Cuando tenía trece años Dave Win conoció a los Hadlow. Un chico de extracción humilde, hijo de un sastre de origen birmano, iba a ser becado en un colegio de élite por una familia de filántropos. El padre, Mark,...
William Beckwith es un joven de veinticinco años, homosexual, aristócrata, razonablemente rico, alegremente promiscuo y decididamente hedonista. Una tarde en que está ligando en unos lavabos públicos salva la vida de Lord Nantw...
Edward Manners, un joven británico en busca de aires nuevos, llega a una pequeña ciudad flamenca para dar clases de inglés y no tarda en quedar prendado de uno de sus alumnos, Luc Altidore, un enigmático chico de diecisiete...
Alex es un tímido, guapo y tranquilo funcionario que ha sido abandonado por Justin, su amante de los dos últimos años. Justin, algo más joven que Alex y mucho menos tranquilo, se ha ido a vivir con su nuevo amor, Robin, un atra...
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In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious Tory MP, his wife Rachel and their children Toby and Catherine.
British artist Tacita Dean (born 1964) first came to the attention of the art world with her surrealistic 16-mm film "The Story of Beard" (1992), making a name for herself as part of the Young British Artists generation--even if Dean's slow,...
Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking...
Alan Hollinghurst's new novel is a comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties, who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his younger lover, Justin, a would-be...
A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucia...