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Our gay fiction list contains a wide range of contemporary and classic titles, from many different viewpoints. New titles are added as they hit the shelves, check back regularly for updates.
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Gilbert Adair
Buenas noches, Buenos Aires (2004)
Gideon takes up a teaching post at an all-male school in Belitz where his self-doubt turns to self discovery.
Graeme Aitken 
50 ways of saying fabulous (1995)
A funny, sad tale of growing up a sissy in rural New Zealand.
Noel Alumit
Letters to Montgomery Clift (2003)
Winner of the 2003 Stonewall prize, this is the story of eight-year-old Filipino boy Bong Bong Luwad's experiences in Los Angeles.
Michael Arditti
Pagan and her parents (1996)
Pagan has been left in Leo’s care after her mother dies, but Leo is gay and a custody battle ensues.
The celibate (1997)
A young man has a crisis of faith and love.
Laura Argiri
The god in flight (1994)
The story of a dangerous love affair between a professor and his student at Yale University in the 1880s.
Jake Arnott
The long firm (1999)
Harry Starks is a Jewish gangster in 1960s London. But, unlike most others, he is queer.  Back to top 
James Robert Baker
Tim and Pete (1993)
The story of two lovers’ rocky road to reconciliation.
James Baldwin
Giovanni’s room (1956)
Set mainly in Paris, this is the story of a young American man who must choose between his female and male lovers.
Just above my head (1979)
The story of a young, gay singer’s life, told by his brother after his death.
Tell me how long the train’s been gone (1968)
A successful black actor relives his life after a heart attack, reviewing his homosexual relationships.
Neil Bartlett
Ready to catch him should he fall (1990)
Concerns the love affair and happy marriage of two men: one older and wiser, the other just 19.
The house on Brooke Street (1997)
The house on Brooke Street is haunted by a blond angel who embodies the dreams of two gay lovers.
Jeremy Beadle
Doing business (1990)
Set amongst the dangerous world of West End rent boys.
Timothy James Beck
It had to be you (2001)
Jaded with the Manhattan party scene and smitten with a certain corporate hunk, Daniel (a.k.a Princess 2Di4) must launch the riskiest masquerade of his life - as a nine to five commuter....
Paul Binding
Harmonica’s bridegroom (1984)
Two young Englishmen meeting in Neo-Fascist Spain, find that a one-night stand does not dispel their loneliness or longings.
Bernie Bookbinder
Out at the old ball game (1995)
The first all-gay baseball team.
C. F. Borgman
River road (1988)
The psychological, intellectual and erotic blossoming of a wide-eyed youth in the 1950s into a (fictional) internationally famous poet.
Art Bosch
Boy’s town (1988)
During the era of the AIDS crisis and anti-gay violence, an extended, gay family in Boy’s Town creates a nuturing home environment.
Christopher Bram
Gossip (1998)
Gay politics meet Washington politics in this story of gay involvement in the Republican comeback of the 1990s.
Father of Frankenstein (1999)
A fictionalised account of the last days of Hollywood director James Whale. Later made into a film called Gods and monsters.
In memory Of Angel Clare (1989)
A family of friends, including his grieving young lover, must put their lives back together after the death of Angel Clare.
Lives of the circus animals (2003)
A story of the lives and loves of four narcisstic New Yorkers, gay and straight.
Poppy Z Brite
The value of X (2003)
Two young, gay lovers try to survive in the predominantly Catholic New Orleans restaurant world.
Harold Brodkey
Profane friendship (1994)
On returning to Venice after World War II, Niles O’Hara becomes involved with his Italian childhood friend.
Jeff Buchanan
Sucking feijoas (1998)
A New Zealand novel that follows the lives of three young gay men in the 1940s, 1960s and 1980s.
Paul Burston
Shameless (2001)
"Fairly handsome" Martin comes home one day to discover that his boyfriend of four years has left him for a "rent boy," so he throws his quiet routine out the window and joins good friend John, a flight attendant, on an endless tour of London's gay nightlife.
Aldo Busi
Seminar on youth (1989)
A candid account of the adventures of a young Italian peasant turned gay prostitute.
