Colm Toíbín: A Long Winter

UK 2025, 144 pp., hardback, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador
One snowy morning, after arguing with her husband, Miquel's mother walks out from their home high up in the Pyrenees and does not return. With his younger brother stationed far away on military service and his father cast out by the people of the town, Miquel and his father are left to fend for themselves. Together they will be forced ... Weiterlesen

Gary Indiana: I Can Give You Anything But Love

Memoirs. USA 2024, 240 pp., brochure, € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Seven Stories
In his graphic and funny memoir, Indiana finds himself reinventing yet another genre - this time using his own personal narrative. He becomes the connective tissue that binds together a diaspora of the beatnik-era experimental writing and happenings of downtown New York, the 1960s co-opted counterculture gone awry, the punk movement that followed, and the art and intellectual circles of ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Mona of the Manor

Tales of the City, Vol. 10. UK 2025, 236 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK - Tales of the City 10
When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa - allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfil his wildest dreams - she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of Easley House, a romantic country manor in the UK. Now, with her adopted son, Wilfred, Mona has opened Easley's doors to paying ... Weiterlesen

Chloe Michelle Howarth: Sunburn

UK 2023, 284 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Verve Books
It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend. Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Holleran: The Kingdom of Sand

UK 2023, 272 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
Out in the drought-struck backwaters of rural Florida, the novel's nameless narrator lives a life of semi-solitude, enjoying the odd, fleeting sexual encounter and the friendship of a few. His world is ageing, and the memories of another time flash, then fade - visions of parties filled with handsome young men, the parents whom he chose to spend his life ... Weiterlesen

Lola Keeley: A Roll in the Hay

D 2020, 250 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag
The whole »big city, successful career, loyal, hot girlfriend« experiment has been a miserable failure for veterinarian Tess Robinson, so she's moved back home to a small town in the Scottish countryside. She doesn't count on a run-in with the stuck-up, maddening, local landowner Lady Susannah Karlson, who tries to boss Tess around as if she owns the whole town ... Weiterlesen

Philippe Besson: Lie with Me

Transl. by Molly Ringwald. USA 2019, 148 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
The bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France. Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he's never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during ... Weiterlesen

Cheyenne Blue: A Heart This Big

D 2019, 253 pp., brochure, € 17.40
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag
Australian country girl Nina Pellegrini runs a program for city kids to experience a taste of rural life at Banksia Farm. But when a child is hurt and a lawsuit threatens, Nina is determined to find the best legal assistance to help her save the farm. Enter high-flying lawyer Leigh Willoughby, whose city world is far from the farm's chaotic ... Weiterlesen

Sheryn Munir: Falling into Place

D 2018, 228 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag
Romance is not for Tara. Embittered after a college fling, she vows to never fall in love again - especially since she believes there's no future for same-sex love in her home in urban India. Then, one rain-drenched evening, an insane decision brings the bubbly Sameen into her life and everything changes. Sameen is beautiful, a breath of fresh air ... Weiterlesen

Brontez Purnell: Since I Laid My Burden Down

USA 2017, 208 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Feminist Press
DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he's called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle's funeral, he's hit by flashbacks of handsome, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood, DeShawn ponders family, church, and the men in his life, prompting the question: Who deserves love? - ... Weiterlesen

Paul Freeman: Larrikin

AUS 2016, 184 pp., b/w + colour, hardback, € 89.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Paul Freeman Publishing
Zwei Jahre, nachdem Paul Freemans letzter Männerbildband »Outback Dusk« erschienen ist, kommt der beliebte und unverwechselbare australische Männerfotograf nun mit einem neuen Fotobuch auf den Markt: »Larrikin«. Selbstverständlich hat Freeman in der Publikationspause fleißig weiter fotografiert, weiter ist er auf großen Reisen zu großartigen neuen Locations gewesen - und neue Models hat er dabei auch entdeckt. Ein Larrikin bezeichnet im ... Weiterlesen
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Matthew Griffin: Hide

USA 2016, 272 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
Wendell and Frank meet at the end of World War II, when Frank returns home to their North Carolina town. Soon he's loitering around Wendell's shop, and the two come to understand their connection as love - a love that, in this time and place, can hold real danger. Cutting nearly all ties with the rest of the world, they ... Weiterlesen

Wendy Hudson: Four Steps

The Key to Survival Is Facing the Past. D 2016, 343 pp., brochure, € 16.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag
Alex Ryan lives a simple life. She has her farm in the Scottish countryside, and the self-imposed seclusion suits her, until a crime that has haunted her for years, tears through the calm and shatters the fragile peace she'd finally managed to find. Lori Hunter's greatest love is the mountains. They're her escape from the constant hustle of everyday life. ... Weiterlesen

Gill McKnight: Welcome to the Wallops

D 2016, 243 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag - The Wallops 1
The villages of High Wallop and Lesser Wallop have graced either end of the Wallop valley since medieval times. And competition between the two has never ceased since, especially over the famous Cheese and Beer festival. As head Judge of Show, Jane Swallow has always struggled to keep peace, friendship, and equanimity within the community she loves, but this year ... Weiterlesen

Blythe Rippon: Stowe Away

D 2016, 279 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag
Samantha Latham is a little socially awkward and a lot brilliant. When she arrives at Yale, thrilled to finally escape her rural Vermont hometown called Stowe, the focused and driven Sam knows exactly what she wants: an illustrious career as a medical researcher and a relationship with her new best friend Natalie, a talented yet capricious girl who keeps Sam ... Weiterlesen

Josef Winkler: Graveyard of Bitter Oranges

Transl. by Adrian Nathan West. USA/UK/AUS 2015, 465 pp., brochure, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Contra Mundum Press
In 1979, Carinthian author Josef Winkler appeared on the literary horizon as if from nowhere, collecting numerous honors and the praise of the most prominent critical voices in Germany and Austria. Throughout the 1980s, he chronicled the malevolence, dissipation, and unregenerate Nazism endemic to Austrian village life in an increasingly trenchant and hallucinatory series of novels. At the decade's end, ... Weiterlesen

Allan Gurganus: Decoy

USA 2015, 171 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
W. W. Norton
»Decoy«, the concluding novella of Allan Gurganus's »Local Souls«, was hailed as the standout of that work. Critics called it »humane, profound, hilarious, nostalgic, the literary equivalent of a bare-knuckled knockout punch«. It is a haunting lyrical portrayal of a life half-led. Set in mythical Falls, North Carolina, this mysterious and compelling tale maps the lifelong eroticized friendship between two ... Weiterlesen

Ana Matics: The Return

D 2014, 239 pp., brochure, € 14.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag
Near Haven is like any other small, dying fishing village dotting the Maine coastline - a crusty remnant of an industry long gone, a place that is mired in sadness and longing for what was and can never be again. People move away, yet they always seem to come back. It's a vicious cycle of small-town America. Liza Hawke thought ... Weiterlesen