Andrew Holleran: The Kingdom of Sand

UK 2023, 272 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
Out in the drought-struck backwaters of rural Florida, the novel's nameless narrator lives a life of semi-solitude, enjoying the odd, fleeting sexual encounter and the friendship of a few. His world is ageing, and the memories of another time flash, then fade - visions of parties filled with handsome young men, the parents whom he chose to spend his life ... Weiterlesen

Gary Indiana: Rent Boy

USA 2023, 128 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
McNally Editions
It's New York City, 1981, and everyone wants to be at the Emerson Club, from Cindy Crawford to Cindy Adams; from Famous Roger, one-time lion of the talk shows, to Sandy Miller, the »downtown« writer with the tattoos and the leather; from Lauren Hutton to the art star who does the thing with the broken plates. Everyone, that is, except ... Weiterlesen

Seán Hewitt: All Down Darkness Wide

UK 2023, 234 pp., Pb, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
When Seán meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe depression, the couple comes face-to-face with crisis. Wrestling with this, Seán Hewitt delves deep into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures and poets before him. From a 19th-century cemetery in Liverpool to the pine forests of Gothenburg, Hewitt plumbs ... Weiterlesen

Bethan Roberts: My Policeman

UK 2022 (Tie-in edition), 342 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
Now in the cinemas: In the 1950s' Brighton - at a time when homosexuality in the UK was still illegal - Marion first catches sight of Tom. He's her best friend's hunky brother. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is absolutely smitten - determined her love will be enough for both of them. ... Weiterlesen
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Zak Salih: Let's Get Back to the Party

USA 2022, 304 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Algonquin
Estranged childhood friends Oscar and Sebastian - both too young to have a personal relationship with the AIDS crisis but too old to have enjoyed the freedom of an out adolescence - spend a year grappling with cultural identity, generational change, and what they see in, and owe to, each other. 2015, weeks after the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling: ... Weiterlesen

Nathan Harris: The Sweetness of Water

USA 2021, 368 pp.,brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Headline
In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry - freed by the Emancipation Proclamation - seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. ... Weiterlesen

S. A. Cosby: Razorblade Tears

UK 2022, 321 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Headline
Ike has been out of jail for 15 years. But a black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son, Isiah, has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Isiah was a gay black man in the American South - Ike couldn't bring himself to attend ... Weiterlesen

Pajtim Statovci: Bolla

UK 2023, 240 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Faber and Faber
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

Neel Patel: Tell Me How to Be

USA 2022, 336 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Trapeze
Lost in the jungle of Los Angeles, Akash Amin is filled with shame. Shame for liking men. Shame for wanting to be a songwriter. Shame for not being like his perfect brother. Shame for his alcoholism. And most of all, shame for what happened with the first boy he ever loved. When his mother tells him she is selling the ... Weiterlesen

Douglas Stuart: Young Mungo

UK 2023, 392 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador
Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in the hyper-masculine and violently sectarian world of Glasgow's housing estates. They should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all, and yet they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. As ... Weiterlesen

Daniel Black: Don't Cry for Me

CAN 2022, 301 pp., hardback, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Hanover Square
A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness: As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write a letter to his only son, Isaac. They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are things that Isaac must know. Stories about his ... Weiterlesen

Michal Witkowski: Eleven-Inch

USA 2022, 295 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Seagull Books
Western Europe, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Two queer teens from Eastern Europe journey to Vienna, then Zurich, in search of a better life as sex workers. They couldn't be more different from each other. Milan, aka Dianka, a dreamy, passive naïf from Slovakia, drifts haplessly from one abusive sugar daddy to the next, whereas Michal, a ... Weiterlesen

Denton Welch: In Youth Is Pleasure

UK 2021, 170 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
Orvil Pym does not fit in. A waifish, eccentric, sensitive 15-year-old, he hates school and longs to be alone. Spending his Summer holidays in a genteel Surrey hotel with his mysterious father and two brothers who don't understand him, he explores ancient churches, spies on a man rowing in the river and collects antiques, escaping into his own singular aesthetic ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: A Previous Life

UK 2021, 273 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
A daring, category-confounding and ruthlessly funny novel from Edmund White, exploring polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and love. Sicilian aristocrat and musician Ruggero, and his younger American wife, Constance, agree to break their marital silence and write their Confessions. Until now they had a ban on speaking about the past, since transparency had wrecked their previous marriages. As the two take ... Weiterlesen

Alison Rumfit: Tell Me I'm Worthless

UK 2021, 264 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cipher
Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends Ila and Hannah. Since then, things have not been going well. Alice is living a haunted existence, selling videos of herself cleaning for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep. She hasn't spoken to Ila since they went into the House. She hasn't ... Weiterlesen

Sang Young Park: Love in the Big City

USA 2021, 217 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Tilted Axis Press
Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they suppress their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and freezer-chilled Marlboro Reds. Yet in time even Jaehee settles down, ... Weiterlesen

Matt Cain: The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

UK 2021, 448 pp., brochure, € 21.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Headline
64-year-old Albert Entwistle has been a postie in a quiet town in Northern England for all his life, living alone since the death of his mam 18 years ago. He keeps himself to himself. He always has. But he's just learned he'll be forced to retire at his next birthday. With no friends and nothing to look forward to, the ... Weiterlesen

Benjamin Alire Sáenz: Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World

The Sequel. USA 2021, 528 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Simon and Schuster
In »Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe«, two boys fell in love. Now they must discover what it means to stay in love and build a relationship in a world that seems to challenge their very existence. Ari has spent all of high school hiding who he really is, staying silent and invisible. He expected his senior ... Weiterlesen