Grant's study is a rigorous analysis of migration in Germany within the demographic and socio-economic contexts of the period studied. Focusing particularly on the rural labour market and the factors affecting it, it also examines the 'pull' factor to cities, and offers more nuanced interpretations of German industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The backdrop for each story is exotic, sometimes real and sometimes imaginary, colorful and unusual, which is fitting for tales. Borrowing from Scheherazade, the author takes the reader on a journey to enchanting lands, from palaces of Sultans, to villages in Africa; from Pharaoh's court, to rocky mountains in America and ancient Japan's Edo, with places of fantasy in between. The main subjects are romance, comedy, and drama, often with a combination of the three. The tales are action-packed, with a quick tempo. Love dominates the collection and hate is present - with varied degrees of...

Haiku, the short Japanese form of poetry, is not often used in erotic literature. Oliver Grant chose it for his first collection of erotic gay poems. Most of the verses contain metaphor, often with lots of imagination, sometimes unusual. Very erotic, the poems range from the subtle to the crude, but avoid vulgarity. Many have a strong sense of humor, even those in the S-and-M mood Following the general trend in haiku, grant does not give titles to each poem; they are grouped under several categories.

"Confessions" is a collection of eight homoerotic short stories. Using his favorite gay themes of oversexed adolescents, master/slave situations, horny men of the cloth, libertine school masters, etc., Oliver Grant creates funny situations of men in rut, often with unexpected outcome and turn of events. As in his previous work, with his rich imagination and sharp sense of humor he pushes his protagonists into series of hilarious circumstances and behaviors, all wrapped in extremely erotic atmosphere. The humorous prose often turns to explicit and un-bashful hot action.

This is Oliver Grant's third collection of homoerotic short stories, and his fifth book of gay-themed literature. It contains only four stories, as compared to the seven in Tales of Love and Hate, and the eight in Confessions. Each of these four stories is longer than those in the two previous collections. Here, we have a mixture of a surreal fantasy and romance in the first story: Taste of Blood; humor in the second: Cruising; drama in both the third: Andrew and Steve, and the forth: Temptations of Father Anthony. Sex and eroticism is a common denominator in all four stories. As in previous...

This is Oliver Grant's second homoerotic book of poems after Erotic Haiku, and his sixth book of gay-themed literature. The present collection of poems contains twenty pieces; almost all are in one page each. This is very much different from the three-line haiku verses. Rhyming is the rule in all the poems, unlike the recent trend of prose-like poetry As in all his work, the content deals with homoerotic amorous frolicking usually in open terms. However, in the present collection Oliver Grant used less shocking expressions, the reason being that some of the poems were posted on Instagram