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While lying in bed next to her husband one night, Claire Devon hears a low hum that he cannot. And, it seems, no one else can either. This innocuous noise begins causing Claire headaches, nosebleeds and insomnia, gradually upsetting the balance of her life, though no obvious source or medical cause can be found. When she discovers that a student of hers can also hear the hum, the two strike up an unlikely and intimate friendship. 

‘Belongs in the firmament of great gay fiction’ DOUGLAS STUART ‘Beautiful, hugely ambitious’ GARTH GREENWELL ‘A slim, hypnotic novel’ TASH AW The stunning new novel from Jordan Tannahill, acclaimed author of The Listeners, follows a British expat in Berlin who begins to see his dead...

Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high school infatuation that now, ten years later, I saw as the closeted balding guy with a beer gut he’d become. There were of course those rare moments of transcendence that kept me coming back. But why did they come so few and far between?

“At once an unflinchingly beautiful novel about queer desire, summer days, and casual sex that is also an elegy to friendship, grief, and lovers lost. Startlingly brave and brilliantly told, I devoured each page not sure what to expect next. The Living Realm belongs in the firmament of great...

Claire ist eine ganz normale Frau in einer typischen US-Mittelschichtsvorstadt. Als Englischlehrerin an einer Highschool ist sie bei Schülern und Kollegen gleichermaßen beliebt. Eines Nachts jedoch beginnt die Fassade zu bröckeln: Auf einmal ist da dieses ununterbrochene Summen, das an ihren Nerven zerrt. Das Schlimmste daran ist, dass niemand sonst es wahrzunehmen scheint. Bis Claire, zunehmend in die Isolation getrieben, eines Tages feststellt, dass einer ihrer Schüler es auch hören kann.

Based on a true story, Get Yourself Home Skyler James follows the harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army when she is outed by fellow soldiers. Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes chronicles the last hour of Peter Fechter's life, a teenager in East Berlin shot while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall in 1962 with his companion. Finally, the award-winning rihannaboi95 centers around a Toronto teen whose world comes crashing in when YouTube videos of him dancing to songs by his favorite pop heroine go viral.