Paul Bailey: The Prince's Boy

UK 2015, 152 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
In May 1927, 19-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, has just arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to embark upon a bohemian adventure and relish the unique pleasures of Parisian life. An innocent in a new city, Dinu is secretly drawn to the Bains du ... Weiterlesen

Paul Bailey: Auf Tour

Dt. v. Klaus Schirrmeister. D 2011, 287 S., Broschur, € 15.37
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Bruno Gmünder
Stephen - den alle wegen seiner jamaikanischen Herkunft »Sugar Cane« (also Zuckerstange) nennen - kommt mit 16 in die Obhut von Bischof Wandle. In Wirklichkeit ist Wandle gar kein Bischof. Er hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, verwahrloste männliche Jugendliche auf Londoner Bahnhöfen aufzugreifen, sie gefügig zu machen und sie dann für seine eigene Zwecke auszubilden. Als Stricher und Tagediebe ... Weiterlesen

Paul Bailey: Three Queer Lives. An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall

UK 2002, 242 pp., Pb, € 12.99
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Paul Bailey dissects the lives of two extraordinary men and one remarkable woman who defied the sexual prejudices of their age and lived by their own rules. Richly anecdotal and frequently laugh-out-loud funny, the book tells the riches-to-rags story of Fred Barnes, a singer, dancer, comedian and scourge of the military, Naomi Jacob, a terrible but prolific novelist, broadcaster and ... Weiterlesen

Paul Bailey: Sugar Cane

UK 1993, 240 pp., hardback, € 24.95
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Bloomsbury
This is the sequel to »Gabriel's Lament«. It features the story of Dr Esther Potocki, a venerologist at a London hospital. She describes her curious friendship with the enigmatic Stephen, who she eventually introduces to her lover, Gabriel Harvey.