A gay man is finding his way in post-war Ireland. The story begins in 1945 when a baby is born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural community. The baby is adopted as Cyril Avery by a middle-class Dublin couple and befriends a more confident, glamorous boy, Julian Woodbead, who provides a dubious anchor through ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Sparsholt Affair

UK 2018, 454 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador

In October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others - particularly on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist and destined to become a writer himself. While the Blitz rages in London, Oxford exists at a strange ... Weiterlesen

Adam Silvera: They Both Die at the End

UK 2017, 373 pp., brochure, € 11.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Simon and Schuster

When Mateo receives the dreaded call from Death-Cast, informing him that today will be his last, he doesn't know where to begin. Quiet and shy, Mateo is devastated at the thought of leaving behind his hospitalized father, and his best friend and her baby girl. But he knows that he has to make the most of this day, it's his ... Weiterlesen

Hasan Namir: God in Pink

USA 2015, 153 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Arsenal Pulp Press

A revelatory novel about being gay and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003. Ramy is a young gay Iraqi struggling to find a balance between his sexuality, religion, and culture. Since his parents have died, he lives under the close scrutinity of his strict brother and sister-in-law. They exert pressure on him to find a wife, leaving him anguished ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Our Young Man

UK 2017, 283 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury

Edmund White's new novel follows the life of a gorgeous Frenchman, Guy, as he goes from a French industrial city to the top of the modeling profession in New York City's fashion world, becoming the darling of Fire Island's gay community. Enjoying a full gay amorous life through the disco era and into the age of AIDS, like ... Weiterlesen

Jamie O'Neill: At Swim, Two Boys

UK 2017, 643 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Scribner

Set in Dublin and its near surround the novel follows the year to Easter 1916, the time of Ireland's brave but fractured uprising against British rule. At its core it tells the love of two boys, Jim, a naive and reticent scholar, the younger son of foolish, aspirant shopkeeper Mr Mack, and Doyler, the dark rough diamond son of Mr ... Weiterlesen

Alexander Chee: Edinburgh

USA 2016, 240 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Mariner

12-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys' choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director ... Weiterlesen

Paul Russell: Boys of Life

USA 2016, 322 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cleis

Discover a compelling novel of innocence, betrayal, redemption and revenge in this re-publishing of �Boys of Life�. Tony is a young gay country boy with big dreams who's utterly bored with the tedium of Kentucky life. So it's no wonder he's seduced by the smooth-talking Carlos Reichart, who convinces the young man to run away with him to New York ... Weiterlesen

Ian McGuire: The North Water

USA 2016, 326 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Scribner

A ship sets sail with a killer on board in 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the position of ship's surgeon on this ill-fated voyage. But when, deep into the journey, a cabin boy is discovered ... Weiterlesen

Rabih Alameddine: The Angel of History

USA 2016, 296 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Corsair

Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, �The Angel of History� follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco ... Weiterlesen

Raziel Reid: When Everything Feels Like the Movies

CAN/UK 2016, 163 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Arsenal Pulp Press

School is just like a film set: there's The Crew, who make things happen, The Extras who fill the empty desks, and The Movie Stars, whom everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos. But Jude doesn't fit in. He's not part of The Crew because he isn't about to do anything unless it's court-appointed. He's not an Extra because nothing ... Weiterlesen

Matthew Griffin: Hide

USA 2016, 272 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury

Wendell and Frank meet at the end of World War II, when Frank returns home to their North Carolina town. Soon he's loitering around Wendell's shop, and the two come to understand their connection as love - a love that, in this time and place, can hold real danger. Cutting nearly all ties with the rest of the world, they ... Weiterlesen

Lori Ostlund: After the Parade

USA 2016, 340 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Scribner

Sensitive, bighearted, and achingly self-conscious, 40-year-old Aaron Englund long ago escaped the confinements of his Midwestern hometown, but he still feels like an outcast. Walter, the language professor who rescued Aaron at 18 by preventing his abusive father from killing him, is now since 20 years his older partner. Aaron at last decides it is time to take control of ... Weiterlesen

Garth Greenwell: What Belongs to You

USA 2016, 204 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, a gay American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trysts grow increasingly intimate and unnerving as the enigma ... Weiterlesen

Josef Winkler: Graveyard of Bitter Oranges

Transl. by Adrian Nathan West. USA/UK/AUS 2015, 465 pp., brochure, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Contra Mundum Press

In 1979, Carinthian author Josef Winkler appeared on the literary horizon as if from nowhere, collecting numerous honors and the praise of the most prominent critical voices in Germany and Austria. Throughout the 1980s, he chronicled the malevolence, dissipation, and unregenerate Nazism endemic to Austrian village life in an increasingly trenchant and hallucinatory series of novels. At the decade's end, ... Weiterlesen

Mark Merlis: JD

USA 2015, 272 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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University of Wisconsin Press

When a would-be biographer approaches Ascher's widow Martha, she delves for the first time into her husband's papers and all the secrets that come tumbling out of them. She finds journals that begin as a wisecracking chronicle of life at the fringes of the New York literary scene, then recount Ascher's sexual adventures in the pre-Stonewall gay underground and the ... Weiterlesen

Paul Russell: Immaculate Blue

USA 2015, 228 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cleis

From the award-winning author of �The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov� comes �Immaculate Blue�, which explores the lives of four people - Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia - and their intermingled and unwinding desires. Set in upstate New York, the novel follows these characters as they achieve their aims in lives redolent with loss and hope, humor and sadness, union ... Weiterlesen

Bernard Cooper: My Avant-Garde Education

A Memoir. USA 2015, 251 pp., hardbound, € 26.95
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W. W. Norton

Growing up in the suburbs - confused about his sexuality, about his consumer-oriented world, about the death of his older brother - Bernard Cooper falls in love with Pop art and sets off for the California Institute of the Arts, the center of the burgeoning field of conceptual art, in this beguiling memoir. The most famous, and infamous, artists of ... Weiterlesen

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