Ryan O'Connell: Just by Looking at Him

UK 2023, 304 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Little Brown
Eliott is a TV writer with a perfect-penised boyfriend. He's living the dream. But behind the glossy veneer he's been papering over cracks, and they're starting to show. He has creatively stifled, he's drinking a little too often and his cerebral palsy makes him feel like gay Shrek. When River walks in, Elliott's life is turned upside down in the ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: Happy-Go-Lucky

UK 2022, 272 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Little Brown
Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask - or not - was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020

UK 2021, 576 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Little Brown
If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leap­ing to his death. There's a dirty joke shared at a ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: Calypso

UK 2018, 273 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Little Brown
When David Sedars buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, he envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: Theft by Finding

Diaries, Vol. 1: 1977-2002. USA 2017, 528 pp., brochure, € 21.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Little Brown
David Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the making. For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention - overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them ... Weiterlesen

Elvira Klöppelschuh: Elvira Totterheels in Gran Canaria

D 2015, 192 pp., brochure, € 14.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Männerschwarm
Elvira Totterheels and Brenda, her very very bestest friend in the whole wide world, set off to Gran Canaria to escape an English winter. Join them and the outrageous crowd of international Jessie they encounter in the gay arena of Playa del Ingles. You'll either recognize many of their haunts and hilarious escapades and be transported back to your last ... Weiterlesen

Graham Chapman: A Liar's Autobiography

UK 2014, 248 pp., pb., € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Methuen
Required reading for Monty Python fans, this true and false memoir is Graham Chapman's own hilarious account of his life as a Python and as a homosexual. The book equals Joe Orton's famous Diaries in providing an unblushing account of a gay lifestyle linked to entertainment. Full of outrageous fictions and touching truths, in telling surreal and outrageous lies Graham ... Weiterlesen

John Niven: The Second Coming

USA 2014, 384 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good - so he takes a holiday. In Heaven-time this is just a week's fishing trip, but on Earth several hundred years go by. When God returns, he finds all hell has broken loose: world wars, holocausts, famine, capitalism and »fucking Christians everywhere«. ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

UK 2013, 275 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Little Brown
A guy walks into a bar car and... - From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you deeply moved. Sedaris remembers his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants), his ... Weiterlesen

Mohammed al-Mohammad Mohamed / Youssef Fakish: Al-Qaeda's Super Secret Weapon

USA 2013, 40 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Northwest
The end of »Don't Ask, Don't Tell« was just the opening that the terrorists were waiting for! This witty, sexy, spy tale sends up Republicans, the War on Terror and gay clichés from A to Z. The end of the world was never so fabulous!

Christopher Isherwood: Prater Violet

UK 2012, 112 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich ... Weiterlesen

Roseanne Barr: RoseanneArchy

Dispatches from the Nut Farm. USA 2011, 284 pp., hardbound, € 21.30
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Roseanne Barr is a force of nature. Whether taking the sitcom world by storm, challenging accepted social norms, or battling the wild pigs inhabiting her nut farm in Hawaii, she is not to be trifled with. In this return to the printed page, Roseanne unleashes her razor-sharp observations on hypocrisy, hubris, and self-perpetuating institutions of questionable value - as well ... Weiterlesen

Mrs. Stephen Fry: Mrs Fry's Diary

Foreword by Stephen Fry. UK 2010, 346 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Stephen Fry's secret wife speaks out at last: Stephen Fry - actor, writer, raconteur and wit. Cerebral and sophisticated, a true Renaissance man. Or is he? Finally, his secret double life - the womanizing, the window-cleaning, the kebabs, the karaoke - is exclusively revealed by Edna, his devoted wife and mother of his five, six or possibly seven children. These ... Weiterlesen

David Sedaris: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

A Wicked Bestiary. UK 2010, 163pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
If animals were more like us, if mice kept pets and toads could cuss, if dogs had wives and chipmunks dated, sheep sat still and meditated, then in the forest, field and diary, you might find this bestiary, read by storks, but rats and kitties, skimmed by cows with milk-stained titties. »I found the book to be most droll«, might ... Weiterlesen

Paul Rudnick: I Shudder

And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey. USA 2009, 318 pp., hardbound, € 21.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In his plays, his screenplays (»Jeffrey«), and his writing for the »New Yorker«, Paul Rudnick has established himself as a comic master whose talents transcend genre. Now, in »I Shudder«, he trains his wickedly perceptive eye on everything from his New Jersey family to Hollywood to demented alcoholic Broadway stars waving swords. At his Uncle Rudy's funeral, Rudnick's beloved Aunt ... Weiterlesen

Augusten Burroughs: You Better Not Cry

True Stories for Christmas. USA 2009, 206 pp., brochure, € 13.50
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Of course you've eaten too much chocolate at Christmas, but have you ever eaten the face off a six-foot stuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses, but have you ever made your own gingerbread block of flats? You've woken up lying next to Kris Kringle himself? Augusten Burroughs has, and in this caustically funny, nostalgic, poignant, and moving collection of true ... Weiterlesen

Gary Indiana: The Shanghai Gesture

USA 2009, 207 pp., brochure, € 14.39
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Gary Indiana applies his prickly wit, nihilistic vision, and utterly original voice to this side-splitting spin on Fu Manchu. A mysterious bout of narcolepsy has overtaken the seaside hamlet of Land's End, a funk endemic to the region since the wreckage a century earlier of the ship The Ardent Somdomite Inspector Weymouth Smith and unconvinced cohort Dr. Obregon Petrie attempt ... Weiterlesen

Joel Derfner / Foreword by Elton John: Swish

My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever and What Ended up Happening Instead. USA 2009, 256 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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Joel Derfner is a knitter, an aerobics intructor, a cheerleader, a go-go dancer, and a musical theater composer, but when he realizes one day that he's a walking gay cliché he embarks on a quest for deeper meaning. A very, very funny quest for deeper meaning. And whether he's confronting the demons of his past at a GLBT summer camp, ... Weiterlesen