May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer things, controversy and novelty, he doesn't take people half as seriously as they take themselves. Which will prove the first of his huge mistakes.The second? Milo Mangasha, his beguiling and provocative student. ... Weiterlesen

Michael Nott: Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life

UK 2024, 720 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
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Faber and Faber

»Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life« is a landmark study of one of England's - and America's - most innovative and revolutionary poets. Michael Nott chronicles, for the first time, Gunn's largely undocumented life: his childhood in Kent and London, his mother's suicide, and his mind-opening education at Cambridge, where he read Shakespeare and John Donne, wrote his first book, ... Weiterlesen

Jon Savage: The Secret Public

How LGBTQ Performers shaped public culture (1955-1979). UK 2024, 769 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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This history of the LGBTQ influence on popular culture is an account of key moment in music and entertainment history between 1955 and 1979. From the secret sexuality of stars such as Little Richard in the 1950s through the ambiguity of David Bowie, glam rock and Sylvester's »You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)«, Jons Savage reflects on the figurws and ... Weiterlesen

Jason Okundaye: Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain

UK 2024, 304 pp., hardback, € 27.95
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Faber and Faber

In this landmark work, Jason Okundaye meets an elder generation of Black gay men and finds a spirited community full of courage, charisma and good humour, hungry to tell its past of nightlife, resistance, political fights, loss, gossip, sex, romance and vulgarity. Through their conversations he seeks to reconcile the Black and gay narratives of Britain, narratives frequently cleaved as ... Weiterlesen

Taichi Yamada: Strangers

UK 2023, 202 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Faber and Faber

Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada returns one night to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up. There, at the theatre, he meets a likeable man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. And so begins Harada's ordeal, as he's thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they ... Weiterlesen

Kacen Callender: Lark and Kasim Start a Revolution

UK 2022, 326 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Faber and Faber

When 17-year-old nonbinary, neurodivergent and aspiring writer Lark pretends that they are the creator of a viral thread that their ex-best friend, Kasim, accidentally posted onto their Twitter account, declaring his unrequited love, things get out of hand fast. As Lark's lie deepens and they begin a famous relationship with their own crush, Lark searches for the courage to speak ... Weiterlesen

Pajtim Statovci: Bolla

UK 2023, 240 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Kosovo is a country on the brink of a dreadful war. Arsim is twenty-two, newly married, cautious - an Albanian trying to keep his head down and finish his studies in an atmosphere of creeping threat. Until he encounters Milos, a Serb, and begins a life in secret. »Bolla« is the story of what happens when passion and history collide ... Weiterlesen

Grace Lavery: Please Miss

UK 2022, 288 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and a 100 per cent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. How could her story be straightforward when she is anything but? The telling of her tale is kaleidoscopic, wild and audacious: Grace performs in a David Lynch remake of Sunset Boulevard and is reprogrammed as a 1960s femmebot. She ... Weiterlesen

Julia Shaw: Bi - The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality

UK 2022, 256 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Faber and Faber

A provocative and eye-opening book on the science and history of bisexuality, from the author and co-host of BBC podcast »Bad People Significant« strides have been made in recent years in the movement for LGBTIQ rights, visibility and empowerment, but the conversation is far from over. After years of feeling the crushing dearth of information on bisexuality, the author dug ... Weiterlesen

Thom Gunn: Selected Poems

UK 2021, 284 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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Thom Gunn has been described as one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century. This »Selected Poems,« compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes, is the first edition to represent the full arc of Gunn's inimitable career. The poetry of Thom Gunn was much admired in his lifetime, and at ... Weiterlesen

Asjadi: Tric-Trac

D 2021, 600 S., geb., € 28.80
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Dieser Debütroman des schwulen, in Teheran geborenen Autors ist ein Entwicklungsroman ohne Entwicklung und ein kaleidoskopisches Mehrgenerationenportrait. Die Geschichte beginnt mit der schockierenden Hinrichtung von zwei 15-jährigen schwulen Jungen 2005 in der iranischen Stadt Maschhad, die international Wellen schlug - hier lässt der Autor die vom Mullahregime ermordeten Jungen wiederauferstehen. Er führt sie direkt ins Glück, und das alles wird ... Weiterlesen

André Aciman: Homo Irrealis

UK 2021, 226 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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In »Homo Irrealis«, André Aciman reflects on the imagination's power to shape our memories under time's seemingly intractable hold. The irrealis mood knows no boundaries between what is and what isn't, between what happened and what won't. In more ways than one, the essay about the artists, writers, and great minds gathered in this volume have nothing to do with ... Weiterlesen

Kacen Callender: Felix Ever After

UK 2021, 360 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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Faber and Faber

Felix Love has never been in love - and, yes, he's painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it's like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What's worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he's one marginalization too many - ... Weiterlesen

Matthew López: The Inheritance

UK 2020, 297 pp., pb., € 24.95
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Inspired by E. M. Forster's novel Howards End, and set in New York three decades after the height of the AIDS epidemic, »The Inheritance« wrestles with what it means to be a gay man today, exploring relationships and connections across age and social class and asking what one generation's responsibilities may be to the next. Matthew Lopez's »The Inheritance« premiered ... Weiterlesen

Sebastian Barry: A Thousand Moons

USA 2020, 272 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Narrated by Winona - the young Lakota orphan adopted by gay soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole in »Days Without End« - »A Thousand Moons« continues Sebastian Barry's extraordinary fictional exploration of late nineteenth century America. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, educated and loved, Winona is employed by the lawyer Briscoe in ... Weiterlesen

André Aciman: Out of Egypt

UK 2019, 415 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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This portrait of a now vanished world tells the story of Alexandria in the 20th-century that is, by the way, the story of Aciman's own family, a Jewish family with Italian and Turkish roots that tied its future to Egypt and made its home there for three generations, only to find itself peremptorily expelled by the Government in the early ... Weiterlesen

Samantha Irby: We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

UK 2019, 288 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Faber and Faber

If you haven't already heard of Samantha Irby. Where have you been? In this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the rubbish bin she calls her life. From an ill-fated pilgrimage to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes to awkward sexual encounters to the world's first completely honest job application, and more, sometimes ... Weiterlesen

Jean Genet: Querelle de Brest

UK 2019, 320 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Querelle, a young sailor at large in the port of Brest, is an object of illicit desire to his diary-keeping superior officer, Lieutenant Seblon. He is coveted, too, by a corrupt policeman, Mario, and gives himself freely both to brothel-keeper Madame Lysiane and to her husband. But Querelle is a thief and a murderer - not a man to be ... Weiterlesen

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