Alice Winn: In Memoriam

UK 2023, 380 pp., hardbound, € 19.95
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Viking
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
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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

Nat Reeve: Nettleblack

UK 2022, 420 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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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

Olga Petri: Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg

UK 2022, 254 pp., hardbound, € 79.95
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Cornell University Press
»Places of Tenderness and Heat« is a ground-level exploration of queer St. Petersburg at the fin-de-siècle. Olga Petri takes us through busy shopping arcades, bathhouses, and public urinals to show how queer men routinely met and socialized. She reconstructs the milieu that enabled them to navigate a city full of risk and opportunity. Focusing on a non-Western, unexplored, and fragile ... Weiterlesen

Nathan Harris: The Sweetness of Water

USA 2021, 368 pp.,brochure, € 14.95
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Headline
In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry - freed by the Emancipation Proclamation - seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. ... Weiterlesen

William Keeling: Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle

UK 2022, 288 pp.,brochure, € 19.95
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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
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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

Anita Kurimay: Queer Budapest

USA 2020, 336 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of Chicago Press
By the dawn of the 20th century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the »Pearl of the Danube,« it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class was committed to advancing the city's liberal politics and making it an intellectual and commercial crossroads between East and West. In ... 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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Christopher Chitty: Sexual Hegemony

Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System. USA 2020, 222 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Duke University Press
In »Sexual Hegemony«, Christopher Chitty traces the 500 year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the bourgeoisie's attempts to regulate homosexuality. Tracking the politicization of male homosexuality in Renaissance Florence, Amsterdam, Paris, and London between the 17th and 19th centuries, and 20th-century New York City, Chitty shows how sexuality became a crucial dimension of the ... Weiterlesen

Julian Barnes: The Man in the Red Coat

UK 2020, 268 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Vintage
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrive in London for a few days' shopping. One is a Prince, one is a Count, and the third is a commoner, who four years earlier has been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The commoner is Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a scientific man ... Weiterlesen

Sebastian Barry: A Thousand Moons

USA 2020, 272 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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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

Jen Manion: Female Husbands

UK 2020, 320 pp., hardback, € 29.90
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Cambridge University Press
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories ... Weiterlesen

Hugh Ryan: When Brooklyn Was Queer

USA 2019, 308 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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SMP
»When Brooklyn Was Queer« is an exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in ... Weiterlesen

Brian Anderson: The Fraternity of the Estranged

The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908. UK 2018, 256 pp., hardbound, € 26.95
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Matador
Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, and a third, Havelock Ellis. At this time, the study of homosexuality was limited almost exclusively ... Weiterlesen

Emer O'Sullivan: The Fall of the House of Wilde

Oscar Wilde and His Family. UK 2017, 512 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Bloomsbury
Oscar Wilde owed his most outstanding characteristics - his intellectualism, his flamboyance, his hedonism, his pride, his sense of superiority, his liberal sexual values - to his parents. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Wilde, rose to prominence as a political journalist. She passed on her infectious delight in the art of living to Oscar, who imbibed it greedily. His father was ... Weiterlesen

Jamie O'Neill: At Swim, Two Boys

UK 2017, 643 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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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

Natasha Pulley: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

UK 2016, 329 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. When the watch saves Thaniel's life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori - a kind, lonely immigrant. Meanwhile, Grace Carrow is sneaking into an Oxford library, desperate to prove the existence of the ... Weiterlesen