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The books members are reading (and discussing on club nights).
THE APRIL 2025 BOOK
Brian, an aimless slacker in his twenties, has been struggling to manage his transition to adulthood almost as much as his monthly transitions to a werewolf. Really, he's not great at the whole werewolf thing, and his recent murderous snaccidents have got his best friends Nik and Darby suspicious, and caught the attention of Tyler, a hot were-entrepreneur with a start-up idea fo
THE MAY 2025 BOOK
The only sin is betrayal…
It is the year 1715, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of London's hidden back streets, he finds himself drawn into the outrageous underworld of the molly houses.
Meanwhile, carpenter Gabriel Griffin struggles to hide his double life as Lotty, the molly's stoic guard. When a you
THE MARCH 2025 BOOK
Transgressive, foulmouthed, and wildly funny, Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends is a filthy, unforgettable, and brutally profound ode to queer love in its most messy of variations. From one-night stands to recurring lovers, Purnell's characters sleep with their co-worker's husbands, expose themselves to racist neighbours, date Satanists, and drink their way out of trouble, all th
THE FEBRUARY 2025 BOOK
Meet Eoin. Eoin is doing great. He's 27, gainfully employed and in a long-term relationship with his boyfriend Rich.
Okay, so his best friend Jax is diving into yet another disastrously bad relationship and Eoin's going to be the one dealing with the eventual fallout. And his boss at the café, Rebecca, seems to have vanished, so somehow Eoin's left managing the place. And to
THE JANUARY 2025 BOOK
'Albert Entwistle was a postman.It was one of the few things everyone knew about him. And it was one of the few things he was comfortable with people knowing . . .'
Living alone since the death of his mam, 64-year-old Albert Entwistle keeps himself to himself. So one frosty December morning, just back from delivering mail full of the Christmas cheer that no one now extends to
The 2025 SHORT STORIES WILL BEGIN IN FEBRUARY 2025
THE DECEMBER 2024 BOOK 2
LEOPOLD GIDEON spent his childhood as the poor kid in a rich school until he met an older man who took him under his wing and into his bed, teaching him to not only survive but thrive among the elite and to never submit to anybody…except him. For fifteen years, Gideon had everything, but then tragedy strikes, leaving him alone once again.
CALLUM WHYTE was raised with every
The December 2024 BOOK
'The Charioteer remains compelling both as a snapshot of a particular - and particularly fascinating - cultural moment, and as a deeply romantic story of love fulfilled against the odds. It has all those qualities that make Mary Renault so memorable as a novelist: craft, subtlety, intelligence, and a terrific natural sympathy with the intricacies of honour and desire' SARAH W
THE November 2024 BOOK
Luca Torres never meant to take a vow of celibacy. It was just a dumb idea from a job interview gone wrong.
Now, with no choice but to steer clear of temptation for the summer, he takes the most isolated job he can find. His goal becomes much harder with the arrival of the husky and flirtatious Artair Osmond.
Now he must decide what he really desires: the career at the presti
THE OCTOBER 2024 BOOK
‘Utterly compelling… powerful and disturbing’ Sunday Independent
'Compelling... a potent portrait of a flawed young man' Daily Mail
'A strong set-up, and with the masterly Boyne at the helm, the tension never lets up' Mail on Sunday
‘New and ambitious… packed with big ideas, moral questions and social commentary’ Irish Times
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From million-copy-bestselling author J
THE SEPTEMBER 2024 BOOK (BEING DISCUSSED AT THE OCTOBER MEETING)
From the moment Detective Gavin DeGrassi steps into the world of BDSM to solve the brutal slaying of Dom George Kaiser, his course is not his own. Mesmerized by the context in which the victim lived and the images seared into his soul, Gavin has to find a way to navigate these unknown waters. With his personal life in upheaval due to
THE August 2024 BOOK
When Jeremy Thorpe hired thugs to kill his ex-lover, they botched it. What if they had succeeded?
'A breathtaking, heartbreaking thriller' – Jake Arnott
It is February 1976, and the naked corpse of a shockingly underage rent boy is fished out of a pond on Hampstead Heath. Since the police don't seem to care, twenty-year-old Tommy Wildeblood – himself a former 'Dilly boy' prosti
THE MAY 2024 BOOK
A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024
A BBC MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024
AN INDEPENDENT BEST FICTION TO READ IN 2024
A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGHLIGHT OF 2024
A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024
AN i-D FICTION HIGHLIGHT TO BE EXCITED FOR IN 2024
'A deeply felt and rich enactment of love, loneliness and personal triumph that leaves an indelible mark on modern Queer life'
THE JUNE 2024 BOOK
Bold and inventive in style, City of Night is the groundbreaking 1960s novel about male prostitution. Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling 'youngman' and his search for self-knowledge among the other denizens of his neon-lit world. As the narrator moves from Texas to Times Square and then on to the French Quarter of New Orleans, Rechy delivers a portrait of the e
THE JULY 2024 BOOK
Three men, three lives and three eras sinuously entwine in a dark startling and unsettling narrative of sex, exploitation and dependence set against London's strangely constant gay underworld. Rent boys, models, aristocrats, artists and gangsters populate this bold debut novel as the lives and loves of three men interweave in three distinct and pertinent historical periods.
THE APRIL 2024 BOOK
'Seductive, decadent, cruel and utterly thrilling - just like Horace Lavelle himself. This is The Talented Mr Ripley for the twenty-first century.' Emma Flint, author of Little Deaths
'An enjoyable dip into decadence.' Observer
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Brothers Benjamin and Edgar have so far led a quiet life, but change is afoot as they enter a world of glorious sights and P
The March book discussed at our first book club in Edinburgh in April 2024
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