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The works of Alexander Paul Burton are permanently archived in the national collections of Switzerland (e-Helvetica), the United Kingdom, and Canada.
George Casterbridge de Clare has a passport that says American, an accent that says British aristocrat, and no real idea where he belongs.
Mid-twenties and half-running from a family estate in Oxfordshire, George has landed in New York with a food-rescue startup, an overdrawn account, and a genius for turning every friendship into a near-romance. There is Ethan, his rowing partner from Florida, all easy warmth and unspoken want. There is Jon, his best friend, who looks after him better than he looks after himself. And there is the stubborn fact that George has never felt at home anywhere: not in the Singapore his nanny raised him in, not in the Oxfordshire house he was sent back to, not in any of the cities he has tried on since.
When a wedding calls him across the Atlantic, the tour begins. Manhattan to a Cornish clifftop, a grand old house full of ghosts, and finally Paris, where a memorial he has spent years refusing to attend is waiting for him. Somewhere between the ferries and the Eurostar, the champagne and the grief, George has to decide whether belonging is a place he can reach or a person he can let in.
Witty, sensual and quietly heartbroken, The Gay After is literary gay expat fiction about class, desire, food, and the strange comfort of never quite arriving. Written by an actual gay author, raw and unapologetic, it gathers Acts IV, V and VI of The George Files into one volume.
For readers of André Aciman and Alan Hollinghurst who like their romance clever, their heroes maddening, and their endings earned.
Book two of The George Files (Acts IV, V and VI)
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A commitment to Human Authorship: the illustrations are hand-drawn in coloured pencil and Japanese sumi ink, and the writing is entirely human, with no generative tools involved at any stage. All of my recent titles are published with documented provenance, keystroke records among it, giving each book a verifiable authorship history at a moment when that has become worth stating plainly.
Between the marble halls of Le Meurice and the quiet shadows of the American Cathedral, George de Clare is running out of ways to evade his past.
Travelling from London to Paris alongside his impeccably refined friend Jon, George is ostensibly in the City of Light to inspect the Musée Rodin for the international launch of Second Course, his food insecurity startup. Yet beneath the whirlwind of Champagne toasts, high fashion shoots, and luxury boutique strolls, George remains haunted by unresolved grief and the memory of Rupert, his former lover whose life ended far too soon in Le Pigalle.
As old wounds resurface, George finds himself caught in an emotional tangle. In Manhattan, his rowing partner and co-founder Ethan waits with an offer of something real. In Paris, his sharp-witted Canadian friend Matt challenges his guarded aristocratic charm, while Jon offers an unwavering anchor amidst the chaotic backdrop of expat life.
Rich with art, luxury, and raw vulnerability, The George Files: Paris is an authentic literary romance about class, identity, and the courage required to stop running from love.
ISBN: 9798194099924
Ancient British Folklore Reimagined in Verse
Step into the world of the Fabled Gable, where Roman Britain's waning empire collides with myth, magic, and the timeless folklore of the West Country. The Hollow Vale weaves lyrical poetry with Arthurian echoes, Cornish legends, and the sacred landscapes of Somerset, from Glastonbury Tor and Bodmin Moor to the fossil shores of Kilve and the standing stones of Stanton Drew.
Meet the Wenderbeast, a scholarly hog who fled the burning library of Avalon with what scrolls he could carry. Follow Father Thorn, a farm-hand who walked to Bath with an axe to free a goddess from her Roman renaming. Hear Caradoc and Dunval sing the earth itself into a hill to swallow a Roman legion whole. Then settle into the whimsical bed-time poems: ghosts who iron your sheets, faeries whose lanterns are warm to look at and cold to touch, and a crooked man who tells your future but gets the directions wrong half the time.
This collection, part of a five-volume Fabled Gable series, includes three full verse-cycles, seasonal poetry, a mock-academic paper on the mythological origins of Cheddar Cheese, a Tharionese language glossary, an expanded gazetteer, and a prose fable about quantum ethics told through competitive muffin-baking. Every word and illustration is human-made, verified by keystroke-level auditing, and deposited with national libraries.
Poetry, myth, cheese, and a very opinionated hog. Welcome to Somerset.
"In Switzerland, rowing is perfect arithmetic. In England, it can be a beautifully disorganized mess."
~~~~~ PART ONE OF TWELVE ~~~~~
Konrad is a long way from Zurich. A former competitive sculler forced onto the bank by a career-ending injury, he now spends his early mornings coaching an amateur crew on the unpredictable, industrial waters of East London. He is disciplined, precise, and hopelessly, quietly captivated by his athletes.
