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IN PRINT The Butterfly's Wing Martin Foreman Cocksuckery Ian Stewart First and Fiftieth and other stories Martin Foreman Goodmans Hotel Alan Keslian A Little Chat and other stories Michael Harth Merle Elsa Wallace Nailing Frank Paul Mann A New Man in Old Steine Graham Robertson The Physent and other stories Michael Harth The Picnic and other stories Michael Harth The Queer Commando Paul Mann Queer Haunts an anthology of ghost stories Rid England of This Plague Rex Batten The Seaman's Mission Paul Mann A Sense of Loss and other stories Martin Foreman A Short History of Lord Hyaena Elsa Wallace Slivers of Silver poems by gay men and women Weekend Martin Foreman FORTHCOMING Parable With Foreskin And Redheads Ian Stewart 
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Martin Foreman "a powerful piece of fiction ... filled with multidimensional characters, emotion and wonderful descriptions" Library Journal (US) "an absolutely amazing love story ... fascinating" WNDZ Chicago "remarkable ... a riveting tale" Alabama Journal "You stood there on the other side of the counter in a check shirt and old leather jacket. Had no-one told you the clone look had been out of date for years? To tell the truth, I was a bit disappointed. You looked better than you had in the pub, but not as good as I'd imagined on the phone. You had this cold expression, stand-offish. I think like me you were shy. We both kind of smiled stiffly and I said goodbye to the others and we stood in the middle of Soho wondering where to go." Martin Foreman's second novel tells the story of two men separated when one is kidnapped by Maoist guerrillas in Peru. Tom is left alone to look after their smallholding outside London, while Andy is chained to a wall in a house high in the Andes. Both begin to write their diaries, describing their daily lives and looking back over the paths that led them to where they are today. The first extract is Tom's description of their first date. An extract from Andy's diary follows, as he looks back at his first visit to South America." While Tom's chief concern is to ensure Andy's release, Andy spends his days arguing with his captors about the value of his work in social justice in the developing world - and wondering how open he should be about his sexuality in a culture very different from his own. charts the course of two days in the life of a gay man in his twenties who is facing a crisis in his current relationship; interwoven with the tensions between Mark and Robert are Mark's memories of two previous lovers - Gene, an introverted and self-sufficient painter who lives in Paris, and Carl, a barman whose demands as a lover become almost too much for Mark to bear. Weekend is published by Gay Men's Press and distributed by Paradise Press. Contact us to order a copy |
  Martin Foreman was born in Dundee, brought up in Edinburgh and has lived, worked and travelled in many countries. The author of two novels and two collections of short stories, Martin has also written many publications on HIV/AIDS in the developing world. Martin's writing appears on several websites, including First and Fiftieth, A View from the Edge, which showcases all his work and God Would be an atheist.... Martin currently divides his homelife between London and Bangkok. First and Fiftieth A Sense of Loss Weekend and a story in Queer Haunts 
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