Comedy
| Outhouse East Library | 1 / 9 | |||
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 | A Room in Chelsea Square | Patrick, the book's opening line tells us, is 'very, very rich'. He's also single, and he has his sights set on Nicholas Milestone, a handsome young provincial journalist. Having lured Nicholas to London with the promise of a job on a tabloid magazine, Patrick moves the young man into his suite at a posh hotel, where he lavishes money and expensive gifts on him. Nicholas enjoys his luxurious new lifestyle and meeting Patrick's amusing and fashionable friends, but he soon understands what Patrick's really after. Knowing he won't be able to resist the older man's advances forever, the greedy Nicholas will have to choose between his conscience and his newly acquired love of money. A Room in Chelsea Square (1958), the semi-autobiographical second novel by Michael Nelson (1921-1990), was published anonymously both because of its frank gay content at a time when homosexuality was still illegal and because its characters were thinly veiled portrayals of prominent London literary figures. Wi... | ||
| Michael Nelson | ||||
| 1969 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD001 | ||||
 | Tim and Pete | Baker's groundbreaking novel of simmering rage and justifiable violence follows combative ex-lovers Tim and Pete, thrown together on a bizarre trek from Laguna Beach, Calif., to Los Angeles. Sarcastic, satiric, violent, and exhilarating, "Tim & Pete" is a fiercely imagined, boldly realized vision of the cultural war raging in the hearts of the disenfranchised and in the streets of America. | ||
| James Robert Baker | ||||
| 1995 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD002 | ||||
 | Mapp and Lucia | Subtly brilliant comedy of social rivalry between the wars. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to her friends as Lucia) is an arch-snob of the highest order. In Miss Elizabeth Mapp of Mallards, Lucia meets her match. Ostensibly the most civil and genteel of society ladies, there is no plan too devious, no plot too cunning, no depths to which they would not sink, in order to win the battle for social supremacy. Using as their deadly weapons garden parties, bridge evenings and charming teas, the two combatants strive to outcharm each other - and the whole of Tilling society - as they vie for the position of doyenne of the town. | ||
| Edward Frederick Benson | ||||
| 2004 | ||||
| Fiction, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD003 | ||||
 | Extra Credit | Mick is back and Harper's got him - now what's he going to do? Harper King's life consists of a boring teaching job, stagnant relationships and a tank full of fish named after ex-lovers, dying in the same order their namesakes were seduced. Can you blame him for wanting a fresh start? Enter Mick, a lover from the past talking about their future; Garrick a first-year teacher looking for conjunctions, and not necessarily in the classroom; and young Dean, an oversexed Dennis the Menace making all A's in some very advanced biology. Did Harper say he wanted a change? | ||
| Jeff Black | ||||
| 1985 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy, Romance | ||||
| Book#: CMD004 | ||||
 | Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders | London, 1889, Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark, stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime - but it is Wilde's unparalleled access to all degrees of late-Vicotrian life, from society drawing rooms and the bohemian demi-monde to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings. | ||
| Gyles Daubeney Brandreth | ||||
| 2007 | ||||
| Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Mystery | ||||
| Book#: CMD005 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 2 / 9 | |||
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 | The Gay Divorcee | Phil Davies should be happy. He has a flourishing bar in the heart of Soho and in six months he will be marrying Ashley, the man he adores. True, his best friend has nicknamed Ashley 'The Incredible Sulk', but to the outside world Phil is living every gay man's dream. There's just one little problem: Phil has been married before, twenty years ago. To a woman. In fact, technically Phil and Hazel are still married. And what Phil doesn't know yet is that Hazel has a son - a nineteen-year-old son. But that's all about to change . . . Brilliantly funny, heart warming and brimming with bittersweet observations on life, The Gay Divorcee is a hugely entertaining tale of love, marriage and the lies that happen in between. | ||
