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Following a near-collision over Morocco, grounded airline pilot Borja exchanges his uniform for the black garb of a stagehand at the theatre where his partner, James, works as manager. Here, he finds drama, off-stage as well as on, to match anything he has encountered in the air - drama which can only heighten when young stage-hand Nick - suddenly homeless - comes to live with the two men.

Jason and Barnaby are brothers. Each is highly successful in his chosen career - Barnaby as a presenter of TV nature programs and Jason in the field of medicine. But they share a dark and uncomfortable secret that neither dares divulge. So when Barnaby decides to write an account of their relationship during their childhood and teenage years the results are explosive and far-reaching. The story begins some 40 years ago, with a lightning flash on a summer night....

David, 28 and already divorced, is taken on holiday to Provence by his gay best mate. The idea is to recreate the journey Vincent Van Gogh made a century earlier, from cold dark northern Europe to the sunnier south. But in Arles, the town where Van Gogh settled, David sees a nude photo of the boy whose friendship with him brought about his divorce. Deeply buried memories surface.

Marry a man for money if you can… Especially if, like 34-year-old Thomas, you lost your job and boyfriend in the crash of 2008. But Mike, the young Irishman he meets on the Barcelona airport bus, his pockets taped up in fear of pickpockets, is in the same dire straits as Thomas. A few weeks later, despite their seeming made for each other, they agree to break off their relationship.

The loveliest person ever sits next to you on the plane. But he’s in the wrong seat. You lose him, only to find him again, then lose him in the crowd... This is the story of English Daniel, 23, and French Daniel, 22, on holiday separately, then together, in Majorca – or on Mallorca. Of their complex love tri-tangle with 18-year-old Dunk and their discovery in the end that only Daniel will do. Of how their holiday romance grows into something stronger, and how their holiday island becomes their home. This book contains a few frankly described scenes of gay sex.