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A blog about books and writing, through rainbow-tinted glasses. Every book gets a gay rating.

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Review: Who Was That Man? by Neil Bartlett

Searching for origins.

England, gay, History, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Oscar Wilde, queer, UK

Review: After The Siren by Darcy Green

A romantasy to aspire to.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, Romance, Sport

Review: Woo Woo by Ella Baxter

What’s worse for an artist than a looming exhibition opening?

Art, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Melbourne, Novel

Review: Querelle Of Roberval by Kevin Lambert (translated by Donald Winkler)

A call to arms.

Canada, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer

Review: Lost Lake by Bella Li

Dreamy strata of words and images.

Australian, Poetry

Review: Take It Outside (edited by Cash Torn and Orlando Silver)

Does what it says on the tin.

Erotica, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Short stories, Trans

Review: Desire Paths by Megan Clement

Defence of movement.

Australian, Contemporary, COVID-19, France, Grief, Journalism, Memoir, Nonfiction

Review: Querelle Of Brest by Jean Genet (translated by Gregory Steatham)

Be gay, do crime.

Classics, Fiction, France, Novel, queer

Review: Astral Season, Beastly Season by Tahi Saihate (translated by Kalau Almony)

The agony of adolescence.

Contemporary, Fiction, Japan, Novel

Review: The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata (translated by Haydn Trowell)

Everything in flux.

Classics, Fiction, Japan, Nobel Laureate, Novel, World War II

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