Marc NashBooks discussed Intro 0:00 "Skin Elegies" Lance Olsen 0:37 "Leeches" David Albahari 3:52 "An Idea Of Home" Curtis White 9:30 "The Embassy Of Cambodia" Zadie Smith 12:55 "Man-Eating Typewriter" Richard Milward 16:38
Friday Reads late AugustMarc Nash2023-08-25 | Books discussed Intro 0:00 "Skin Elegies" Lance Olsen 0:37 "Leeches" David Albahari 3:52 "An Idea Of Home" Curtis White 9:30 "The Embassy Of Cambodia" Zadie Smith 12:55 "Man-Eating Typewriter" Richard Milward 16:38
I am also a published author and my latest novel "The Death Of The Author (In Triplicate)" is out now from the publisher Corona\Samizdat coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id_product=89&rewrite=the-death-of-the-author-in-triplicate-marc-nash&controller=productFriday Reads end of SeptemberMarc Nash2024-09-26 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 Anton Hur "Toward Eternity" Dag Solstad "Professor Andersen's Night" 8:24 Thomas Bernhard "Walking" 18:12 Sergio Chejfec "My Two Worlds" 25:41 Maria Gabriela Llansol "The Geography Of Rebels" 31:18 Kate Atkinson "Death At Sign Of The Rook" 34:52 Victoria Chang "With My Back to The World" 40:44 Hervé Guibert "To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life" 43:04 Kate Briggs "This Little Art" 49:25
Other Books mentioned Olaf Stapledon "First And Last Men" Paul Auster "The New Yourk Trilogy" Gert Jonke "Geometric Regional Novel" Anna Burns "Milkman" youtube.com/watch?v=qAbiupvREjE Victoria Chang "Obit" youtu.be/d9fkTjija4Y Victoria Chang "The Trees Witness Everything" youtu.be/wgy3kq9vFbY Kate Briggs "The Long Form" youtube.com/watch?v=hpS93vd5b20 Thomas Bernhard "Wittgenstein's Nephew" youtube.com/watch?v=cQnYbmfC02c&t=1340sRecent Reads end of AugustMarc Nash2024-08-29 | 5 novels, 5 poetry collections from the last fortnight or so's reading, including my favourite novel and my favourite poetry collection read this year so far. A great reading period.
Books discussed Intro 0:00 "The Tyranny of Flies" Elaine Vilar Madruga "Before The Feast" Sasa Stanisic "The Time Of The Flies" "Claudia Pineiro "Foot, Dog, Snow" Claudio Morandini "Audacity" Ryan Chapman "Bluff" Danez Smith "Stereo(Type)" Jonah Mixon-Webster "Look: Poems" Solmaz Sharif "Spoon River Anthology" Edgar Lee Masters "A World Where News Travelled Slowly" Lavinia Greenlaw
In addition to book reviewing, I'm also a published author. My latest novel is “The Death Of The Author (In Triplicate)” - Demystifying the mystery novel; demythologising the myth of the tortured artist. Crime scene reconstruction meets literary scene deconstruction
For my content to give you an idea of the novel - sulcicollective.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-death-of-author-in-triplicate.htmlRecent Reads Mid AugustMarc Nash2024-08-15 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 "Passing Time" Michel Butor 0:45 "Mammoth" Eva Baltasar 7:43 "Samarkand" Amin Maalouf 11:17 "Wild Houses" Colin Barrett 17:48 "The Vast Extent" Olivia Greenlaw 22:43
Other books mentioned: "Boulder" Eva Baltasar youtu.be/noxOafowK0o "The Disoriented" Amin Maalouf youtube.com/watch?v=Zobm-0QRSjo "Photo, Phylo, Proto, Nitro" Melissa McCarthy youtube.com/watch?v=qyG9J_xHFVE "Spent" Lara Pawson youtu.be/CrU3no080lgRecent Reads - End Of JulyMarc Nash2024-08-02 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 "The American Lady In A Chinese Hat" - Carole Maso 1:09 "The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty" - Charlene Elsby 3:36 "Parade" --Rachel Cusk 8:51 "The Longcut" - Emily Hall 19:03 "Napalm In The Heart" - Pol Gausch 25:26
or my latest novel "The Death Of The Author (In Triplicate)" is available direct from the publishers Corona\Samizdat coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id_product=89&rewrite=the-death-of-the-author-in-triplicate-marc-nash&controller=productFriday Reads Mid-JulyMarc Nash2024-07-12 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 Carole Maso "Ava" 1:08 David Markson "The Ballad Of Dingus Magee" 6:36 Harry Miller "Meet Me At The Rascal" 9:05 Tim O'Brien "America Fantastica" 14:53 Isabella Hammad "Enter Ghost" 20:03 Victoria Chang "The Trees Witness Everything" 24:44
Thank you.Mid-Year ReviewMarc Nash2024-07-07 | Six months into 2024, I summarise the first half of my reading year. With reading stats and anticipated reads of the next six months.
