It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes ... Weiterlesen

Tom Crewe: The New Life

UK 2023, 400 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage

London, 1894. After a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John Addington, married to Catherine, has met Frank, a working-class printer. Meanwhile Henry Ellis's wife Edith has fallen in love with Angelica - and Angelica wants Edith all to herself. When in 1894 John and Henry decide to write a revolutionary book together, intended to challenge convention and the law, they ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Seabrook: Private Worlds : Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain

GB 2022, 224 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Pluto

�All profound relationships have the quality of being a folie a deux; an intimate departure from reality, an imaginative creation of a world apart; perhaps this is a way of calling forth meaning - the merging of senseless subjectivities. � In 1950s suburban England, a friendship bloomed between Jeremy Seabrook and Michael O'Neill - both gay men coming of age ... Weiterlesen

David Hewson: The Garden of Angels

GB 2022, 320 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Canongate

When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches - earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says, and a secret he must keep from his father. Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under the Nazis, and ... Weiterlesen

Nat Reeve: Nettleblack

UK 2022, 420 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cipher

The year is 1893. Having run away from her family home to escape an arranged marriage, Welsh heiress Henry Nettleblack finds herself ambushed, robbed, and then saved by the mysterious Dallyangle Division - part detective agency, part neighbourhood watch. Desperate to hide from her older sisters, Henry disguises herself and enlists. But the Division soon finds itself under siege from ... Weiterlesen

Anna North: Outlawed

UK 2022, 263 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson

On the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. She loves her broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice midwife. But her luck will not last. It is every woman's duty to have a child, to replace those that were lost in the Great Flu. And after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where ... Weiterlesen

William Keeling: Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle

UK 2022, 288 pp.,brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Envelope Books - The Gay Street Chronicles 1

When Gaia Champion's souffle fails to rise in 1830s Bath, it sets off a chain of events that overthrows the settled order. Centred on the personality of local councillor and gay bachelor extraordinaire Bellerophon �Belle� Nash, this first volume of �The Gay Street Chronicles� engages with social issues that were emerging in the early days of Queen Victoria's reign and ... Weiterlesen

Robert Jones, jr.: The Prophets

UK 2022, 388 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Quercus

A novel about the forbidden gay union between two enslaved young black men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Lee: The Great Mistake

UK 2021, 291 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Granta Books

Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of 83, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing - on Park Avenue, in broad daylight, on Friday the 13th - shook the city. Green was born to a poor farmer, yet without him there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no ... Weiterlesen

Erik S. Meyers: Caged Time

USA 2021, 188 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Mirador

In 1930s New York, David Tarniss leads a quiet life as a cab driver - too quiet - in reality he is hiding a dark secret, his homosexuality, something for which he will pay dearly due to the unique circumstances of the time. A fascinating, if disturbing, story about the challenges that confronted gays (and Jews) in 1930s New York.

Malinda Lo: Last Night at the Telegraph Club

USA 2021, 409 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens ... Weiterlesen

Shola Von Reinhold: Lote

UK 2020, 469 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Jacaranda

Solitary Mathilda has long been enamored with the �Bright Young Things� of the 1920s, and throughout her life, her attempts at reinvention have mirrored their extravagance and artfulness. After discovering a photograph of the forgotten Black modernist poet Hermia Druitt, who ran in the same circles as the Bright Young Things that she adores, Mathilda becomes transfixed and resolves to ... Weiterlesen

Sebastian Barry: A Thousand Moons

USA 2020, 272 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Faber and Faber

Narrated by Winona - the young Lakota orphan adopted by gay soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole in �Days Without End� - �A Thousand Moons� continues Sebastian Barry's extraordinary fictional exploration of late nineteenth century America. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, educated and loved, Winona is employed by the lawyer Briscoe in ... Weiterlesen

Mackenzi Lee: The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky

A Monty and Percy Novella. USA 2019, 113 pp., hardbound, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Harper Collins

In this funny and frothy novella that picks up where �The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue� leaves off, freshly minted couple Monty and Percy fumble through their first time together. Monty's epic grand tour may be over, but now that he and Percy are finally a couple, he realizes there is something more nerve-wracking than being chased across Europe: ... Weiterlesen

George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo

UK 2018, 368 pp., brochure, € 10.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury

The debut novel by George Saunders, is about Abraham Lincoln and the death of 11-year-old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War. The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved young son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln ... Weiterlesen

Mackenzi Lee: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

USA 2017, 513 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Harper Collins

A young bisexual British lord embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush. An 18th-century romantic adventure for the modern age.- Henry �Monty� Montague doesn't care that his roguish passions are far from suitable for the gentleman he was born to be. But as Monty embarks on his grand tour of Europe, his quests for ... Weiterlesen

Joe Okonkwo: Jazz Moon

USA 2017, 351 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Kensington

On a sweltering summer night in 1925, beauties in beaded dresses mingle with hepcats in dapper suits on the streets of Harlem. The air is thick with reefer smoke, and jazz pours out of speakeasy doorways. Ben Charles is among the locals crammed into a basement club to hear jazz and drink bootleg liquor. For aspiring poet Ben, the swirling, ... Weiterlesen

Jamie O'Neill: At Swim, Two Boys

UK 2017, 643 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

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