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  Gary - Rent Boy (1993)
Posted by: Simon - 12-17-2025, 07:51 PM - Replies (1)

   


A noir tour-de-force set in the world of hustlers from "one of America's darkest and funniest chroniclers." (The Guardian)

It's New York City, 1981, and everyone wants to be at the Emerson Club, from Cindy Crawford to Cindy Adams; from Famous Roger, one-time lion of the talk shows, to Sandy Miller, the “downtown” writer with the tattoos and the leather; from Lauren Hutton to the art star who does the thing with the broken plates. Everyone, that is, except Danny. Danny just works there, waiting tables to put himself through architecture school, turning tricks on the side. And when he’s not on the clock, he’s recording the sexual, aesthetic, and financial transactions that make up his life, in gruesome detail. But even a clever boy like Danny can wind up on the menu. Blinded by love for his fellow rent boy, Chip—as gorgeous as he is reckless—Danny is about to learn that there’s more than one way to turn your body into cash, and that cynicism is no defense when the real scalpels come out. A gimlet-eyed crime novel with an inventively filthy mind, Rent Boy is Gary Indiana at his most outrageous—and his best.

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  How to Find Your Way in the Dark (2021)
Posted by: Simon - 12-17-2025, 07:48 PM - Replies (1)

   



The powerful and epic coming-of-age story from the author of Norwegian by Night
“[A] terrific coming-of-age story . . . Readers will root for Sheldon, a memorable survivor, every step of the way.”
— Publishers Weekly

It's 1936, war is brewing, tempers are running high, and by his thirteenth birthday, Sheldon Horowitz has been orphaned — twice. While a terrible accident took his mother, Sheldon is convinced that his father was murdered. But no-one else thinks so, least of all the police.
Determined to track down the culprit, and leaving behind his only friend Lenny, Sheldon moves to Hartford, Connecticut to live with his uncle. He is told to keep his head down and forget the past. But that just isn't his style.
Fired up by his politically-minded cousin Abe (and quite possibly in love with other cousin Mirabelle), he sets out on a quest to discover the truth that will take him from industrial Hartford to a ritzy hotel in the Catskills, back to his childhood home and finally on to New York.
Sheldon quickly discovers that it's a jungle out there, and to survive, he will have to learn to make his own luck. Fortunately, that's one thing he's very good at...


Quote: welve-year old Sheldon Horowitz is still recovering from the tragic loss of his mother only a year ago when a suspicious traffic accident steals the life of his father near their home in rural Massachusetts. It is 1938, and Sheldon, who was in the truck, emerges from the crash an orphan hell-bent on revenge. He takes that fire with him to Hartford, where he embarks on a new life under the roof of his buttoned-up Uncle Nate. Sheldon, his teenage cousins Abe and Mirabelle, and his best friend, Lenny, will contend with tradition and orthodoxy, appeasement and patriotism, mafia hitmen and angry accordion players, all while World War II takes center stage alongside a hurricane in New England and comedians in the Catskills. With his eye always on vengeance for his father’s murder, Sheldon stakes out his place in a world he now understands is comprised largely of crimes: right and wrong, big and small.

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  Norwegian by Night (2012)
Posted by: Simon - 12-17-2025, 07:44 PM - Replies (1)

   


[b]“Has the brains of a literary novel and the body of a thriller.”
— The New York Times
“Miller joins the ranks of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, and Jo Nesbo, the holy trinity of Scandinavian crime novelists.”
— Booklist
A former Marine sniper and a newly orphaned boy race across the Norwegian wilderness, fleeing demons both real and imagined.[/b]

Sheldon Horowitz — widowed, impatient, impertinent — has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway — a country of blue and ice with one thousand Jews, not one of them a former Marine sniper in the Korean War turned watch repairman, who failed his only son by sending him to Vietnam to die. Not until now, anyway.

Home alone one morning, Sheldon witnesses a dispute between the woman who lives upstairs and an aggressive stranger. When events turn dire, Sheldon seizes and shields the neighbor's young son from the violence, and they flee the scene. But old age and circumstances are altering Sheldon's experience of time and memory. He is haunted by dreams of his son Saul's life and by guilt over his death. As Sheldon and the boy look for a haven in an alien world, reality and fantasy, past and present, weave together, forcing them ever forward to a wrenching moment of truth.