Please Please Please Booktube, Can Anyone Help (why I have to read Conversations With friends). youtube.com/watch?v=XZuCenb0OfY
Bookish's review ( we buddy read this) youtube.com/watch?v=aJt8d53-K1w&t=911sMy Favourite 50 BooksMarc Nash2024-06-27 | I talk about my top 50 books which surprised me in how different they are one from another.Recent Reads - mid JuneMarc Nash2024-06-20 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 Victoria Chang "Obit" (poetry) 2:05 Canisla Lubrin "The Dyzgraphxst" (poetry) 5:27 Giorgio Manganelli - "Centuria" 8:11 Lee Klein "Like It Matters" 10:33 Jennifer Croft "The Extinction Of Irena Rey" 18:44 Freidrich Durrenmatt "The Assignment" 25:52 Fredrico Garcia Lorca - "Two Plays" 28:22 Elias Canetti "The Book Against Death" 30:28 Andrew O'Hagan "The Secret Life: Three True Stories" 35:17
In addition to reviewing books, I'm also a published author. Check out my Amazon page or my latest book "Death Of The Author (In Triplicate)" available direct from the publishers Corona\Samizdat
The book is Sally Rooney's "Conversations With Friends"Friday Reads - End Of MayMarc Nash2024-05-24 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 Selva Almada “Not A River” 2:04 Marguerite Duras “The Ravishing Of Lol Stein” 4:42 Joyelle McSwweeney “Toxicon & Arachne” 7:13 Joyelle McSweeney “Death Styles” 8:41 JL Borges “The Aleph” 9:56 Vladimir Sorokin “Blue Lard” 11:15 Denis Johnson “Nobody Move” 15:38 Effie Black “In Defence of The Act” 19:49 Viktor Frankl “Man’s Search For Meaning” 24:33
Other books mentioned Ana Paula Maia "Saga Of Brutes" youtu.be/CrU3no080lg Ana Paula Maia "Of Cattle And Men" youtube.com/watch?v=kP_hexlxov4&t=2sRecent Reads end of AprilMarc Nash2024-04-28 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 "Saga Of Brutes" Ana Paula Maia 1:55 "The Sleepwalkers" Scarlett Thomas 4:24 "Spent Light" Lara Pawson 10:49 "Most of It" Mary Ruefle 16:18 "Pure Colour" Sheila Heti 17:20 "Aphasia" Javier Mario Cardenas 19:14 "The Ghost Writer" Philip Roth 20:41 "Orlando" Virginia Woolf 25:46 "Love Me Tender" Constance Debré 27:56 "In Praise Of Shadows" Jun'Ichiro Tanzaki 32:26 "Doppelganger" Naomi Klein 35:05
Other books mentioned "Of Cattle & Men" Ana Paula Maia youtube.com/watch?v=kP_hexlxov4&t=2s "Our Tragic Universe" Scarlett Thomas youtu.be/N8ldF72HZy0 "The Lost Children Archive" Valeria Luiselli youtube.com/watch?v=asizdWPtukARecent Reads - End of MarchMarc Nash2024-04-05 | Books discussed Intro 0:00 "The Night Alphabet" by Joelle Taylor. 0:46 "A Book, Untitled" by Shushan Avagyan 7:10 "Headshot" by Rita Bullwinkle. 15:14 "The Plotinus" by Rikki Ducornet 17:02 "Long Way Down" by Jason Reynolds 20:30
Other books. channels mentioned "C*nto" by Joelle Taylor youtube.com/watch?v=x0xuKsZGHHc Leaf By Leaf Booktube Channel youtube.com/@LeafbyLeafRecent Reads Including my March Of The MammothsMarc Nash2024-03-12 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 "It Lasts Forever Then It's Over" Anne de Marcken 1:28 "Strangers I Know" Claudia Durastanti 2:20 "The Silver Bone" Andrey Kurkov 6:39 "Next Episode" Hubert Aquin 7:39 "Ha! A Self-Murder Mystery" Gprdon Sheppard 11:23
