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Need a ‘Recipe for a Good Time’?

Need a ‘Recipe for a Good Time’?

  ‘Recipes for a Good Time’ by Elvis Abrahanowicz and Ben Milgate Murdoch Books When chefs and best mates Elvis and Ben opened Bodega restaurant in Sydney in 2006, they were sick of working in fine dining establishments. They wanted the patrons who visited their Spanish/Argentinean tapis eatery to feel like friends who had dropped […]

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Monday Book: Mammoth Book of New Erotica

Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 12 Edited by Maxim Jakubowski Allen & Unwin The highly successful trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey showed that there was a strong demand for erotic fiction catering for non-vanilla tastes. Maxim Jakubowski has been publishing collections of erotically-charged stories since 1995 and year after year, authors continue to amaze […]

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Monday Book: The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt

The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt by Tracy Farr Fremantle Press Lena (short for Helena) Gaunt was born in Singapore in 1910 to Australian ex-pats. An only child, she was sent to Australia for health reasons when she was 4 years old. Despite her young age, she was put on a boat to Fremantle […]

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Monday Book: Ann Holt’s Death of the Demon

Death of the Demon by Anne Holt Corvus Anne Holt is Norway’s bestselling crime writer and she has been published in 30 languages. Originally a lawyer, she worked with the Oslo Police Department for 2 years before serving as Norway’s Minister for Justice. So she is certainly qualified to explore the murky intersection between crime […]

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Monday Book: The Charioteer

The Charioteer by Mary Renault First published in the USA in 1959 “The Charioteer” is an important novel because it deals with gay themes in an open manner at an early date.  (The Stonewall Riots were in 1969). The main story is of Laurie “Spud” Odell a soldier wounded and evacuated from Dunkirk and the […]

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David Levithan’s ‘Two Boys Kissing’

David Levithan’s ‘Two Boys Kissing’

David Levithan’s new book “two boys kissing is a small (200 pages), powerful and thought provoking book. The interweaving stories of Craig and Harry, both 17 years old, who are attempting to set the record for the Guinness World Record for kissing; Ryan and Avery who are falling in love; Cooper who is looking for […]

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Is It The End of the Homosexual?

When Dennis Altman wrote the book ‘Homosexual Oppression and Liberation’ forty-two years ago, it was hailed as a groundbreaking insight into the politics and struggles of homosexuality during an era where being queer was rarely discussed. Hailed by ‘Time’ magazine as “among the whole tumble of homosexuals who have ‘come out of the closet’, perhaps […]

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Monday Book: Chasing the Light

Chasing the Light by Jesse Blackadder Harper Collins In the 1930s, while historians were busy recording the attempts of explorers to reach the South Pole, Norwegian whaling ships were mapping parts of Antarctica. Despite hundreds of women applying to go the British and Australian expeditions, none succeeded. But there were women on the Norwegian whaling […]

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Monday Book: Blessed Are Those Who Thirst

Blessed Are Those Who Thirst by Anne Holt Allen & Unwin Twenty years ago, Scottish crime fiction writer Val McDermid featured the UK’s first openly lesbian detective (Lindsay Gordon) in her first three novels and she was shunned by reviewers and book stores. Realising that she couldn’t make a living as a writer with a […]

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