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Timothy Graves
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First and Fiftieth
and other stories
Martin Foreman

A Little Chat
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Merle
Elsa Wallace

A New Man in Old Steine
Graham Robertson

The Physent
and other stories
Michael Harth

The Picnic
and other stories
Michael Harth

Queer Haunts
an anthology of ghost stories

Rid England of This Plague
Rex Batten

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
COMING IN 2010
Oysters and Pearls
an anthology of poetry by lesbians and gay men

People Your Mother Warned You About
24 short stories by gay and lesbian authors

The Sensuous Poetess
poems by Rochelle Imbiow Baker

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Cocksuckery
Ian Stewart


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Weekend
Martin Foreman

"Absorbing first novel"
Gay Times

"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."

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.

Read an an extract.

Weekend is published by Third House and distributed by Paradise Press
172 pages; £5.50; 978-1-870188-15-9




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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 and A View from the Edge, which showcase his work, and God would be an atheist.

Martin currently divides his homelife between London and Bangkok.


Also by Martin Foreman
from Paradise Press
First and Fiftieth
A Sense of Loss
and a story in
Queer Haunts

from Lethe Press (USA) Spring 2009 The Butterfly's Wing