Ian McGuire: The North Water

USA 2016, 326 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Chinelo Okparanta: Under the Udala Tree

UK 2016, 336 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Granta Books
Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does - born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls. When their lesbian love is discovered, Ijeoma learns ... Weiterlesen

Rita Mae Brown: Rubyfruit Jungle

USA 2015, 223 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bantam
A landmark lesbian coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of most distinctive voices of the US, »Rubyfruit Jungle« remains a transformative work more than forty years after its original publication. In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in ... 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
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
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

Emily O'Beirne: The Sum of These Things

D 2015, 396 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag - A Story of Now Series 2
In the sequel to »A Story of Now«, Claire has already learned a few things this summer. Like falling for a girl is easy. Well, it is if that girl is Mia. What Claire hasn't learned yet is that now comes the hard part: learning to trust in this new relationship. Then there's the pressing question of what to do ... Weiterlesen

Miranda July: The First Bad Man

USA 2015, 276 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cheryl, a tightly-wound, vulnerable woman lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat. She is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six, who sometimes recurs as other people's babies. Cheryl is also obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the women's self-defense non-profit where she works. She believes they've been making love for many ... Weiterlesen

Bernard Cooper: My Avant-Garde Education

A Memoir. USA 2015, 251 pp., hardbound, € 26.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
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

James Purdy: Malcolm

USA 2015, 233 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
W. W. Norton
Introduced simply as »the boy on the bench«, the titular character of James Purdy's debut novel, »Malcolm« is a Candide-like figure who is taken under the wing of the »most famous astrologer of his period«, the worldly Professor Cox, and introduced to a series of increasingly bizarre characters and situations in this black comic fable. From an undertaker to a ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry

UK 2014, 169 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
»Sexing the Cherry« celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality. It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.

Sonwabiso Ngcowa: In Search of Happiness

South Africa 2014, 152 pp., brochure, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Nana is fifteen when she travels from her village in the Eastern Cape to the city. She is over joyed to be reunited with her family, even if they are living in a tiny shack. But she struggles to fit in at her new school, and she is shocked at the violence shown to chino and Agnes, her Zimbabwean neighbours. ... Weiterlesen

Pippa Goldschmidt: The Falling Sky

UK 2014, 256 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
A blackly comic campus satire combined with a heart-breaking family mystery, »The Falling Sky« mixes fiction and astronomy into a moving narrative. Jeanette is a young, lesbian post-doctoral researcher who has dedicated her life to studying astronomy. Struggling to compete in a prestigious university department dominated by egos and incompetents, and caught in a cycle of brief and unsatisfying affairs ... Weiterlesen