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''The Great Believers'' follows a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning in 1985, the reader follows Yale and his friends as they come to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at the hands of a conservative America. Thirty years later Fiona, a devoted friend to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets of Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurt. [[The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai|Full Review]]
  
 
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Seeing as judging a book by its cover is a keen pursuit of the holiday reader, selling this book on the sun, sand and rum punch Jamaican stereotype is a sure-fire way to ruin many an afternoon on the sun-lounger. [[Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn|Full Review]]
 
Seeing as judging a book by its cover is a keen pursuit of the holiday reader, selling this book on the sun, sand and rum punch Jamaican stereotype is a sure-fire way to ruin many an afternoon on the sun-lounger. [[Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn|Full Review]]
 
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New York City in the eighties, and at its decadent heart is Guy. Guy is taking on the fashion world and fast becoming the darling of the Fire Island's gay community. Fred, Andre and Pierre-Georges are all fixated on Guy, and the Dorian Gray like Guy commands their attention, whilst seemingly never aging. Still modelling at thirty-five, enjoying lavish gifts from these admirers who believe him far younger, Guy lets them believe – but then finds this way of life is destroying the men he loves. Stretching from the disco era to the age of AIDS, Edmund White explores beauty, and the power is has to enslave, fascinate and deceive. [[Our Young Man by Edmund White|Full Review]]
 
  
 
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The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews LGBT Fiction

The Great Believers follows a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning in 1985, the reader follows Yale and his friends as they come to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at the hands of a conservative America. Thirty years later Fiona, a devoted friend to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets of Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurt. Full Review

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Little Gold by Allie Rogers

link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews General Fiction, LGBT Fiction


The heat is oppressive and storms are brewing in Brighton in the summer of 1982. Little Gold, a boyish girl on the brink of adolescence, is struggling with the reality of her broken family and a home descending into chaos. Her only refuge is the tree at the end of her garden. Into her fractured life steps elderly neighbour, Peggy Baxter. The connection between the two is instant, but just when it seems that Little Gold has found solace, outsiders appear who seek to take advantage of her frail family in the worst way possible. In an era when so much is hard to speak aloud, can Little Gold share enough of her life to avert disaster? And can Peggy Baxter, a woman running out of time and with her own secrets to bear, recognise the danger before it's too late? Full Review

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The Space Between by Meg Grehan

link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews Teens, LGBT Fiction

The Space Between tells the story of Beth, over the course of a year. We see Beth dealing with her mental illness, locked away in her own, personal 'safe' world where she feels she can maintain her happiness by remaining isolated. Mouse the dog, however, has other ideas about this! With the entrance of Mouse into her life there comes, also, Alice and slowly Alice brings both light and love to Beth's world. Full Review

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Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews Literary Fiction, LGBT Fiction

You have to assume the team behind the cover sleeve for Nicole Dennis-Benn's debut novel Here Comes the Sun have a keen sense of irony. Either that or none of them read beyond the first page.

Seeing as judging a book by its cover is a keen pursuit of the holiday reader, selling this book on the sun, sand and rum punch Jamaican stereotype is a sure-fire way to ruin many an afternoon on the sun-lounger. Full Review