★★★★★
224 pages • Serpent’s Tail • 11 April, 2013 [PB]

True Story, by Helen Humphreys is a a poetic lament for the dead and especially for a loved-one lost far too early.

“This secretive ménage à trois, conducted in the claustrophobic atmosphere of the Durand’s grand but isolated home in the Bois de Boulogne on the outskirts of Paris, becomes stifling and, ultimately, destructive.”

★★★★★
424 pages • Phaidon Press Ltd • 1 April, 2013 [HB]

Art and Queer Culture is a beautifully produced & expertly written survey of the relationship between visual art & transgressive sexualities.

“Art and Queer Culture is an invaluable resource for anyone studying, or even just interested in, the history of transgressive sexualities and gender politics in the visual arts and Phaidon’s characteristically high quality production values make this a pleasure to read.”

★★★★★
224 pages • Serif • 31 May, 2012 [PB]

Drawn and written when he was 17, Federico Garcia Lorca’s beautiful Sketches of Spain has been translated into English for the first time.

“Lorca’s murder by Nationalist gunmen during the Spanish Civil War at the age of 38 makes any reading of Lorca’s thoughts on death resonate with totemic force. His own body, never found or identified, has become part of the Spanish earth that he loved.”

★★★★★
329 pages • Serpent’s Tail • 7 March, 2013 [PB]

Petite Mort, by Beatrice Hitchman is a book that is by turns sensitive and coarse, gentle and brutal, beguiling and horrifying.

“This secretive ménage à trois, conducted in the claustrophobic atmosphere of the Durand’s grand but isolated home in the Bois de Boulogne on the outskirts of Paris, becomes stifling and, ultimately, destructive.”

★★★★★
248 pages • Wilkinson House • 1 December, 2012 [PB]

Two stories, a gay love story in 2011, and a straight love story in 1914. Yet what is it that connects the two?

“In one sense both stories are, to a greater or lesser degree, about forbidden love. The gay storyline in modern Tel Aviv is hardly transgressive in its context but, for the older man, Niv, it nonetheless brings about a mental collapse.”

★★★★★
288 pages • Sphere • October 11, 2012 [HB]

Will Young isn’t exactly what you’d call normal … surely a compliment in this day and age … and this is no normal autobiography

“Will has a way of recounting a story that not only brings out the insane humour of each situation, by also giving us an insight into his constant internal dialogue, but also getting his teeth into you and not letting you go.”

★★★★★
109 pages • Sibling Rivalry Press • March 12, 2013 [PB]

Raymond Luczak’s How To Kill Poetry is a three-headed gonzo beast that’s part history, part character and part futuristic.

“This book is simply astounding, there is nothing like it out there today.”

★★★★★
196 pages • Ward Wood Publishing • 4 April, 2012

Always You, Edina is a deeply moving, deeply satisfying novel about a woman larger than life, and the impact she had on her family.

“’Aunt Ed was Gina Lolobrigida and Grace Kelly – fire and ice,’ the older and wiser Bonnie recalls. The magic of Edina’s personality, and the sway she had over others, is seen through the eyes of a child.”

★★★★★
240 pages (estimated) • Rex Press • 25 August, 2012 [ebook]

Cry Shame! is the story of Graziella Serrano, the ambitious daughter of Mexico’s greatest lion tamer. It’s Vidal writing in bestseller form..

“Vidal would not allow the Kay and Everard books to be reprinted, which is somewhat telling. In August 2012, about three weeks after Vidal died, Cry Shame! was issued as an affordable ebook on Nook and Kindle. Cry shame, publishers!”

★★★★★
238 pages • Summertime Publishing • 15 December, 2011 [PB]

Perking The Pansies sees a forty-something gay couple move to Turkey and into the midst of Imperial minded ex-pats.

“By working their way round the map of the Mediterranean, Jack and Liam eventually settle on Turkey as being both affordable and, for a Muslim country at least, reasonably tolerant.”