Trans life past, present and future is explored in this kaleidoscopic follow-up to the Women's Prize-nominated »Detransition, Baby«.- From the adventures of a lonely logger who, deep in the forest, joins his workmates to dance dressed as a woman, to the story of an obsessive boarding-school romance, to the dizzying spectacle of a gender apocalypse brought about by an unstable ... Weiterlesen

Pola Oloixarac: Mona

Transl. by Adam Morris. UK 2022, 176 pp., hardback, € 14.95
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Serpent´s Tail

Mona is a Peruvian writer based on a Californian campus, open-eyed and sardonic, a connoisseur of marijuana and prescription pills. She has discovered being an anthropological curiosity - a female writer of colour treasured for diversity in her department. When she is nominated for »the most important literary award in Europe«, Mona sees a chance to escape and leaves for ... Weiterlesen

Hervé Guibert: To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life

Transl. by Linda Coverdale. UK 2021, 265 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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With a foreword by Maggie Nelson, an introduction from Andrew Durbin and afterword from Edmund White. After being diagnosed with AIDS, Hervé Guibert wrote this devastating, darkly humorous and personal novel, chronicling three months in the penultimate year of the narrator's life. In the wake of his friend Muzil's death, he goes from one quack doctor to another, from holidays ... Weiterlesen

Torrey Peters: Detransition, Baby

USA 2021, 353 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn't hate. She'd scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then everything fell apart and three years on Reese is still in self-destruct mode, avoiding her loneliness by sleeping ... Weiterlesen

Carmen Maria Machado: Her Body and Other Parties

UK 2019, 245 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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A prize-winning, genre-bending collection of short stories that has already achieved cult status, »Her Body and Other Parties« is unique, unsettling and totally original. Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. Bodies become inconsequential, humans become monstrous, and anger becomes erotic. A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, »Her Body ... Weiterlesen

Reinaldo Arenas: Before Night Falls

UK 2017, 317 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades later, he had become one of Cuba's most important poets, an outspoken critic of Castro's regime and one of the leading gay voices of 20th- century. In »Before Night Falls«, Arenas tells of his odyssey from young rebel ... Weiterlesen

Eileen Myles: Chelsea Girls

UK 2016, 274 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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In this autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in anaudacious voice, made vivid and immediate in a lyrical language, »Chelsea Girls« cobbles together memories of Myles' 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed »lesbianity«, and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York. Suffused with ... Weiterlesen

Adrian McKinty: The Cold Cold Ground

A Sean Duffy Thriller. UK 2012, 332 pp., brochure, € 11.95
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Serpent´s Tail

Northern Ireland, Spring 1981. A homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera and a young woman's suicide that may yet turn out to be murder. On the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things - and people - aren't always what they seem. An killer who enjoys listening opera, the classic languages and is killing homosexuals. Homosexuality was ... Weiterlesen

Fiona Shaw: Tell It to the Bees

A Secret Love Which Has a Whole Town Talking. UK 2009, 336 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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A spellbinding story of forbidden lesbian love in the 1950s, now a major movie starring Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger: it's about a secret love which has a whole town talking - and a small boy very worried. Lydia Weekes is distraught at the break-up of her marriage. When her young son, Charlie, makes friends with the local doctor, Jean ... Weiterlesen