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<!{{Frontpage|author=Jen Beagin|title=Big Swiss|rating=4.5|genre=Humour |summary=I found the premise of this book totally original and addictive. Greta possesses the power to know the population of Hudson, New York's darkest secrets, their intimate lives, their fetishes and fears. How? Her job is to transcribe their sex therapy sessions. Sure, there's a confidentiality agreement, as the sex coach who calls himself Om keeps reminding her, but that just makes it more exciting. Like we've all probably wished for at some point in life, Greta can exist passively, placidly, as a fly on the wall. That is, until Greta decides to unglue her fly-feet from the safety of the wall and buzz far too close to the sun. The sun in this analogy is the sex coach's newest patient, who Greta dubs 'Big Swiss', and who, like the sun, is bright, blonde and beautiful - Rogers -->and irresistible to Greta. Suddenly, the confidentiality agreement, the ethics of her professional position, her loyalties to Om, fly out of the window. She's in too deep.|isbn=0571378579}}{{Frontpage|author=James Baldwin|title=Giovanni's Room*[[image:Rogers_Little|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Literary Fiction |linksummary=https://www''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar.amazonWhile David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself.coIt is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.uk/gp/product/1787199959?ie|isbn=0141186356}}{{Frontpage|isbn=UTF8&tag1529077699|title=thebookbag-21&linkCodeThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=as2&campAnn Cleeves|rating=1634&creative4.5|genre=6738&creativeASINCrime|summary=1787199959]]''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''
===[[Little Gold by Allie Rogers]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]Well yes, [[:Category:LGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]] The heat it is oppressive and storms are brewing in Brighton . Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the summer middle of 1982. Little Goldan autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a boyish girl on small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the brink village of adolescenceGreystone, is struggling with in Devon. Rosco had the reality status of her broken family and a home descending into chaos. Her only refuge is national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the tree at the end of her gardenworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. Into her fractured life steps elderly neighbour I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, Peggy Baxterhe could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. The connection between Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the two is instanttrip?}}{{Frontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, but just when it seems that Little Gold has found solace, outsiders appear who seek to take advantage of her frail family lifted my spirits in the worst a most delightful way possible. In an era when so this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much is hard to speak aloudtheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, can Little Gold share enough of is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her life to avert disaster? private diaries. And can Peggy Baxterthen when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, a woman running out creating the subterfuge of time and falling in love with her each other, when really they are enabling their own secrets other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to bear, recognise the danger before it's too latelive a lie their whole lives? [[Little Gold by Allie Rogers|Full Review]]isbn=1526651793<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Greehan -->|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys*[[image:Greehan_Space|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Teens |linksummary=https://wwwAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex.amazon Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie.co He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.uk/gp/product/1910411590?ie|isbn=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910411590]]1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1542037239|title=Death in Heels|author=[[The Space Between by Meg Grehan]]=Kitty Murphy|rating=4|genre=Crime [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]Set against the backdrop of Dublin's drag scene, [[:Category:LGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]] ''The Space BetweenDeath in Heels'' tells the story of BethFi McKinnery and her best friend, Robyn, over the course who is about to debut as drag queen Mae B. What is meant to be a night of excitement soon takes a yeardownward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae B. We see Beth dealing with her mental illnessAs if the night could not get any worse, locked away when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag community, and the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her ownfriends, personal but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeper.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008441618|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=5|genre=Women'safe' world where s Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she feels was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she can maintain didn't live up to her happiness by remaining isolatedretired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. Mouse The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the dogschool. There was one difficulty, howeverthough - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', has other ideas about this! With the entrance of Mouse into her life there comeswith two members, alsoin particular, Alice causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and slowly Alice brings both light and love Kate Monroe objected to BethJo's worldrestrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education. [[The Space Between by Meg Grehan}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]author=Freya Marske<br>|title=A Marvellous Light|rating=4<!-- Dennis_Benn -->|genre=Historical Fiction*[[image:DennisBenn_Here.jpg|left|linksummary=https://wwwRobin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin.amazonThere he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded with magic.coDesperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power.uk/gp/product/178607124X?ieThere they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles. |isbn=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178607124X]]1529080886}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471181405|title=Nighthawking|author=[[Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn]]Russ Thomas|rating=4.5|genre==Crime[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [Sheffield's [http:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]//www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens](on Clarkehouse Road, [[:Category:LGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]] You have if you'd like to assume the team behind the cover sleeve for Nicole Dennis-Bennvisit) are an oasis of calm in what's debut novel ''Here Comes otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the Sun'' have body of a keen sense of ironyyoung woman was discovered. Either that or none It had obviously been buried in one of them read beyond the first pagebeds but who would have started to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for years. Seeing as judging a book by its cover is a keen pursuit of The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left the holiday readertwo, selling this book very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the sun, sand Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and rum punch Jamaican stereotype is a sure-fire way to ruin many an afternoon on the sun-loungerDC Mina Rabbani. [[Here Comes the Sun They're joined by Nicole Dennis-Benn|Full Review]]<br> <br>DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuries.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Stewart0857527231|title=Whilst I Was OutDog Days|author=Ericka Waller|rating=2.5|genre=General Fiction |summary= Sara StewartGeorge Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's debut noveleight days since his wife, Ellen, died and it's the first time that she'Whilst I Was Outs let him down. He's lost, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, opens with all the promise of like a book intent snail needs its shell''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to delve head-first into invention and oddness. The narrator of leave on the storydoorstep, Alice, is stuck in traffic he'd much rather have a good row with her husband – who someone. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she refers died. She even dared to throughout the book as My Dear Husband (or MDH for short) – contradict him when he suddenly jumps out of their car and runs off for seemingly no reasontold her that the dog wasn't staying. The scene opens Now he's lumbered with a mention dog he doesn't want and a load of domestic abuse but seems much more interested busybodies who are trying to interfere in the inherent malfunction his life. Worst of Aliceall is Betty, who won's husband as she describes his fixation with his bicycle and how t take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her and their three children have taken greyhound. Lucky spends a back seat lot of time trying to his 'finding himself' through affairs escape from and cross-country cyclingdestroy them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910903035</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Edmund WhiteEverina Maxwell|title= Our Young ManWinter's Orbit|rating= 45|genre= LGBT Science Fiction|summary= New York City in the eighties, and at its decadent heart Prince Kiem is Guya famous political disappointment. Guy is taking on the fashion world and fast becoming the darling of the Fire IslandHe's gay community. Fredoutgoing, Andre and Pierre-Georges are all fixated on Guycarefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the Dorian Gray like Guy commands their attention, whilst seemingly never agingpast few years. Still modelling at thirty-five, enjoying lavish gifts from these admirers who believe him far younger, Guy lets them believe So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – but then finds this way of life one that is destroying supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the men he lovesrole. Stretching from the disco era to the age Least of AIDS, Edmund White explores beauty, and the power is has to enslave, fascinate and deceiveall him. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858932</amazonuk>0356515885
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