New Titles in the Gay & Lesbian Collection
April 2008

Fiction

Best gay love stories: summer flings edited by B. Nichols. Alyson Books, 2007. Twenty-two tales of summer love that explore the spark of gay eroticism.

Best lesbian short stories: summer flings edited by S. Thorne. Alyson Books, 2007. Twenty-two tales of summer love that explore the spark of lesbian eroticism.

Do everything in the dark by Gary Indiana. St Martin's Press, 2003. A sharply written, mercilessly insightful and unsentimental elegy for lost youth, faded promise and a vanquished New York avant-garde.

Exiles in America by Christopher Bram. Harper Perennial, 2007. Set in a college town in Virginia in 2002 a few months before the war in Iraq, this novel explores how the personal becomes political, and offers an intimate look at the meaning of marriage - both gay and straight.

Far from Xanadu by Julie Anne Peters. Little, Brown & Co, 2005. In rural Kansas, tomboy Mike falls in love with Xanadu, the new girl in school - but Xanadu is straight. This sensitively written novel about unrequited teenage love tackles a variety of difficult subjects with appeal and grace.

Mahu surfer: a Hawaiian mystery by Neil Plakcy. Alyson Books, 2007. In this sequel to 'Mahu', three young surfers have been murdered on the North Shore of Oahu and Honolulu–based gay detective Kimo Kanapa'aka is called in to investigate.

Mouths of babes by Stella Duffy. Serpent's Tail Press, 2005. Lesbian private investigator Saz Martin discovers that the sins of our past come back to haunt us in this intelligent thriller that lays bare the callous motives of human behaviour.

The Orphan gunner by Sara Knox. Giramondo Publishing, Australia, 2007. A lesbian romance set in a British bomber command during the Second World War.

Someday this pain will be useful to you by P. Cameron. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007. Eighteen year old James is the anti-hero of this shrewd, funny and at times painful story about the difficulties of becoming an adult.

Wall of silence by G. Goldsby. Bold Strokes Books, 2007. For L.A. police detective Foster Everett and her partner Smitty it should have been an average bust. But everything went wrong and Foster puts her life on the line to uncover the truth.

Non-Fiction

Butch is a noun by S. B. Bergman. Suspect Thoughts Press, 2006. This book chronicles the pleasures and dangers of living outside the gender binary and makes gender outlaws of all stripes feel as though they have come home.

Gay travels in the Muslim world edited by M. T. Luongo. Harrington Park Press, 2007. This collection of true stories of gay men who live and travel in Muslim countries challenges our assumptions and preconceptions about both homosexuality and being Muslim.

Lipstick and Dipstick's essential guide to lesbian relationships by G. Daggett & K. Belge. Alyson Books, 2007. An entertaining guide to everything about finding and maintaining successful lesbian relationships.

Me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris. Abacus, 2002. A collection of humorous, bordering-on-fiction tales from the dysfunctional life of one of America's foremost humorists, highlighting the little everyday absurdities of life.

Point to point navigation: a memoir 1964 to 2006 by Gore Vidal. Abacus, 2007. This is the second volume of memoirs from one of the great American writers of the 20th century. The first volume 'Palimpsest' covers the author's life from 1925-1964.

Puppetmaster: the secret life of J Edgar Hoover by R. Hack. New Millenium Press, 2004. This biography of the infamous director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation exposes a life of sexual indiscretion, criminal behaviour and a longstanding alliance with the Mafia.

The Queen's throat: opera, homosexuality and the mystery of desire by Wayne Koestenbaum. Penguin, 1994. A humorous and provocative analysis of the 'opera queen' - the gay fan for whom opera is a passionate obsession.

Roma the First: a biography of Dame Roma Mitchell by S. Magarey & K. Round. Wakefield Press, 2007. Roma Mitchell's life spanned the 20th century, scarred by war and depression, but illuminated by a vision of new freedoms and opportunities for women - a vision in which she became a central inspiration.

Shanghai tango: a memoir by Jin Xing & C. Texier. Atlantic Books, 2007. Jin Xing is a former prima ballerina with the Shanghai Ballet, but her journey to international fame was fraught with difficulties because she was born a male.

The Survivors' affair by Helen Menzies. Books & Writers' Network, 2007. In these memoirs by the former SA Deputy Commissioner of Equal Opportunity, iconic moments in the history of the 20th century spark personal reminiscences and thoughts about the continual quest for answers to the puzzles of life and death.