Short Stories
11 July 2021: First place in the Frome Festival Short Story Competition with Your Call.
The Bluebell Wood
Best British Short Stories 2016 – edited by Nicholas Royle
Salt Publishing, Cromer, 2016. 263 pp. ISBN 978-1-78463-063-8 (pb) 978-1-78463-064-5 (ebook)
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The Bluebell Wood
Anglo Files No. 177, September 2015
The Good Butler
Speak My Language, and Other Stories – edited by Torsten Højer
Robinson, London, 2015, 572pp. ISBN 978-1-47211-997-1 (pb) 978-1-47211-998-8 (ebook)
The most sharply-observed character in the collection, with a satisfying ending that gives a good kicking to the well-worn queer-lit trope of the past-it gay man powerless in the face of youth – Matthew Bright, January 2016
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Raw Material
The New Writer, May/June 2010
History Lesson
Yes, I Am! Writing by South African Gay Men – compiled by Robin Malan & Ashraf Johaardien
Junkets Publisher, Cape Town, 2010, 176pp. ISBN 978-0-620-45828-3
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Lucky for Some
The Sunday Express, 17/01/2010
10.30 from Metlaoui
Vrij Nederland Magazine, June 2007
Fairy Tale – an essay
The Way We Are Now: Gay and Lesbian Lives in
the 21st Century – edited by Ben Summerskill
Continuum, London, 2006, 214 pp. ISBN 0-8264-8785-8
As serialised in The Guardian, 22/04/06 – Why Grandad Lives with Peter
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A Portrait
New Writing 13 – edited by Toby Litt & Ali Smith
Picador, London, 2005, 355pp. ISBN 0-330-48599-7
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By the Pool
The Gay Times Book of Short Stories: New Century New Writing – edited by P-P Hartnett
Gay Times Books, Millivres Ltd., London, 2000, 305pp. ISBN 1-902852-19-2
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A Son’s Story
The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories – edited by Peter Burton
Robinson Publishing, London, 1997, 486pp. ISBN 1-85487-518-3
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Crossing the Line
Winter’s Tales 10 – edited by Robin Baird-Smith
Constable, London, 1994, 223pp. ISBN 0-09-473830-0
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A Son’s Story
New Contrast – Volume 22, Number 2, June 1994
The Good Butler
Seduction – edited by Tony Peake
Serpent’s Tail, London, 1994, 224pp. ISBN 1-85242-314-5
Tony Peake’s tale expertly teases the reader as it oscillates between prurient sex scenes and the crisp moral cleverness of its butler hero – Tom Morris, The Guardian, 15/02/1994
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A Son’s Story
Winter’s Tales 9 – edited by Robin Baird-Smith
Constable, London, 1993, 217pp. ISBN 0-09-472810-0
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Necessary Appendages
The Penguin Book of Contemporary South African
Short Stories – edited by Steven Gray
Penguin, London, 1993, 305pp. ISBN 0-14023-726-7
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Girl Dancing
Winter’s Tales 8 – edited by Robin Baird-Smith
Constable, London, 1992, 190pp. ISBN 0-09-471600-5
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Necessary Appendages
Winter’s Tales 7 – edited by Robin Baird-Smith
Constable, London, 1991, 304pp. ISBN 0-09-470810-X
A raunchy story of sexual ambivalence – Publishing News, 16/08/1991
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