Other books mentioned Jon Fosse "A Shining" youtube.com/watch?v=oOLoCnesNG0&t=6s Victoria Kenneficke "Eat Or We Both Starve" youtu.be/b6ogfPwWSt8 Perceval Everett "The Trees" youtube.com/watch?v=RS9rDYxnsdIFosse review teaser #shortsMarc Nash2024-02-18 | You can view the full discussion video here youtube.com/watch?v=oOLoCnesNG0Jon Fosse A ShiningMarc Nash2024-02-18 | I discuss at length Jon Fosse's new, very short (37 pages) novella "A Shining" which I had though might represent a way into his work for me, having never previously read him. I was wrong...Recent Reads - Mid-FebruaryMarc Nash2024-02-13 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 Anne Carson “Wrong Norma” 0:54 Sebastian Martinez Daniell “Two Sherpas” 3:53 Catherine Lacey “The Answers” 7:56 Nicholas Moseley “The Hesperides Tree” 13:24 Rivka Galchen “Atmospheric Disturbances” 17:41 Dave Harris “Patricide” (poetry). 25:09 Scott McKendry “Gub” (poetry) 28:41
Other books mentioned Anne Carson "Nox" youtu.be/0LpMwPLnb3s Catherine Lacey "Biography of X" youtube.com/watch?v=cQnYbmfC02cRecent Reads - End of JanuaryMarc Nash2024-01-30 | Books discussed Intro 0:00 "The Long Form" Kate Briggs 1:07 "The Love Of Singular Men" Victor Heringer 11:47 "The Belan Deck" Matt Bucher 14:37 "Anxious Pleasures" Lance Olsen 20:50 "Austral" Carlos Fonseca 24:39 "Dry Cleaning" Trevor Mark Thomas 35:35 "Near Distance" Hanna Stoltenberg 40:54
For more about the content of the book sulcicollective.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-death-of-author-in-triplicate.htmlWords discovered through readingMarc Nash2024-01-09 | I love words and I collect them. The best source of discovering new words unfamiliar to you, are from reading books. I am one of those readers who WILL break off from reading to note down a new word and its meaning, or more accurately, I cut and paste dictionary entries for the word in a community discussion thread on Goodreads. That community is no longer active, so by continuing to post new words, I've effectively created a record of my discovered words which i can always go back and refer to.
Here I share some of those words, their meanings etymological origins. And also whether I've managed to incorporate them into my own fiction writing.
Short video on the 'real life' author behind the fictional author youtu.be/8SWO0MfMp9I
My review of "XX" by Rhian Hughes youtube.com/watch?v=tNM6CwkD2-8&t=818s 13:35 minutes inMy Top Reads Of 2023Marc Nash2024-01-01 | Presenting my top reads of the year and my reading stats.
*Thank you for all the support and views in 2023. Another book I mentioned in the review was my own "Three Dreams In The Key Of G" available on Amazon / Bookshop.orgBenny The Blue Whale - A novel written with AI and the authors interrogation of its processesMarc Nash2023-12-29 | An in-depth review of Andy Stanton's 'descent into story, language and the madness of ChatGPT' in his book "Benny The Blue Whale'.