Sodomies in elevenpoint (1992)
A picaresque account of one man's sexual adventures in Morocco.
Rob Byrnes
The night we met (2002)
Andrew is bored and broken hearted until he meets the hunky Italian man of his dreams. Unfortunately, he's also the son of a Mafia boss - and engaged.
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Peter Cameron
The weekend (1994)
Tensions between family and ex-boyfriends arise on the anniversary of Tony's death from an AIDs related illness.
Craig Chester
Adam and Steve (2005)
Based on the screen play by Craig Chester
Lawrence Chua
Gold by the inch (1998)
A young, gay man of Asian descent returns to Thailand to recover from his father's death and a failed love affair. 
Cyril Collard
Savage nights (1994)
An erotic, autobiographical novel about a bi-sexual filmmaker with an insatiable desire to live life to the fullest.
Dennis Cooper
My loose thread (2002)
Larry is offered 500 dollars to kill a boy and destroy his notebook, but the teenager soon finds complications when he discovers the contents of the book.
Steven Corbin
A hundred days from now (1994)
An openly gay Afro-American screen writer finds his lover’s closet behaviour difficult.
William Corlett
Now and then (1996)
A book editor is faced with the painful memory of a love lost at the age of 15, when betrayed by  an older and adored schoolmate.
Two gentlemen sharing (1999)
A comedy of manners in which a London playwright buys a stately home as a love nest for his dizzy new boyfriend.
Michael Craft
Flight dreams (1997)
While tracking the case of a missing Chicago heiress, investigative journalist Mark Manning meets Neil who helps him to accept and take pride in his sexuality.
Alan Cumming
Tommy's tale (2003)
As his 30th birthday looms, pansexual Londoner Tommy grapples with his desire for a child, and his fear of settling down.
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Christopher
Davis
Valley of the shadow (1988)
A love story about two young men dying of AIDS.
Nolan Dennett
Place of shelter (1994)
A gay coming of age novel about a young man growing up in rural Idaho.
Michael Downing
Breakfast with Scot (1999)
Long-term partners Sam and Ed honour a wine-soaked promise made years before and begin parenting a friend's 11 year old boy.
Robert Drake
The man, a hero for our time: book one: why? (1995)
When a savage gay-basher stalks city streets, a six-foot avenger comes to the rescue. Gay power has found its super-weapon.
Nicholas Drayson
Confessing a murder (2002)
An eccentric Victorian entomologist finds himself marooned on a deserted island, where the fauna is even more spectacular than that discovered by his close childhood friend Darwin. He documents his discoveries, along with some intriguing aspects of his famous friend’s life.
Larry Duplechan
Captain Swing: a love story (1993)
When Johnnie Ray’s life is at its lowest ebb, he meets his gorgeous second cousin who "looks like mortal sin".
Tangled up in blue (1989)
When her best friend is diagnosed with an AIDS related disease, a young woman learns that her husband and friend were once lovers.
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David Ebershof
The Danish girl (2000)
Loosely based on the life of Danish painter Einar Wegener who, in 1931, became the first man to undergo a sex-change operation. 
Lars Eighner
Pawn to queen four (1995)
A rollicking comic novel featuring a six-foot-six drag queen.
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David B.Feinberg
Eighty-sixed (1989)
A frank look at the contrast between pre-AIDS and post-AIDS life in contemporary urban America.
Spontaneous combustion (1991)
Sequel to Eighty-sixed – BJ learns that he is HIV positive and realises that it will take more than sarcasm to survive.
Lluis Fernandez
The naked anarchist (1990)
An erotic picture of gay life in Spain under the repressive Franco regime.
Robert Ferro
Second son (1988)
An eloquent, sensitive novel about two men with AIDS, determined to survive.
The blue star (1985)
Explores the long relationship of two friends. Starting in the 1960s, when they "indulge their youthful appetites" in Florence, this novel spans the 20 years of their friendship.
Michael Thomas Ford
Looking for it (2006)
Seven gay protagonists move from the relative safety of the big city to smalltown Cold Falls, NY.
