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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 
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The Seaman's Mission a collection of stories Paul Mann
Paul Mann worked as a purser in cargo ships, passenger ships, tankers and Landing Ships Logistic. His time with the P & O Group led to this collection of short stories with a flavour of the sea only. Humour and variety are the collection's hallmark. The Entertainments Officer 'stars' a camp and outrageous Passengers' Entertainments Officer who doesn't like passengers one little bit. In contrast is a meatier tale, The Man-eater, set in East Africa. A killer lion is at large but more deadly than the lion is Cordelia who is soured by intellectual isolation and has contempt for her homosexual son and those Europeans she has to live, or rather exist, with. The tedium of a sea voyage in Breakfast Cabaret is relieved by the ship's surgeon who goads the conventional ship's captain until something gives. In The Survivor a disciplinarian captain goes out on a limb for a junior engineer officer who is responsible for wrecking his ship in the back of beyond. Bobby is a moving story of two school friends meeting by chance in Cochin. In The Marine's Tale, Pete Carter, from Mann's first book The Queer Commando, is accepted because he is a nice guy. Dishy tough humourless Marine Pebbles is not accepted. Pebbles befriends Pete who fails to see beyond the dark good looks and is scared of the sometimes bullying Pebbles. A tale with an ending worthy of Heller. "great fun" The Seafarer "The short stories crackle with bitchy, salty wit. ... It's by turns funny, sexy, moving and unexpected." Gay Times "a riot of acerbic wit and authentic characterisation" oneinseven magazine "I love [Breakfast Cabaret] ... lively ... really quite something. ... [The Entertainments Officer] made me laugh a lot - you have the wonderful literary virtue of being able to express disgust amusingly." Christopher Isherwood More reviews bottom right ISBN: 978 0 9553543 2 8 published by Paradise North, distributed by Paradise Press 202 pages paperback; £8.99 Buy now (post free) We accept payment via paypal and also with most major credit cards (no paypal account needed) 
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The Last Cargo Ship Nailing Frank The Queer Businessman The Queer Commando Stowaway "The Seaman's Mission is written by a self-proclaimed, anti-establishment, anti-royalist, queer vegetarian pacifist who loathes blind discipline, pomp and compulsory sport, but served by mistake in the Third Commando Brigade and also spent years at sea with the P & O Line. More reviews "Mann's time at sea didn't go to waste. The short stories crackle with bitchy, salty wit. "The Entertainments Officer" features a camp passengers' entertainments officer who can't stand passengers, and in "Breakfast Cabaret", the tedium of a sea voyage is overcome by the outrageous goading of the Captain by the ship's doctor. It's by turns funny, sexy, moving and unexpected." Gay Times "If you're looking for something completely different to read, Big Boy, this may be it. But you've been warned, Sailor." Nautical Magazine 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 
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