Marcus Spangenberg: Ludwig II

A Different Kind of King. D 2015, 176 pp., brochure, € 15.37
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Pustet
He hated war, but led two armed conflicts. He saw himself as a King by Divine Right, but made himself subordinate to an Emperor. He preferred to be alone, but was constantly searching for a confidant. King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886) reacted to his own times with an archaic, religiously transfigured understanding of kingship. His insistence on the »true, ... Weiterlesen

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

Damon Galgut: Arctic Summer

South Africa 2014, 368 pp., pb., € 89.95
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In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. It will be another twelve years, and ... Weiterlesen
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Robert Beachy: Gay Berlin

Birthplace of a Modern Identity. USA 2015, 305 pp., brochure, € 21.95
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Vintage
A book about the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity. Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its »warm brothers«, Berlin, before the turn of the 20th century, became a place where scholars, activists, and medical ... 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

Neil McKenna: Fanny and Stella

The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England. UK 2013, 396 pp. illustrated, pp, € 17.95
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Faber and Faber
This is the story of the trial that shook Victorian England - a tale of cross-dressing, cross-examination and the invention of camp. Fanny and Stella were no ordinary young women. They were young men who liked to dress as women: Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton, two young clerks, part-time actresses and part-time prostitutes. Stella was the most beautiful female impersonator ... Weiterlesen

Gyles Brandreth: Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol

UK 2013, 326 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Hodder and Stoughton - Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries 6
Yet each man kills the thing he loves ... It is 1897, Dieppe, Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright, novelist, raconteur and ex-convict, has fled the country after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. He has endured a harsh prison regime, yet even in the midst ... Weiterlesen

Franny Moyle: Constance

The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde. UK 2012, 374 pp. with numerous photographs, brochure, € 24.95
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John Murray
In the spring of 1895 Constance Wilde - popular children's author, fashion icon and leading campaigner for women's rights - found her life changed beyond all recognition. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she as part of a gilded couple had held a privileged position in society. A founding member of the magical society the ... Weiterlesen

Joseph Lelyveld: Great Soul

Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India. USA 2012, 426 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 24.95
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Vintage
When this biography on the »Father of the Indian Nation«, Mahatma Gandhi, was released a big storm of protest in the Indian media broke loose. What was it all about? The biographer claimed that Gandhi has never been very much interested in women because the real love of his life was a German-Jewish architect and bodybuilder, Hermann Kallenbach, for whom ... Weiterlesen

Gyles Brandreth: Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders

Uk 2012, 325 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Hodder and Stoughton - Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries 5
Arthur Conan Doyle's rest cure at the spa at Bad Homburg does not go as planned. When he and his friend Oscar Wilde make a series of macabre discoveries amongst his fan mail - including an entire severed hand - the game is once more afoot. The trail leads to Rome, to the very heart of the Vatican. In a ... Weiterlesen

Edmund de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes

USA 2011, 354 pp, pb, € 15.95
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Vintage
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the »netsuke«, they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de ... Weiterlesen

Bruce Duffy: Disaster Was My God

The Scandalous Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud. UK 2011, 361 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Clerkenwell
In the space of one year, 1871, with a handful of startling poems, Arthur Rimbaud transformed himself from a teenage bumpkin into the literary sensation of Paris. He was taken in, then taken up, by the older, married poet Paul Verlaine in a passionate affair. When Rimbaud sought to end it, Verlaine, in a jealous rage, shot him. Shortly thereafter, ... Weiterlesen

Deborah Lutz: Pleasure Bound

Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism. USA 2011, 331 pp., illustrated, hardbound, € 24.95
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At the height of the Victorian era, a daring group of artists and thinkers defied the reigning obsession with propriety, testing the boundaries of sexual decorum in their lives and in their work. D.G. Rossetti exhumed his dead wife to pry his only copy of a manuscript of his poems from her coffin. Legendary explorer Richard Burton wrote how-to manuals ... Weiterlesen

Michael Bronski: A Queer History of the United States

USA 2011, 287 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in the early 1800s, refused to use pronouns, fought for gender equality, and led her own congregation in upstate New York. In the mid-19th century, actress Charlotte Cushman led an openly lesbian life, including a well-publized ... Weiterlesen

Nicholas Frankel (ed.): Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

An Annotated, Uncensored Edition. USA 2011, 295 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 69.95
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Harvard University Press
»The Picture of Dorian Gray« altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had a different look. Yet the »Dorian Gray« that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press condemned as »vulgar«, »unclean«, »poisonous«, »discreditable«, and »a sham«. Now, more ... 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

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

Gyles Brandreth: Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers

UK 2010, 421 pp., brochure, € 15.90
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Hodder and Stoughton - Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries 4
1890: all London's haul monde is at a glamorous reception hosted by the Duke and the Duchess of Albemarle, including the Prince of Wales. The heir apparent and the prince of aesthetes are friends, yet at the party Oscar appears more interested in a young actor, Rex LaSalle, who disarmingly claims to be a vampire. As the guests are about ... Weiterlesen