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The loving and tragic relationship between Ray, the narrator, and Cor, the young Dutchman he meets in a bar. At first the attraction between them is purely physical but as their knowledge of each other grows their relationship develops into a permanent and caring 'marriage' - despite the efforts of Cor's ex-lover to destroy it.

"In a real sense No End to the Way was the first Australian gay novel and it was available not just to the cognoscenti or to prowlers in the library stacks, but to fathers of three stopping off at a railway kiosk on the way home from work, to men in the suburbs curious about their own sexual inclinations — in other words, to ordinary Australian readers." - Robert Dessaix

This book was banned in Australia when it was first published.]]>
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An entertaining, invigorating exploration of the past, present, and future of queer literature.

We have always been here, and so have our stories. Queer writers and writing about LGBTQ+ people have existed since the dawn of writing itself, from Ancient Mesopotamia through to the Victorians right up to to the present day, where we are currently experiencing a vibrant new era of queer writing.

The Queer Bookshelf is your ultimate guide to this rich history. Alongside the author’s own love affair with queer books, this book is packed with recommendations from prominent queer authors, booksellers, and readers and is an entertaining journey through the evolution of queer literature to discover the most important, fascinating, and fun queer classics from around the world.

Literary classics, pulp fiction, war writing, crime thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, young adult all have a queer history and future. The Queer Bookshelf lights the way, making it the perfect companion for anyone beginning or continuing their queer reading journey.]]>
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'A thrilling story, wonderfully told by one of the great historians' KEN FOLLETT'

Dazzling... This is biography of great brilliance and rare resonance' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE

'A pulsating, vivid life of a true historical titan' DAN JONES

'A splendid book, lively, erudite... where myth and heroism meet' RORY STEWART

A stunningly written new biography of Alexander the Great, based on a series of important new discoveries and the author's own translations of source material from twelve ancient languages.

In 336 BCE, at the age of twenty, Alexander, a wide-eyed boy from the hills of Macedon, inherited a tumbledown kingdom, a pile of debts and an army which answered to nobody.

Desperate to hold on to power, he led the army east, into the heart of the vast Persian Empire, and inadvertently began the greatest military campaign in history. The young man became a king, the king became a hero, the hero became a living god, and the god died aged thirty-two, broken-hearted in Babylon.

For centuries, historians have told his story, yet Alexander has remained a mystery. But now, the ruins of his cities have emerged from the bottom of the sea and the dust of Central Asian hillsides. The diaries of Babylonian astronomers who knew him have been deciphered. The tombs of his ancestors have been unearthed.

For the first time, instead of the legend, we can meet Alexander the man. Based on more than a decade of cutting-edge research, Alexander allows readers to feel the desert wind and experience the full horror of battle. Richardson's research has taken him from the catacombs of Egypt to the passes of Afghanistan. Alexander is a cinematic work of non-fiction: a revelatory retelling of one of the most famous and elusive stories in history.]]>
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Irish Times Best Fiction of 2026

A tender coming-of-age story about friendship, first love, loss, and facing the ultimate question: who am I going to be? For fans of Douglas Stuart, Michael Magee, David Nicholls and Andrew O'Hagan

Brendan's best friend, his only friend, is Ronan McCoy. He knows things about Brendan that no one else does: about his job washing the cars at Feeney’s Funeral Home, about the loneliness he sometimes feels even when surrounded by hundreds of others at school. But Brendan never told Ronan about the dark feeling that sits at the bottom of his stomach, the feeling that tells him something bad is coming. It never comes when Ronan's around.

Ronan is smart and sporty and popular, totally comfortable in his own skin: all the things that Brendan himself isn't. But Ronan always makes him feel like a good friend, a good person, a better Brendan.

Standing at the school gates on the first day of term, the dark feeling begins to form in Brendan's stomach. And when Ronan doesn’t turn up, Brendan learns that something terrible happened to his best friend over the summer and he'll never be the same again. Over the course of the final year of school, Brendan will have to learn to navigate the new shape of their friendship and find a place for himself in the world without Ronan to protect him.

The Ballad of Ronan McCoy is a beautifully written, tender coming-of-age story about friendship and first love, loss and letting go, and the hopes and fears of a young man standing on the cusp of the rest of his life.]]>
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'Hypnotic, feverish and altogether wonderful' (Guardian) - Jake Arnott's acclaimed successor to the bestselling LONG FIRM trilogy.

It's 1972 and as the dreams of the sixties give way to anger and political unrest, the charismatic anarchist Declan O'Connell commits suicide, leaving his boyfriend Pearson and fellow squatter Nina to try to make sense of what has happened. Enter Sweet Thing, a streetwise rent boy, who has an uncanny hold over glam rock star Johnny Chrome; and in the wings lurks Detective Sergeant Walker of the newly formed Bomb Squad, who knows more about O'Connell than anyone ever suspected. The course of all their lives is about to change forever - for better and for worse. In this taut, powerful novel, Jake Arnott portrays four people searching for a sense of identity, their emotional and sexual turmoil mirrored by the turbulence of the times. Bringing that era vividly to life, he captures the mood of Britain at a turning point in history.]]>
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Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly.

