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

John Boyne: The Heart's Invisible Furies

UK 2017, 720 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK

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

Zadie Smith: Swing Time

USA 2017, 453 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA

Set in London, New York and West Africa, �Swing Time� is about two brown girls from Willesden who dream of being dancers. Only one - Tracey - has the talent. But the other has the ideas which take her further than she could ever have imagined. It is a story of finding happiness in the meanest of places and feeling ... Weiterlesen

Erin McKenzie: Where Love Leads

USA 2017, 259 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bold Strokes

Sarah O'Shaughnessy, a high school counselor, is very good at taking care of others. What she hasn't mastered is how to take better care of herself. Four years after the death of her wife, Sarah's life has settled into a safe, solitary rut. That is, until the arrival of a new student and her mom. Lauren Emerson and her teen ... 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

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