Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Charlie Spring is in Year 10 at Truham Grammar School for Boys. The past year hasn't been too great, but at least he's not being bullied anymore, and he's sort of got a boyfriend, even if he's kind of mean ... Weiterlesen

John Boyne: A Ladder to the Sky

UK 2018, 448 pp., pb., € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Black Swan

If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don't even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career. A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated gay author Erich Ackerman gives Maurice an opportunity. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell; whether ... Weiterlesen

Joseph Cassara: The House of Impossible Beauties

UK/AUS 2018, 400 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
One World

New York City, 1980: nowhere is the city's glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where 17-year-old Angel first comes into her own. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, and has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without. When she falls in love with ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Gale: Take Nothing With You

UK 2019, 352 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Headline

Fifty-something Eustace, a gay Londoner of leisure, realizes in the same week that he has fallen hopelessly in love with a man he has yet to meet in the flesh, and that he has cancer of the thyroid. While being given radioactive iodine therapy, which involves spending a little over 24 hours in a lead-lined hospital suite wearing only disposable ... Weiterlesen

Andr� Aciman: Enigma Variations

USA 2019, 226 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, �Enigma Variations� charts one man's path through the great loves of his life. Paul's intense desires, losses and longings draw him closer, ... Weiterlesen

Ahmad Danny Ramadan: The Clothesline Swing

USA 2017, 288 pp., pb., € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Inspired by �Arabian Tales of One Thousand and One Nights�, �The Clothesline Swing� tells the epic story of two gay lovers anchored to the memory of a dying Syria. The storyteller keeps life in forward motion by relaying remembered fables to his dying partner. Each night he weaves stories of his childhood in Damascus, of the cruelty he has endured ... Weiterlesen

Joshua Whitehead: Jonny Appleseed

USA 2018, 223 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

�You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine� is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit / Indigiqueer, repeats to himself. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, ... Weiterlesen

�douard Louis: History of Violence

Transl. by Lorin Stein. UK 2018, 199 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK

�History of Violence� retraces the story of Christmas Eve 2012, when the gay narrator met Reda, a migrant, on the street. They spend a night together when Reda pulls out a gun and says that he is going to kill the narrator. Reda insults the narrator, strangles and rapes him. The next day, the medical and legal proceedings begin. The ... Weiterlesen

Becky Albertalli / Adam Silvera: What If It's Us

USA 2018, 448 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Harper Collins

Authors Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera combine their talents in this funny collaboration about two very different boys who can't decide if the universe is pushing them together - or pulling them apart. Arthur is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it's that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you ... Weiterlesen

Stephen McCauley: My Ex-Life

USA 2019, 324 pp., pb. , € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Flatiron

David Hedges's life is coming apart at the seams. His job helping San Francisco rich kids get into the colleges of their (parents') choice is exasperating. His younger boyfriend has left him. The last person he expects to hear from is Julie Fiske. It's been decades since they've spoken, and he's relieved to hear she's recovered from her brief, misguided ... Weiterlesen

Pajtim Statovci: My Cat Yugoslavia

UK 2018, 257 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Pushkin

In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years later, her son, Bekim, grows up a social outcast in present-day Finland, not just an immigrant ... Weiterlesen

Will Self: Phone

UK 2018, 624 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK

For the characters at the heart of Will Self's new novel the 500-quid worry bead in their pocket may be both a blessing and a curse. For elderly Dr Zachary Busner it is a mysterious object - �NO CALLER ID� - but also it's his life line to his autistic grandson Ben, whose own connection with technology is, in turn, ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: After the Blue Hour

USA 2018, 212 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Grove Press

Gay author John Rechy's most daring work so far, �After the Blue Hour� is narrated by a 24-year-old writer named John Rechy. Fleeing a turbulent life in Los Angeles, he accepts an invitation to a private island from an admirer of his work. There, he joins Paul, his imposing host in his late 30s, his beautiful mistress, and his precocious ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Winman: Tin Man

UK 2017, 207 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Tinder Press

It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things. And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael, who are inseparable. And the boys become men, and then Annie walks into their lives, and it changes nothing and everything.

Patrick Ness: Release

UK 2017, 288 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Walker

A startling and tender novel about how to let yourself love and set yourself free by Patrick Ness. Today will change Adam Thorn's life. Between his religious family, unpleasant boss and his ex-boyfriend, the bindings of his world are coming undone. And way across town, a ghost has risen from the lake. Is there time for Adam to find his ... Weiterlesen

Reinaldo Arenas: Before Night Falls

UK 2017, 317 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Serpent�s Tail

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

Brontez Purnell: Since I Laid My Burden Down

USA 2017, 208 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Feminist Press

DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he's called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle's funeral, he's hit by flashbacks of handsome, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood, DeShawn ponders family, church, and the men in his life, prompting the question: Who deserves love? - ... Weiterlesen

Arundhati Roy: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

USA 2017, 440 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

�The Ministry of Utmost Happiness� takes us on a journey of many years - the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi to the forests of Central India, where, from time to time, �normalcy� is declared. The story has two main strands. One follows Anjum,who used to be Aftab, a hijra, or transwoman, struggling to make a ... Weiterlesen

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