Can two men build a relationship when one must tear down each stone that the other has worked so hard to build? In the year 1535, after a misspent youth, Brother Mark is a hardworking Benedictine monk toiling as a stonemason at Tavistock Abbey. There he finds himself irrevocably drawn to one of the men [...]
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When Nathan Shern, Duke of Byworth’s, empty sham of a marriage is threatened by a fellow duke he is naturally aggrieved. He cannot allow the potentially damaging contents of his wife’s diary to reveal the depths of their estrangement because exposure of his secret dalliances with other men would taint his innocent children’s lives. Not [...]
Filed under: 2½ stars, ebook, England, Fiction, Heather Boyd, novella, Regency, Reviews | Leave a Comment »
By the author of American Revolution: A Gay Novel. The story of the war at Troy, as Homer’s readers all knew, was not only a tale of battles and exemplary heroism, but also a a story of love between men–of the devotion of Achilles, unrivalled hero, terrible warrior, and so it is said in legend, [...]
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Orphaned as a boy and brought up by the crusty, disapproving Edward Collins, Dr. David Jameson may not know much about love, but he makes up for it with an encyclopedic knowledge of Egyptian history and language. Too bad his job as linguist for a team excavating in the Valley of the Kings puts him [...]
Filed under: 1920's, 3½ Stars, ebook, Fiction, J.M. Gryffyn, novella, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Ragnar, a hardened Scottish soldier, is indifferent to English rule of his homeland until he falls in love with Gylis McIvoy, a fellow Scotsman. They have a brief and passionate affair, but circumstances tear them apart permanently. Ragnar swears vengeance, and soon becomes a freedom fighter modeled on the recently captured and executed William Wallace. Ragnar manages to [...]
Filed under: 1 star, 13th Century, ebook, Fiction, Jay E Hughes, Reviews | 3 Comments »
‘… The accounts of these cases are too bound up with events in my personal life which, although they may provide a plausible commentary to much of my dealings with Mr Sherlock Holmes, can never be made public while he or I remain alive …’ Although Dr Watson is known for recording some sixty of [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 4 stars, detective, England, Reviews, Rohase Piercy, Victorian | Leave a Comment »
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 and professional world. Other men respect and admire their courage and ability and even their physical prowess. Women are very much attracted to both of [...]
Filed under: 1940's, 4½ Stars, America, Essential Reads, Fiction, Reviews, World War II | 2 Comments »
Ahoy, me proud beauty, shiver me timbers! I ask ye to sail me jollyboat on the high seas, lubber, but will ye dare to accept? On offer be a pirate’s life full of danger and risk, and not just to yer neck, but to yer very virgin heart! There’s many a bodice to be ripped–or [...]
Filed under: 17th Century, 18th Century, Age of Sail, Anthology, Fiction, pirates, Reviews, three stars | Tagged: 17th Century, 18th Century, Age of Sail, Anthology, Fiction, pirates, Reviews, three stars | Leave a Comment »
From the Lambda Literary Award and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lee Thomas come a new thrilling novel. 1944 – Barnard, Texas. At the height of World War II, a killer preys on the young men of a quiet Texas town. The murders are calculated, vicious, and they are just beginning. Sheriff Tom Rabbit and his [...]
Filed under: 1940's, America, Fiction, five stars, Lee Thomas, Murder Mystery, Reviews, World War II | Tagged: 1940′s, America, Fiction, five stars, Lee Thomas, Murder Mystery, Reviews, World War II | 8 Comments »
At 6 years old, long before he discovers that he is gay, Banat Frantz learns that being Jewish in Hitler’s Germany is a bewildering crime for which he and his family must pay. Fire and loathing greet his emerging consciousness and a resourceful child begins to learn survival skills. Violently forced from their home and [...]
Filed under: 1930's, 1940's, 2½ stars, America, Bud Gundy, Dave Lara, Fiction, holocaust, Reviews, World War II | Tagged: 1930′s, 1940′s, 2½ stars, America, Bud Gundy, Dave Lara, Fiction, holocaust, Reviews, World War II | Leave a Comment »
James guards his secrets. Uncertain as to whom he can trust with his family’s secrets, James Bradford has lived a lonely life since becoming Baron of Riverside. When he meets an equally enigmatic violinist named Sheamus, he begins to wonder if he’s found someone with whom he can share everything. Sheamus guards his body. No [...]