E.M. Forster
Maurice (1971)
Maurice follows the life of Maurice Hall, a typical British suburbanite, in Edwardian society, where homosexuality was still a criminal act. Written in 1914, it was not published until after Forster’s death in 1971, by his request.
John Fox
The boys on the rock (1984)
A 16 year old New York school student has to face up to being gay when he falls in love with a 20 year old.
Ronald Frame
The lantern bearers (2001)
Old ghosts resurface when Neil begins to write a biography of the famous composer for whom he acted as a muse at the tender age of 14.
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Philip Gambone
Beijing (2003)
A thoughtful and complex novel which captures both the feverish pulse of the emerging international city and the tender lyricism of a bi-racial love affair.
Harlan Greene
What the dead remember (1991)
A haunting novel of adolescent sexual awakening in southern USA.
Jim Grimsley
Comfort and joy (1999)
A young man must come out to his family who are, unfortunately, pillars of Savannah society.
Dream boy (1995)
An electrifying novel of adolescent gay love.
Michael Grumley
Life drawing (1991)
A passionate, complex story of a small-town boy’s difficult journey to gay manhood, set in the American mid-west.
Rufus Gunn
Something for Sergio (1985)
A travelogue-cum-love-story set in South America during the hero’s quest for his rich Colombian boyfriend.
Allan Gurganus
The practical heart (2001)
Winner of the 2001 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's fiction, this series of four novellas investigate the way that dreams sustain us in everyday life.
Plays well with others (1997)
A story of art and AIDS in the 80s, in which newcomer to New York Hartley Mims Jr searches for his dreams of finding love and becoming a great artist.
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Joseph
Hansen
Jack of hearts (1995)
A gay coming of age novel set in a small Californian town in the 1940s, featuring Nathan Reed.
Job’s year (1983)
In his 58th year, Oliver’s life is going from bad to worse as his sister lies dying, his lover walks out, and he loses his acting job.
Living upstairs (1993)
A young man embarks on the happiest and most ominous adventure of his life, when he gets involved with a charming older man.
Steps going down (1985)
A tale of obsessive love and self-undoing as a young man does everything to keep his lover happy.
James Earl Hardy
B-boy blues: a seriously sexy, fiercely funny, black-on-black love story (1994)
"The first gay hip-hop love story that sexually sizzles off the page."
Second time around (1996)
The second in the B-boy blues series, this time from the viewpoint of Raheim.
If only for one nite (1998)
Third in the B-boy blues series.
The day Eazy-E died (2001)
Fourth in the B-boy blues series. After the death from AIDS of his idol, rapper Eazy-E, Raheim examines the ethics of his own love life as he awaits the results of a test to determine his HIV status.
Love the one you're with (2002)
Fifth in the B-boy blues series. When his long-term partner travels to Hollywood to make his first film, Michael finds it a challenge to stay faithful.
A house is not a home (2005)
In the sixth and final title of his groundbreaking B-boy blues series, James Earl Hardy brings his beloved couple - Mitchell, the Buppie from Brooklyn, and Raheim, the homeboy from Harlem - into the twenty-first century.
E. Lynn Harris
Invisible life (1994)
"A bold and riveting look into the minds of bisexual black men in America."
Just as I am (1994)
A young black American lawyer struggles to come to terms with his sexuality, and the grim reality of AIDS.
Abide with me (1999)
The third volume of the Invisible life trilogy.
William Henderson
Native (1993)
A young cowboy thinks he has found his soulmate in Sam, but everything goes wrong when an Indian man shows up in town.
John Haylock
Doubtful partners (1998)
Following the revelation that her recently deceased husband had a male lover, Barbara finds her whole family coming out of the closet.
Andrew Holleran
Dancer from the dance (1986)
A young man’s obsessive search for perfect love is a Dantesque journey.
Nights in Aruba (1983)
A novel about family relationships in which a gay son leads a double life between friends and family.
The beauty of men (1996)
A universal tale of loneliness, ageing and the obsessive desires of the human heart.
Alan Hollinghurst
The folding star (1994)
A 33-year-old Englishman goes to an ancient Belgian city to teach and becomes obsessed with one of his pupils.
