Mark Behr: Kings of the Water

UK 2009, 242 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Gay 35-year-old Michiel Steyn is living with his boyfriend Kamil in San Francisco. He has already spent close to half his lifetime abroad. Now he has to return to South Africa to attend his beloved mother's funeral. But neither Michiel nor those he left behind have truly come to terms with his terrible flight from the farm they called Paradise. ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: The Page Turner

UK 1999, 244 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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18-year-old Paul Porterfield hopes for a career as a classical pianist and is thrilled to achieve his »debut« turning pages for his idol, Richard Kennington. This would be the only intersection of their careers were it not for a coincidental encounter later that summer in Rome, where Paul and his philistine mother, Pamela, are on vacation. Mutually infatuated, Paul and ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: While England Sleeps

UK 1998, 309 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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A haunting and evocative novel of England in the 1930s when the world was on the edge of chaos. At a meeting of republican sympathisers in London, Brian Botsford, a young middle-class writer and Cambridge graduate, meets Edward Phelan, an idealistic self-educated London Underground worker. They share a mutual attraction. Across the divisions of class they begin an affair in ... Weiterlesen

Felice Picano: Like People in History

USA 1995, 512 pp., brochure, € 18.00
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Flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge and steadfast, cautious Roger Sansarc are second cousins who are both gay and whose lifelong friendship begins when they first meet as 19-year-old boys in 1954. At crucial moments in their personal histories their lives intersect, and each discovers his own unique - and uniquely gay - identity. Through the lens of their complex, tumultuous, yet ... Weiterlesen