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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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Nailing Frank
an adventure novel

Paul Mann

"If Somerset Maugham had got gritty and worked on a ship today, he could have written something with this panache and gutsiness.  Nailing Frank is Paul Mann's best book yet: tightly plotted and witty. Jacob, the fictional purser-narrator, merits a movie to star in."
Dr Jo Stanley, Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University and author of Hello Sailor, the hidden history of gay life at sea



'As a baby Frank never wore nappies. He was house-trained in the womb. Came out demanding a potty - if he didn't get one he'd piss all over you.'


Frank is a jailbird, a drug trafficker who sells his body to men and women, who has a great dealing going for him in the way of looks and charm and is the most dangerous of the three conmen Jacob encounters.
 
297 pages; £8.99; 978 1 904585 10 7



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Paul Mann now lives in Greater Manchester with a German Shepherd. He is a member of 42 Commando Association because despite being an anti establishment, anti royalist, queer vegetarian pacifist who loathes blind discipline, pomp and compulsory sport, he served by mistake in the Third Commando Brigade and enjoyed almost all of his time there.



Also available by
Paul Mann
from Paradise Press:

The Queer Commando
The Seaman's Mission