| Paul Burston | ||||
| 2010 | ||||
| Family, Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD006 | ||||
 | The Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhose Salesman | Angelo Basarovi is drifting into his thirties. By day he writes his thesis, by night he cruises the homosexual beaches of Lake Garda. He is also employed as a salesman by Celestino Lometto, magnate of the underwear trade. | ||
| Aldo Busi | ||||
| 1990 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD007 | ||||
 | The Coming Out Party | Not since La Cage aux Folles… Not since Auntie Mame… Not since My Fair Lady… It’s back! Winner of the PEN Award for an Outstanding First Work of Fiction (1983 – Special Commendation), here is the book The Los Angeles Times called “better than La Cage aux Folles.” A novel so outrageous it was banned in England! As Stallion Magazine said: “It is obvious that Mr. Caffey has had a very good time.” You will, too! | ||
| John Caffey | ||||
| 1982 | ||||
| Coming Out, Fiction, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD008 | ||||
 | Coming Up Roses | A story set in the fictional country of Ras Al Surra, which is a satire on Arab politics and British bureaucracy. Sultan Nabil, ex-hippy and now bohemian ruler of Zibda, wants to keep the peace but all King Fadl of Ras Al Surra wants is a piece of Nabil's Zibda. | ||
| Michael Carson | ||||
| 1991 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy, Politics | ||||
| Book#: CMD009 | ||||
 | Friends and Infidels | An English inspector struggles to implement change in a remote corner of Arabia assisted by his houseboy Ibrahim and an English nurse, Joanna. Together they wage war on those who resist progress to protect their own positions. | ||
| Michael Carson | ||||
| 1990 | ||||
| Fiction, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD010 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 3 / 9 | |||
| Cover | Details | Summary | ||
 | Serving Suggestions | A collection of 26 short stories by the author of "Sucking Sherbert Lemons". Ranging from powerful drama to black comedy, they are set in locations as far-flung as New York, Buenos Aires, Merseyside and Ras Al Surra. All of them have been featured on BBC Radio 4's "Morning Story". | ||
| Michael Carson | ||||
| 1994 | ||||
| Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Short Story | ||||
| Book#: CMD011 | ||||
 | Stripping Penguins Bare | A humorous sequel to "Sucking Sherbet Lemons". Martin Benson has left St Finbar's seminary in disgrace and is struggling to correct social injustices in his role as vice-president of the Overseas Students' Society at Aberystwyth University. | ||
| Michael Carson | ||||
| 1992 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD012 | ||||
 | Sucking Sherbet Lemons | A classic, hilarious coming out novel about growing up in the 1960s—can Benson be both gay and Catholic? Gay and happy? What do you do when you're fat, 14, and your obsessions include the Catholic Church, doing the right thing, scones and sweets, and other boys and their private parts? Well, if you're Benson, you panic and flee, hiding from the flesh as a novice in a monastery. Alas, St. Finbar's monastery is as full of temptation as the grammar school he'd left behind. The devils of desire find Benson once again and throw him back into the world from which he'd tried to escape. Returned to school, Benson is still trying to square the circle of his conflicting enthusiasms and desires. This comic epic is a warm, funny, and bold reminder of just how new, and superficial, sexual tolerance in contemporary society really is. | ||
| MICHAEL CARSON | ||||
| 1989 | ||||
| Coming Out, Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy, Religion | ||||
| Book#: CMD013 | ||||
 | Yanking Up the Yoyo | The third and final novel in the Benson saga, following on from "Stripping Penguins Bare". Gay Martin Benson flies to the US to work as a counsellor at a boys' summer camp. When this job ends in unusual circumstances he returns to New York, but something other than a tree grows in Brooklyn. | ||
| Michael Carson | ||||
| 1993 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD014 | ||||
 | Rory's Boys | When Rory Blaine inherits his grandmother's crumbling London mansion, he's persuaded to create Britain's first retirement home for gay men. As a teenager, Rory had been exiled from the house, the only home he'd ever known, when he discovered his sexuality. Now middle-aged, he appears to be a tough, carefree hedonist but in reality is rootless, damaged, and lonely. Funny, sharp, and moving, Rory's Boys is about one man's struggle to accept himself, and about the need most of us have to find some sort of family. | ||
