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Charlie Porter – Nova Scotia House

Charlie Porter Nova Scotia House review, recensie en informatie van de queer roman over AIDS van de Engelse schrijver. Op 20 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Particular Books de roman van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver Charlie Porter die vooral bekend is van zijn boeken over mode. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave.

Charlie Porter Nova Scotia House review, recensie en informatie

Als er in de media een review, recensie of boekbespreking verschijnt van Nova Scotia House, de roman van de Engelse schrijver Charlie Porter dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Charlie Porter Nova Scotia House

Nova Scotia House

  • Auteur: Charlie Porter (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse queer roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Particular Books
  • Verschijnt: 20 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 240 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 18,99 / £ 9,99 / £ 14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Charlie Porter

He said he would understand if it was too much for me, that I could leave him, that I was young, I should be living, I said to him, I am living.

Johnny Grant faces stark life decisions. Seeking answers, he looks back to his relationship with Jerry Field. When they met, nearly thirty years ago, Johnny was 19, Jerry was 45. They fell in love and made a life on their own terms in Jerry’s flat: 1, Nova Scotia House. Johnny is still there today – but Jerry is gone, and so is the world they knew.

As Johnny’s mind travels between then and now, he begins to remember stories of Jerry’s youth: of experiments in living; of radical philosophies; of the many possibilities of love, sex and friendship before the AIDS crisis devastated the queer community. Slowly, he realizes what he must do next―and attempts to restore ways of being that could be lost forever.

Nova Scotia House takes us to the heart of a relationship, a community and an era. It is both a love story and a lament; bearing witness to the enduring pain of the AIDS pandemic and honouring the joys and creativity of queer life. Intimate, visionary, and profoundly original, it marks the debut of a vibrant new voice in contemporary fiction, and a writer with a liberating new story to tell.

Charlie Porter is a writer, fashion critic and curator. He has written for the Financial Times, the Guardian, The New York Times, GQ, Luncheon, i-D and Fantastic Man, and has been described as one of the most influential fashion journalists of his time. Porter co-runs the London queer rave Chapter 10, and is a trustee of the Friends of Arnold Circus, where he is also a volunteer gardener. He lives in London.

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Memoir, Muziek

Alex James – Over the Rainbow

Alex James Over the Rainbow review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het boek van de bassist van de band Blur. Op 5 december 2024 verschijnt bij Particular Books de memoir en het muziekboek van Ales James. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Alex James Over the Rainbow review, recensie en informatie

  • “Alex James is a witty, engaging guide to the mad goings-on behind the scenes of Britpop. Blur’s bassist famously estimates that he blew around £1m on champagne and cocaine during the Nineties. Here’s how.” (Independent)
  • “A joy to read. Prose flows and weaves and curls itself into pleasing rhythms … Alex James can write like a god.” (Spectator)

Alex James Over the Rainbow

Over the Rainbow

Tales from an Unexpexted Year

  • Auteur: Alex James (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: memoir, muziekboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Particular Books
  • Verschijnt: 5 december 2024
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek van Alex James de bassist van Blur

A raucous, behind-the-scenes account of the year Blur got back together.

There is nothing that can touch the sound made by a close-knit group of people who have been playing together for years and years and years, playing as though their lives depended on it. For many years, all our lives did, and actually, I’d suddenly realised, they did still.

One winter’s night, Alex James received an unexpected call. Blur had been invited to play their biggest gig ever: Wembley Stadium. The only trouble was, he and his bandmates hadn’t spoken to – or even shouted at – each other for years. And he now had five children, an out-of-control menagerie of cats, and a sprawling farm to run.

This is the story of what happened next. Taking us behind the scenes of a raucous, rollercoaster year, Alex describes how the band made a surprise – and emotional – return, recording an acclaimed album and playing sold-out shows around the world, from Colchester to Colombia and beyond. Plus: how he went on a crash diet to fit back into his ‘Britpop Trousers,’ somehow organised an entire festival of his own, and tried to perfect the recipe for a giant Frazzle.

Over the Rainbow is a heartfelt and hilarious account of what it feels like to be catapulted back into the limelight with one of the world’s biggest bands. It is a love letter to Blur, to friendship and to music. And it shows us all that, however old – or hungover – we might feel, nothing’s ever truly over: it’s always just the start of the next thing.

Alex James (21 November 1968, Boscombe, Bournemouth, England) is a writer, farmer, and the bass player with Blur. He lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and five children.

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