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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.

Weekend Martin Foreman "The attraction of sunshine, warmth and clear skies on a day when he did not have to teach, however, was weaker than that of sleep, and he turned onto his side, withdrew his head beneath the covers and hugged the pillow as he would have hugged Robert, as he had hugged Carl and Gene and others before them. The action was as momentarily satisfactory as a reflex, but the pillow's softness, its smallness, its lack of smell and resistance, soon irritated and he pushed it away." Read an extract. Martin Foreman's first novel 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. "Absorbing first novel" Gay Times Weekend is published by Third House and is distributed by Paradise Press ISBN: 978 1 870188 15 9 172 pages paperback; £5.50 Buy now (post free) We accept payment via paypal and also with most major credit cards (no paypal account needed) paperback £5.50 Amazon (prices as shown: p&p extra)

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, he 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 (his personal website) and God would be an atheist. He is also the owner of Arbery Books, the UK's premier online store specialising in old, rare and new gay books. Also by Martin Foreman and available from Paradise Press: First and Fiftieth A Sense of Loss and other stories and a story in Queer Haunts from Lethe Press (USA) The Butterfly's Wing 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