Norwegian by Night introduces an ensemble of unforgettable characters — Sheldon and the boy, Rhea and Lars, a Balkan war criminal named Enver, and Sigrid and Petter, the brilliantly dry-witted investigating officers — as they chase one another, and their own demons, through the wilderness at the end of the world.

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  Crowstone (1983)
Posted by: Simon - 12-17-2025, 07:37 PM - Replies (1)

       


Grateful thanks to Edmund Marlowe for providing the PDF this conversion is based on.

Crowstone seems to have something of a Holy Grail status among boylove books of the 70s and 80s, although Edmund has had it available on  greek-love.com for quite some time. I think this is the first time an ebook of it has been provided anywhere, and I'm glad to share it with all of you.

If you enjoy a good escapist sword-and-sorcery tale, plenty of erotic activity involving boys, not a woman in sight, and good triumphing over evil, then this is definitely for you. There are even some dim pre-echoes of Harry Potter. What more could you ask!

If you've been reading the volumes from Coltsfoot and Acolyte Press I've been posting over the last few months, you might have noticed that where the books required conversion and/or editing I've standardised their appearance in terms of layout, font(s), and general presentation, thus setting a TNT "house style" for the genre. It's not disparaging of the original publishers to say that because they were operating on a shoestring budget, the quality of what they produced was patchy, and in nearly all cases the attentions of a good copy editor would have improved the presentation enormously.

I'm not claiming that description for myself, but I have tried to correct obvious errors on the part of printers and authors. My editing has been light and hasn't detracted from the author's intention. At least I hope not. 

Quote: Qamar, fairest of the 108 moons orbiting th gas planet of Algol, Here a strange and wonderful civilization has developed. In Suvyamara, gen[tle] city sinking sadly into the sea, boys of the Viridine Temple dance the Epodes — and the citizens worship among other deities, Varon, the boy-love god.


Two strangers meet and defeat a band of air pirates in a boy-bordello: a scrivening monk (and professional thief) from another Algolian moon and a long-haired, kilted warrior from the northern mountains of Far Thuren. So begins a gripping and erotic adventure of dance, spells, magicians, ghouls, dragons, rescues, abductions and seductions . . .

And a score of boys, all ecstatically approaching or just over the threshold of puberty: raven-haired Jethael, greatest Temple dancer in memory; blond Xiri of Thurenian blood; tattooed Dragon from the Chromatic Wastes; red-haired Kael, already at 14 a roistering lover and fighting rooster; voyeuristic Ravinan; pig-tailed Varonael who glows green at his sorcery.

The interweaving of the fates and loves of these men and boys, the drama of their epic quest to find and steal the power-bestowing Crowstone, makes this probably the grandest boy-love sword and sorcery novel ever published.

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  The Children of Roswell (2016)
Posted by: Simon - 12-17-2025, 07:34 PM - Replies (1)

   


This is not just another book about Roswell. It’s not about any of the events surrounding one of the most famous UFO incidents of all time. It’s not even about any of the men or women involved in the recovery of a spaceship and its crew in the summer of 1947.


Rather, it’s about the aftermath—the lifetime impact Roswell has had on the families who were forced to live with the truth while accepting the government’s account of the incident, then forced to face years of suppression and fear of reprisal from a government sworn to protect them.

Despite the government’s best efforts to explain it away, after nearly 70 years, Roswell is a story that just won’t disappear. Parents who were present during or immediately after the incident may have passed on, but their children know what happened‚ and have paid dearly for their knowledge. These are their stories. You will finally learn the truth

The daughter of a witness to an alien body who discovered that her phone had been bugged for years.
How the U.S. Air Force tried to change the mind of the son of the Roswell intelligence officer in 1995.
What really became of the son of the principle witness, who disappeared in 1960.

These are stories worth reading that force you to think about why the government would go to such lengths to keep these families quiet.

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