Gay Romance

A chance encounter on a country bus. A brush of thigh against thigh and a sideways, then a downward, glance. Nineteen-year-olds Tom and Mick could hardly have guessed the epic nature of the journey they were setting out on. A journey that would take them into business partnership together. A journey that would bring them little by little to the deepest reaches of the human heart. An adventure that would catapult them into the sweet and sometimes painful mysteries of life and sex and love.

Twenty-one-year-old Henry is hired by the wealthy Luccini family to tutor their younger son Sandro in English. On the shores of Lake Garda he joins a world he has only dreamed of before now - a world of yachts, grand opera, and fast cars, and the world of the beautiful Luccini brothers, Michele and Sandro. As he learns to sail with them on the blue waters of the lake, he falls in love with both of them. Yet can he even have one?

The loveliest person ever sits next to you on the plane. But he’s in the wrong seat. You lose him, only to find him again, then lose him in the crowd... This is the story of English Daniel, 23, and French Daniel, 22, on holiday separately, then together, in Majorca – or on Mallorca. Of their complex love tri-tangle with 18-year-old Dunk and their discovery in the end that only Daniel will do. Of how their holiday romance grows into something stronger, and how their holiday island becomes their home. This book contains a few frankly described scenes of gay sex.

Twenty-seven-year-old Peter has taken himself to Paris, after splitting up with his girlfriend, to find new love - and write. The last thing he’s looking for is handsome blond Fabrice, who also identifies as straight. But a love they can’t at first acknowledge blooms between them. Only an enforced separation obliges them to face the truth. But where better to discover the intricacies of love and yourself than in the world’s most romantic capital? The city of Paris, its inhabitants, and its street life are all integral characters in this book.

Two 18-year-old boys find themselves sharing a room when they arrive at Oxford. Life draws them together at whirlwind speed as they find themselves playing opposite each other in a student production of Hamlet and, after a few false starts, playing together in bed. Love has many lessons to teach them as they grapple with their emerging sexuality, deal with the machinations of others, and dare to look at the face of lasting happiness.

David, 28 and already divorced, is taken on holiday to Provence by his gay best mate. The idea is to recreate the journey Vincent Van Gogh made a century earlier, from cold dark northern Europe to the sunnier south. But in Arles, the town where Van Gogh settled, David sees a nude photo of the boy whose friendship with him brought about his divorce. Deeply buried memories surface.

Marry a man for money if you can… Especially if, like 34-year-old Thomas, you lost your job and boyfriend in the crash of 2008. But Mike, the young Irishman he meets on the Barcelona airport bus, his pockets taped up in fear of pickpockets, is in the same dire straits as Thomas. A few weeks later, despite their seeming made for each other, they agree to break off their relationship.