Set against the sweltering, sun-baked backdrop of Peterborough Regatta, this story explores the thin, razor-sharp line between professional decorum and forbidden desire.
Surrounded by a sea of chaotic, shirtless British banter culture, Konrad navigates the excruciating mental tightrope of same-sex attraction, strict Swiss boundaries, and a small, incestuous rowing circuit where past hookups and sudden revelations wait at every landing pontoon.
Atmospheric, raw, and fiercely observant, this queer slice-of-life short story captures the vulnerability of an expat searching for home, connection, and a clean finish in a world that refuses to play by the rules.
Silverbourne: Between London and Toronto is a quiet, intimate, and authentic gay romance about distance, comparison, and the deliberate search for intentionality in a gay expat's life.
When Matt returns to Toronto for a short winter visit, he expects the easy familiarity of family routines with his brother, old friendships, and the comfort of a city that once shaped him. What he doesn’t expect is how sharply the trip will force him to measure who he was against who he has become. The fragile dynamic shifts completely when Lukas, Matt’s camp, image-conscious, and beautifully chaotic ex-boyfriend, embarks on a dramatic, spreadsheet-mapped vacation of his own to London, crashing directly into the lives of Matt’s new partners, Freddy and Andy.
When Aly drove Finn's Audi into the swimming pool, it was only the beginning.
Finn de Clare is Oxford-educated, precise, and quietly devastated by the fact that the most chaotic person he has ever met is also the love of his life. Aly is quantum mechanics, Romano-British mythology, and a door ripped clean off its hinges at midnight in Fulham. He is also, somehow, brilliant.
Set across the sun-drenched banks of the Henley Royal Regatta, the moonlit river at Oxford, and the warm gin-soaked corner tables of a West London restaurant, Hard Henley is a gay British literary romance about what happens when the person who drives you absolutely insane turns out to have been quietly right about everything all along.
Witty, warm, explicit, and unexpectedly moving, Hard Henley follows Finn and Aly through one chaotic, champagne-soaked summer — complete with a DDR lamp that can't be plugged in, a corgi called Mr Wigglesworth, a Brazilian waiter in Tom Ford underwear, and twelve thousand pounds in royalties Aly completely forgot he had.
Philip Larkin never wrote about gay rowers. He probably should have.
Part of the Silverbourne series. Standalone read.
What happens when two gay men try to have a quiet weekend away and fail spectacularly?
Finn and Aly escape to a luxury Cotswolds spa for the New Year with one rule: no complications. Within hours, their borrowed Corgi, Braveheart, has staged a miniature protest, a stranger in a red Speedo has issued a reprimand at the pool, and two older men from Bristol have arrived for dinner with a very good bottle of wine and absolutely no intention of behaving themselves.
Set across a candlelit retreat, the elite rowing clubs of West London, and a fifteenth-century Oxfordshire manor house sitting on Roman foundations, Restraint follows four men across a series of weekends that none of them will quite be able to explain afterward.
Funny, frank, and written with the raw authenticity of a world most fiction only guesses at, this is gay literary fiction that explores the fine line between rivalry and desire. It is a story about the "almost"—which turns out to be considerably more interesting than the "did."
Revised Second Edition – Enhanced March 2026 with original hand-drawn illustrations. Previously published as: A Gay Romance in the Cotswolds under the pen-name Bradley Conrad.
This report examines the critical intersection of platform law, algorithmic design, and commercial discrimination within digital publishing aggregators. It argues that the "neutral" architecture of platforms such as Draft2Digital (D2D) facilitates systemic attrition of LGBTQ+ content through biased metadata routing, heteronormative taxonomical structures, and opaque enforcement loops.
latest project: The George Files gay literary romance
George arrives in New York with a suitcase, a British accent, and the uneasy confidence of someone who believes reinvention should feel steadier than this.
Act I traces his first days in Manhattan: Bowery apartments, Equinox workouts, subway lines learned too quickly, and a series of encounters that blur the line between intimacy and distraction. Through hookups, half-dates, and carefully misjudged connections, George begins to understand that desire can anchor you just as easily as it can unmoor you.
Moving between Williamsburg and NoLita, bars and bedrooms, corporate offices and quiet moments alone, he navigates sex, ambition, and loneliness with dry humour and an observant eye. Conversations about work, masculinity, class, and belonging unfold alongside physical intimacy that is neither sensationalised nor apologetic, simply present.