| Alan Clark | ||||
| 2011 | ||||
| Family, Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD015 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 4 / 9 | |||
| Cover | Details | Summary | ||
 | Devil in Disguise | They say keep your friends close and your enemies closer...Simon is Molly's oldest, bitchiest, best friend. Since they high-kicked out of university, keen to taste life, Molly has become a jobbing musical theatre actress, while Simon is on the cusp of fame as his caustic, bitter alter-ego: Genita L'Warts, a drag queen with a talent for abusing audiences. They'd always vowed no man would ever come between them, but Simon can't resist his fatal attraction to straight men. When his endless pursuit of Mr Right Now leads to a devastating betrayal, Molly is left broken-hearted and their friendship seems fractured beyond repair. But sometimes it's hard to tell the difference... Distraught, Molly flees for comfort to her one-time landlady, Lilia - an eccentric ex-cabaret singer with an extraordinary past. But is Lilia's bungalow, Kit-Kat Cottage, quite the safe refuge it seems? Lilia has plans for her protegee. She will break Molly down, remake her, and together they will achieve the kind of s... | ||
| Julian Clary | ||||
| 2009 | ||||
| Drag, Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD016 | ||||
 | Murder Most Fab | Hello, I'm Johnny Debonair and this is my book - "Murder Most Fab". Buy it. You won't regret it. Everything that has happened so publicly is explained. Of course, I'd prefer it if you remember me as I was at my height, before the past caught up with me so spectacularly - TV's Mr Friday Night with an enviable lifestyle and the nation at my feet. My fame might have looked easy to you at the time, but getting to the top of the celebrity ladder is hard work. It took talent, beauty, commitment and, uniquely in my case, a number of unfortunate deaths. If we were being picky you might describe me as a serial killer, but I really don't see myself that way. It sounds trite to say 'one thing led to another' but it's true.As you'll discover I owe something of my rise and my fall to three individuals: my mother, an eccentric country girl who taught me exhibitionism by hanging naked from the clocktower of Hythe town hall; Catherine, my best friend, then partner in business - a devil in red heels, w... | ||
| Julian Clary | ||||
| 2008 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD017 | ||||
 | Saving Valencia | Valencia Brandywine, heiress to a hotel empire, has been kidnapped, and the ransom is $7 million and her brother Rico's denouncement of his homosexuality. Valencia has been kidnapped by a group of zealots determined to convert the world's homosexuals to a life of heterosexuality. Rico, with friend D'vora Wasserman at his side, trots the globe in search of Valencia . . . a search that turns out to be a deeply personal and somewhat mystical journey as well. What follows is a romp through psychotherapy, religion, romance and several inauspicious erections. | ||
| Steven Cooper | ||||
| 2004 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, History, Homophobia, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Travel | ||||
| Book#: CMD018 | ||||
 | Two Gentlemen Sharing | Bellingford is a sleepy village set amid gently rolling countryside, where scandal remains behind closed doors. Until the news that the Hall House has been sold and the rumour is that the new occupants are "two gentlemen, sharing". When one leaves on a busy trip, the other is plunged into a vortex. | ||
| William Corlett | ||||
| 1998 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD019 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 5 / 9 | |||
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 | Staircase: A Novel | Two longtime companions, hair-stylists on their off day give each other trims, manicures, and what only they can give one another, the love of outcasts. A hit in London and New York and later a film co-starring Richard Burton and Rex Harrison. | ||
| Charles Dyer | ||||
| 1971 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD020 | ||||