The Wasp Factory is a work of horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all. A novel of extraordinary originality, imagination and comic ferocity.]]>
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John Horne Burns brought The Gallery back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it became a critically-acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns's early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals of the victorious Americans.

Set in occupied Naples in 1944, The Gallery takes its name from the Galleria Umberto, a bombed-out arcade where everybody in town comes together in pursuit of food, drink, sex, money, and oblivion. A daring and enduring novel--one of the first to look directly at gay life in the military--The Gallery poignantly conveys the mixed feelings of the men and women who fought the war that made America a superpower.]]>
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Building strong young men from the inside out.

'If you wish there was a way you could raise boys in a culture less cruel and crushing - and yet one that doesn't consider masculinity inherently toxic - you may hold the roadmap in your hands', Lenore Skenazy, author of Free-Range Kids

He's disappearing. Behind the closed door, lost in screens, making choices that keep you up at night. He's navigating a world designed to confuse him - algorithms designed to addict him - a world parents don't understand and can't break into. The headlines scream crisis. They warn us that boys are in deep trouble... and it's getting worse.

But it doesn't have to be like this.

Dr Justin Coulson has a different story to tell. In Boys, Justin Coulson reveals what decades of research suggests: when boys get what they actually need, they thrive. Not through force or fixing, but through connection, meaningful challenge, and someone who refuses to give up on them.

This book hands you the blueprint. It cuts through the noise with practical, research-backed strategies for the battles you're fighting right now. Gaming. Pornography. Self-control. Friendships. School motivation. How to discipline without destroying trust. How to stay close when he's pushing away.

But beneath the tactics lies something more powerful: a vision of masculinity worth fighting for. Boys who help others feel safer and stronger. Who create surplus value. Who become not just good men, but the best version of themselves.]]>
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The haunting story of an unforgivable crime, and a seeping evil that brings two families to the brink.

When Roy Trench is killed in a drunken prank gone wrong, his brother Lewis sees blood on the hands of the man responsible: the abusive alcoholic, Eli Fagan. Though the courts rule the death an accident, the event opens a seam of hate between the two families of Knife's Point, Newfoundland.

Desperate to smother the painful past with love, Lewis marries Wilda, and the pleasure he takes in their two children - Melvin and Toby - recalls the happier days of his childhood with Roy. But as he watches his small family fracture, the darkness of the past begins to cloud the present, leading Lewis back to Eli Fagan - and his watchful stepson, Garrett Glass.

Powerfully written, with vivid and unflinching prose, Glass Boys is a suspenseful, deeply human saga of the persistence of evil and the astonishing power of love.]]>
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Never before has a novel dared to explore with such piercing honesty the “borderline” stage of transition from “straight” to “gay.”

This is the story of Ted Randall, ardent body-builder, a human statue molded to perfection by the summer sun. He meets Ian, a hot-blooded Adonis who wants Ted for himself . . . who will do anything to tear Ted away from the arms of voluptuous, sensual Eileen. And there is Jerry, the curly-headed youth who is the only one Ted can turn to in his confusion.

Inexorably, Ted is drawn toward the “gay” set as he and his companions mingle with the leather crowd in the beach beer bars. Strange forbidden acts occur on the moonlight beach, in the tiny rooms of the beachfront motels and boarding houses, amidst the garish clamor of the amusement park.

Edwin Fey probes into the very depths of masculinity and virility revealing every thought, every act in vivid detail. Page by page he writes an all-too-true story about the decision every young man must make . . . involuntarily or otherwise.]]>
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On an island off the coast of France, six teenagers come together for a summer of desire and discovery until one of them vanishes forever, leaving the rest with an enduring mystery.
Tell me, do you know why the most beautiful love stories must always end badly?

In the summer of 1985, on a scruffy resort island off the coast of France, six teenagers—five boys and one girl—band together for a final golden season before adulthood. Their days are drenched in sun and freedom, and their nights simmer with secrets, jealousy, and longing. Philippe is drawn to Nicolas, the quiet new boy who sees him in a way that no one else does. As their bond deepens, part of Nicolas remains unreachable—until a sudden tragedy brings their summer to a brutal end.

The Summer Boy is a lush and unforgettable autobiographical tale, capturing the ineffable summers of youth in amber. Celebrated novelist Philippe Besson has shaped his memories into an...]]>
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'I am sixteen. I am as old as the century' It is 1916. Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood. Vincent is aristocratic and privileged, frequenting the salons of Paris while France is at war and the city almost deserted of men. In that brutal summer, Vincent's beauty and precocity captivate two men: Marcel, some thirty years his senior, a writer and celebrated socialite; and Arthur, the twenty-one year old son of one of the servants, who is now a soldier at the front. Both relationships become love affairs of a kind - of the mind or of the body. Vincent intuitively tries to keep his passions separate, but over the weeks of indolent Parisian summer and far-off war, confidences are made, absences endured, secrets revealed. All of these men will suffer, and Vincent will lose the last vestiges of his childhood innocence. In the Absence of Men is a stunning first novel: in its daring in representing Marcel Proust as a character, in the beauty of its prose and in its delicacy of feeling. It is a quite remarkable debut.

