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
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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

Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger

UK 2010, 501 pp., pb, € 14.95
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In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at 20 to 9. Its ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: A Single Man

Film Tie-in. UK 2010, 152 pp., Pb, € 14.95
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In this novel, a middle-aged professor living in Southern California is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality, and from the rest of society by his homosexuality. When the novel was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on ... Weiterlesen
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Dian Hanson: Bob's World

D 2009, 285 S., geb, € 295.95
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Taschen Verlag
Mit den Fotos und Filmen, die er 48 Jahre lang für seine Athletic Model Guild schuf und mit Physique Pictorial, Amerikas erstem und sich am offensten zu schwuler Sexualität bekennenden Magazin für Körperkultur, das er 41 Jahre lang publizierte, erlangte Bob Mizer Berühmtheit. Seine Tagebücher, die er seit seinem achten Lebensjahr führte, lassen in aller Deutlichkeit erkennen, dass er sich ... Weiterlesen

Fiona Shaw: Tell It to the Bees

A Secret Love Which Has a Whole Town Talking. UK 2009, 336 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Serpent´s Tail
A spellbinding story of forbidden lesbian love in the 1950s, now a major movie starring Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger: it's about a secret love which has a whole town talking - and a small boy very worried. Lydia Weekes is distraught at the break-up of her marriage. When her young son, Charlie, makes friends with the local doctor, Jean ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: The Story of a Marriage

UK 2008, 233 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Faber and Faber
It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District of San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep and everything changes. Her husband Holland and this man have had a gay relationship ... Weiterlesen

Thomas Mallon: Fellow Travelers

USA 2008, 368 pp.,brochure, € 19.95
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Knopf
A searing historical novel set in 1950s Washington, D.C. - a world dominated by personalities like Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy - and infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and heartbreak: In a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic, is eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter ... Weiterlesen