William Cross: The Abergavenny Witch Hunt

An Account of the Prosecution of Over Twenty Homosexuals in a Small Welsh Town in 1942. UK 2014, 250 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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In 1942, the Welsh town of Abergavenny was scandalised by disclosures after the arrest of over twenty youths and men on charges relating to homosexual activity and corrupting boys. George Rowe, the 40-year-old manager of Abergavenny's Coliseum cinema was at the centre of a Police enquiry after one of the page-boys complained about being molested. The boy's complaint turned into ... Weiterlesen

Bruno Barreto (R): Reaching for the Moon

Brasilien 2013, portug. OF, engl. SF, engl. UT, 118 Min., € 19.99
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Biopic about the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and her passionate, real-life love affair with Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Based on the bestselling novel »Rare and Commonplace Flowers«, the film follows Bishop as a creative block prompts her to accept the invitation of a college friend to stay with her and her partner, Lota, on a sprawling ... Weiterlesen

James McCourt: Lasting City

The Anatomy of Nostalgia. USA/UK 2014, 323 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Liveright
Enjoined by his dying mother to »tell everything«, James McCourt was liberated by this deathbed wish to do just that. »Lasting City« is an operatic recollection that braids a nostalgic portrait of old-Irish New York with a boy's funny, gutter-snipe precocity and hardly innocent coming-of-age in the 1940s and 1950s. A literary outlaw in the poetic tradition of Verlaine and ... Weiterlesen

Peter Cameron: Coral Glynn

USA 2013, 210 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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Picador
Coral Glynn arrives at an isolated mansion deep in the English countryside early in the very wet spring of 1950 to nurse the elderly Edith Hart, who is dying of cancer. Hart House is also inhabited by Mrs Prence, the perpetually disgruntled housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, Mrs Hart's war-ravaged son, who is struggling to endure his thwarted life. When ... Weiterlesen

Jaime Harker: Middlebrow Queer

Christopher Isherwood in America. USA 2013, 203 pp, brochure, € 29.99
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University of Minnesota Press
How could one write about gay life for the mainstream public in Cold War America? Many midcentury gay American writers, hampered by external and internal censors, never managed to do it. But Christopher Isherwood did, and what makes his accomplishment more remarkable is that while he was negotiating his identity as a gay writer, he was reinventing himself as an ... Weiterlesen

Barbara Vine: The Child's Child

UK 2013, 279 pp., pb, € 12.95
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Penguin UK
When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together, splitting the numerous bedrooms and studies. The arrangement is unusual, but ideal for the affectionate pair - until the day Andrew brings home a new boyfriend, the devilishly handsome novelist, James Derain. When he and Andrew ... Weiterlesen

Simon Raven: Alms For Oblivion Volume II

UK 2012, 884 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Vintage
Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridge, turmoil in India and movie-making in Corfu. Dazzlingly witty and thoroughly depraved, Raven's world is also a dark mirror to our times - one that is sure to make you blush, shriek, laugh out loud and ... Weiterlesen

Simon Raven: Alms For Oblivion Volume I

UK 2012, 884 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Vintage
Alms for Oblivion is a series of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: schoolboys and businessmen, writers and soldiers, prostitutes and patient wives, actresses and models. In the first four novels Raven's wayward band of upper-class anti-heroes lurch from debauched parties to rehearsals for nuclear war; ... Weiterlesen

Violette Leduc: Thérèse and Isabelle

UK 2012, 134 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Charged with metaphors, alternating with precise descriptions of sensations and lesbian relationships, »Thérèse and Isabelle« was censored by its publisher in France in 1954, first published in a truncated version in 1966 and not until 2000 in its uncensored edition, as Violette Leduc intended. »I'm trying to express as exactly, as minutely as possible the sensations of physical love. There's ... Weiterlesen

Craig M. Loftin (ed.): Letters to ONE

Gay and Lesbian Voices from the 1950s and 1960s. USA 2012, 238 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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SUNY
Long before the Stonewall riots, ONE magazine - the first openly gay magazine in the United States - offered a positive viewpoint of homosexuality and encouraged gay people to resist discrimination and persecution. Despite a limited monthly circulation of only a few thousand, the magazine influenced the substance, character, and tone of the early American gay rights movement. This book ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

UK 2012, 564 pp., pb, € 19.95
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Picador
In late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at Two Acres, the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's 16-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a ... Weiterlesen

Scotty Bowers: Full Service

My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. UK 2012, 288 pp. with numerous b/w photos, brochure, € 19.95
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Atlantic
Newly discharged from the Marines after WWII, Scotty Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, especially in his military uniform, he quickly caught the eye of many of the town's stars and starlets. He began sleeping with some himself, and connecting others with his coterie of young, attractive, and sexually free-spirited friends. In his 30 years ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: Diaries Vol. One: 1939 - 1960

Ed. by Katherine Bucknell. UK 2011, 1050 pp., brochure, € 28.95
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In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California, his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists and intellectuals as Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, Klaus Mann, Charles Laughton, Lawrence ... Weiterlesen

Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child

UK 2011, 564 pp., brochure, € 14.60
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In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at Two Acres, the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's 16-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her ... Weiterlesen

Andrea Busfield: Aphrodite's War

UK 2010, 510 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Cyprus, 1955 - a guerrilla war is raging and four Greek brothers are growing up to the familiar sounds of exploding bombs and sniper fire. Determined to avenge the death of his elder brother and to win the heart of his beloved Praxi, young Loukis joins a cell of schoolboy terrorists operating in the mountains. But when his cohorts blow ... Weiterlesen

Patricia Highsmith: Carol

UK 2010, 311 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love. Carol is a sophisticated, bored ... Weiterlesen

Michael Carson: Sucking Sherbet Lemons

The Coming-of-Age Novel with a Difference. UK 2010, 292 pp., brochure, € 13.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cutting Edge
A gay Adrian Mole: what do you do when you are fat, 14, obsessed with the catholic church, with Doing the Right Thing, with scones and sweets, with other boys and their private parts? Well, if you're Benson, you panic and flee, hiding from the flesh as a novice in a monastery. Alas, St Finbar's monastery is as full of ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Kemp: London Triptych

UK 2010, 239 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Myriad Editions
Rent boys, aristocrats, artists and criminals populate this début as the author interweaves the lives and loves of three very different men in the Underground gay scene across the decades. Jack Rose begins his apprenticeship as a rent boy with Alfred Taylor in the 1890s, and finds that a life of pleasure and excess leads him to new friendships - ... Weiterlesen