Angela Steidele: Gentleman Jack

A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist. UK 2019, 352 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Profile
The extraordinary life story of Anne Lister, as told in the BBC drama »Gentleman Jack«. Anne Lister was a Yorkshire heiress, an intrepid world traveller and a proud lesbian during a time when it was difficult simply to be female. She chose to remain unmarried, dressed all in black and spoke openly of her lack of interest in men. The ... Weiterlesen

Brian Anderson: The Fraternity of the Estranged

The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908. UK 2018, 256 pp., hardbound, € 26.95
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Matador
Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, and a third, Havelock Ellis. At this time, the study of homosexuality was limited almost exclusively ... Weiterlesen

Emer O'Sullivan: The Fall of the House of Wilde

Oscar Wilde and His Family. UK 2017, 512 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Bloomsbury
Oscar Wilde owed his most outstanding characteristics - his intellectualism, his flamboyance, his hedonism, his pride, his sense of superiority, his liberal sexual values - to his parents. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Wilde, rose to prominence as a political journalist. She passed on her infectious delight in the art of living to Oscar, who imbibed it greedily. His father was ... Weiterlesen

Jamie O'Neill: At Swim, Two Boys

UK 2017, 643 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Scribner
Set in Dublin and its near surround the novel follows the year to Easter 1916, the time of Ireland's brave but fractured uprising against British rule. At its core it tells the love of two boys, Jim, a naive and reticent scholar, the younger son of foolish, aspirant shopkeeper Mr Mack, and Doyler, the dark rough diamond son of Mr ... Weiterlesen

Natasha Pulley: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

UK 2016, 329 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. When the watch saves Thaniel's life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori - a kind, lonely immigrant. Meanwhile, Grace Carrow is sneaking into an Oxford library, desperate to prove the existence of the ... Weiterlesen

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

Jae: Hidden Truths

D 2014, 476 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Ylva Verlag - 3
»Luke« Hamilton has been living as a husband and father for the past seventeen years. No one but her wife, Nora, knows she is not the man she appears to be. They have raised their daughters to become honest and hard-working young women, but even with their loving foundation, Amy and Nattie are hiding their own secrets. Just as Luke ... 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

Lois Cloarec Hart: Kicker's Journey

D 2013, 472 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Ylva Verlag
In 1899, two women from very different backgrounds are about to embark on a journey together - one that will take them from the Old World to the New, from the 19th century into the 20th, and from the comfort and familiarity of England to the rigours of Western Canada, where challenges await at every turn. The journey begins simply ... Weiterlesen

Jae: Beyond the Trail

D 2013, 136 pp., brochure, € 9.95
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Ylva Verlag - The Oregon Series 2
Six short stories that give us glimpses into the lives of Luke, Nora, and the other characters from »Backwards to Oregon«.
The Blue Hour: When her mother dies, twelve-year-old Lucinda Hamilton decides to start a new life?as a boy.
Grasping at Straws: No one knows that Tess Swenson, madam of a brothel, also owns a livery stable and ... Weiterlesen

Paulette Callen: Charity

D 2013, 337 pp, brochure, € 14.95
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Ylva Verlag - The Charity Series 1
The friendship between Lena Kaiser, a sodbuster's daughter, and Gustie Roemer, an educated Easterner, is unlikely in any other circumstance but post-frontier Charity, South Dakota. Gustie is considered an outsider, and Lena is too proud to share her problems with anyone else. On the nearby Sioux reservation, Gustie also finds love and family with two Dakotah women: Dorcas Many Roads, ... Weiterlesen

Jae: Backwards to Oregon

D 2013, 521 pp, brochure, € 19.95
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Ylva Verlag - The Oregon Series 1
»Luke« Hamilton has always been sure that she'd never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man. After working in a brothel for three years, Nora Macauley has lost all illusions about love. She no longer hopes for a man who will sweep her off her feet ... 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

Sarah Waters: Fingersmith

UK 2012, 548 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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No one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a »baby farmer.« Mrs. Sucksby's household also hosts a transient family of petty thieves - fingersmiths - for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum ... Weiterlesen