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NEW in 2012 Gay Life, Straight Work Donald West Prisoner 537 Elizabeth Lister 2011 Titles Behind the Mask Winston Green Cocksuckery e-book Ian Stewart Gazebo Short story journal The Monkey Mirror Elsa Wallace People Your Mother Warned You About Edited by G. Abel-Watters The Queer Businessman Paul Mann Seeking, Finding, Losing John Dixon IN PRINT First and Fiftieth and other stories Martin Foreman Homo Jihad Timothy Graves The Last Cargo Ship Paul Mann A Little Chat and other stories Michael Harth Merle Elsa Wallace Nailing Frank Paul Mann A New Man in Old Steine Graham Robertson Oysters and Pearls poetry anthology 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 Stowaway Paul Mann Weekend Martin Foreman FORTHCOMING Bokassa's Last Apostle Rod Shelton Guru on Hire Michael Harth Supporting advertisers helps to provide an income for this website. Note that clicking on Paypal and advertiser links may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites; that information may be used to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you.

Guru on Hire Michael Harth Scott works as a male escort in London, but is dissatisfied with his life. A new client, Gordon, proves to act as Guru to a number of disciples, and he agrees to help Scott sort himself out. Some months later, Scott accompanies him to a Greek island where Edwin, the son of a wealthy businessman, is paying Gordon to hold a series of seminars, but some inexplicable happenings bring these to a premature close. On their return to England, Scott finds Gordon disturbingly different, and when Edwin starts to promote him as a public figure with a message for the world at large, he tries to interfere. This proves more dangerous than he had anticipated. Details to be anounced

Michael Harth's stories have appeared in various gay publications, as far back as Quorum, one of the earliest gay magazines. He wrote the words and music for Going Gay, a revue produced on the the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and later in London, while his one-act science-fiction musical, Briefer Encounters, was put on with two other one-acters during Gay Pride week in the 1990s. He currently edits and contributes to Lightning Fingers, a symposium on the British composer-pianist Billy Mayerl. He generally prefers observing people to mixing with them, but socialises readily with cats. Also available by Michael Harth from Paradise Press: A Little Chat and other stories The Physent and other stories The Picnic and other stories and a story in Queer Haunts Paradise Press authors: anthologies Rex BATTEN John DIXON Martin FOREMAN Timothy GRAVES Winston GREEN Michael HARTH Elizabeth LISTER Paul MANN Graham ROBERTSON Ian STEWART Elsa WALLACE Donald WEST