The spell (1998)
An exploration of gay experiences and relationships set in London
The swimming pool library (1988)
The friendship between a young gay aristocrat and an elderly Lord; set in 1983, it is an elegy for a pre-AIDS way of life.
Richard House
Bruiser (1997)
A love story between two men wary of emotional commitment. Rejecting their lives in Chicago,  Adrian and Paul embark on a road trip to Brazil in an attempt to make a change.
Uninvited (2002)
Attempting to make a new life in London, Ian must negotiate numerous obstacles including, two thugs with penchant for paint-stripper and a mysterious bicycle courier.
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Witi Ihimaera
Nights in the gardens of Spain (1995)
The story of one man’s double life – the first in the straight world with his wife and children, the other at night in gay bars and clubs.
Gary Indiana
Gone tomorrow (1993)
A novel of hedonism in the 1980s. Set against the backdrop of social anarchy and political violence in Columbia.
Horse crazy (1989)
Set in New York’s bohemian Lower East Side, the story of a celebrated writer’s obsession with a younger man.
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Alex
Jeffers
Safe as houses (1995)
A gay novel about family values.
Michael Jensen
Frontiers (1999)
A story of lust, greed, murder and revenge set in the old wild west.
Fenton Johnson
Scissors, paper, rock (1993)
A young man dying of AIDS returns home to reconcile with his father.
Simmons Jones
Show me the way home (1993)
A collection of eccentric characters living in small town America.
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Mel
Keegan
Death’s head (1991)
A futuristic romantic adventure set in the 23rd century.
Storm tide (1996)
A gay thriller set in Australia. 
Chris Kenry
Uncle Max (2002)
Uncle Max follows the adventures of a gawky adolescent on the cusp of homosexuality who discovers an unlikely hero in his outrageous, irreverent Uncle Max.
Steve Kluger
Almost like being in love (2004)
A high school jock and nerd fall in love senior year.
Harry Kondoleon
Diary of a lost boy (1994)
Love and marriage (gay and straight) in the time of AIDS, set in New York.
Rachel Kranz
Leaps of faith (2000)
A comedy of manners set in contemporary New York City.
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David
Leavitt
Equal affections (1989)
The family of Walter, a gay lawyer, and his lesbian sister April, is struggling to come to terms with their mother’s death of cancer.
The lost language of cranes (1987)
An ironic, heartfelt coming out story set in New York.
While England sleeps (1998)
Set in 1930s England and Spain, communist Brian pursues his troubled lover, Edward, across  Europe during the Spanish war.
The sex squad (1998)
After meeting an old friend hospitalised by AIDS, Harry Leddick recollects a dancers life in 1950s New York.
The page turner (1998)
Pianist and ex-prodigy Richard Kennington travels to Rome, where he meets a young man poised to follow in his professional footsteps. The affair is complicated by the fact that the young man’s mother is also interested in Richard.
Martin Bauman (2000)
Martin Bauman decides in college that he wants to be a successful novelist, so he sets off with considerable luck to attain his goal in the New York literary world.
Simon LeVay
Albrick's gold (1997)
A bio-tech thriller where Dr Roger Cavendish, a pioneer in the sexual orientation of the brain, must combat the homophobic experiments being carried out at Levitican University.
Stan Leventhal
Skydiving on Christopher Street (1995)
A slice of life novel featuring a young, gay man who is the editor for a porn publishing house.
Samuel Lock
The whites of gold (2001)
The disturbed soul Edwin Carpenter finds solace from his brutal upbringing with the help of lover Mark. Set in the west of England during the 1950s and 1960s Edwin's story is rich in depictions of country life and maintains the “disconcerting emotional power“ for which its author is known.
Michael Lowenthal
Avoidance (2002)
The story of a Harvard graduate student who spends the summer as the assistant director of a camp for troubled boys, while struggling with his own latent homosexuality.
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J H
MacDonald
The free world (1996)
An elegant literary debut exploring interior lives and undisclosed histories; by a New Zealand writer.
William Mann
The men from the boys (1997)
A gay coming of age novel.