What AI can and caan't do, it's limits, its (programmed) biases, how novels work, organic language versus programmed language remixing and whether a novel produced by Chat GPT could pass the Turing test.Last recent reads of 2023Marc Nash2023-12-20 | Books discussed Intro 0:00 "Orbital" Samantha Harvey 1:25 "Isdal" Suzannah Dickey 6:15 "The Distant Sound" Gert Jonke 8:58 "Eleven Prague Corpses" Kirill Kobrin 13:06 "To Write As If Already Dead" Kate Zambreno 16:35 "The Currency Of Paper" Alex Kovacs 21:53
Other books mentioned "The 7th Function Of Language" Laurent Binet youtube.com/watch?v=A2L2l7cH8aY "Penance" Eliza Clark youtu.be/VpS84NWfBrM "Dear Thief" Samantha Harvey youtube.com/watch?v=Bcx1SSAP_RY&t=12s Samantha Harvey "The Shapeless Unease" youtube.com/watch?v=DTSySAL3C5w "The Death Of The Author (In Triplicate)" youtu.be/8SWO0MfMp9"To The Friend Who id Not Save My Life" Hervé GuibertRecent Reads - end of NovemberMarc Nash2023-12-01 | Some real clunkers in this round up, including the worst novel I've read in 2023. And a discussion of comedy in novels, as a jumping off point for the first book discussed:
Intro 0:00 Discussion of comedy in novels 1:48 "Saint Sebastian's Abyss" by Mark Haber 10:00 "Hangman" by Maya Binyam 17:08 "Trans(re)lating House One" by Poupeh Misshagi 23:25 "The Yellow Arrow" by Victor Pelevin 29:10 "Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro" by Melissa McCarthy 31:36
My favourite comic novels (not in any particular order) "Karoo" - Steve Tesich "I Hate The Internet" Jarett Kobek "Springer's Progress" David Markson "S.N.U.F.F" by Victor Pelevin "The Great American Novel" Phillip Roth "A Fraction Of The Whole" Steve Toltz "The Trees" Percival Everett (the first half of it anyway) "The Thought Gang" Tibor Fischer "Riots I Have Known" Ryan Chapman "A Naked Singularity" Sergio de la Pava "The 7th Function Of Language" Laurent Binet "Insurrecto" Gina Apostol "Standing Heavy" Gauz "the First Bad Man" Miranda July
For more content around the book such as videos and quote cards sulcicollective.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-death-of-author-in-triplicate.htmlRecent Reads - end of OctoberMarc Nash2023-11-03 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 "I Who Have Never Known A Man" - Jacqueline Harpman 0:43 "Penance" - Eliza Clark 7:06 "Care Of Wooden Floors" - Will Wiles 16:05 "A Green Equinox" - Elizabeth Mavor 21:48 "100 Chinese Poems" curated by Kenneth Rexroth 28:28
Other books mentioned "Plume" - Will Wiles youtube.com/watch?v=vHhgrMAUaF0 "The Way inn" - Will Wiles youtu.be/iu2ghzTSguQ "In Cold Blood" - Truman Capote "The Water Cure" -Sophie MackintoshRecent Reads Mid OctoberMarc Nash2023-10-15 | Books discussed Intro 0:00 Counternarratives by John Keene 0:27 The Annual Banquet Of The Gravediggers Guild by Mathias Enard 6:24 Disoriented by Amin Maalouf 13:41
For more content around the book such as videos and quote cards sulcicollective.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-death-of-author-in-triplicate.htmlRecent Reads 24th SeptMarc Nash2023-09-24 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 "La Tercera" by Gina Apostol 1:26 "The Maniac" By Benjamin Labatut 8:28 "Shame" by Annie Ernaux 15:14 "The Malady of Death" by Marguerite Duras 19:14 "Destroy She Said" by Marguerite Duras 20:36 "Sleepless" by Marie Darrieussecq 21:56 "Pig Tales" by Marie Darrieussecq 23:45
* In addition to reviewing books, I am also an author. My latest novel "Death of The Author (In Triplicate)", part crime scene reconstruction, part literary scene deconstruction, is available from the publishers Corona\Samizdat
For more content on the book visit my websiteRecent Reads mid-AugustMarc Nash2023-08-13 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 "Always Crashing In The Same Car" Lance Olsen 0:52 "Revenge Of The Translator" Brice Matthieussent 7:12 "Soldier Sailor" Claire Kilroy 11:16 Cain Named The Animals" Shane McCrae. 13:12 "Hackenfeller's Ape" Brigid Brophy 14:14 "I Am God" Giacamo Sartori 16:42 "A Thread Of Violence" Mark O'Connell 19:30
