Patrick Gale: A Place Called Winter

UK 2015, 368 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Hachette
A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, gay Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair with another handsome man do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence - until the shock of discovery and the threat of arrest cost him everything. Forced to abandon his wife and child, Harry ... Weiterlesen

Megan Murly: Bound to Be a Groom

UK 2014, 206 pp.,brochure, € 17.95
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In the tumultuous summer of 1808, Spain and England are close to war and four young lovers are close to ecstasy. To carve out an independent life with the woman she loves, Anna knows she must leave her quiet Spanish convent to become a courtesan. To gain experience, she sets her sights on Sebastian, whose powerful, aristocratic confidence suits Anna's ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Persian Boy

UK 2014, 476 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Part 2 of a classic trilogy on the life of Alexander the Great - covering the last 7 years of his life from the perspective of his devoted Persian lover, the eunuch Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but eventually found his freedom with Alexander. Bagoas' extraordinary cultivation ... Weiterlesen

Peter Ackroyd: Three Brothers

UK 2014, 246 pp., pb., € 13.95
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The novel follows Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway from grim postwar Camden to 1970s Soho. In adulthood the boys grow apart yet each life intersects with the same Londoners, the boorish newspaper baron Sir Martin Flaxman, a slumlord Asher Ruppta, and a gay hustler/pickpocket called Sparkler. From the bustling cut-throat world of Fleet street, hallowed London publishing offices, and the ... Weiterlesen

Jean-Baptiste del Amo: Die Erziehung

Dt. v. Lis Künzli. D 2013, 416 S., Pb, € 10.27
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btb
Im Jahr 1760 kommt Gaspard - Sohn eines Schweinebauern aus Quimper - aus der Provinz in die französische Hauptstadt. Er möchte es im Paris des Ancien Regime zu etwas bringen. Dazu ist ihm alles recht. Er versucht sein Glück als Flussarbeiter, beginnt eine Lehre als Perückenmacher und verdingt sich schließlich als Strichjunge in einem Bordell. Er bietet seine sexuellen Dienste ... Weiterlesen

Heidi Belleau: Mark of the Gladiator

USA 2012, 219 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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After an inconvenient display of mercy in the arena, the gladiator Anazâr is pulled from the sands and contracted to nobleman Lucius Marianus to train his new stable of gladiators. Anazâr is eager he is to achieve it ? perhaps it's because Marianus is truly remarkable: handsome, dignified, honorable, and seemingly as attracted to Anazâr as Anazâr is to him. ... Weiterlesen

Madeline Miller: The Song of Achilles

UK/D 2012, 357 pp., Pb, € 17.95
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Bloomsbury Berlin
Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, »best of all the Greeks«, is everything Patroclus is not - strong, beautiful, the child of a goddess - and by all rights their paths should ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Reed: Here Comes the Nice

UK 2011, 279 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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»Here Comes the Nice« is novel as time-machine, taking the reader back to the raw early gigs of the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Small Faces, and behind the scenes to a secret that will make the sixties of the first-wave Mods live forever - somewhere. Elegiac and thrilling, »Here Comes the Nice« is a paean to the power of ... Weiterlesen

Nigel Barley: Island of Demons

Singapore 2010, 388 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Monsoon
In the 1920s and 30s, Walter Spies - gay German ethnographer, choreographer, film maker, natural historian and painter - transformed the perception of Bali from that of a remote island to become the site for Western fantasies about Paradise as it underwent an influx of foreign visitors. The rich and famous flocked to Spies' house in Ubud and his life ... 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

Helena Whitbread (ed.): The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

UK 2010, 422pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Anne Lister defied the role of 19th-century womanhood: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller - and lesbian. She kept intimate diaries of her life and loves, much of which were written in code. These diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history - they have been edited by Helena Whitbread, who spent years decoding and transcribing them. ... Weiterlesen

M.J. Pearson: Helpless

Only One Man Can Save Him. USA 2010, 210 pp., brochure, € 13.39
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In London during the gross indecency trial of Oscar Wilde, Douglas Shrove finds himself still haunted by memories of his dead lover while skirting violence, blackmail and the affections of two men. - »There are two who seek you out.« That is what the gypsy told Shrove a few months after the death of his lover. And the gypsy was ... Weiterlesen

Alain Claude Sulzer: A Perfect Waiter

Transl. by John Brownjohn. UK 2009, 215 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Bloomsbury
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

David McConnell: The Silver Hearted

USA 2009, 214 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Set against a background of revolution and profiteering of an unnamed port town, the story's unnamed narrator is hired to protect a vast sum of money a cabal of shadowy investors has entrusted to him. Literally chests of silver coins, this fortune must be protected at all costs. The nervous guardian turns for assistance to a naïve sailor, beautiful and ... Weiterlesen

David Ebershoff: The 19th Wife

USA 2009, 527 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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It's 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the U.S. A rich account of her family's polygamous history is revealed, including how bith she and her mother became plural wives. Yet soon ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Littell: The Kindly Ones

Transl. by Charlotte Mandell. UK 2009, 984 pp., brochure, € 21.60
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»Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened.« So begins the chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. Max is a gay intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a ... Weiterlesen

Alex Beecroft: False Colors

USA 2009, 335 pp., brochure, € 12.29
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For his first command, John Cavendish is given both a ship - the HMS Meteor - and a crew in need of repair. He's determined to make a success of their first mission, though, and hopes the well-liked Lieutenant »Alfie« Donwell will stand by his side as he leads his new crew into battle: stopping the slave trade off the ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: Hotel de Dream

UK 2008, 228 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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In 1900, Stephen Crane is writing a new story. He's travelling to a Black Forest clinic in search of a cure for the tuberculosis that threatens his life. He dictates to his wife the story of »The Painted Boy«, inspired by a real-life encounter with a 15-year-old newsboy, Elliott. In the story Elliott is both impressionable and elusive. He finds ... Weiterlesen