Bøger af Neil Bartlett

At three in the morning, to the sound of slow music on the piano, in the darkest corner of the best bar in the city, two lovers fall into each others arms - one is older and wiser: one is just nineteen. Then follow the rites and ceremonies of a love affair and a happy marriage. But this marriage is a marriage between two men.

Pip, a poor village boy, finds two chance meetings set his life on an unexpected course. At the water's edge, he has a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict. In the decaying grandeur of Miss Haversham's house, he falls hopelessly in love with the heartless Estella. When an anonymous benefactor helps him move to Calcutta, the heart of the British Raj, Pip pursues his great expectations and his dream of winning Estella's heart. Relocating Pip's extraordinary journey to nineteenth-century India, this coming-of-age story, evoking some of Dickens' most colourful characters, is faithful to the period of the book and the richness of Dickens' language - a vivid theatrical retelling of a universally loved masterpiece.

Set in the year of the late Queen's coronation, and in the world of variety theatre, Bartlett's fourth novel, tells the story of a small man's triumph over a Goliath. Originally released by Bloomsbury, it gained him a nomination for Stonewall Author of the Year 2014; it is republished with a new introduction by the author.

LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2022‘Gay love and desire, past and present, has never been so beautifully articulated as in Neil Bartlett’s Address Book. He takes us into the homes and minds of a handful of strangers and then—in prose full of gentle foreboding—slowly peels away the layers until their truths are revealed. Defiant, potent—and ultimately uplifting.’JULIAN CLARYAddress Book is the new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of "Skin Lane". Neil Bartlett’s cycle of stories takes us to seven very different times and situations: from a new millennium civil partnership celebration to erotic obsession in a Victorian tenement, from a council-flat bedroom at the height of the AIDS crisis to a doctor’s living-room in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. They lead us through decades of change to discover hope in the strangest of places.‘Bartlett is a pioneer on and off the page and we are lucky to have him telling our stories’—DAMIAN BARR​‘One of England’s finest writers’—EDMUND WHITE

A collection of radical queer performance texts from visionary theatre-maker Neil Bartlett. Effortlessly straddling the political and the personal, these highly theatrical monologues display a searing intelligence from a unique voice in the British counterculture.

At 47, Mr F's working life on London's Skin Lane is one governed by calm, precision and routine. So when he starts to have frightening, recurring nightmares, he does his best to ignore them. The images that appear in his dream are disturbing - Mr F can't for the life of him think where they have come from.

The author reflects on the links between the homosexual of the 1980s and his counterparts of a century ago--between gay lives today and those of Oscar Wilde, his friends, lovers, and acquaintances.