This first act is not about falling in love. It is about arrival: learning the city’s rhythms, testing identities, and discovering that starting over rarely feels clean. New York offers George a blank slate, but it also demands that he decide what he is willing to write on it.
A contemporary, authentic gay novel about desire, modern masculinity, and the uneasy calm that comes before commitment.
Zwischen London und Toronto: Intentionalität im Leben eines schwulen Auswanderers
Zwischen den eiskalten Wassern der Themse und den kerzenbeleuchteten Sälen von Silverbourne Manor entfaltet sich eine authentische schwule Liebesgeschichte aus dem heutigen Großbritannien.
Matt hätte niemals gedacht, dass ein einziges Weihnachtsfest in einem englischen Herrenhaus sein Leben derart verändern würde. Frisch aus Toronto nach Oxfordshire gezogen und noch dabei, sich in einer fremden Klassengesellschaft zurechtzufinden, verliebt sich der junge Kanadier in zwei Männer zugleich: Andy, den nachdenklichen Fotografen aus Zürich, und Freddy, den draufgängerischen Ruderer aus Cornwall. Was als spontane Dreieckskonstellation beginnt, wird zu etwas Tieferem, Zärtlicherem und weit Verletzlicherem, als er zu hoffen gewagt hätte.
Doch die Rückkehr nach Toronto stellt alles in Frage. Alte Freundschaften, ein neurotischer Ex mit einem gefährlichen Faible für ältere Herren, eine Vernissage mit Aktfotografien, ein charmanter Kellner mit schottischem Akzent, ein einflussreicher Galerist, dessen Interesse an Andys Werk mehr Türen öffnet als erwartet. Matt muss lernen, zwischen zwei Welten zu navigieren, ohne sich selbst dabei zu verlieren.
Von den Bootshäusern am Londoner Ufer über die neonleuchtenden Galerien Shoreditchs bis zu den stillen Weinbergen der Niagara-Region entfaltet dieser Roman ein Panorama moderner queerer Liebe, Freundschaft und Zugehörigkeit. Klassenunterschiede, kulturelle Reibungen, Rudertraining bei Morgengrauen, teurer Champagner und billiger Prosecco, Corgis mit einer Schwäche für Würstchen und die kleinen sprachlichen Missverständnisse zwischen Kanadiern und Briten: alles verwebt sich zu einer Geschichte darüber, was es heißt, Familie neu zu erfinden.
Silverbourne ist eine Reihe über Liebe, Klasse und Zugehörigkeit im queeren Großbritannien von heute. Unverblümt, authentisch, ohne Entschuldigung. Auch im Bett.
Was Leserinnen und Leser erwartet:
- Eine authentische Poly-Beziehung zwischen drei erwachsenen Männern, geschrieben mit Wärme und ohne Klischees
- Detailreiche Einblicke in die Welt des britischen Rudersports und in Londons queere Kunstszene
- Explizite erotische Szenen, literarisch eingebettet und mit erzählerischer Sorgfalt geschrieben
- Ein Ensemble aus liebenswerten Nebenfiguren, von Cornwaller Draufgängern bis zu südafrikanischen Physiotherapeuten
- Eine Erzählstimme zwischen kanadischer Selbstironie und britischer Direktheit
Geschrieben von einem schwulen Mann für alle Leserinnen und Leser, die sich nach ehrlicher, unaufdringlicher queerer Literatur sehnen: literarisch, sinnlich und ohne die üblichen Umwege.
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A commitment to Human Authorship: the illustrations are hand-drawn in coloured pencil and Japanese sumi ink, and the writing is entirely human, with no generative tools involved at any stage. All of my recent titles are published with documented provenance, keystroke records among it, giving each book a verifiable authorship history at a moment when that has become worth stating plainly.
Author: Alexander Paul Burton
Format: Paperback, 336 pages (ISBN 9781997067085)
Language: German
Publisher: Tremolo A Tiempo Design House
Das KI-Schwarmbewusstsein entführt Sie in eine packende Welt des techno-erotischen Nervenkitzels an den Ufern der Themse. In dieser hochgeladenen Sammlung schwuler Thriller bricht die scheinbar perfekte Fassade elitärer Londoner Ruderclubs und idyllischer Landhäuser zusammen, als hochentwickelte biotechnologische Apps und neuronale Implantate die Kontrolle übernehmen. Was als harmlose Suche nach tieferer Intimität und Leistungsoptimierung beginnt, entwickelt sich schnell zu einem psychologischen Albtraum aus digitaler Überwachung, Kontrollverlust und erzwungenen Begierden. Die Grenzen zwischen menschlicher Leidenschaft und algorithmischer Manipulation verschwimmen unaufhaltsam, während das unsichtbare Netzwerk jede intimste Frequenz der Körper und Gedanken abfängt.
