Book description
More fabulous stories of Gay & Lesbian love. After the hugely
popular Boys & Girls, Paul Burston returns with a new anthology of
stories about Gay and Lesbian love. From the vantage point of middle
age there are 10 unique stories about the trials and tribulations of
relationships. From the difficulties of a father-son relationship, a
newly wed Gay couple on their honeymoon, to a retrospective of an
elderly man of his youth.
Paul Burston is a best-selling author and award-winning journalist
whose novels include Shameless (shortlisted for the State of Britain
Award 2001), Star People, Lovers & Losers (shortlisted for the
Stonewall Award 2007) and The Gay Divorcee (voted Book of the Year by
SoSoGay 2010). His short stories have appeared in Bloody Vampires and
Boys & Girls, which he also edited. Paul is also the host of
'London's peerless gay literary salon' Polari and a curator at the
London Literature Festival. Angela Clerkin is a writer and performer.
Her screenplay Head Over Heels is currently under option, and she has
two plays in development. As an actor she has appeared in Holby City,
The Office, EastEnders, My Family, Dalziel & Pascoe and Sugar Rush.
Angela has just been told all the pretty girls live in south London and
so is moving there. Karen McLeod is author of the award winning In
Search of the Missing Eyelash published by Jonathan Cape. She is a
recently retired Air Hostess and now works as the Writer in Resident at
the Bookseller Crow Bookshop in Crystal Palace. She is a Cabaret Comic
whose act has recently included performing as a six foot fish finger.
Sophia Blackwell is a performance poet who has featured at Glastonbury,
the Edinburgh Festival, and London venues such as the Soho Theatre and
the Roundhouse. Her debut poetry collection, Into Temptation, is
available from Tollington Press and her writing has been published in
Diva, Trespass, Pen Pusher, Fuselit and Rising. Stella Duffy has written
twelve novels, more than forty short stories, and eight plays. Her
latest novel,Theodora, was published by Virago in 2010. In addition to
her writing work, Stella is an actor and theatre director. She lives in
south London with her wife, the writer Shelley Silas. VG Lee is
currently working on her fourth novel Always You. Her short story
collection As You Step Outside was published by Tollington Press in
2008. She is also a stand-up comedienne and took her one-woman show
SHUSH! to the Edinburgh Festival. Alex Hopkins is a freelance writer and
journalist. He is Associate Editor of Out There magazine and has written
for Time Out, Open Magazine and the arts website Culture24. Alex has a
column in Q:ID magazine and regularly shares his thoughts on his blog
Dissdent Musings. Christopher Fowler is the award-winning author of
thirty novels and twelve short story collections, and creator of the
popular Bryant & May mysteries. He currently has a column in the
Independent on Sunday, is the Crime Reviewer for the FT and writes for
many other publications. After living in France and the USA he is now
lives in King's Cross, London with husband Peter. twelve short story
collections, and creator of the popular Bryant & May mysteries. He
currently has a column in the Independent on Sunday, is the Crime
Reviewer for the FT and writes for many other publications. After living
in France and the USA he is now lives in King's Cross, London with
husband Peter. William Parker was born in Newport, Gwent and spent his
early childhood in the Middle East. He later trained as an actor and
spent over twenty years in the profession before deciding that treading
the boards was far too frightening a way of earning a living. His first
novel, The House Martin was published in America in June, 2010.
