A Perfect Waiter

Author	Philippe Besson
ISBN	1501197878

The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald.

We drive at high speed along back roads,...

Author	David Leavitt
ISBN	0349109532

Leavitt has earned high praise for his empathetic portrayal of human sexuality and the complexities of intimate relationships. In While England Sleeps, available for the first time in two years, he moves beyond precisely controlled domestic drama to create a historical novel, set against the rise...

Author	William Corlett
ISBN	0349107750

A beautifully realised story of the heady joys of first love, and the fallout of it too. Christopher Metcalfe narrates chapters of his life that alternate between Now, while he's in his late 40's, living a buttoned-up, closet life following the death of his father, and Then, as a 16 year old at a boys' boarding...

Author

Alexander McCall Smith

This is more like it! After the disappointing The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection with its collection of lame stories with no overarching plot and rather limply written characters, this is back to a good story and realistic people.

The main story is about a couple of dead cows and who killed...

Author	Philippe Besson
ISBN	0786711612

Like Michael Cunningham's homage to Virginia Woolf in The Hours and Jean Rhys's to Charlotte Bronte in The Wide Sargasso Sea, Philippe Besson's extravagantly praised first novel pays tribute to Marcel Proust. It also dares to introduce an asthmatic middle-aged Proust into its masterfully manipulated...

Author	David Leavitt
ISBN	0140109595

A collection of ten stories which explore the joys and agonies of love and friendship. Each of the stories illuminates a dark corner of human existance. Some are amusing and some are tragic. The author also wrote "Family Dancing", "The Lost Language of Cranes" and "Equal Affections".

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Author	Édouard Louis
ISBN	0374266654

The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle—a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of-age story

“Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . . Today I’m really gonna be a tough guy.” Growing up in a poor village in northern...