Jon Ransom: The Whale Tattoo

UK 2023, 240 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Muswell Press
When a giant sperm whale washes up on the local beach and tells Joe Gunner that death will follow him wherever he goes. Joe knows that the place he needs to go is back home. Having stormed out two years ago, it won't be easy, nor will returning to the river alongside the house where words ripple beneath the muddy ... Weiterlesen

Joseph Brennan: Loose Lips

USA 2023, 288 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Hard Crossing Press
Dockyard mansex adventurer Olli Turner has stowed away on the biggest ship the world has ever known, forced to set sail incomplete. Built up rivet by rivet through his formative years, RMS Queen Elizabeth watched over Olli's sexual awakening. Staying with her seems to promise passage to a new world of landed men. Yet in March 1940 war is churning. ... Weiterlesen

Maggie Tokuda-Hall: The Mermaid, the Witch and the Sea

UK 2020, 411 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Walker
A desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial daughter find a connection on the high seas in a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic. Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. For Flora, former starving urchin, the brutal life ... Weiterlesen

Cheyenne Blue: All at Sea

D 2020, 256 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag
Stevie Sterling is having a day from hell. Snubbed - yet again - by her unsupportive parents, she runs out on their posh party and takes refuge on a deserted yacht. Waking the next day with the world's worst hangover, Stevie finds herself far from shore. As if being trapped on the yacht in only her party dress isn't bad ... 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

Ian McGuire: The North Water

USA 2016, 326 pp., pb., € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Scribner
A ship sets sail with a killer on board in 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the position of ship's surgeon on this ill-fated voyage. But when, deep into the journey, a cabin boy is discovered ... Weiterlesen

Alex Beecroft: False Colors

USA 2009, 335 pp., brochure, € 12.29
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
For his first command, John Cavendish is given both a ship - the HMS Meteor - and a crew in need of repair. He's determined to make a success of their first mission, though, and hopes the well-liked Lieutenant »Alfie« Donwell will stand by his side as he leads his new crew into battle: stopping the slave trade off the ... Weiterlesen

Joseph Olshan: Nightswimmer

USA 1994, 252 pp., brochure, € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Simon and Schuster
Olshan's 1994 venture into gay-themed fiction succeeds on several levels. A dramatic death brings Sean Paris into the life of narrator Will Kaplan, who is still haunted by the disappearance 10 years earlier of his lover. Was Chad struck down by a ship during one of the duo's frequent nocturnal swims off the California coast, or did he purposefully vanish ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Reed: Inhabiting Shadows

UK 1990, 112 pp., pb., € 27.90
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Reed has been cited as the most outstanding poet of his generation, as well as one of the most prolific. In this third novel, he writes of a group of self-admiring adolescents meeting in a seaside town in their last summer before joining the adult world. Here they come to terms with their sexual proclivities (and with tragedy) when one ... Weiterlesen