Other books mentioned "Red Heaven" Lance Olsen youtu.be/b6ogfPwWSt8 "Biography of X" Catherine Lacey youtube.com/watch?v=cQnYbmfC02c "Trust" Hernan Diaz youtube.com/watch?v=KmiBVROAFo4 "Three Dreams In The Key Of G" Marc Nash youtube.com/watch?v=lObVZK-3S7k&t=1s "Transit" Brigid Brophy youtu.be/8UzA7ooWYsgRecent Reads late JulyMarc Nash2023-07-23 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 Catherine Lacey "The Biography Of X" 0:45 Lawrie Moore "I Am Homeless If This In Not My Home" 12:04 Claudia Pineiro "A Little Luck" 16:50 Zadie Smith "Intimations" (essays) 19:17 Thomas Bernhard "Wittgenstein's Nephew" 22:20
* If you want to compare & contrast mine and Jeff Bursey's approach to realism and fiction, you can pick up both out books from the same publisher Corona\Samizdat coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id_category=10&controller=category6 Month Reading ReviewMarc Nash2023-07-01 | A review of the first half year of my reading, including stats breakdown of the type of books and my top 5 books so far and the most disappointing reads to date. Also a couple of books to get to in the second half of the year.
For more information and content on the book, you can visit my website sulcicollective.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-death-of-author-in-triplicate.htmlpageFriday Reads mid JuneMarc Nash2023-06-23 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 Brigid Brophy "Transit" Rene Belletto "Dying" Danielle Memoire "Public Reading Followed By Discussion" Eric Chevillard "The Author And Me" Jenny Erpenbeck "Kairos" Lee Thompson "Apastoral"
For more information and content on the book, you can visit my website page sulcicollective.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-death-of-author-in-triplicate.htmlHow Do I Choose Books?Marc Nash2023-06-16 | A question I' asked a lot is how do I know I'd like an author or a book I've not come across before? Well, I'm never sucke(re)d in by the cover, but a title can always pique my interest. A word, or a theme or idea suggested by the title is the first point of call. Here I recount a recent browse through one publisher's backlist, writing down 16 of the titles that most reached out to me and only then did I read up their blurbs to whittle the list down to 7 books which I then ordered. A process that began simply from their titles.
The publishers in question was Dalkey Archive, who mainly reprint books that they feel need to still be in print and read. A lot of books in translation.
-Give me your own definition of reading or use mine: Reading is the act of interpretation of symbols that systematically put together in a certain sequence, allow the reader to extract meaning from them in an active form of creation that can develop into complex narratives.
-Given your chosen definition, are reading and interpretation the same thing? If not, In what do they differ?
-Are there any practices that you consider reading but that would fit that or other definitions of reading?
-Is there an ideal reading experience for you? What is it? Is there a book that represents it?
-If there is such thing as an ideal reading experience, it follows that there is a scale of value to reading. What is at the bottom?
-Is there a book on that bottom that you love or enjoyed as much as those on the top?
-Is reading as the art of associating symbols and creating meaning out of them, a predecessor of language, or does it come after as a consequence of those languages?
-Is everything that can be read/with meaning a language?
-Mention a few languages that defy the conventional conception of what a language is. Could a book be written in any of those languages?
-If you could boundlessly read/understand the meaning in one of those languages. Which one would it be? Why?
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My novel "Three Dreams In The Key Of G" explicitly examines how we acquire language as children and how we are only taught to write long after we have mastered words and know their meanings as a retrospective act.
