London 2011, the year before the Olympics. The city is buzzing, and Daniel is just starting his journey into living a gay life of short-term sex-dates as his only remaining option. Sex, drugs and rock & roll are his sustenance. His mental health issues warp his life. 10 years later, everything has changed. Was it just a lie created by ... Weiterlesen

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

Lamya H.: Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir

UK 2023, 284 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Icon

When 14-year-old Lamya realizes she has a crush on her teacher - her female teacher - she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can't yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown. Born in South Asia, she moved to the Middle East at a young age and has spent years feeling out of place, like ... Weiterlesen

Se�n Hewitt: All Down Darkness Wide

UK 2023, 234 pp., Pb, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage

When Se�n 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, Se�n 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

Kim Hye-jin: Concerning My Daughter

Transl. by Jamie Chang. UK 2022, 163 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador

When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income, and, even better, a good husband with a good job with whom to start a family. But when Green turns up with her girlfriend Lane in tow, her mother is unprepared ... 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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Li Kotomi: Solo Dance

UK 2022, 256 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
World Editions

Cho Norie is forced to keep her lesbian life hidden. She is 27 and originally from Taiwan, working an office job now in Tokyo. While her colleagues worry about the economy, life-insurance policies, marriage, and children, she is forced to keep her unconventional life hidden - especially her sexuality and the violent attack that prompted her move to Japan. There ... Weiterlesen

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 na�f 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

Rabih Alameddine: The Wrong End of the Telescope

UK 2021, 354 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Little Brown

Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife ... Weiterlesen

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