All American boy (2005)
Wally must confront the reasons he left his hometown of Brown's Mill in a cloud of anger, shame, and guilt.
Adam Mars-Jones
The waters of thirst (1993)
William wanted trust in his relationship, whereas Terry just needed a lover…
Armistead Maupin
Tales of the city (1978)
More tales of the city (1980)
Further tales of the city (1982)
Baby cakes (1984)
Significant other (1987)
Sure of you (1989)
A serial saga about the trials and adventures of San Francisco’s hip lovers (gay and straight), who strive for commitment in the face of the ever-tempting allures of uncommitted flesh. 
The night listener (2000)
A talk show host gets a book to blurb -- the memoirs of a 13 year old, HIV-positive rape survivor. But as he feels compelled to contact and help the boy, questions are raised as to whether he’s telling the truth, or indeed, even exists.
James McCourt
Time remaining (1993)
Two moving, electric stories of gay life in New York during the last 25 years.
Christian McLaughlin
Glamourpuss (1994)
The true confessions of Alex Young, a cute, twenty-something Hollywood actor with a juicy, evil role in a popular daytime soap.
Mark Merlis
American studies (1994)
A sweeping view of gay life in 20th century America
Grant Michaels
Dead on your feet (1993)
Sassy Boston hairdresser, Stan, is persuaded by his ballet dancer lover to try and prove the innocence of a murder suspect.
Paul Monette
Afterlife (1990)
Three men, who kept vigil together in hospital as their lovers died of AIDS, must embark on life again.
Halfway home (1991)
A bittersweet novel of two brothers, one gay, one straight, whose lives collide in California.
Sanctuary: a tale of life in the woods (1997)
From the author of the autobiographical Becoming a man.
Oscar Moore
A matter of life and sex (1992)
An erotic novel that charts the course of a young man’s journey into the soul and sex of gay life.
Ethan Mordden
Everybody loves you: further adventures in gay Manhattan (1988)
A portrait of gay life in New York.
How long has this been going on? (1995)
A dazzling saga of gay America’s coming of age – spanning from 1949 to the present.
Timothy Murphy
Getting off clean (1997)
A gay coming of age novel.
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Charles
Nelson
Panthers in the skins of men (1989)
A picaresque, erotic tale about Nick and the potential love of his life...
Ben Neihart
Hey, Joe (2000)
A coming of age tale set in nocturnal New Orleans, following a 16 year old boy as he wanders through the French Quarter one night, seeking a sense of who he is and where he belongs.
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Mark
O’Donnell
Getting over Homer (1996)
A quirky, funny coming-of-middle-age tale about the hilarious wrong turns in the search for love.
Jim Oliver
Wings in the snow (1998)
A middle-aged doctor discovers fatherhood.
Joseph Olshan
Nightswimmer (1994)
When two men meet, they recognise in each other the desire to overcome loneliness and the trauma of past, lost loves.
Vanitas (1998)
After seeing a stunning erotic artwork hanging on the wall of a dying art dealer’s apartment, Sam Solomon finds himself drawn into a journey of self discovery. 
Jamie O’Neill
At swim, two boys (2001)
Set in 1915, two Dublin boys make a pact to swim to an island in the Dublin Bay the following year. By the time they do, Dublin has been consumed by the Easter Uprising.
Orland Outland
Different people (2002)
An epic, gay, love story that charts the turbulent relationship of two childhood friends from the Reagan years and the AIDs epidemic, to the present day.
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Glynn
Parker
Passion (1990)
Poignant love story about the affair between a white academic and a part-Samoan teenager.
Simon Payne
The beat (1985)
When a young man is found battered to death in a public toilet, it’s not the simple case of queer-bashing that it seems.
Elliot Perlman
The reasons I won't be coming (1999)
Perlman dissects the way we live now: the lost opportunites, the hopes, the fears, and the vagaries of desire.
Felice Picano
Late in the season (1997)
The lives of long-term lovers Jonathan and Daniel are disrupted when the neighbour's daughter  falls for Jonathan. Set on Fire Island in the pre-AIDs 1980s.