Other book mentioned Linda Grant - "The Story Of The Forest" youtube.com/watch?v=3LHwODDZTo4Recent Reads early JuneMarc Nash2023-06-09 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 "In Ascension" - Martin MacInnes 0:35 "The Story Of The Forest" Linda Grant 11:24 "The Glamour" Christopher Priest 20:35 "Funeral Music For Freemasons" Lars Gustafsson 25:23
For more information and content on the book, you can visit my website page sulcicollective.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-death-of-author-in-triplicate.html.Kafka Special - Two non-fiction books about the great manMarc Nash2023-06-05 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 "Conversations With Kafka" - Gustav Janouch 0:45 "Is That Kafka? 99 Finds" - Reiner Stach. 10:57
"The Lost Writings Of Franz Kafka" youtube.com/watch?v=S8aUxHj7zn0 12:33Friday Reads end of MayMarc Nash2023-05-27 | Booka discussed: Intro 0:00 "The Way Inn" by Will Wiles 0:50 "Small World" by Caleb Azumah Nelson 8:22 "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" by Claudia Rankine 16:22 "The Portrait Of A Man" by Georges Perec 20:24 "69 Exhibition Road" by Dorothy Max Prior (non-fiction) 22:55
For more information and content on the book, you can visit my website page sulcicollective.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-death-of-author-in-triplicate.htmlFriday ReadsMarc Nash2023-05-19 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 "Grimmish" by Michael Winkler 0:48 "The Cyberiad" by Stanislau Lem 19:44 "Venom" by Saneh Sangsuk 17:55 "All The Living And The Dead" by Hayley Campbell 19:38
Other books discussed: "HHhH" by Laurent Binet youtube.com/watch?v=t0Q_EebfweU "The Face On The Cutting Room Floor" by Cameron McCabe youtube.com/watch?v=ldkVPCSrQs0&t=510s "The Death Of The Author (In Triplicate)" by Marc Nash youtu.be/8SWO0MfMp9IRecent Reads Early MayMarc Nash2023-05-10 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 "Here Goes Nothing" by Steve Toltz. 1:00 "Greek Lessons" by Han Kang 5:21 "A Heart So White" by Javier Marias 11:11 "Timequake" by Kurt Vonnegut Jnr 18:01 "The Jewish Son" by Daniel Guebel 18:34 "Moving Kings" by Joshua Cohen. 23:24 Discussion of Jewish American authors 27:24
For more information and content on the book, you can visit my website page sulcicollective.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-death-of-author-in-triplicate.htmlRecent Reads April 23rdMarc Nash2023-04-23 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 "Voice Of The Fish" Lars Horn (Non-Fiction) 1:16 "Shy" Max Porter 4:55 "The Seven Madmen / The Flamethrowers" by Roberto Arlt 8:25 "Was It For This?" Hannah Sullivan (Poetry) 19:06 "The Illustrated Woman" Helen Mort (Poetry) 22:10 "Poems About My Psychiatrist" Andrej Kotanski (Poetry) 25:09
For more information and content on the book, you can visit my website page sulcicollective.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-death-of-author-in-triplicate.htmlIf Book Titles Were Album Titles, Whats the Genre?Marc Nash2023-04-06 | Just a light video ahead of the Easter holidays. I've gone along my bookcases (a cheeky book tour in all but name) and picked out some book titles that would make good music album titles and try and decide what the genre would be. Play along, disagree with my selections, have a bit of fun with it.
Other videos mentioned: "Fire Rush" by Jacqueline Crooks review youtu.be/ojKfjxI1Qnk 7:45
For more information and content on the book, you can visit my website page sulcicollective.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-death-of-author-in-triplicate.htmlRecent Reads - end of MarchMarc Nash2023-04-03 | Books discussed: Intro 0:00 "A Brief History Of Living Forever" by Jaroslav Kalfar. 0:32 "The Perelin Decline" by Pae Veo 13:08 "Shriek: An Afterword" by Jeff Vandemeer. 19:50 "Living Through Fiction" by Annie Dillard 24:22
For more information and content on the book, you can visit my website page sulcicollective.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-death-of-author-in-triplicate.htmlThe New Life by Tom CreweMarc Nash2023-03-26 | A full review of 2023 debut novel by Tom Crewe, set in 1890s Britain about the debate and activism for legalising homosexuality, which became hijacked and indelibly stamped by the Oscar Wilde court case.
Based on real historical events and personalities, an important work on a subject that doesn't get presented in university history (I know, my degree is in History and though I studied that period, there was not even a mention).
Other book mentioned: Neil Bartlett "Who Was That Man?"