 | Elvira in Gran Canaria: Sea, Sun, Sand a New Pair of Shoes | Follow this Modern-day Heat-seaking Miss on a Sandy Adventure in the Sun; Elvira Totterheels and Brenda, her very very bestest friend in the whole wide world, set off to Gran Canaria to escape the English winter. Join them and an outrageous crowd of international Jessies in the gay arena of Playa del Ingles. You'll be transported back to your last fab hols or be spurred on to pack you bags and shoot straight off to Playa to get a piece of the action first hand. Outrageous, funny, but also poignantly sad in places, a fascinating insight into the gay escapades of a London lass as she trolls on her hols (and some of her friends...). | ||
| Elvira Totterheels | ||||
| 2001 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD021 | ||||
 | The Liar | Adrian Healey is not like other boys at school. He loves Hugo Cartwright, but is loved by the less appetizing Pigs Trotter. He goes to Cambridge and with his philosophy Professor embarks on an adventure that takes in an international espionage conspiracy and disgraceful scenes on the cricket field. | ||
| Stephen Fry | ||||
| 1992 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD022 | ||||
 | Black Butterfly | With the young Queen Elizabeth newly established on her throne, Lucifer Box Esq. is now 'by Appointment to Her Majesty'. But the secretive Royal Academy seems a very different place and, approaching retirement, Box decides to investigate one last case. | ||
| Mark Gatiss | ||||
| 2009 | ||||
| Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Mystery | ||||
| Book#: CMD023 | ||||
 | The Vesuvius Club | Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde - society's most fashionable portrait painter is a wit, a dandy, a rake, the guest all hostesses (and not a few hosts) must have. But few know that Lucifer Box is also His Majesty's most accomplished and daring secret agent. Beneath London's façade of Imperial grandeur and divine aesthetes seethes an underworld of crazed anarchists, murder, and despicable vice, and Box is at home in both. And so of course when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to. Lucifer Box ruthlessly deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (all his father left him), to private stews of London and the seediest, most colourful back alleys of Italy, in search of the mighty secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its claw-like hands - the Vesuvius Club. | ||
| Mark Gatiss | ||||
| 2005 | ||||
| Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Mystery | ||||
| Book#: CMD024 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 6 / 9 | |||
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 | The Butch Manual | No one was born Butch. People were born babies and promptly burst into tears, which was most un-Butch. Yet when some people grew up they became inescapably Butch, while others are still sitting on the sidelines waiting for a miracle. Is it the genes? Natural selection? Divine intervention? No. These people have done their homework. They have read the writing on the bathroom walls. They have followed the advice of the graffiti gurus. They've given people what they think people want. They've gone Butch. And so can you. Here it is, The Butch Manual. | ||
| Clark Henley | ||||
| 1983 | ||||
| Gay, Humour/Comedy, Self-help | ||||
| Book#: CMD025 | ||||
 | Hello Sailor | Can Jonathan break Herrington's record and seduce the daughters of every Minister in the Cabinet? Will the Prime Minister's secret be found out? What is the surprise witness at the Royal Divorce? Is Lady Candida's naughty hobby illegal? Is the Army robbing banks? What is Astronaut Sickert's unusual "space first" for America? | ||
| Eric Idle | ||||
| 1975 | ||||
| Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Politics | ||||
| Book#: CMD026 | ||||
 | Tales of the City | San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous - unmistakably the handiwork of Armistead Maupin. Book one in The Tales of the City sequence. | ||
| Armistead Maupin | ||||
| 1993 | ||||
| Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Romance | ||||
| Book#: CMD027 | ||||
 | More Tales of the City | The divinely human comedy that began with Tales of the City rolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliver pursues his favourite gynaecologist, Mona Ramsey uncovers her roots in a desert whorehouse, and Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with the amnesiac of her dreams. Book two in The Tales of the City sequence. | ||
| Armistead Maupin | ||||
| 1995 | ||||
| Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Romance | ||||
| Book#: CMD028 | ||||
 | Further Tales of the City | The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychopath across Alaska, and society columnist Prue Giroux loses her heart to a derelict living in a San Francisco park. Book three in The Tales of the City sequence. | ||