Filed under: 2 stars, Reviews, Stella Notecor | Tagged: book review, gay historical romance, stella notecor, two stars, Victorian | 3 Comments »
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 something has never felt right about the investigation. Robert’s relentless quest for the truth has annoyed his superintendent, landing him lowly [...]
Filed under: 4½ Stars, BDSM, Bonnie Dee, detective, ebook, England, Fiction, Murder Mystery, Reviews, Summer Devon, Victorian | Tagged: 4½ Stars, BDSM, Bonnie Dee, detective, ebook, England, Fiction, Murder Mystery, Reviews, Summer Devon, Victorian | Leave a Comment »
The best jobs in 1911 Belfast are in the shipyards, but Donal Gallagher’s pay packet at Harland and Wolff doesn’t stretch far enough. He needs to find someone to share his rented room; fellow ship-builder Jimmy Healy’s bright smile and need for lodgings inspire Donal to offer. But how will he sleep, lying scant feet [...]
Filed under: 1910's, ebook, Fiction, five stars, Ireland, novella, P.D. Singer, Reviews | Tagged: 1910's, ebook, Fiction, five stars, Ireland, novella, P.D. Singer, Reviews | 3 Comments »
Traumatised by the nightmare of trench warfare in France, Robert Blake turns to rent boy Jack Anderson for solace. Neither man expects their business relationship to go quite so far. It is 1919, less than a year after the end of the First World War with a recovering Britain in the grip of the influenza pandemic. Crippled [...]
Filed under: 3½ Stars, ebook, England, novella, Reviews, Scarlet Blackwell, World War I | Tagged: 3½ Stars, ebook, England, novella, Reviews, Scarlet Blackwell, World War I | 6 Comments »
I hope you all had a great day, or are having one. Due to too many sherbets inhaled by yours truly, the prize list won’t go up until tomorrow! Many apologies – but it will be worth it, I promise you! Erastes
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1748 Lieutenant Conrad Herriot and Seaman Tom Cotton have been master and servant for over a decade, and friends for almost as long. When Tom is injured during a skirmish, Conrad forgets himself and rushes to Tom’s side, arousing suspicion about the true nature of their relationship. All Tom wants is the chance to consummate [...]
Filed under: Age of Sail, Alex Beecroft, ebook, England, five stars, novella, Reviews | 1 Comment »
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 be found hanging back. It’s a pity he can’t be so decisive when it comes to letting his estate manager Paul [...]
Filed under: 1910's, 1940's, 1950's, 4½ Stars, Charlie Cochrane, detective, England, Essential Reads, Fiction, novella, Reviews, War, World War I | 1 Comment »
In 1944, Matt Jackson, a wounded RAF pilot, ends up in the Royal Infirmary after his squadron is attacked. When he meets Doctor Trynt Andrews, both men’s lives are changed with the instant connection they feel for one another. Alone and injured, Matt is invited into Trynt’s home and they become inseparable, finding a love [...]
Filed under: 1940's, 1½ stars, Anna Lee, Fiction, Reviews, World War II | 8 Comments »
Gay buccaneer historical adventure/romance. The third novel in a series chronicling the adventures of Will, a disenchanted English Lord, and his beloved matelot/partner, Gaston, an exiled Frenchman, set among the buccaneers of Port Royal, Jamaica, in the 1660s. In this volume, the men ponder the true definition of sanity and the necessity of compromise in [...]
Filed under: 17th Century, Age of Sail, Fiction, pirates, Reviews, W A Hoffman | Leave a Comment »
William Carey has played many roles in his thirty-two years of life. Though born to privilege, he fled his disapproving family and, purely out of spite, devoted himself to a life of danger and infamy. William never thought twice about his self-destructive behavior until he met a passionate woman who showed him how to harness [...]
Filed under: 3½ Stars, Fiction, Regency, Reviews, Rowan McAllister | Leave a Comment »
Not content with a life as a passive and powerless noblewoman, a young Bavarian woman dons her late twin brother’s armor and weapons and sets out to join the disastrous Crusade of 1101. She is able to pass as a young man because, as she observes to her squire, who was also her brother’s lover, [...]
Filed under: 12th Century, 4 stars, Crusades, Fiction, lesbian, Nan Hawthorne, Reviews | 6 Comments »
Speak Its Name (www.speakitsname.com) is looking for bloggers for their Third annual Advent Calendar series in December. It’s a great blog to reach new readers and perhaps promote a new book. from 1st 24th December SIN will feature posts every day on some historical, gay historical, or seasonal subject. Talk about some research, give us [...]
