A successful anaesthetist, Anna is focused on herself, her career, and her girlfriend. Everything changes abruptly when her brother's and sister-in-law's deaths devastate her and her family. Left responsible for her young niece and nephew, Anna finds herself dumped and alone in Melbourne, a city she doesn't even like. She tries to navigate the shock of looking after two children ... Weiterlesen

Mel Bossa: In His Secret Life

USA 2013, 251 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Bold Strokes

When Allan's boyfriend leaves him for a younger man, Allan lets him go without a grudge. When his sister, Elsie, gets pregnant and ditched, he becomes her support system and father figure to his niece. Then Elsie becomes engaged to Dayton, and Allan meets Dayton's older brother, Davinder - a fierce and exceptionally gifted artist with a thousand secrets breathing ... Weiterlesen

Michael Lowenthal: The Paternity Test

USA 2013, 278 pp, hardbound, € 24.95
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University of Wisconsin Press

Pat Faunce is a faltering romantic, a former poetry major who now writes textbooks. A decade into his relationship with Stu, an airline pilot from a fraught Jewish family, he fears he's losing Stu to other men?and losing himself in their �no rules� arrangement. Yearning for a baby and a deeper commitment, he pressures Stu to move from Manhattan to ... Weiterlesen

Yotam Ottolenghi und Sami Tamimi: Jerusalem

UK 2012, 320pp., hardbound, € 38.60
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Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi are the men behind the bestselling Ottolenghi-cookbooks. Their chain of restaurants is famous for its innovative flavours, stylish design and superb cooking. At the heart of Yotam and Sami's food is a shared home city: Jerusalem. Both were born there in the same year, Sami on the Arab east side and Yotam in the Jewish ... Weiterlesen

Ken Anderson: Sea Change

An Example of the Pleasure Principle. USA 2012, 377 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Starbooks

Four tourists meet in Italy and decide to travel together. Tyler is a bisexual writer with terrible secrets. Josh is a young architecture student - grief-stricken over a man who went back to his wife. Phil and Billie are an older straight couple who bond with Josh because their son had the same name. The four form a real, emotionally ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Mary Ann in Autumn

Tales of the City, Vol.8. UK 2011, 365 pp., Pb, € 17.95
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20 years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a TV career in New York. Now, a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of her oldest friend, Michael �Mouse� Tolliver, a gay gardener happily ensconced with ... Weiterlesen

Andrea Busfield: Aphrodite's War

UK 2010, 510 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Cyprus, 1955 - a guerrilla war is raging and four Greek brothers are growing up to the familiar sounds of exploding bombs and sniper fire. Determined to avenge the death of his elder brother and to win the heart of his beloved Praxi, young Loukis joins a cell of schoolboy terrorists operating in the mountains. But when his cohorts blow ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Michael Tolliver Lives

UK 2008, 335 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in the classic �Tales of the City� series, is arguably the most beloved gay character in fiction. Now, almost 20 years after ending his saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his story in his own voice. Having survived the plague that took so many of his ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Babycakes

UK 1984 (Reissue 2007), 316 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Black Swan - Tales of the City 4

The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier �Tales of the City� books with love and laughter are at it again, as an ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay neighbour, and an international ring ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Bram: The Notorious Dr. August

USA 2001, 498 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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Spanning more than sixty years from the Civil War to the early 1920s, and moving from the battlefields of the South to New York City, through Paris, London, Constantinople, and Coney Island, �The Notorious Dr. August� features Augustus Fitzwilliam Boyd, alias Dr. August, an improvisational pianist who believes his music is sometimes inspired by the spirit world. He is in ... Weiterlesen
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Armistead Maupin: Sure of You

UK 1991, 284 pp., Pb, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Black Swan - Tales of the City 6

In this, the sixth and final self-contained volume of Armistead Maupin's epic chronicle of modern life, a fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, �Sure of You� is a triumphant finale to one of the most addictively ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Significant Others

UK 1989, 316 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Black Swan - Tales of the City 5

�Significant Others�, the fifth self-contained chronicle in the �Tales of the City� saga, is a cunningly observed class comedy that's sure to be relished by the cognoscenti and by new readers alike. A holiday in the redwoods goes uproariously awry when the opposing sexes camp out rather too close to each other for comfort. Among those entangled in the mayhem ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: Further Tales of the City

UK 1989, 271 pp., Pb, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Black Swan - Tales of the City 3

The residents of 28 Barbary Lane are back again in this racy, suspenseful and wildly romantic sequel to �Tales of the City� and �More Tales of the City�. DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track down a charismatic psychopath, Michael Tolliver looks for love, landlady Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement storeroom, and Armistead Maupin is in ... Weiterlesen

Armistead Maupin: More Tales of the City

UK 1989, 288 pp., Pb, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Black Swan - Tales of the City 2

The divinely human comedy that began with �Tales of the City� rolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliver pursues his favourite gynaecologist, Mona Ramsey uncovers her roots in a desert whorehouse, and Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with the amnesiac of her dreams.

Armistead Maupin: Tales of the City

USA 1989, 269 pp., pb, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Black Swan - Tales of the City 1

San Francisco, 1976. A na�ve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous - unmistakably the handiwork of Armistead Maupin.