Like people in history (1995)
A gay, American epic spanning four decades.
Onyx (2001)
Three men: two searching for meaning in the face of loss, one searching for the heart of masculinity. What awakens between them will change their lives forever.
Jim Provenzano
Pins (2000)
A novel exploring the clannish, conflicted homoeroticism of wrestling culture in small town America.
James Purdy
Eustace Chrisholm and the works (1984)
The search for love amid the ruins of southside Chicago in the 1930’s.
I am Elijah Thrush (1986)
A bizarre and humorous fantasy set in New York.
In a shallow grave (1988)
A stark, atmospheric and gripping tale about a hideously scarred Vietnam veteran.
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Lev
Raphael
The death of a constant lover : a Nick Hoffman mystery (1999)
Hoffman, a university lecturer, sets out to solve campus murders.
Winter eyes: a novel about secrets (1992)
A coming-of-age novel of a young, American man born into a family traumatised by the Holocaust.
John Rechy
The coming of the night (1999)
An evocation of gay life and desire, set moments before the AIDS epidemic.
Paul Reed
Longing (1988)
A young man leaves his country home to pursue his dreams in San Francisco’s gay culture of the 1980s, only to have them shattered.
Geoffrey Rees
Sex with strangers (1993)
A young man’s motto "love without lust, lust without love" falls apart.
Robert C. Reinhart
A history of shadows (1995)
They were friends for 40 years… "A profound book on gay life in America." 
Matthew Rettenmund
Boy culture (1995)
A provocative exploration of what it means to be gay in the 90s.
Christopher Rice
Density of souls (2000)
Envy, passion, and a secret murder disrupt the bond between four friends in this tale documenting the casual cruelties of high school.
Robert Rodi
Closet case (1993)
A Chicago ad man desperately hides his homosexuality; with hilarious results.
Drag queen (1995)
Mitchell discovers that he has an identical twin named Donald - Kitten Kaboodle, the drag queen. It becomes his mission to haul Kitten out of high heels and back into the real world.
What they did to Princess Paragon (1994)
Is the world ready for its first lesbian superhero? A brash gay cartoonist updates the image of a virtuous comic heroine.
Paul Russell
Boys of life (1991)
Tony is a bored 17 year old just ripe for seduction when a Warholesque filmmaker comes to his small Kentucky town.
Sea of tranquillity (1994)
A journey of self-discovery for the son of a national hero.
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Umberto
Saba
Ernesto (1987)
The affair between a man and a 16 year old boy in Italy; presented with extraordinary candour and tenderness. 
Andy Schell
My best man (2000)
After coming out to his family, Harry Ford faces a tough choice: marry a woman before the age of 24, or lose his multimillion-dollar inheritance.
Michael Schmidt
The colonist (1993)
A story of friendship between an English boy and the gardener’s son, as they grow up in Mexico.
John Scott
The architect (2003)
A modern retelling of the book of Job, involving a promising young Australian architect who falls ruinously in love with his idol.
Kevin Scott
The boys in the brownstone (2005)
A hilarious comedy of manners about a group of gay men who don't fit in anywhere except a bar they call home.
Mike Seabrook
Conduct unbecoming (1991)
Twenty-three year old Bob seems launched on a successful career with the police, until his unexpected discovery about his sexuality.
Unnatural relations (1989)
A look at the position of gay teenagers under English law, as two young men face a brutal assault on their human rights.
Antony Sher
Cheap lives (1995)
Set in South Africa just before Mandela’s release, a black murderer and one of his (almost) victims strike up an intimate relationship by correspondence. 
K.M Soehnlein
The world of normal boys (2001)
New Jersey in the late 1970s is the backdrop for this gay coming-of-age novel. As he starts his freshman year in high school, 13-year-old Robin is baffled by 'normal boys' and men.
Tom Spanbauer
The man who fell in love with the moon (1992)
A different vision of the American West.
Now is the hour (2006)
Set in 1967, a story of self-awakening, of the complex bonds of family, and ultimately of America during a period of tremendous upheaval.
