Graham Chapman: A Liar's Autobiography

UK 2014, 248 pp., pb., € 24.95
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Methuen
Required reading for Monty Python fans, this true and false memoir is Graham Chapman's own hilarious account of his life as a Python and as a homosexual. The book equals Joe Orton's famous Diaries in providing an unblushing account of a gay lifestyle linked to entertainment. Full of outrageous fictions and touching truths, in telling surreal and outrageous lies Graham ... Weiterlesen

John Niven: The Second Coming

USA 2014, 384 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good - so he takes a holiday. In Heaven-time this is just a week's fishing trip, but on Earth several hundred years go by. When God returns, he finds all hell has broken loose: world wars, holocausts, famine, capitalism and »fucking Christians everywhere«. ... Weiterlesen

Oliver Ottitsch: Gay Nazi Dolphins at a Gangbang

Ö 2014, 50 S., geheftet, € 5.00
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
A very special cartoon collection. Enjoy the disgusting, politically incorrect and hilarious world of Oliver Ottitsch!

David Sedaris: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

UK 2013, 275 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Little Brown
A guy walks into a bar car and... - From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you deeply moved. Sedaris remembers his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants), his ... Weiterlesen

Augusten Burroughs: Dry

USA 2013, 293 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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An advertising executive remembers his childhood with his eccentric foster family and his early adulthood experiences of trying to establish an independent life for himself having finally become an alcoholic. When the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, ... Weiterlesen

Mohammed al-Mohammad Mohamed / Youssef Fakish: Al-Qaeda's Super Secret Weapon

USA 2013, 40 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Northwest
The end of »Don't Ask, Don't Tell« was just the opening that the terrorists were waiting for! This witty, sexy, spy tale sends up Republicans, the War on Terror and gay clichés from A to Z. The end of the world was never so fabulous!

Roseanne Barr: RoseanneArchy

Dispatches from the Nut Farm. USA 2011, 284 pp., hardbound, € 21.30
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Roseanne Barr is a force of nature. Whether taking the sitcom world by storm, challenging accepted social norms, or battling the wild pigs inhabiting her nut farm in Hawaii, she is not to be trifled with. In this return to the printed page, Roseanne unleashes her razor-sharp observations on hypocrisy, hubris, and self-perpetuating institutions of questionable value - as well ... Weiterlesen

Max Goldt: Ein Buch namens Zimbo

Sie werden kaum ertragen, was Ihnen mitgeteilt wird. D 2011, 203 S., Pb, € 9.24
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Rowohlt
Neben der Neuauflage älterer »Klassiker« von Max Goldt gibt es nun auch einiges Neues von ihm zu lesen. Die Fans werden wie immer von seinem irrsinnigen Wortwitz gefangen genommen sein. Von »Staat, misch dich ein! Es wird auch dir nützen« über »Sodbrennen statt Snobismus, ich meine umgekehrt« und »Das Paradox und seine nimmermüde Volkstümlichkeit« bis hin zu »Feichte Brott« und ... Weiterlesen

Mrs. Stephen Fry: Mrs Fry's Diary

Foreword by Stephen Fry. UK 2010, 346 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Stephen Fry's secret wife speaks out at last: Stephen Fry - actor, writer, raconteur and wit. Cerebral and sophisticated, a true Renaissance man. Or is he? Finally, his secret double life - the womanizing, the window-cleaning, the kebabs, the karaoke - is exclusively revealed by Edna, his devoted wife and mother of his five, six or possibly seven children. These ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

A Wicked Bestiary. UK 2010, 163pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 14.95
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If animals were more like us, if mice kept pets and toads could cuss, if dogs had wives and chipmunks dated, sheep sat still and meditated, then in the forest, field and diary, you might find this bestiary, read by storks, but rats and kitties, skimmed by cows with milk-stained titties. »I found the book to be most droll«, might ... Weiterlesen

Paul Rudnick: I Shudder

And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey. USA 2009, 318 pp., hardbound, € 21.79
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In his plays, his screenplays (»Jeffrey«), and his writing for the »New Yorker«, Paul Rudnick has established himself as a comic master whose talents transcend genre. Now, in »I Shudder«, he trains his wickedly perceptive eye on everything from his New Jersey family to Hollywood to demented alcoholic Broadway stars waving swords. At his Uncle Rudy's funeral, Rudnick's beloved Aunt ... Weiterlesen

Augusten Burroughs: You Better Not Cry

True Stories for Christmas. USA 2009, 206 pp., brochure, € 13.50
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Of course you've eaten too much chocolate at Christmas, but have you ever eaten the face off a six-foot stuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses, but have you ever made your own gingerbread block of flats? You've woken up lying next to Kris Kringle himself? Augusten Burroughs has, and in this caustically funny, nostalgic, poignant, and moving collection of true ... Weiterlesen

Gary Indiana: The Shanghai Gesture

USA 2009, 207 pp., brochure, € 14.39
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Gary Indiana applies his prickly wit, nihilistic vision, and utterly original voice to this side-splitting spin on Fu Manchu. A mysterious bout of narcolepsy has overtaken the seaside hamlet of Land's End, a funk endemic to the region since the wreckage a century earlier of the ship The Ardent Somdomite Inspector Weymouth Smith and unconvinced cohort Dr. Obregon Petrie attempt ... Weiterlesen

Joel Derfner / Foreword by Elton John: Swish

My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever and What Ended up Happening Instead. USA 2009, 256 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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Joel Derfner is a knitter, an aerobics intructor, a cheerleader, a go-go dancer, and a musical theater composer, but when he realizes one day that he's a walking gay cliché he embarks on a quest for deeper meaning. A very, very funny quest for deeper meaning. And whether he's confronting the demons of his past at a GLBT summer camp, ... Weiterlesen

Arnon Grünberg: The Jewish Messiah

UK 2009, 471 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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What is it to the 16-year-old Swiss youth Xavier Radek that his grandfather served in the SS? There don't seem to be many great causes in Basel, at least within reach of a restless, socially nervous, and - let's admit it - not notably gifted young man. Until, that is, Xavier meets some members of the Basel Jewish youth group ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

UK 2008, 310 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Sedaris's remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever. Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life - the etiquette of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow plane passenger or the art of soundproofing your windows ... Weiterlesen

James Hamilton-Paterson: Rancid Pansies

UK 2008, 256 pp., brochure, € 21.30
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The hero of this black farce is Gerald Samper, a Tuscan expat with his mind on higher things than he has yet managed to reach. A ghostwriter to celebrities he despises, his dream is to compose a libretto to a grand opera. A stay in Suffolk ends in disaster, thanks to a little mistake in the concoction of Gerry's field-mouse ... Weiterlesen

Richard B. Nugent: Gentleman Jigger

USA 2008, 332 pp., brochure, € 15.59
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Written between 1928 and 1933 - and never before published - this book is a wickedly revealing satire of the leading lights of this vibrant time: it's the story of Stuartt, Bohemian scion of Washington's African-American elite. Openly homosexual - as was the author - Stuartt joins the younger intellectuals of Harlem in defying authority figures, both black and white, ... Weiterlesen