Tan Twan Eng: The House of Doors

UK 2024, 320 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of the early 20th century - and a gay man. But in 1921 he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write. His friend Robert Hamlyn offers an escape in the Straits Settlements of Penang, where Robert's steely ... Weiterlesen

Travis Alabanza: None of the Above

UK 2023, 214 pp.,brochure, € 19.95
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Travis Alabanza examines seven phrases people have directed at them about their gender identity. These phrases have stayed with them over the years. Some are deceptively innocuous, some deliberately loaded or offensive, some celebratory; sentences that have impacted them for better and for worse; sentences that speak to the broader issues raised by a world that insists that gender must ... Weiterlesen

David Hewson: The Garden of Angels

UK 2022, 320 pp., pb., € 17.95
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When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches - earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says, and a secret he must keep from his father. Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under the Nazis, and ... Weiterlesen

Ahmad Danny Ramadan: The Foghorn Echoes

UK 2024, 248 pp., pb., € 17.95
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The new novel of the author of »The Clothesline Swing« about the forbidden gay love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout that ripples through their adult lives.- Syria, 2003. A blooming romance leads to a tragic accident when Hussam's father catches him acting on his feelings for his best friend, Wassim. In an instant, the course of ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Page McBee: Amateur

A True Story about What Makes a Man. UK 2018, 204 pp., hardbound, € 17.95
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The author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience boxing - learning to get hit, and to hit back - wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym - confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body - McBee ... Weiterlesen

Matt Lucas: Little Me

My Autobiography. UK 2018, 321 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Throughout this book (really) gay UK comedian Matt Lucas talks about his life and work (»The only gay in the village«, Vicky Pollard etc. from »Little Britain«, and »Come Fly With Me«). The thing is, this is a bit different to most memoirs you may have read, because it comes in the form of an A-Z. For instance, B is ... Weiterlesen

David Wojnarowicz: Close to the Knives

UK 2017, 304 pp., pb., € 19.95
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»Close to the Knives« is the artist, writer and activist David Wojnarowicz's extraordinary memoir. Filthy, beautiful, and sharp to the point of piercing, it is both an exploration of the world seen through the eyes of an artist, and a moving portrait of a generation living, grieving, and dying through the AIDS crisis. It is a triumphant hymn of resistance, ... Weiterlesen