Like Michael Cunningham's homage to Virginia Woolf in The Hours and Jean Rhys's to Charlotte Bronte in The Wide Sargasso Sea, Philippe Besson's extravagantly praised first novel pays tribute to Marcel Proust. It also dares to introduce an asthmatic middle-aged Proust into its masterfully manipulated plot and invents a series of deeply felt letters written by him to the novel's young protagonist, Vincent de l'Etoile. In the summer of 1916, the emotionally precocious Vincent, who is the same age as the century, awakens to the possibilities of both erotic and platonic love. In the course of one week—at literary salons, at the Ritz, in cork-lined rooms—Vincent launches an intense friendship with the celebrated Proust, while at his parents' house in Paris he embarks on a sensual journey with Arthur Vales, the soldier son of a family servant, on leave from the front. Unknowingly, Vincent is also beginning a passage into a manhood that will be haunted by the secret he uncovers behind the love he bears for a doomed French infantryman and a famous middle-aged Jewish writer.]]>
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Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventeen-year-olds. It's the start of a secret, intensely passionate, world-altering love affair between Philippe and his classmate, Thomas.

Dazzlingly rendered by Molly Ringwald, the acclaimed actor and writer, in her first-ever translation, Besson's exquisitely moving coming-of-age story captures the tenderness of first love - and the heart-breaking passage of time.

'It has been years since anything moved me as much as Lie With Me. It will become a classic.' Jonathan Coe, bestselling author of Middle England

'An intense, unforgettable novel, alive with the ache of longing and loss.' — Sarah Waters, bestselling, award-winning author of The Little Stranger and Fingersmith

'Devastating and tender; this is the book I wish I'd read when I was 15, and a book I'm glad to have as a companion now' — Andrew McMillan, award-winning author of Physical

'A deeply moving depiction of first love, both tender and elegiac.' — John Boyne, bestselling author of A Ladder to the Sky and The Heart's Invisible Furies]]>
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Es geschieht am helllichten Tag

Anne und ihr Mann Harald erleben den Albtraum aller Eltern: Während eines Toscana-Urlaubs verschwindet ihr Kind beim Spielen spurlos. Die Suche der Polizei verläuft ergebnislos, und sie müssen ohne ihren Sohn nach Hause fahren. Zehn Jahre später kehrt Anne an den Ort des Geschehens zurück, um herauszufinden, was damals passiert ist. Sie ahnt nicht, wie nah sie dem Täter kommt – und er ihr.

Ein Roman, der einem zuweilen den Hals abschnürt, so schrecklich realistisch ist die Geschichte.

It Happens in Broad Daylight

Anne and her husband Harald experience every parent’s nightmare: During a vacation in Tuscany, their child vanishes without a trace while playing. The police search is fruitless, and they have to return home without their son. Ten years later, Anne returns to the scene of the crime to find out what happened. Little does she know how close she’s getting to the perpetrator—and he to her.

A novel that will leave you breathless at times, so terrifyingly realistic is the story.]]>
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В Берлине каждые три года происходили исчезновения мальчиков со светлыми волосами, приблизительно десятилетнего возраста. Позже их обнаруживали мертвыми, сидящими за столом. После этого маньяк исчез, и, казалось, все могло успокоиться, но вскоре дети начали исчезать вновь, теперь уже в Тоскане, Италия.

В невероятно жестоком психологическом триллере «Похититель детей» поражает все: и жуткий маньяк, и мучения беспомощных жертв, и переживания убитых горем родителей, и работа полицейских, пытающихся остановить серийного убийцу.

Автор рисует подробный психологический портрет преступника, отслеживая превращение никому не нужного ребенка в приветливого, скромного детоубийцу, который таким изуверским способом пытается компенсировать недополученную в детстве любовь близких.

In Berlin, boys with blond hair, approximately ten years old, would disappear every three years. They would later be found dead, sitting at a table. Afterward, the serial killer disappeared, and it seemed that all was well, but soon the children began disappearing again, this time in Tuscany, Italy.

The incredibly brutal psychological thriller "Child Abductor" is astonishing in every way: the terrifying serial killer, the torment of the helpless victims, the grief-stricken parents, and the work of the police trying to stop the serial killer.

The author paints a detailed psychological portrait of the perpetrator, tracing the transformation of a unwanted child into a friendly, unassuming child killer, who, in this brutal way, tries to compensate for the love he didn't receive as a child.]]>
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