Barrington Jedidiah Walker. Barry to his friends. Trouble to his wife. Seventy-four years old, Antiguan born and bred, flamboyant Hackney personality Barry is known for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits. He is a husband, father and grandfather. And for the past sixty years, he has been in a relationship with his childhood friend and soulmate, Morris. Wife ... Weiterlesen

Ali Smith: Artful

UK 2013, 240 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK

Adapted from four lectures given by lesbian author Ali Smith at Oxford University, »Artful« is a tidal wave of ideas in four thematically organised bursts of thought: »On Time«, »On Form«, »On Edge« and »On Offer and on Reflection«. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, »Artful« is narrated by a character who is haunted ... Weiterlesen

Robin Lane Fox: Alexander the Great

UK 2013, 576 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Penguin UK

»Alexander the Great« searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged 32, his vast empire comprised more ... Weiterlesen

Dawn French: Oh Dear Silvia

UK 2013, 422 pp., Pb, € 9.30
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Penguin UK

In her second novel, Dawn French tells the story of Silvia Shute's family secret. Silvia has just fallen from a balcony. Now she's in intensive care at a hospital. She's being kept in a coma on life-support including mechanical ventilation. Family and friends are at her side - each thinking they know the real Silvia. But do they? Her older ... Weiterlesen

Barbara Vine: The Child's Child

UK 2013, 279 pp., pb, € 12.95
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Penguin UK

When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together, splitting the numerous bedrooms and studies. The arrangement is unusual, but ideal for the affectionate pair - until the day Andrew brings home a new boyfriend, the devilishly handsome novelist, James Derain. When he and Andrew ... Weiterlesen

William S. Burroughs / Bill Morgan (ed.): Rub Out the Words

Letters 1959 - 1974. UK 2012, 444 pp., brochure, € 18.99
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William Burroughs' life was often as extreme as his prose. The second volume of his letters documents the time after the notorious publication of »Naked Lunch« in 1959, as he drifted away from the Beats and on towards new experiences in Europe and North Africa. We see the artist and pioneer of the cut-up method, Brion Gysin, gradually replace Ginsberg ... Weiterlesen

Giorgio Bassani: The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles

Engl. by Jamie McKendrick. UK 2012, 136 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles when the young man he pays to be his lover reveals the doctor's homosexuality in a public humiliation that leads into his destruction. As anti-Semitism spreads ... Weiterlesen

Michael Cunningham: A Home at the End of the World

UK 2012, 344 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK

Michael Cunningham's celebrated novel is the story two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself, and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father ... Weiterlesen

Naomi Alderman: The Lessons

UK 2011, 279 pp., brochure, € 9.30
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Penguin UK

James, always the outsider, enters Oxford - high seat of privilege, wealth and ambition. There he meets Mark Winters who is unbelievably wealthy. He is also gay, dissolute, promiscuous, pitilessly cruel and manipulative. He invites James and other members of the group to live rent-free in the large, rambling house he happens to own. There are untouchable Emmanuella, on-again/off-again Simon ... Weiterlesen

A. E. Housman: A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems : The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman

UK 2010. 288 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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A. E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and »A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems« is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. The scope of the poems is wide - ranging from religious doubt and doomed gay love to intense nostalgia for the countryside and patriotic celebration of the ... Weiterlesen

William S. Burroughs: Queer

UK 2010, 150 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, due to its outspoken depiction of homosexual desire, »Queer« is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, »Naked Lunch«. Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation and Other Essays

UK 2009, 336 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Penguin UK

»Against Interpretation« was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, among them »On Style,« »Notes on Camp,« and the titular essay »Against Interpretation,« where Sontag argues that modern ... Weiterlesen

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

UK 2009, 285 pp., pb., € 12.95
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»Fear no more the heat of the sun.« Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. ... Weiterlesen

Allen Ginsberg: Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

UK 2009 (New Edition), 119 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK

Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his name as a defining figure of the (gay) counterculture. They include the apocalyptic »Howl«, which defined a generation and became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956. They also include ... Weiterlesen

Will Self: Dorian

UK 2009, 278 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Penguin UK

Set against the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and '90s, Will Self's »Dorian« is a shameless reworking of our most significant myth of shamelessness. It is the summer of 1981 and Henry Wotton, uneasily gay, egregiously drug addicted, and queasily snobbish, is at the center of a Chelsea clique dedicated to timeless dissolution. His friend Baz Hallward, a sometime Warhol ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: At the Same Time

USA 2008, 256 pp., pb., € 22.95
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Penguin UK

Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. »At the Same Time« gathers sixteen essays and speeches written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems and Translations

UK 2007, 320pp., pb., € 19.95
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Penguin UK

Though best known for his plays - and for courting danger as a homosexual, a spy, and an outspoken atheist - Christopher Marlowe was also an accomplished and celebrated poet. This long-awaited updated and revised edition of his poems and translations contains his complete lyric works - from his translations of Ovidian elegies to his most famous poem, »The Passionate ... Weiterlesen

Andy Warhol: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

UK 2007, 242 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Penguin UK

In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol - which, with the subtitle »(From A to B and Back Again),« is less a memoir than a collection of riffs and reflections - he talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, and success; about New York, America, and his childhood in McKeesport, Pennsylvania; about his good times and bad in New ... Weiterlesen

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