A collection of stories inspired by the lives of gay men in Wales. Funny, poignant and ultimately revealing. Read more

A collection of the first three novels of the "Tales of the City" saga which chronicles the high and low life in San Francisco. He has written six volumes of "Tales of the City". . Read more

The bestselling lesbian erotica series in America! Capturing the hottest, freshest lesbian erotica of the year."For me, the best erotic stories closely resemble the people who make my skin flush hot pink and send my head into overdrive. They're fiercely intelligent, confident and intricate. They can sweep me off my feet or catch me off guard. They are tender and nasty and just a little bit dangerous. They are not always what you expect them to be." Tristan Taormino, series editor Read more

Ten gay men gather for a dinner party, but the conversation leaves a lot unsaid. Into the gaps, the author weaves the untold stories of the guests: Gavin's trip to Ireland to find the place where Colin died; and how Nicholas' ad in the classifieds led him to the hairiest body in Edinburgh. Read more

This anthology of writings on motherhood turns the spotlight away from the child to the mother herself. Memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essays and fiction describe the powerful changes brought into these writers' lives by pregnancy, childbirth and mothering. Contributors include Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Leguin, Grace Paley and Alice Walker. The editor is a photographer for The New York Times. Read more

In this anthology, Margaret Reynolds brings together the work of 32 women from Britain, Europe and the Americas, including three specially commissioned pieces, covering nearly a century of lesbian writing, from Sarah Orne Jewett (1897) to Jeanette Winterson (1993). Read more

In this anthology, by the co-editors of "The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories", writers both gay and straight explore themes of love between men. From Plato to Renaud Camus, Marguerite Yourcenar and Reinaldo Arenas, they demonstrate the flexibility of attitudes towards homosexuality. Read more

This collection of gay erotica contains literary short stories which take sex and sexuality as their backdrops. Drawing on British literary figures such as Oscar Wilde and Alan Hollinghurst, and American writers like Edmund White, the collection covers gay mens' passions and desires. Read more

Excellent writers on women's bisexual realities. Read more

Destined to become a classic in the tradition of the best-selling Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds and Erotique Noire/ Black Erotica. Afrekete gives collective voice to the tradition of black lesbian writing. In the vast and proliferating area of both African-American and lesbian and gay writing, the work of black lesbians is most often excluded or relegated to the margins. Afrekete meshes these seemingly disparate traditions and celebrates black lesbian experiences in all their variety and depth. Elegant, timely, provocative, and inspiring, the fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in Afrekete -- written in a range of styles -- engage a variety of highly topical themes, placing them at the center of literary and social discourse. Beginning with "Tar Beach," an excerpt from Audre Lorde's celebrated memoir Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, which introduces the character Afrekete, the collection also includes such prominent writers as Michelle Cliff, Carolivia Herron, Jewelle Gomez, and Alexis De Veaux. Other pieces are by Jacqueline Woodson, Sapphire, Essence editor Linda Villarosa, and filmmaker Michelle Parkerson, with other contributions by exciting new writers Cynthia Bond, Jocelyn Taylor, Jamika Ajalon, and Sharee Nash. Afrekete is a collection whose time has come. It is an extraordinary work, one of lasting value for all lovers of literature. A fresh, engaging journey, Afrekete will both inform and delight. Read more

In his delightful Collected Tales and Fantasies, the legendary eccentric English writer and composer Lord Berners (1883-1950) maintains a quiet grace, razor-sharp wit and unique sense of the absurd that is entirely sui generis. Berners offers an unforgettable cast of characters in these gem-like works of short fiction collected here. In "Far from the Madding War," set in Oxford during wartime, the heroine, Emmeline Pocock, looks "like a nymph in one of the less licentious pictures of Fragonard, " while in "Count Omega" we read of composer Emanuel Smith (based on William Walton), who becomes infatuated with a young giantess named Madame Gloria, who is guarded by a jealous millionaire's eunuch, and whose virtuosity on trombone seems to offer the perfect climax to the symphony Smith is composing. In "The Camel," a baroque Victorian tale with utterly macabre undertones, a humped quadruped takes a Fancy for a vicar's wife, while in "The Romance of the Nose," Cleopatra herself appears. And these are only some of the fanciful creations that populate these literary treasures! Read more

A striking and ambitious collection of gay horror fiction by some of today's hottest authors and talented newcomers covering a wide range of creatures of the night and all manner of urban terrors. These dark and sometimes disturbing tales expand the boundaries of the horror genre, with the sexuality of their protagonists a point of reference for the 'horror' of otherness that defines and, at times, divides us. Includes work from Don Mancini, Ron Oliver, Michael Thomas Ford, Thomas S Roche, Lewis Gannett, Nancy Kilpatrick, and Brian Hodge. Read more

An anthology of short stories about gay men. They range from the non-physical "Brian's Room" to the haunting, boundary-pushing "Blue Light". The editor's comments aim to place all the stories in context. Read more

Hard-driving truckers climb out of their big rigs and get down to business in this raw, lusty collection.Truckers have long been ingrained in the American popular imagination, celebrated in movies like Smokey and the Bandit and many a country-western ballad. They’re also a favorite queer sexual icon, joining such types as sailors, cops, firemen, and other guys who "service society." For some gay men, life on the road conjures up images of hairy, sweaty, blue-collar joes traveling from town to town in their big 18-wheelers, pulling into all-night diners, gas stations, cheap motels, and highway rest stops for food, rest, companionship — and sex. These erotic encounters are the subject of this collection of trucker tales. Editor Johnny Hansen has assembled 19 true stories of men who deliver much more than what’s back in the trailer. In one story, a four-way pileup in a highway men’s room gives new meaning to the word “convoy.” In another, a 19-year-old experiences first love — and lust — on a cross-country tour with a strapping Mack driver. In this one-of-a-kind collection, “good buddies” from across the U.S. reveal their hottest experiences on — and on the side of — the road. Read more

The recent renaissance in Scottish fiction, throughout the '90s, was accompanied by an equally prolific rise in the profile of Scottish gay writing. Not only has there been a growth in new and exciting Scottish authors being published by gay publishers -Martin Foreman, Graeme Wollaston, Jack Dickson and Sebastian Beaumont, to name a few - but for the first time Scottish gay writers, freed from the shackles of machismo and chauvinism, are exposing readers to an entirely different aspect of Scottish life through more recognized channels and publishing companies. At the same time, the diversity of Scottish cultural experience has been celebrated in the work of the new, younger generation of - predominantly heterosexual - Scottish writers. From Irvine Welsh's depiction of a young man's chances of scoring in a gay disco versus a straight one, to a Janice Galloway character's anxieties over a bisexual boyfriend, and to Gordon Legge's portrayal of a young gay boy's homosexuality, post-Boy George/Bronski Beat, amid an oppressive heterosexual environment, the continued attempts by these writers to redress the balance of cultural representation away from stereo types of hard-men and down-trodden women has done much to highlight the value, rather than negativity of, difference. This anthology also includes material from Scotland's more established writers - quite often with unexpected results. The older writers here are equally determined to present a different view of Scottish life, in all its diversity: Edwin Morgan writes of a searing, brief encounter on a bus; Toni Davidson describes a similar event on a train; Alistair Gray's lesbian S&M fantasy "Something Leather" is a wonderfully celebratory piece of writing. As this collection shows, through a range of voices and experiences, there is no definitive outlook for any author/gender/sexuality/race these days - just one massive melting-pot called Scotland. Read more

A collection of ten short stories exploring the complexity of the responses of various Welsh characters to homosexual relationships. First published June 2003. Read more

Notes From a Waiting-Room: Anatomy of a Political Prisoner Read more