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Mick Reese is a Korean War veteran turned private eye, making a living sifting through the seedy underbelly of 1953 Cincinnati. But the night he busts into the Shooting Gallery, a casino cum criminal hotbed, all that changes. Accidentally rescuing Julian Marion, only son of a notorious crime boss, doesn’t bode well for Mick’s life [...]
Filed under: 1950's, 3½ Stars, America, Fiction, Kate Roman, Reviews | 1 Comment »
In fourteenth century London, Crispin Guest is a disgraced knight convicted of treason and stripped of his land, title and his honor. He has become known as the “Tracker”—a man who can find anything, can solve any puzzle and, with the help of his apprentice, Jack Tucker, an orphaned street urchin with a thief’s touch—will [...]
Filed under: 14th Century, 2 stars, detective, Fiction, Jeri Westerson, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Gideon Makepeace grew up in Bill Tourney’s Traveling Wild West Show, so he knows Indians better than a lot of folks of his day. He and his half-breed lover, Jedediah Buffalo Bird, are traveling east to New Orleans where Gideon hopes they’ll find a home together, safe among the crowds of the big city. But [...]
Filed under: 4 stars, America, ebook, Fiction, Margaret Mills, novella, Reviews, Tedy Ward, Western | 1 Comment »
Assigned to baby-sit a loose-cannon colonel at remote Wheelus Air Base, Libya, handsome, hard-charging Captain Joe Harding spends his off-duty time bedding an enlisted medic and a muscular major, then begins a nurturing friendship with the American ambassador’s teenage son. The boy swiftly develops a crush on the man, feelings that Joe, a Southern gent [...]
Filed under: 1960's, Elliott Mackle, Essential Reads, Fiction, five stars, Middle East, Reviews, War, Western | 3 Comments »
Gideon Makepeace, a young man of twenty, knows who he is and what he likes: decency, men and women too, horse training, and fun… and in Livingston, Montana, in the lush autumn of 1895, he finds he likes a Lakota Sioux Indian better than he might ought to. Jedediah Buffalo Bird is seriously wounded and [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, America, Fiction, five stars, Margaret Mills, Reviews, Tedy Ward, Western | 2 Comments »
730-845 Sunday Radio 3 ABOUT THE EPISODE New series. Richard Coles embarks on an investigation of same-sex desire through the ages, starting with the modern construction of gay identity and its links with the ancient world. In the first programme he confronts the challenges of uncovering such a history, given that the idea of `being [...]
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Grayson Drake has been sent by a covert spy agency from the South to break Marx Wellbourne out of Elmira Prison at all costs. Ordered to return Wellbourne to Richmond so the Confederate Army can pick his brain about the maps he’s memorized, Gray soon discovers Marx is courting death from malaria and pneumonia. To [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 2 stars, America, American Civil War, ebook, Fiction, Keta Diablo, novella, Reviews, War | 5 Comments »
At the age of ten, Dylan Daniels was a placed-out kid sent from New York’s Five Points to a family in Nebraska. But Dylan ran away at the age of eighteen when he realized he preferred boys and didn’t want to be a farmer. Once he made his way to Hollywood, he wound up as [...]
Filed under: 1930's, America, Fiction, five stars, novella, P.A. Brown, Reviews | 2 Comments »
Charming rascal Tristan Northwood seems to have it all: an ancient name, a noble inheritance, a lovely wife, and a son he adores. Women love him, men admire him, and it seems there is nothing he can’t do, whether it’s seducing a society wife or winning a carriage race. Little does Society suspect that the [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 4 stars, Fiction, Regency, Reviews, Rowan Speedwell | 7 Comments »
Grey Randall: Private Dick Casefile #1 Meet Grey Randall, a hard-boiled detective whose sense of humor makes it hard for him to stay strictly noir. It’s 1948 in Las Vegas—the newborn Sin City—and he’s just landed his first murder case. He’s more at ease among the lowlifes, but his new client, a beautiful, wealthy woman, [...]
Filed under: 1940's, 3½ Stars, America, Catt Ford, detective, Fiction, Reviews | 3 Comments »
Five years ago Drew Hibbard dismissed Rogan Brockport from his life. Now, they meet again at the Governor’s Ball and Rogan will know the reason for the abrupt, unexplained cut. After Rogan saves Drew’s life during a pirate raid, he kidnaps him and the perfect opportunity to extract answers from Drew is finally at hand. [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 2½ stars, ebook, Fiction, Keta Diablo, novella, pirates, Reviews | Leave a Comment »
Fighting air battles over Wake Island, Tarawa and Truk Lagoon, the U.S. Navy pilots of Air Group Two blazed a trail of flaming Japanese planes and hard-won glory across the Pacific skies. Yet among the heroes lived a man with a terrible secret shame, a vice that kept him from enjoying the conventional pleasures offered [...]
