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Nick's Fugue is the sixth book in John Roman Baker's Nick & Greg series which charts the lives of Nick and Greg from their first teenage meeting through decades of personal and societal change. In this book, Nick leaves his home and finds himself in a destructive relationship that is both sexually and emotionally abusive. But when he is given the chance to help another person, he finds a new sense of purpose in life. Set in the early 1980s...

THE PROSTITUTION PLAYS are a unique chronicle of male prostitution in Amsterdam at the turn of the 21st Century. A lost generation of young men, disenfranchised by the fall of communism in central and eastern Europe travelled to the Netherlands to find a better life. In 4 short plays their experiences of 4 different kinds of prostitution are presented: in a brothel, a bar, an hotel room and on Amsterdam's Central Station. The plays ar...

THE CRYING CELIBATE TEARS TRILOGY comprises 3 plays written by John Roman Baker between 1988 and 1991: Crying Celibate Tears, The Ice Pick, Freedom to Party. They provide a unique insight into the impact of HIV and AIDS on gay men at the height of the crisis. The plays won awards and acclaim when presented at the Brighton and Edinburgh Festivals. With uncompromising directness the plays lay bare the physical and emotional strengths and inad...

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Can love and hope survive in a climate of fear and betrayal?In the early months of 2020, Alex is determined to live his life elsewhere. In his confusion of escape and longing for another home, he accidentally meets Paul, a sleek and potentially dangerous man who threatens to tear apart the barriers to his heart, barriers built partly by the shadowy, beautiful figure of Luc and a truth that is difficult to face.Slowly, Alex and Paul realise a d...

Through the 1980s and 90s, gay porn cinemas were an integral facet of the Paris gay scene. They were places of erotic fantasy and sexual reality, of refuge and fulfilment.Le Far West epitomises all those lost saloons of desire: outposts, as in the far west itself, of lonesome cowboys and the shoot-outs of their desires.Published, for the first time, in this strictly limited edition, Le Far West, which was written by John Roman Baker as a testi...

Paris 1969. Greg and Bart have travelled from Brighton to find Karel, but what begins as a search for their lover becomes an opportunity for Greg to live in the city. Encounter by encounter, Paris reveals itself to Greg, leading him into unexplored physical, emotional and philosophical territory, and ultimately forcing him to question his faith in humanity and his relationships with Bart, Nick, and the other men in his life. Greg in Paris is p...

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Paris 1969. Greg and Bart have travelled from Brighton in search of Karel, but what begins as a search for their lover becomes an opportunity for Greg to live in the city. Encounter by encounter, Paris reveals itself to Greg, leading him into unexplored physical, emotional and philosophical territory, and ultimately forcing him to question his faith in humanity and his relationships with Bart, Nick, and the other men in his life. Greg in Paris...

Brighton in the 1960s. Nick has fought many battles to gain his independence. Now he is a published poet, owns his own bookshop and is as integrated in straight and gay society as he can be. But when Bart appears on the scene, and Greg returns to Brighton with Karel, a new adventure of desire, intrigue and sexual possibility begins.Nick's House is the third book in the Nick & Greg series by John Roman Baker.The Nick & Greg books chart the live...

Brighton in the 1960s. Nick has fought many battles to gain his independence. Now he is a published poet, owns his own bookshop and is as integrated in straight and gay society as he can be. But when Bart appears on the scene, and Greg returns to Brighton with Karel, a new adventure of desire, intrigue and sexual possibility begins.Nick's House is the third book in the Nick & Greg series by John Roman Baker.The Nick & Greg books chart the live...

Brighton, 1961. Eighteen year old Greg is struggling to come to terms with his sexuality and to find his place in the world. He leaves home and embarks on a life driven more by chance than by choice. Through his encounters in Brighton he learns more about himself and starts to expand his horizons, but Nick remains his secret obsession. Soon he is on the run again, this time to London where he immerses himself in the vibrant scene developing in...

When one of Francis' sons disappears in Paris, he returns to the city of his youth to search for him. Francis is desperately in love with his son, but what secret desires are at play in the minds of his two grown-up boys? And how will he cope when he returns with his obsessions to his drab English home town? A dark exploration of illicit desire, madness, and paternal responsibility.

Nicholas should be at ease with the sexual liberation of mid-1970's England, but finds he is more on its margins than at its center. He meets Peter, who is more integrated into the spirit of the decade, and they begin an obsessional relationship which soon spirals out of control. Only one thing is certain: Nicholas is cracking up and sooner or later he will hit the ground.

A young man's quest takes him through streets and squares that morph and change locations. He encounters beings whose forms and natures also change, and he is initiated in rituals of extreme sado-masochistic sexuality and violence.

Tim, living in Amsterdam and enduring a hard winter, finds he is suddenly pursued by two very different men. Both come out of the criminal and hard-edged margins of Amsterdam that Tim has for so many years frequented. Klaus is a German who sells death to those willing to pay for it. Radek is Polish, 19 years old, selling his innocence but holding out for love. In The Vicious Age, John Roman Baker explores, through the eyes of his protagonist T...

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Brighton Darkness is a collection of seventeen stories that mostly relate to that amorphous place called Brighton and Hove: a city of dreams that enfolds both young and old and that must somehow always be returned to. Two youths in the 1950s experience a gay desire that begins in St Ann's Well Gardens and continues in the back row of the Astoria cinema. An ex-hustler meets a famous male movie star, long since thought to be dead. A birthday par...

A dark exploration of illicit desire, madness and paternal irresponsibility. In The Paris Syndrome, John Roman Baker explores one of society's strongest taboos, before turning it on its head to confound the moral judgements of the reader. Francis has two sons. When one of them disappears in Paris, he returns to the city of his youth to search for him, and once more the city becomes a place of illusion, frustration, deceit and passion. Francis ...

Brighton in the late 1950s is a place of excitement and danger for Nick and Greg: two teenagers who meet one day after school. The town is their playground, and with all the innocence and recklessness of youth they run through its streets, uncover its secrets and discover their passionate desires for each other. Gay life thrives in Brighton, but homosexuality is against the law and exists largely behind closed doors, invisible and unspoken. Ag...