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The long firm
Jake Arnott
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Meet Harry Starks: night club owner, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate and avid Judy Garland fan. The long firm is a vivid evocation of London’s seedy underworld of the 1960s.
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The habit of art
Alan Bennett
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Benjamin Britten, in the midst of composing his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, WH Auden. The play is complex, elegant and laced with Bennett’s trademark delicious humour.
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Holding the man
Timothy Conigrave
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In the mid-70s, at an all boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave fell in love with the captain of the football team. So began a relationship that was to last 15 years. An insightful book exploring the strength two men had to find when they tested HIV positive.
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At home at the end of the world
Michael Cunningham
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Told over two decades, this is American life told through the eyes of four different people. An essential read for those who seek a different way in their approach to life, love and self-awareness. It reaches out to anyone who has ever wondered where they fit in.
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The road home
Michael Thomas Ford
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A gentle tale, following a gay Boston photographer recuperating at his father's small town Vermont home, where he's drawn into an eerie Civil War mystery. The story guides you to examine your own relationships and reassess your priorities in life.
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Maurice
E M Forster
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A classic tale of homosexual love in early 20th century England. Written between 1913 and 1914, the story is way ahead of its time in its depiction of gay relationships. A brave book; incredibly moving.
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Rough music
Patrick Gale
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For his 40th birthday, Will Pagett is given a holiday at a cottage near the sea in Cornwall. He takes his parents along. This story has something for everyone: a mother with Alzheimer's, a retired prison warden father and a gay son who's sleeping with his sister's husband.
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Mysterious skin
Scott Heim
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Brian and Neil share a common bond: they are forced to come to terms with an event that took place during the summer of 1981. Told from a variety of perspectives, this novel looks at the long-term effects of sexual abuse and the coping mechanisms employed by abused children.
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Carol
Patricia Highsmith
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A tender story of persecuted love. Therese first glimpses Carol - a sophisticated married woman - in the New York department store where she is working as a sales assistant. Standing at the counter, 19 year old Therese is completely unprepared for the first shock of love.
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In the line of beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
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A brilliant depiction of Thatcher’s London in the early 1980s. Nick Guest is a lodger in the London house of the Feddens, an aristocratic family whose son Toby he has befriended at Oxford. Toby’s father is a Tory MP. It is odd that Nick has become part of this family: he’s not upper class, he’s not political… and he’s gay. |
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A single man
Christopher Isherwood
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Isherwood's classic takes us to Southern California in the 1960s and into one day in the life of George, a gay, middle-aged English professor, struggling to cope with his young lover's tragic death. George's reserve hides tides of grief, rage, and bitter loneliness. |
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Mary Ann in autumn
Armistead Maupin
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The latest instalment in the Tales of the city series. It’s been 20 years since Mary Ann Singleton left San Francisco to live in New York. Now, nearing 60, she returns with news she can only bear to tell ‘Mouse’.
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The virtuoso
Sonia Orchard
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London, November 1945. At a bohemian party, a young music student meets the charismatic concert pianist Noël Mewton-Wood. The two immediately become lovers, and the affair unleashes an overwhelming passion as grand and sublime as the music they both love. |
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The monkey's mask
Dorothy Porter
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Jill Fitzpatrick, lesbian private-eye, is torn between passionate love and professional ethics. On the trail of the murderer of would-be poet, Mickey Norris, Jill falls hopelessly in love with Professor Diana Maitland, one of Mickey's former tutors.
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Naked
David Sedaris
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A series of scaldingly funny essays. Sedaris takes us on his catastrophic detours through a nudist colony, a fruit-packing plant, his childhood and, in the essay I like guys, coming to terms with his homosexuality.
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Toast
Nigel Slater
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A beautiful memoir from the Alan Bennett of cooking. Toast details Slater’s English childhood and adolescence through scrumptious food-related anecdotes.
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Hotel world
Ali Smith
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Five disparate voices inhabit the dreamlike, mesmerizing Hotel World, set in the luxurious anonymity of the Global Hotel, in an unnamed northern English city.
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The story of the night
Colm Toibin
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A tender, spare and powerful novel set in Argentina in a time of great change. Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. |
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Loaded
Christos Tsiolkas
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Ari is a gay, unemployed Greek leading an aimless life in Melbourne. Caught between the traditional world of his parents and the alluring, destructive world of clubs, chemicals and anonymous sex, Ari eases his pain in the only ways he can. |
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Tipping the velvet
Sarah Waters
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A novel of eroticism and self-discovery. Set in 1890s Victorian England, it tells the story of Nan, a young woman who falls in love with a male impersonator. Nan follows her to London, finding various ways to support herself as she journeys through the city.
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City boy: my life in New York during the 1960s and 70s
Edmund White
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A memoir of the social and sexual lives of New York City's cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the tumultuous 1970s. Moving and candid: a brilliant portrait of a time and place, full of encounters with famous names and cultural icons. |
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Oranges are not the only fruit
Jeanette Winterson
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In the 1960s, Jeanette is adopted by working-class evangelists in the North of England. She is destined to be a missionary but at 16, she leaves the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves.
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