Filed under: 1940's, 4 stars, Fiction, Reviews, Richard Newhafer, World War II | Leave a Comment »
Young Rob Winston is deemed too small of stature and unsoldierly to take his place in the military ranks of the American Revolution. All he is seen fit to do is to become the sexual comfort and treasure of Colonel Seth Hampton of the army of General Nicholas Herkiner in the Mohawk Valley campaign. With [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 2 stars, America, America War of Independence, BDSM, Dirk Hessian, ebook, Fiction, novella, Reviews, War | 2 Comments »
Billy Bronner is, to all appearances, every inch the 1950s American dream: handsome, clever, captain of the high school football team, looks good enough in tight jeans that people can even forget he’s Jewish. Then the new guy on the block, the enigmatic Leonard Nachman, turns his head, and over the summer Billy discovers a [...]
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Wu Jin has both brains and beauty. Though poor, his family are noble enough for Jin to sit the imperial examinations in the hope of obtaining a high-ranking government position at the court of Tang Dynasty China. When his parents are killed, Jin clings to his dreams, and travels to the provincial capital for the [...]
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The Matsumoto twins, or “mirror samurai,” are bound together by a horrible crime committed during the civil war. Eager for a new beginning, the brothers travel to America where they are befriended by the Lennartsson brother and sister, Konrad and Klara. Akeno becomes attracted to the seemingly innocent young Klara, while Aki allies himself with, [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, American Civil War, Fiction, Japan, Reviews, Silupa Jarun, three stars | Leave a Comment »
Stefan, a naive young Pole, meets Gunter, an artist in 1930s Berlin. Their passionate love affair is overshadowed by the rise of the Third Reich. Denounced to the Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz as pink triangle prisoners. Some things even love cannot withstand. Forty years later Stefan returns to Poland with one question: when [...]
Filed under: 1930's, 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, 4 stars, Fiction, Fiona K Wallace, Reviews, World War II | Leave a Comment »
Long Journey Into Darkness is the dark tale of love and romance between cousins that turns fatal. Very Gay, Set in England turn of the century, coming to New York to start again only to be followed by the past, finding love and ………..there is however a little stage drama, murder and more. Review by [...]
Filed under: 1910's, America, ebook, Fiction, Half of One Star, Reviews | 10 Comments »
Piero leaves his home in Taormina to go to work for a renowned naturalist in England. Unfortunately, he hadn’t reckoned on falling for the Professor’s handsome young nephew, but it seems they have only just begun to explore their mutual attraction when the Professor discovers their relationship. To avoid scandal, he sends Piero away on [...]
Filed under: Asia, ebook, Fiction, Michael Joseph, Reviews, three stars | Leave a Comment »
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 dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself [...]
Filed under: 1950's, 4½ Stars, Essential Reads, Europe, Fiction, Reviews | 5 Comments »
North Carolina, 1876: Rumors abound about the dark, mysterious Dominic Beresford in Chapel Hill. Their curiosity piqued, their libidos functioning on overload, Craven and Anthony are intent on obtaining answers about the supposed licentious gatherings taking place every weekend. When the duo are caught spying on Beresford Hall, their punishment will be swift and severe, [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, America, BDSM, ebook, Fiction, Keta Diablo, novella, Reviews, three stars | 1 Comment »
Dakota Taylor, the gay gunslinger, is back. Here, Dakota leaves his lover Bennie on the ranch for a short trip into town. But as he heads home, somebody tries to use him for target practice. Soon Dakota finds himself two hundred miles from Bennie, with no chance of returning until he finds out who wants [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 3½ Stars, America, Cap Iversen, Fiction, Reviews, Western | 2 Comments »
Wilde Oats celebrates gay and bisexual fiction, embracing the joys and agonies of life for gay and bisexual men,
"Military veteran Mackle's resonant story, set with Catch-22 authenticity against the backdrop of the Six-Day War, spans an emotional spectrum from lusty horniness to nuanced romance with literary polish and story-telling punch." - Richard Labonte, Bookmarks.
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