This gay classic of the new century is now available in an English edition for the first time: Erneste is the perfect waiter, and his private life seems to embody the qualities he brings to his profession. But inwardly this polite and dignified man is in the grip of a violent passion: he yearns for a young waiter-in-training, Jakob, who ... Weiterlesen

Mary McCarthy: The Group

UK 2009, 437 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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�The Group� is a sharply-pointed satire of upper-class New England society which follows the post-college lives of eight Vassar graduates, class of '33. Helena was registered for Vassar at birth. Pokey forged her mother's signature on her college application. Out in the �real� world, Dottie loses her virginity to a �bad sort� but discovers that she enjoys sex, while Kay ... Weiterlesen

John Evans (ed.): Journeying Boy

The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938. UK 2009, 576 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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Britten documented his childhood and adolescence in a daily journal he kept for a decade. From his arrival as a boarder at Gresham's School and his private lessons in London with Frank Bridge, to his student days at the Royal College of Music and apprenticeship in London, we trace the progress of a journeying boy. The 1930s brought successful collaborations ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: The Berlin Stories

USA 2008, 408 pp., pb., € 24.95
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First published in the 1930s, �The Berlin Stories� contains two astonishing related novels, �Mr. Norris Changes Trains� and �Goodbye to Berlin�, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and caf�s; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Whitaker (R): Portrait of a Marriage

UK 2008, engl.OF, engl.UT, 219 min., € 29.95
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BBC

Drama following the scandalous relationship between historian, Harold Nicolson, novelist, Vita Sackville-West, and her lover, Violet Keppel, in post WWI England. Sir Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West appear to have the perfect marriage, but beneath the glossy veneer, Nicolson is a fervent homosexual, constantly away from home, pursuing new conquests. Vita, happy at first to go along with her husband's ... Weiterlesen

Timothy Snyder: The Red Prince

The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke. USA 2008, 344 pp. with numerous b/w photos, brochure, € 24.95
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Perseus Group

Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and, every so often, a dress. He could handle a saber, a pistol, a rudder, or a golf club. He handled women by necessity and men for ... Weiterlesen

Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisted

Film Tie-in. UK 2008, 324 pp., Pb, € 14.95
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At the end of World War II, Captain Charles Ryder and his troops, looking for a billet, have just arrived at Brideshead, the now-dilapidated family castle belonging to Lord Marchmain, a place where Charles Ryder stayed for an extended period just after World War I, the home of his best friend from Oxford, the outrageous and obviously gay Lord Sebastian ... Weiterlesen

Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster: Brian Howard - Portrait of a Failure

USA 2007, 398 pp., brochure, € 0.00
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A paradox at every turn, he was a son of American expatriates at Eton, where he produced �The Eton Candle� and met Edith Sitwell, who encouraged him as a poet. At Oxford he was the leading light of the most extravagant social set and an aesthete who hunted. In the 20s he was the impresario of the wildest parties and ... Weiterlesen
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Sybille Bedford: Quicksands

UK 2006, 369 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Beginning in 1956 with the publication of �A Legacy�, Sybille Bedford has narrated - in fiction and nonfiction - what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this memoir, her first new book in over ten years, she provides the moving culmination to an epic personal story that takes readers from the Berlin of World War ... Weiterlesen

Mel Gordon: Voluptuous Panic - The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin

USA 2006, 307 pp., hardcover, € 32.95
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This sourcebook of hundreds of rare visual delights from pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period �Babylon on the Spree� has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture, inspiring clubgoers, filmmakers, historians, straights and gays, graphic designers, and musicians like the Dresden Dolls and Marilyn Manson. �Voluptuous Panic�'s expanded edition includes the new illustrated chapter �Sex Magic and the ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Hampton (R): Carrington

UK 1995, engl. OF, dt./ital./span. SF, engl./dt./ital./span./niederl./portug./grch. UT, 122 min., € 18.99
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MGM

The story of Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson), the beautiful but unhappy English painter, and her relationship with gay writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce). In the years after World War One the couple experimented with their relationship by breaking all the taboos of old England, as they struggled to live as freely and honestly as was possible. Amid the trendy, bohemian ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Bram: The Notorious Dr. August

USA 2001, 498 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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Spanning more than sixty years from the Civil War to the early 1920s, and moving from the battlefields of the South to New York City, through Paris, London, Constantinople, and Coney Island, �The Notorious Dr. August� features Augustus Fitzwilliam Boyd, alias Dr. August, an improvisational pianist who believes his music is sometimes inspired by the spirit world. He is in ... Weiterlesen
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Christopher Isherwood: Lions and Shadows

USA 2000, 313 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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In 1938 the legendary Hogarth Press published the first of Christopher Isherwood's autobiographical writings, �Lions and Shadows�. In this book, Isherwood evokes the atmosphere of Cambridge as only he knew it, describing his life as a tutor, medical student, and struggling writer. The result is a captivating account of a young novelist's development in the burgeoning literary culture of the ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin

UK 1998, 252 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage

�I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking�, are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation of the decadence and repression, glamour and sleaze of Berlin ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: While England Sleeps

UK 1998, 309 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Abacus

A haunting and evocative novel of England in the 1930s when the world was on the edge of chaos. At a meeting of republican sympathisers in London, Brian Botsford, a young middle-class writer and Cambridge graduate, meets Edward Phelan, an idealistic self-educated London Underground worker. They share a mutual attraction. Across the divisions of class they begin an affair in ... Weiterlesen

Alice Walker: The Color Purple

USA 2014 (1st ed. 1982), 264 pp., pb., € 14.95
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�The Color Purple� is a lesbian classic. With over a million copies sold in the UK alone, it is hailed as one of the all-time 'greats' of literature, inspiring generations of readers. Set in the deep American South between the wars, it is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the ... Weiterlesen

Lillian Faderman: Surpassing the Love of Men

Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. USA 1979, 496 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Womens Press

A quietly revolutionary book which reconstructs a lost history of women loving women. Here the author explores the different forms which that love has taken over the years, from the elaborate deceptions of Deborah Sampson, soldier of the American Revolution, to the genteel Ladies of Llangollen and the notorious �Boston marriages� of the 19th century. Drawing on a rich variety ... Weiterlesen

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