Stephen Spender
The temple (1988)
A fictionalised account of Spender’s youthful encounter with German culture of the 1920’s. Includes his friendships with WH Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Herbert List.
Matthew Stadler
The dissolution of Nicholas Dee (2000)
An ambitiously written novel that weaves the intellectual passions and endeavours of various characters into a re-telling of Shakespeare's The tempest.
Leslie Stewart
Two of us (1989)
An exploration of two teenage boys’ feelings for each other, and the reactions from family and peers who ostracise them. 
David Stukas
Going down for the Count (2002)
Robert, Michael, and their lesbian sidekick Monette must solve the muder of Robert's boyfriend, the fabulously rich Count Siegfried von Schmidt.
Luke Sutherland
Venus as a boy (2004)
After a hard life punctuated by moments of beauty, a young man finds himself turning to gold in this modern-day myth about the power of love.
Scott Symons
Helmet of flesh (1986)
Journalist York MacKenzie flees his former life for Morroco where he pursues a vision of Eros.
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Philipe
Tapon
A Parisian from Kansas (1997)
A quixotic, erotic and spellbinding work.
Stuart Thorogood
Outcast (1999)
Being gay in the 90s may be fine in the anonymous big city, but not so in a small town. 
Colm Toibin
The story of the night (1997)
A skilful blending of the personal and the political: a young man's journey coming out against the backdrop of the Argentines' struggle for democracy during the Falklands War.
Michael Tremblay
Making room (1990)
A French-Canadian romance in which one partner has to learn to make room for his lover’s four year old son. 
Monique Truong
The book of salt (2003)
Winner of the 2004 Stonewall prize, this novel tells the story of the lives and loves of chef Binh, the Vietnamese man who worked as a cook for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
Christos Tsiolkas
Loaded (1995)
Ari is 19, unemployed and a poofter who doesn’t want to be gay.
Ben Tyler
Hunk house (2002)
Six gay men.. one house... let the games begin! A reality TV show is the basis for this genre-flipping romp.
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Gore Vidal
Myra Breckinridge & Myron (1987)
Two books in one, Myra Breckinridge & Myron are a bizarre look back on Hollywood for the 1940s, through the eyes of the 1970s. Darkly funny and wonderously camp.
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Tom
Wakefield
Mates (1983)
The enduring love affair between two men who first met during their National Service in the 1950s. 
Patricia Nell Warren
The front runner (1996)
The story of a young, gay athlete and his coach who, while aiming for the 1976 Olympics, pay a high price in the hate and bigotry they endure.
Harlan’s race (1994)
Sequel to The front runner
Peter Wells
Boy overboard (1997)
A gay coming of age novel set in 1960s New Zealand.
Edmund White
A boy’s own story (1983)
A young, gay man’s coming of age, and his yearning to express his forbidden sexuality makes a funny, lyrical and sexy story. The beautiful room is empty (1988)
A young man, sexually obsessed and timidly conventional, makes his way in startling leaps toward adulthood.
Forgetting Elena (1981)
A brilliantly ironic, suspenseful depiction of life on Fire Island.
The married man (2000)
Austin is a fifty-something American expat in Paris; Julien is a young married man he meets at the gym. Much to Austin's surprise, Julien calls him and soon they are sharing a bed and a life.
Christopher Whyte
The gay decameron (1998)
Ten gay men gather for a dinner party in an Edinburgh flat; their untold stories unravel over the course of the evening into a generous and detailed fresco of gay lives
John A. Williams
Clifford’s blues (1999)
The story of a black, gay jazz musician set in Nazi Germany
Carter Wilson
Treasures on earth (1981)
Photographer Willie Hicker joins a 1911 expedition to discover lost Peruvian cities, but is distracted by his handsome guide.
Graham Woolaston
Stranger than love (1985)
A tale of sexual obsession, youth and identity in a small English town.
T.C. Worsley
Fellow travellers (1971)
The world of Stephen Spender and Co. during the Spanish Civil War. 
Bart Yates
The Brothers Bishop (2005)
When two brothers reunite during a vacation, they are forced to deal with not only each other’s differences, but also their own relationships, and their family’s dark history.
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