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Address Book is the new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of Skin Lane. Neil Bartlett's cycle of stories takes us to seven very diffe...

Apart from herpes and Lulu - everything is eventually swept away Just one shimmering pearl of wisdom from popstar and polymath James Maker, whos...

Evans' debut, Threadsa collaboration with photographer Justin David also published by Inkandescentwas longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. H...

The Chelsea Hotel, New York, 1968. Nico, singer with The Velvet Underground, is waiting to shoot Andy Warhol's latest movie and for her lover, Jim ...

Kissing the Lizard is an evocatively set desert gothicpart creepy coming-of-age story, part macabre-comedy, set partly in buzzing 1990s London and ...

A gentleman called Joan lands in a subdued, suburban care home like a colourful, combustible cocktail. A veteran of Gay Lib, he dons battle dress a...

As a boy growing up in the Black Countrydrained grey by Mrs Thatchers steely policiesJamie dreams of escape to a magical metropolis where he can ru...

Childhood polio has left Reggie Rainbow with a limp, but his strong arms and nimble fingers are perfect behind the scenes of down-at-heel variety t...

Few books ever become loved. Most linger on, undeadtheir sallow pages labyrinths of brittle stories and forgotten knowledge. And other things, besi...

Twenty-four-year-old Billy is beautiful and sexy. AlbertThe Pharmacistis a compelling but damaged older man, and a veteran of Londons late 90s club...

If Alice landed in London not Wonderland this book might be the resultpicture and word weft and warp to create an alchemic (rabbit) whole. On one ...