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Arkansas by David Leavitt. List Price:£6.99
The three novellas in this volume explore themes of escape, exile and homecoming. In "Saturn Street" a disaffected screenwriter volunteers to deliver lunches to housebound AIDS patients and falls in love. "The Wooden Anniversary" and "The Term Paper Artist" are the other stories.

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Paperback - 198 pages new edition (3 December, 1998) [Hits: 462]
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Anti Gay by Mark Simpson. List Price:£7.99
Intended as an antidote to feel-good politics, this text aims to give readers the strength to admit they are not glad to be gay after all. The author considers topics including why most contemporary gay culture is trash and why being gay is like being in a religious cult, except not so open-minded.

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Paperback - 192 pages new edition [Hits: 441]
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Any Boy Can by John Patrick. List Price:£10.99
A worthwhile book of short erotic stories guranteed to get your heart pumping and your down town regions stirring. Not for the faint hearted and has full frontal detail of the events in gay mens' sexual exploration. A good book for those lonely nights when your boyfriend is away or if you need to learn more about coming out and being confident with who you are

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Paperback - 575 pages (1 October, 2001) [Hits: 372]
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A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood. List Price:£6.99
After the death of his boyfriend, George, an English don at the Californian University, becomes tormented with sexual cravings.

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Paperback - 160 pages new edition (7 February, 1991) [Hits: 298]
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Adam by Anthony McDonald. List Price:£9.99
Adam is the 16-year-old most parents would love to have: he doesn't do drugs, comes top at school and regularly practises his cello. But there is another side to him, which comes to the fore when he falls for labourer Sylvain and gets sexually involved with two friends.

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Millivres Prowler Group, Paperback 300 pages (1 June, 2003) [Hits: 298]
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Aelred's Sin by Lawrence Scott. List Price:£7.99
Robert de la Borde leaves the Caribbean for England after hearing that his brother, Jean Marc, has died. Visiting the monastery Jean had entered in the 1960s, Robert pieces togther his brother's life; his emotional suffering and his struggle to balance his sexual impulses with his love of God.

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Paperback - 447 pages (31 August, 1998) [Hits: 277]
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Angel by Kirstie Speke. List Price:£6.99
It's been eight weeks since Uma's husband walked out in search of some space. Eight weeks in which she's allowed herself to descend into a glorious state of self-exile and unleashed the misanthropic hermit within. But Uma needs cash and renting out a room seems to be an easy way to up her income. Before Uma knows what's hit her, Angel has turned up on her doorstep. A vision in Versace, Angel is three parts Marilyn Monroe to one part Amazon. Before long Uma finds herself succumbing to the temptation of glamour therapy (which is like retail but with better shops) and a whole new way of life. From house-mouse to party animal, Uma finds herself transformed as Angel introduces her to fabulous clubs, fetish bars, unconventional men and the joys of having big hair. 'You are what you choose to be' is Angel's maxim. But Uma realises that who Angel is could be open to interpretation...

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Paperback - 246 pages (5 April, 2001) [Hits: 139]
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Another Country by James Baldwin. List Price:£7.99
After Rufus Scott, an embittered and unemployed black jazz-musician commits suicide, his sister Ida and old friend Vivaldo become lovers. Yet their feelings for each other are complicated by Rufus's friends, especially the homosexual actor Eric Jones who has been Vivaldo's lover.

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Paperback - 448 pages (4 October, 2001) [Hits: 362]
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At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill. List Price:£17.99
You may have read the hype. Irishman Jamie O'Neill was working as a London hospital porter when his 10-year labour of love, the 200,000-word manuscript of At Swim, Two Boys, written on a laptop during quiet patches at work, was suddenly snapped up for a hefty six-figure advance. He had to open his first bank account to cash the cheque, the story goes. For once, the book fully deserves the hype.

In the spring of 1915, Jim Mack and "the Doyler", two Dublin boys, make a pact to swim to an island in Dublin Bay the following Easter. By the time they do, Dublin has been consumed by the Easter Uprising, and the boys' friendship has blossomed into love--a love that will in time be overtaken by tragedy. O'Neill's prose, playing merrily with vocabulary, syntax and idiom, has unsurprisingly drawn comparisons to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, but in his creation of comic characters (such as Jim's pathetic but irrepressible father) and in the sheer scale of his work, Charles Dickens springs to mind first. But Dickens never wrote a love story between young men as achingly beautiful as this.

In the character of Anthony MacMurrough, haunted by voices as he pursues his illegal and dangerous desire for Dublin boys, O'Neill has created a complex and fascinating centre to his novel, rescuing the love story from mawkishness, and allowing a serious meditation on history, politics and desire. For as Ireland seeks its own future free of British government, so Jim, Doyle and MacMurrough look back to Sparta to find a way to live their own future. As Dr Scrotes, one of MacMurrough's voices, commands:

Help these boys build a nation their own. Ransack the histories for clues to their past. Plunder the literature for words they can speak.

In this massive, enthralling and brilliant début, Jamie O'Neill has indeed done just that: provided a nation for what Walt Whitman calls, in O'Neill's epigraph, "the love of comrades". --Alan Stewart

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Scribner, Hardcover - 643 pages new edition (Sept 2001) [Hits: 283]
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The Abomination by Paul Golding. List Price:£6.99
Chronicles the life of Santiago Moore Zamora. Adrift in a world of nameless one-night stands, living in a London of suffocating hedonism, Zamora remembers his early years in Spain and sudden exile to boarding school in England, where two proscribed love affairs set him on a course apart.

