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I so longed to brush his cheek with my finger, to put my lips to his, to kiss him awake, to touch him as someone more than a pal with the aching tenderness that coursed my immobile body.' Neil Raffan exposes his personal vulnerability, both emotional and physical, through Lost in translation and What Phou respectively, whilst other more robust entries focus on the likes of vascular dementia and carmine bee-eaters, family hiatus and travel h...

Catamite heaven, Blue sky cancer, and Process controller memory leak are amongst the intriguing titles within this collection, though one can't help but wonder whether this eclectic assortment of shorts was written to be published? At times the level of whispered confessional seems all too raw, as if but for a close friend's eyes - though the emotion expressed is loud and clear and universal. 'So you are the other spastic, said the voice behi...

Changed circumstances lead Gabrielle Trythall, a widow, to push her surviving son into exile from the cosy family home on the West Sussex coast of England. Against his better judgement Paul temporarily relocates to a flat within an old Victorian house in South London. How he does or doesn't cope is closely linked to his relationship with the occupants of the other flats within the house. But which one is the neuter spectator?

Imagine The Famous Five trapped inside A Clockwork Orange of their own creation. Crumbs! Amongst other issues in his life, former children's favourite, Ricky Buns has writer's block. His sister-in-law and her circle of twenty-something post-punk bored-again friends are looking for a hobby. It is the beginning of the 1980's when The Committee is formed, pre-the internet, mobile phone and social network revolution. And very much pre-the world ...

Would you like your bottom wiped by a total stranger.' Life has given Brian Robinson a savage sense of self-mockery. A turbulent and opinionated testament left to two of his nephews, Pockets and Razor. Assuring them of his love, he explains why there comes a time to move on from the terrestrial life that no longer affords him physical intimacy. But life is becoming more complicated, however much tidying up Brian does. The life of The Colonel, ...

Forty years of Neil Raffan's poems. Other than the infamous Up me nose this collection also contains Elizabeth, Panic in Bolton, Moroccan sleep, Who shot John Lennon? and Endless killing. Sharing with the usual suspects of subjects (family, life, love, death and sex) are a number of odes at attempted self-declaration. Enjoy!

How can a gay love triangle and a straight love square be linked ... ask Kevin Jones, a twenty-five year old fumbling his way to sexual adulthood. London in the late 1980's and Kevin is a back office worker in The City, he has today's pop hits as well as those from yesteryear playing inside his head along with a very real dread of AIDS as he muddles through his own mire of delusion. Kevin, though at times feigning to be straight, is aided and ...

Tokyo in the early 1990's ... the economy may well be in the beginnings of its decline but the foreign financial sector workers are still playing whoopee. Kevin Jones, one such worker, has finally come out to himself but to few others. Whilst his Svengali, Dave, is back in the UK will Kevin break free from his past of lost loves and denial of self. With the Tokyo gay-scene excluding open access to foreigners, how will Kevin's path towards comi...

Eighteen going on? Actually, Ian Roberts is eighteen and just going on - it is 1971 and with his school days about to end what next? Anything? Will he/won't he go to university? With his beloved Grandma Craig as a sounding board Ian's prose straddles the child/adult fault line - uncertain on which side to fall. Does he have to fall? A young Aberdonian's growing pains, what have Camus and Gide done to his mind? Despite himself this is a journey...

Thirteen months in the life of the closest of friends. Ian Roberts and Ian Ceri are the epitome of best friends, from school days on to attendance at their home town university ... Aberdeen. Long suffering fans of the Dons a couple of years before the Alex Ferguson revolution the novel kicks off with Ian Roberts running away from home, university, his girlfriend, leaving his best friend behind. Whilst Ian Ceri's narrative handles the young men...

We are all misfits. There is no such thing as normal. It is just that some are better than others at hiding their peculiarities.' So opens this latest collection from Neil Raffan. Whilst it may be too simplistic to say the content falls into two categories, either travelogues or displays of heart-on-sleeve, it contains the least fiction. The universal themes carry with them a sharp personal edge, however obvious the attempt to deflect it with ...