mary Renault imagines the world of this charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and ... Weiterlesen

Philippe Besson: In the Absence of Men

UK 2001, 198 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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It is the summer of 1916 and, with German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men of Paris are off at war. For Vincent, the sixteen-year-old son of a prestigious family, the tranquillity of the city sits at odds with the salons and soirees he attends. But, after an electrifying encounter with the enigmatic writer, Marcel P, draws Vincent's desires out ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Last of the Wine

USA 2001, 389 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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In the 5th century B.C., Alexias, a young Athenian of good family, reaches mnahood during the last phases of the Peloponnesian War. The adult world he enters is one in which the power and influence of his class have been undermined by the forces of war. Alexias finds himself drawn to the controversial teachings of Socrates, following him even though ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: The Married Man

USA 2001, 310 pp, pb, € 17.95
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A middle aged American works out in a Paris gym - an ordinary day, except that he catches the eye of a stranger, Julien, a young French architect with a gleam in his eye. To Austin's amused astonishment, life takes on the colour of romance. As they dash between Bohemian suppers and glittering salons, all they have to deal with ... Weiterlesen

Jackie Kay: Trumpet

USA 2000, 282 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate workings of the human heart and mind and offers a triumphant tale of loving deception and lasting devotion. The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret, one that enrages his adopted son, Colman, leading him to collude with a tabloid journalist. ... Weiterlesen

Daniel Mendelsohn: The Elusive Embrace

Desire and the Riddle of Identity. USA 1999, 209 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, »The Elusive Embrace« is an exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate the ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin

UK 1998, 252 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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»I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking«, are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation of the decadence and repression, glamour and sleaze of Berlin ... Weiterlesen

Shyam Selvadurai: Funny Boy

UK 2020, 316 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Set in the mannered, lush world of upper middle class Tamils in Sri Lanka, this deeply moving first novel, though not autobiographical, draws on Selvadurai's experience of being gay in Sri Lanka and growing up during the escalating violence between the Buddhist Sinhala majority and Hindu Tamil minority in the 1970s and early 1980s. Arjie Chelvaratnam, at the age of ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Genet

A Biography. USA 1994, 728 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Bastard, thief, prostitute, jailbird, homosexual, rebel, Jean Genet was one of French literature's sacred monsters. In works from »Our Lady of the Flowers« to »The Screens«, he created a scandalous personal mythology while savaging the conventions of his society. His career was a series of calculated shocks marked by feuds, rootlessness, and the embrace of unpopular causes and outcast peoples. ... Weiterlesen

James Baldwin: Nobody Knows My Name

USA 1993, 241 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Told with the gay black author's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States - including a passionate attack on William Faulkner for his ambivalent views about the segregated South - to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Praise Singer

USA 1988, 256 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts. Born into a stern farming family on the island of Keos, Simonides escapes his harsh childhood through a lucky apprenticeship with a renowned ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Mask of Apollo

USA 1988, 373 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Set in 4th-century B.C. Greece, »The Mask of Apollo« is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of Apollo, a relic of the theater's golden age, which is now past. At first his mascot, the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it his gravest decisions, when he ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The King Must Die

USA 1988, 388 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the man-devouring Minotaur in Crete. What the founder-hero might have been in real life is another question, brilliantly explored in »The King Must Die«. Drawing on modern scholarship and archaeological findings at Knossos, Mary Renault's Theseus is an utterly lifelike figure - a king of immense charisma, whose boundless strivings flow from strength ... Weiterlesen