Assuming 'God' as in 'God will provide' is the biggest excuse used in the last two thousand years or more, Anthony Ramekin sets about using his extensive contacts in the art-world, which he has been part of for more than twenty five years, to facilitate the rise and rise of a brilliant young photographer, Dorian Grey, his lover . Soon he realizes that the knowledge he is passing on, comes in equal measurements to the wisdom, love and fast mind of someone so much younger than himself. As Oscar Wilde so famously said: 'I'm not young enough to know everything...' Scandal, sets off a useful...

Eddy, the altar boy, writes as a 55 year old. Flashback to 1963 when he meets Raoul, also 15 at the time, in his grandfather's orchard, they start calling the Garden of Eden. Soon they run away but their adolescent full-on love affair turns bad and they do not meet up until 20 years later, when Eddy is living in Florence. They pick up the pieces of the love, they once shared, but their new relationship unfolds like a drama that inexorably moves towards a glorious end. The grandeur of their rekindled love and the doomed end show us that the writing on the wall was always there but nobody had...

THE PASSION deals with Julien, a Dutch-French boy, who takes off for the end of the Swinging Sixties in London, on his 21st birthday in 1968, becomes a photographer and in one fell swoop a very famous one, for having taken a photograph of Jim Morrison of the Doors naked in a bathtub three weeks before the pop-star really drowned in a hotel-room in Paris. 'Stars in the Flesh' is his first best-selling photo-book. His search for love becomes very intense in the months after the launch of the first book. He goes on a quest and falls in love with a cockney rentboy in Malaga. They have to escape...

'All the boys I have fallen for over the last half century always had a secret story behind them, a hurt that never healed, a pain that was still there, deep down, inside, ' the author writes, 'so I have always tried to move carefully, gingerly onto the not-quite-frozen lake of tender hurt. Otherwise -I knew- the thin ice would crack and I would fail miserably and just end up with wet feet.' 'The Not-quite-frozen Lake Of Tender Hurt', a novel that somewhere in its sweeping description of a 45-year search for love, strangely or perhaps not that strangely, turns into a slightly rambling...

Max Kreijn wrote the three novels contained in this trilogy Sleeping With Boys between 2007-2010. Now published in its totality as one book the trilogy SLEEPING WITH BOYS contains The Altar Boy, 2008, The Passion, 2009 and The Not-quite-frozen Lake Of Tender Hurt, 2010).

This is the coming-of-age story of 21-year-old gay graphic-design student Daniel. who the artist meets at the opening of a 30-year-review of his photographic works, all of which deal with that once-in-a-lifetime moment of suddenly growing up. Normally he uses models to visualize this breathtaking event and has total control of the image, or plays God without anyone realizing what he really is doing. But when he meets Daniel and is forced to let him pose for a photo-series, he suddenly realizes that the game has totally changed. He ends up just pressing the camera-button, but it is Daniel who...

Het Doorgeven van Kennis een roman Anthony Ramekin gelooft dat de verwachting dat 'God zal voorzien' een van de grootste excuses van de laatste 2000 jaar is en hij besluit zijn uitgebreide contacten in de Kunstwereld, waarvan hij al meer dan 25 jaar deel uit maakt, te gebruiken om te helpen bij het omhoogstoten van een briljante jonge fotograaf, Dorian Grey, die toevallig zijn minnaar is en de zoon van zijn beste vriend. Spoedig ontdekt hij dat de kennis die hij doorgeeft, in dezelfde verhouding staat tegen de wijsheid, de liefde en het scherpe brein van iemand die zoveel jonger is dan hij....

Dit is de gereviseerde tweede editie van de nederlandse vertaling uit 2013 van 'Het Boek van Daniel' een roman, 2011 Dit is het opgroeiingsverhaal van een 21-jarige gay grafisch-ontwerp student, Daniel. De kunstenaar ontmoet de jongen bij de opening van de retrospectieve tentoonstelling 'DOUBLE TAKE," een overzicht van zijn fotografische werken, al meer dan dertig jaar gebruik makend van zijn schilderijen als een integraal deel van zijn fotowerken.(zie omslag) All deze werken hebben uiteindelijk iets te maken met dat eens-in-je-leven moment, van plotseling je realiseren dat je ineens...

I hate winter. It probably is the result of having been a child in southern Holland and having to bike to school, always against the wind, pedaling through snowdrifts and sleet. Early on I vowed that when I grew up I was moving to a warmer climate. So for years I spent six months of the year on the top floor of a building from where I could see beautiful old churches in the centre of Rome and I lived the other half of the year perched above Darlinghurst in Sydney, looking towards the lights of the city. Some people think is the perfect life, and in some ways maybe it is. You get the best of...

A collection of stories covering the last half century. Stories about running away as a 15-year old to Paris, financed by my maternal grandma, when I fell in love for the first time, inheriting from her on my 21st which took me straight into the gay end of the Swinging Sixties in London. The south of France, before the fish-and-chips shops opened there, the then still-undiscovered island of Ibiza in the Mediterranean. Florence, Venice and Rome, before they put up turnstiles, you now have to pass through. How the Sixties turned into the sleazy Seventies, without us -in our coke haze- noticing....