| Armistead Maupin | ||||
| 1995 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy, Romance | ||||
| Book#: CMD029 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 7 / 9 | |||
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 | Baby Cakes | When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there’s more to making a baby than meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first piece of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS. Book four in The Tales of the City sequence. | ||
| Armistead Maupin | ||||
| 1993 | ||||
| AIDS/HIV, Death, Family, Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy, Romance | ||||
| Book#: CMD030 | ||||
 | Sure of You | A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, Sure of You is the pitch-perfect sixth novel in Armistead Maupin’s legendary Tales of the City series. | ||
| Armistead Maupin | ||||
| 1993 | ||||
| Family, Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD031 | ||||
 | Boys Like Us | Zero left Arkansas for the cool, contemporary tones of gay life in Toronto. Now his best friend has been diagnosed with AIDS, and in the midst of trying to organize a support group, Zero is called home to attend his mother's second marriage. Funny and bittersweet, Zero's adventures suggest that, although God is unfathomable, she must at least have a sense of humor. | ||
| Peter McGehee | ||||
| 1991 | ||||
| AIDS/HIV, Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD032 | ||||
 | I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Tales from Gay Manhattan | "We have traded tales, my buddies and I; of affairs, encounters, secrets, fears, self-promotion-of fantasies that we make real in the telling." In this, the first volume in Ethan Mordden's acclaimed trilogy on Manhattan gay life, he introduces a small group of friends-Dennis Savage, Little Kiwi, Carlos, and the narrator, Bud-and chronicles their exploration of the new world of gay life and the new people they are in the process of becoming. In a voice at once ironic, wistful, witty, and profound, Mordden investigates his suspicion that all of gay life is stories and that, somehow or other, all these stories are about love. | ||
| Ethan Mordden | ||||
| 1987 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy, Romance | ||||
| Book#: CMD033 | ||||
 | Franny | In Franny, the Queen of Provincetown, John Preston created one of his most memorable characters from among the more than 30 books he authored or edited over his storied career. Franny is a proud, protective friend to the gay men of Provincetown, Massachusetts, as they fight their battles against self-hatred and ostracism. Haunted by the loss of his first love, Franny vows never to let fear and anger consume those who are treated differently for who they are. It'¬s Franny¬s goal to ensure that there is a place in the world for everyone who feels they do not belong. First published to wide acclaim in 1983, Franny was a book of gay heroism and camaraderie in the shadow of the burgeoning AIDS crisis. Today, one can read Franny with a sense of nostalgia and with the knowledge that Franny¬s dreams of a society that accepts gays and lesbians without question is closer to fruition, but far from complete. | ||
| John Preston | ||||
| 1985 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Homophobia, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD034 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 8 / 9 | |||
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 | Timoleon Vieta Come Home | Meet the mongrel. Timoleon Vieta. A deeply loyal, undemanding and loving companion ...with the most beautiful eyes. He's living an idyllic existence in the Italian countryside with Cockroft, a composer in exile. Until, that is, the mysterious and malevolent 'Bosnian' comes to stay. How will the stranger affect the bond between dog and master? Timoloen Vieta Come Home is a deeply moving and hysterically funny free-wheelin' take on the Lassie legend. | ||
| Dan Rhodes | ||||
| 2003 | ||||
| Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Romance | ||||
| Book#: CMD035 | ||||
