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Review: The Soldier of Raetia: Valerian’s Legion by Heather Domin
Rome, 10BC. New soldier Manilus Dardanus is sent to apprentice under General Cassius Valerian in the hope of securing a military sponsorship. Dardanus is idealistic and naive, Valerian brusque and...
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Review: Silver-Silver Lining by Lucius Parhelion
In 1958 meteorologist Dr. Rob Lanard is in Las Vegas to observe the effects of the first nuclear test explosions on the weather. His boss on this job is Dr. Phillip Argent. The two men share more than...
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Review: A Faint Wash of Lavender by Lucius Parhelion
Post World War Two finds Laguna Beach in its heyday as an artists’ colony. Tony runs his uncles’ Grocery store in the town where a man of his bent can hide among the eccentrics who call the place home,...
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Review: Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Baldwin’s haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by...
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Review: Pioneers by Lynn Lorenz
When Matt films a documentary of gay men living in New Orleans over the last fifty years, his first subject is none other than Sebastian LaGrange, his very own landlord. The elderly gentleman has lived...
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Review: Summer’s Lease by Scot D Ryersson (short story)
Calcutta, West Bengal, May 1891—Mair Calloway, Major Willoughby’s grandson, is arriving at Barrackpore for one night, en route to England for his first year at university. Captain Charles Blackthorne...
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Review: Home Fires Burning by Charlie Cochrane
Two stories, two couples, two eras, timeless emotions. “This Ground Which Was Secured At Great Expense” It is 1914 and The Great War is underway. When the call to arms comes, Nicholas Southwell won’t...
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Speak Its Name Awards 2011
Sorry to cut into the Advent Calendar which I hope you are all enjoying. We will be reviving the Speak Its Name Awards this year and introducing a new category, the Readers’ Choice. The Awards will be:...
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Review: The Psychic and the Sleuth by Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon
Trusting a psychic flash might solve a mystery…and lead to love. Inspector Robert Court should have felt a sense of justice when a rag-and-bones man went to the gallows for murdering his cousin. Yet...
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Review: Quatrefoil by James Barr
Phillip Froelich and Tim Danelaw are irresistibly drawn to each other. Both are in every obvious respect what is generally considered masculine, and live and work in a completely normal man’s social...
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Review: Gaius and Achilles by Clodia Metelli
Gaius and Achilles is a gay historical romance, set in Late Republican Rome, concerning the choices facing Achilles, a young aristocrat from Paphos whose life is thrown into confusion when he is...
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Review: Rag and Bone by J.S. Cook (Inspector Raft Mysteries #2)
Rag & Bone is #2 in the Inspector Raft Mystery Series. Scotland Yard Inspector Philemon Raft arrives on the scene of a deadly fire in Whitechapel, only to find a much more sinister force at work,...
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Review: The Master of Seacliff by Max Pierce
It is 1899, and young Andrew Wyndham has accepted a position tutoring the unruly son of wealthy industrialist Duncan Stewart in the hopes that the work will be brief yet provide an avenue to pay for...
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Review: Bonds of Earth by G.N. Chevalier
In 1918, Michael McCready returned from the war with one goal: to lose himself in the pursuit of pleasure. Once a promising young medical student, Michael buried his dreams alongside the broken bodies...
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Review: Sail Away by Lee Rowan
Corrupt governments, divided loyalties,lovingly exchanged gifts, astral travel and sensual love; not to mention a sailors unwanted little lodgers are all combined in this charming and entertaining...
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Review: An Angel in Hollywood (Hurrah for Hollywood 1) by Parhelion
When confronted by a rampaging comic genius, what’s a studio publicity fella to do? Review by Erastes I believe this book was out once with Torquere, but lucky you lot, if you didn’t manage to get hold...
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Review: Games with Me (Vol 2) by Tina Anderson and Lynsley Brito (illus.)
Volume 2 of this gay historical drama continues with Dr. George Callahan certain that brothel-boy Jun is the one he knew as a child. When George attempts to better Jun’s life by buying his freedom,...
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Review: Lost and Won by Sarah Ann Watts
‘There was a battle and you lost.’ Philip prayed never to see Francis again. Now the man who stole his heart is his prisoner, staking his life on Philip’s honour. All Philip has to do is let him go....
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Review: The Red King by Rosemary O’Malley
A man abused and discarded is left to rebuild himself with naught but vengeance in his heart. A youth cruelly torn from all he knew and loved is cast adrift with no hope for the future. What will...
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Review: Promises Made Under Fire by Charlie Cochrane
France, 1915 Lieutenant Tom Donald envies everything about fellow officer Frank Foden–his confidence, his easy manner with the men in the trenches, the affectionate letters from his wife. Frank shares...
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