 | A Summer's Exile by Andre Gould
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £3.16 Incredibly beautiful and moving work. Set in the American corn belt, the intense relationship between two 12 year olds is reminiscent of Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men'.
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 | Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas
Buy used from: £66.89 Unapologetic glimpse into the world of Ari, a 'Greek-Australian' guy. Made into the (excellent) film 'Head On', the book - inevitably - delves far deeper into Ari's mind than the film could.
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 | Execution, Texas: 1987 (Stonewall Inn Editions) by D.Travers Scott
Buy used from: £0.13 D. Travers Scotts's debut. Set in the 1980s, a coming of age novel with an existential thread. Fresh, believable characters. An author to watch out for.
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 | The Blue Lawn by William Taylor
Buy used from: £1.90 A coming-out tale set in a small New Zealand farming community; two boys bridge their differences with an unrecognized similarity.
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 | Christopher: A Tale of Seduction by Allison Burnett
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £0.01 Humorous and intelligent tale of obsession, boundaries and friendship.
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 | Carnivorous Lamb by Agustin Gomez-Arcos
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £0.57 Beautiful constructed literary work. Tense, poignant and instructive tale of the love between two brothers and the future of a country.
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 | The Dandelion Clock by Guy Burt
Buy used from: £0.14 Highly intelligent work about the dynamics between two young boys and a girl, set in the Italian countryside.
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| The Living One by Lewis Gannett
Buy new: £7.95 / Used from: £0.01 Fun, light and slightly surreal tale about the relationship between a teenage boy and his secretive and eccentric father.
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 | Gaveston (Gay Men's Press Collection) by Chris Hunt
Buy new: £9.95 / Used from: £50.71 Excellently crafted and sensual; historical period novel of the romance between Edward II and Piers Gaveston.
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 | The Honey and the Sting by Chris Hunt
Buy used from: £5.28 Another enthralling historical period novel from Chris Hunt; this time focusing on the romances and intrigues of the court of King James I.
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 | Fag Hag (Plume Fiction) by Robert Rodi
Buy used from: £0.01 You'll know someone like thisbut hopefully she's not willing to go to such bunny-boiling extremes as the protagonist of this novel.
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 | Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrere
Buy new: £6.00 / Used from: £0.20 The inner world of a psychologically unbalanced child.
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 | The World of Normal Boys by K.M. Soehnlein
Buy new: £6.09 / Used from: £1.37 Coming-of-age in 1970s America. Sexual awakening, lust, guilt, the sensation of ostracism from the world of 'normal boys'.
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 | The Boys and the Bees by Joe Babcock
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £1.11 Fresh coming-out novel unafraid to face the burgeoning sexuality of a contemporary 11 year old boy.
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 | The Boys on the Rock (Stonewall Inn Editions) by John Fox
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £2.09 Fresh coming-of-age novel with excellent characterisation.
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 | Entries from a Hot Pink Notebook by Todd D. Brown
Buy used from: £1.68 Diary-style entries recording the coming of age of a 14 year old boy from the wrong side of town.
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 | Pebble in a Pool by William Taylor
Buy used from: £2.27 The differing reactions of adults to the coming out of gay teenagers in a small American town.
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 | A Better Place by Mark A. Roeder
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £12.02 Roeder is my guilty secret. Though oftentimes farfetched and implausible, for pure emotional escapism no one does gay teen romance like Roeder.
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 | Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley
Buy used from: £4.25 Excellent, heart-felt novel about the brutal consequences of jealousy and obsession.
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| Saul's Book (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Paul T. Rogers
Buy used from: £3.95 A forgotten masterpiece. The bleak, lonely, desolate existence of a hustler boy in New York. Unforgettable.
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