Diarmuid Hester: Nothing Ever Just Disappears

UK 2023, 358 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
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Allen Lane
Nothing Ever Just Disappears retraces the footsteps of some of the twentieth century's most remarkable queer writers and artists. Moving through their homes and haunts, it explores the deep connections between where they lived, who they were and the iconoclastic art and literature they created. In search of a new history of queer culture, Diarmuid Hester travels from Cambridge's ancient ... Weiterlesen

E.M. Forster: Maurice

UK 2005, 232 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual ... Weiterlesen
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Damon Galgut: Arctic Summer

South Africa 2014, 368 pp., pb., € 89.95
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In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. It will be another twelve years, and ... Weiterlesen
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Wendy Moffat: E.M. Forster

A New Life. UK 2011, 408 pp. illustrated, Pb, € 18.95
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With the posthumous publication of his long-suppressed novel »Maurice« in 1970, E.M. Forster came out as a homosexual - though the revelation made barely a ripple in his literary reputation. Forster's homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Between Oscar Wilde's imprisonment and the Stonewall riots, Forster led a long, strange, and imaginative life as a gay man. He ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: Diaries Vol. One: 1939 - 1960

Ed. by Katherine Bucknell. UK 2011, 1050 pp., brochure, € 28.95
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In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California, his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists and intellectuals as Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, Klaus Mann, Charles Laughton, Lawrence ... Weiterlesen

Jerry Rosco: Glenway Wescott Personally

USA 2010, 306pp., brochure, € 18.95
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As a writer, Glenway Wescott produced several novels, noted for their remarkable lyricism. As a literary figure, Wescott also became a symbol of his times. Born on a Wisconsin farm in 1901, he associated as a young writer with Hemingway, Stein, and Fitzgerald in 1920s Paris and subsequently was a central figure in New York's artistic and gay communities. Though ... Weiterlesen

Wendy Moffat: A Great Unrecorded History

A New Life of E.M. Forster. USA 2010, 408pp., hardback, € 29.95
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With the posthumous publication of his long-suppressed novel »Maurice« in 1970, E.M. Forster came out as a homosexual - though the revelation made barely a ripple in his literary reputation. Forster's homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Between Oscar Wilde's imprisonment and the Stonewall riots, Forster led a long, strange, and imaginative life as a gay man. He ... Weiterlesen

Frank Kermode: Concerning E.M. Forster

USA 2009, 180 pp., hardback, € 21.79
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The author offers an informal but wide-ranging inquiry into puzzling features of Forster's life and work. After all, Forster's first novels, written before he was 30, showed tremendous energy and promise, but his productivity seemed to fizzle out after the triumph of »A Passage to India« in 1924. Why? Kermode reflects not only on Forster's considerable talent but on the ... Weiterlesen

Sheila Rowbotham: Edward Carpenter

A Life of Liberty and Love. UK/USA 2008, 565 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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The gay socialist humanitarian writer Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A mystic, progressive advocate of, among other causes, free love, recycling, nudism, women's suffrage and prison reform, his work anticipated the sexual revolution of the 1960s. The biographer situates Carpenter's life and thought in relation ... Weiterlesen

Max Egremont: Siegfried Sassoon

UK 2006, 639 pp., brochure, € 18.98
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Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 into a comfortable and prosperous household in Kent, and began writing poetry as a boy. He confronted the terrible realities of WWI on the battlefield, in verse, and finally, in 1917, by announcing his opposition to the war. By 1918 Sassoon found himself one of the most famous young writers of the time, admired ... Weiterlesen