 | Cocksure | In the swinging culture of sixties’ London, Canadian Mortimer Griffin is a beleaguered editor adrift in a sea of hypocrisy and deceit. Alone in a world where nobody shares his values but everyone wants the same things, Mortimer must navigate the currents of these changing times. Richler’s eccentric cast of characters include the gorgeous Polly, who conducts her life as though it were a movie, complete with censor-type cuts at all the climactic moments; Rachel Coleman, slinky Black Panther of the boudoir; Star Maker, the narcissistic Hollywood tycoon who has discovered the secret of eternal life; and a precocious group of school children with a taste for the teachings of the Marquis de Sade. Cocksure is a savagely funny satire on television, movies, and the entertainment industry. This is Mordecai Richler at his most caustic and wicked best. | ||
| Mordecai Richler | ||||
| 1971 | ||||
| Fiction, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD036 | ||||
 | Bitch Goddess | In Bitch Goddess, Robert Rodi turns his riotous wit on Hollywood sex and stardom. Told entirely through interviews, e-mails, fan magazine puff pieces, film reviews, shooting scripts, greeting cards, extortion notes, and court depositions, this is a hilarious account of the on-again, off-again career of Viola Chute, the B-grade sex symbol who slept her way to the middle-and slid downward from there. After making a big comeback on a nighttime soap, Viola decides it's time to pen her memoirs. But when E. Manfred Harry, her ghostwriter, turns up some serious dirt, the bitch goddess fires him. The ever-resourceful Harry turns the book into an unauthorized tell-all biography, and Viola's star once again begins its descent... Will she be asked back for a second season? Will she make Celebrity Magazine's "Best-Dressed" list again this year? Will her agent ever return her calls? | ||
| Robert Rodi | ||||
| 2002 | ||||
| Fiction, Film/Cinema, Humour/Comedy, Sex, Television | ||||
| Book#: CMD037 | ||||
 | Closet Case | A brash, outrageous novel from the irresistible author of Fag Hag. Lionel Frank is a man as desperate to conceal his homosexuality from his ad agency colleagues as he is to indulge it at night. But poor Lionel is playing the straight man in a world where every success takes him one step closer to disaster. | ||
| Robert Rodi | ||||
| 1994 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy | ||||
| Book#: CMD038 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 9 / 9 | |||
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 | Fag Hag | Natalie loves Peter, a commercial artist who is on the prowl for his Mr Right. Peter loves women as well as men, and to Natalie's dismay, Peter sees her more as sidekick than siren. Natalie has managed secretly to poison all Peter's romances by drawing out the nightmare side of each new dreamboat. | ||
| Robert Rodi | ||||
| 1993 | ||||
| Bisexual, Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Romance | ||||
| Book#: CMD039 | ||||
 | Kept Boy | Long out of print, Rodi’s 1996 comedy of manners returns to revel anew in the high-stakes (and even higher-hilarity) world of sexual companionship to the rich and famous. Dennis Racine is the beautiful, pampered boy-toy of the powerful Chicago theater impresario, Farleigh Nock—and has been since he was fifteen. Now, however, he’s thirty-one, and suddenly aware that his situation may have a shelf life. When Farleigh begins to withdraw his favor—to the point of insisting Dennis help pay for his keep by (gasp) getting a job—Dennis suspects he has a newer, younger rival somewhere. And when he discovers who—and more importantly, why—Dennis finally learns he does have ambition, as he undertakes an all-out campaign to preserve his privileged lifestyle. Ranging from on-the-job slapstick to transatlantic intrigue, Kept Boy is Robert Rodi at his uproarious, subversive, unforgettable best. | ||
| Robert Rodi | ||||
| 1997 | ||||
| Fiction, Gay, Humour/Comedy, Romance | ||||
| Book#: CMD040 | ||||
 | One Dead Diva | Paul, a 50-ish opera queen with a habit of breaking everything he touches and Marc, a young, ditzy dancer and circuit boy, are an odd pairing as friends. As detectives, however, they are one small step from disaster. Why these two feel the need to investigate the death of Jennifer Burke, a rising opera star is almost a bigger mystery than whether the diva actually was pushed off a cliff. Hot on the trail of clues that lead to all the wrong answers, our energetically inefficient sleuths investigate a sharp-tongued music critic, a way over-the-hill prima donna, and a formidable drag artiste before accidentally stumbling over the truth. Phillip Scott, a lifelong resident of Sydney, Australia, is the author of two other Marc and Paul mysteries, Gay Resort Murder Shock and Get Over It! | ||
| Phillip Scott | ||||
| 2003 | ||||
| Drag, Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Mystery | ||||
| Book#: CMD041 | ||||
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