London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark, stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he ... Weiterlesen

Gyles Brandreth: Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death

UK 2008, 416 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Hodder and Stoughton - Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries 2

�I see murder in this unhappy hand!� - When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of �Murder� in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down ... Weiterlesen

Gyles Brandreth: Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder

USA 2008, 397 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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It's 1892, and Oscar Wilde is the toast of London, riding high on the success of his play �Lady Windermere's Fan�. While celebrating with friends at dinner he conjures up a game called �murder� that poses the question: Who would you most like to kill? Wilde and friends - including Arthur Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker - write the names ... 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

David Leavitt: The Indian Clerk

UK 2008, 488 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Bloomsbury

On a January morning in 1913, G.H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and, at 37, already considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solving the most important unsolved mathematical problem of the ... Weiterlesen

S�ndor M�rai: The Rebels

USA 2008, 278 pp., brochure, € 11.59
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This early novel from the rediscovered Hungarian writer S�ndor M�rai is a haunting story of a group of alienated boys on the cusp of adult life - and possibly death - during World War I. Summer 1918: four boys approaching graduation are living in a ghost town bereft of fathers, uncles, and older brothers, all of whom are off fighting ... Weiterlesen

James Lear: Hot Valley

USA 2007, 308 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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Move over, Scarlett O'Hara! It's New England, 1861, and the troubles in the southern states seem a long way off for Jack Edgerton, the spoiled son of a prominent Vermont family. However, when he meets and falls in love with Aaron Johnson, the sexy son of a slave on the run from Virginia, Edgerton's world is turned upside down. Separated ... Weiterlesen

Max Pierce: The Master of Seacliff

USA 2007, 202 pp., softcover, € 16.59
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A finely wrought gothic thriller with a contemporary twist. The year is 1899, and Andrew Wyndham is 20 years old - no longer a boy, but not yet the man he longs to become. Brought up by harsh and stingy relatives in New York City, young Andrew dreams of life as an artist. He has talent but lacks the resources ... Weiterlesen

Louis Bayard: The Pale Blue Eye

USA 2007, 415 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet's body swinging from a rope just off the parade grounds. An apparent suicide is not unheard of in a harsh regimen like West Point's, but the next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Someone has stolen into ... Weiterlesen

Marge Piercy: Sex Wars

Novel of Gilded Age New York. USA 2006, 411 pp., brochure, € 14.99
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Harper Collins

Post-Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream. In this era of free love, emerging rights of women, and brutal sexual repression, Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish immigrant, toils at different jobs to earn passage to America for her family. Learning that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city, she begins a determined search ... Weiterlesen

Alon Hilu: Death of a Monk

UK 2006, 308 pp.,brochure, € 14.95
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Vintage

In 1840s Damascus, Aslan Farhi leads a miserable life. Despised by his wealthy father, bullied by his siblings, and humiliated by his mother, he forms a close friendship with another boy, only for him to mysteriously disappear when their relationship becomes public knowledge. Aslan is horrified when his father arranges for him to be married to the rabbi's daughter, but ... Weiterlesen

Oscar Wilde: Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal

UK 2006, 138 pp., pb., € 17.95
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mint editions

The gay erotic novel �Teleny� is an important antithesis to the prudish idealism of the neo-classic and neo-romantic lyric love poetry of the fin du siecle. It is a work of unmasking the cynical double moral standards of the Victorian era: The love of Camille and Teleny is shattered by social reprisals. The book was published in 1893 in 200 ... Weiterlesen

Zavo: Hot on His Trail

USA 2006, 221 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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In this lusty story of the dusty Old West, a hirsute Texas Ranger pursues a sexy bear of a man who is wanted for shooting a sheriff but proclaims his innocence, only to find himself hogtied to the fugitive - physically, emotionally, and erotically. A hard-driving tale of a world where lusty male companionship is the law of the land, ... Weiterlesen

Max Egremont: Siegfried Sassoon

UK 2006, 639 pp., brochure, € 18.98
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Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 into a comfortable and prosperous household in Kent, and began writing poetry as a boy. He confronted the terrible realities of WWI on the battlefield, in verse, and finally, in 1917, by announcing his opposition to the war. By 1918 Sassoon found himself one of the most famous young writers of the time, admired ... Weiterlesen

C.A. Tripp: The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln

USA 2006, 345 pp., brochure, € 0.00
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Was Lincoln gay? The sex researcher and chronicler of the gay rights movement Tripp, who died in 2003, makes the case. So his book is already getting noticed. The author (who worked with Alfred Kinsey) contends that Lincoln had erotic attractions and attachments to men throughout his life, from his youth to his presidency. His relationships with women were either ... Weiterlesen
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Jason Goodwin: The Janissary Tree

UK 2006, 332 pp., hardback, € 22.79
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Yashim is no ordinary detective. It's not that he's particularly brave. Or that he cooks so well, or reads French novels. Not even that his best friend is the Ambassador from Poland, whose country has vanished from the map. Yashim is the world's first neutered detective, i.e. an eunuch. As the Sultan plans a series of radical reforms to his ... Weiterlesen

Douglas A. Martin: Branwell

UK 2005, 232 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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As the only son, Branwell Bront� - brother of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne - is expected to make the fortune for the family and immortalize thr Bront� name. Given no formal education, he is painstakingly tutored by his father and writes endless stories and poems with his sisters in their small personage home. Haunted by the early deaths of his ... Weiterlesen

Richard Amory: Song of the Loon

CAN 2005, 247 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Arsenal Pulp Press

Published well ahead of its time in 1966, this book is a lusty gay frontier romance that tells the story of Ephraim MacIver, a 19th century outdoorsman, and his travels through the American wilderness, where he meets a number of men who share with him stories, wisdom and intimate encounters. The most popular erotic gay book of the 1960s, this ... Weiterlesen

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