novel
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews “ME Caveman you narcissist” a novel by Steve Attwell
Who’d have thought that going to an art exhibition in Brighton would lead me to one of the best books I’ve read this year? The book in question is ‘ME Caveman you narcissist’ by Steve Attwell and I saw the intriguing cover created by Dan & Serg at their exhibition, ‘Personae‘ a couple of weeks…
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Richard Willett talks about his novel A FRIEND OF DOROTHY’S
When Canadian native RICHARD WILLETT emigrated to New York in the 1980s’ his ‘coming out’ took place against the AIDS pandemic, which made him (and all of us) take stock of life in general. So he channelled energy into writing his first (and only novel) A FRIEND OF DOROTHY’S about living through that time. Parts…
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Queerguru’s own Robert (Malcolm) reviews THE TWO ROBERTS that captures the lives + relationship of two of Britain’s greatest painters
Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun—queer, working-class, Scottish artists and lovers—lived defiantly together at a time when homosexuality was a crime. In The Two Roberts, Damian Barr reimagines their relationship from their meeting at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 until Colquhoun’s early death in 1962 at the age of 47. Barr sees MacBryde as…
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Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp reviews Justin David’s KISSING THE LIZARD “an enjoyable read, spiced with black humor”
In the desert, no one can hear you, queen reads the blurb on the cover, a nice riff on the tag line for Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi classic Alien, and a cute nod to Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. It’s also a neat summary of this novella’s themes of extraterrestrials and journeying through barren…