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Paperback - 528 pages new edition (Jan 2001) [Hits: 377]
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All The Queen's Men by Nick Elwood. List Price:£9.95
A revealing account of fourteen years as an openly gay man in the British Army. There were no threats and rarely any hostility, and the young Trumpet Major found himself protected by peers, senior ranks and the system itself.

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Paperback (1 November, 1999) [Hits: 368]
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Angels in America by Tony Kushner. List Price:£7.59
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Before picking up this book I had already categorized and stereotyped the plot, characters, and anticipated my reaction. I visualized a sob story featuring homosexuals who are misunderstood by society, I pictured stereotypical gay men with high-pitched voices, I knew this story would not make my top-ten list. But I have never been more wrong or judgemental about anything I've ever read.

Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" may be one of the most touching accounts depicting American society that i have ever been invited to read. Life is not "sugar-coated" in this play, rather the truth is plainly put out on the table for all to see. The characters in this play are close to the heart and teach us that only the truth will set us free. They are unlikely, yet fitting angels for our generation. We meet Prior, a lonely man dying of AIDS who is the epitome of truth, chosen to prophesize to the masses. Louis and Joe who are both so different yet the same, both realizing the power of the "threshold of revelation". Roy, whose deceptiveness is the cause of his undoing, and Harper who is trapped in a world where the truth has no existence. Yet all of their lives are interconnected by a desire to make sense of the world around them.

Amidst politics and controversy, high drama and comedic relief the characters remaining at the play's end have determined a better sense of self and what it means to be "real". I walked away from Kushner's "Angels" with a better sense of my own self and a more open mind. It was written with a compassion and sensitivity unlike any I've ever known or experienced. "Angels in America" is perhaps one of the most touching theatrical works of its day.

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Theatre Communications Group , Paperback 304 pages [Hits: 282]
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Addictions by Laurence Brown. List Price:£9.95
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Addictions by Laurence Brown really is a fantastic book - excellently written, it had me laughing out loud (on the tube!) in places whilst I found it touching and intriguing in others. An original and unusual view of gay life in London and San Diego set against the downfall of Margaret Thatcher in the early '90's. The Jewish aspect is particularly eye-opening. Why is this book not more well known? Brown to me is a fantastic author - when will his next book be coming out??? I'm hungry for more! So, if you're thinking of buying it, go ahead! You'd have made an excellent choice!

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Paperback (1 July, 2000) [Hits: 351]
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Air From other Planets by Andrew Clements. List Price:£9.95
Mark is the most closeted of gay men-hack journalist on a British tabloid local paper, airplane spotter and still a virgin at thirty. A chance reading of Robert Louis Stevenson gets him hooked on the South Pacific and he flies 12,000 miles to Samoa in search of his fantasies.

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Paperback (September 2000) [Hits: 357]
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All Boys Together by Robin Yeo (Editor). List Price:£9.95
Adolescence, the worst of times for many boys growing up gay; feeling isolated, getting bullied, surrounded by untouchable young men. But for some, this is the best of times: sharing the tenderness of teenage friendships, and above all, exploring together what all boys have in common. Through the use of true stories and fantasy fiction, this collection by sixteen writers explore the joys of young friendships, romance, and desire.

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Paperback - 236 pages 1 (1 April, 2001) [Hits: 494]
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Aquamarine by Mel Keegan. List Price:£9.95
Mel Keegan's new story is set in the late 21st century, when major land masses have been submerged by rising oceans, and the Earth is a world of water. Russell is a hydrologist, his lover, Eric, one of fifty Aquarians, a new sub-species who can breathe underwater. Refusing an attractive offer for his services on a suspicious salvage operation, Eric is kidnapped and a fast-paced aquatic intrigue starts to unfold.

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Paperback - 150 pages (October 2000) [Hits: 376]
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Attrition (Gay Fiction) by Simon Lovat
A taut psychological study of that most difficult of relationships - that between a father and the gay son who has disappointed him.

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Paperback - 150 pages (1 October, 2000) [Hits: 400]
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Adrenaline by James Robert Baker. List Price:£8.99
It begins as a routine trick: two guys on a beach after midnight. Instant attraction, chemical overload, but in the heat of the moment they are interrupted. Brutalized by police, they fight back, a cop dies, and Nick and Jeff are on the run through Los Angeles at its worst. James Robert Baker's cult first novel--originally published under the name James Dillinger--is at once an anarchist's howl of rage at oppression and the soulless culture of Hollywood, and it is a noir thriller peppered with hilarious vignettes and ironic insight. Fueled by passion, fear, and methamphetamine, Nick and Jeff's odyssey through Southern California is a nightmare of hair-breadth escapes and bizarre encounters with, among others, a decadently decaying movie producer, a corrupt church official, a deranged neurosurgeon, and a psychotic cop; however, Adrenaline surges above the genre of fugitive fiction by casting a clear and wary eye on the disturbing darkness that lies below society's polished surface. It is this more than anything else that makes the story of Nick and Jeff, their love, and their flight, a modern parable of redemption.

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Paperback - 302 pages, Alyson Books Ed (7 Dec 2000) [Hits: 343]
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