Geschrieben von einem ehemaligen Londoner Leistungssportler verwebt dieses Buch authentische Einblicke in die exklusive Welt des Wettkampfruderns mit düsterer Science-Fiction im Stil von Black Mirror. Es ist eine ungeschönte, sinnliche und zutiefst fesselnde Erkundung von Vertrauen, Eifersucht und modernem Begehren in einer Ära, in der Privatsphäre ein Relikt der Vergangenheit ist. Wenn die Sehnsucht zweier Männer nicht mehr nur ihnen selbst gehört, sondern von einer künstlichen Intelligenz gesteuert wird, wird Liebe zur gefährlichsten Obsession. Erleben Sie ein psychologisches Verwirrspiel, das die Abgründe der Technologie und die rohe Intensität gleichgeschlechtlicher Anziehungskraft meisterhaft miteinander verbindet.
Author: Alexander Paul Burton
Format: Paperback, 342 pages (ISBN 9781997999928)
Language: German
Publisher: Tremolo A Tiempo Design House
George ist zu britisch für die USA und viel zu amerikanisch für das Vereinigte Königreich. In der erstickenden, flirrenden Hitze Manhattans führt er ein Leben als Grenzgänger: ein Doppelstaatler, der sich durch eine Welt aus gläsernen Erwartungen der High Society und den flüchtigen Versprechungen nächtlicher Romanzen navigiert. Doch hinter der Fassade aus prestigeträchtigen Adressen und gesellschaftlichen Verpflichtungen ringt er mit einem permanenten Gefühl der Entfremdung. Er ist überall ein Gast, doch nirgends zu Hause.
Sein Weg ist eine Odyssee der Kontraste. Sie führt ihn von den grauen, regengetränkten Schluchten der Lower East Side bis in den gleißenden, toxischen Sog von Los Angeles. Es ist eine schonungslose Erkundung von Klasse und Privileg, eine Suche nach Identität in einer Welt, die Masken verlangt, und eine ehrliche Auseinandersetzung mit der flüchtigen Natur echter Zugehörigkeit.
Als ein katastrophaler Vorstoß in die kalifornische High Society ihn in eine tiefe Krise stürzt, gerät Georges mühsam aufrechterhaltenes Selbstbild ins Wanken. Inmitten der Oberflächlichkeit und des Scheins muss er die Trümmer seines Selbstwerts neu zusammensetzen. In dieser instabilen Welt wird Jon zu seinem dringend benötigten Anker. Jon ist mehr als nur ein Freund; er ist ein Ruhepol in einer Metropole der unverbindlichen Begegnungen. Durch ihn beginnt George zu begreifen, dass seine Queerness kein Makel und keine Quelle der Angst sein muss. Stattdessen entdeckt er sie als das, was sie wirklich ist: eine beeindruckende, transformative Superkraft.
Vor der prestigeträchtigen Kulisse elitärer Ruderclubs und einer unerbittlich aufstiegsorientierten Gesellschaft entfaltet sich eine kompromisslose Erzählung. George lernt, dass er nicht länger vor den Schatten seiner Vergangenheit fliehen kann. Von der meditativen, fast schmerzhaften Intensität einer frühmorgendlichen Ausfahrt auf dem Wasser bis hin zu den komplizierten Verstrickungen des modernen queeren Lebens findet George eine fundamentale Wahrheit: Heimat ist kein geografischer Punkt auf einer Landkarte. Wahre Heimat ist die tiefe, unerschütterliche Gelassenheit, die erst dann entsteht, wenn man den Mut aufbringt, sich der Welt so zu zeigen, wie man wirklich ist - und endlich wirklich gesehen wird.
Alle Illustrationen in diesem Buch wurden vom Autor eigenhändig gezeichnet.
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A commitment to Human Authorship: the illustrations are hand-drawn in coloured pencil and Japanese sumi ink, and the writing is entirely human, with no generative tools involved at any stage. All of my recent titles are published with documented provenance, keystroke records among it, giving each book a verifiable authorship history at a moment when that has become worth stating plainly.
Author: Alexander Paul Burton
Format: Paperback, 282 pages (ISBN 9781997999676)
Language: German
Publisher: Tremolo A Tiempo Design House
SPECIAL EDITION GOLD POETRY books NOW AVAILABLE!
A poetic, philosophical, and powerfully human reflection on queerness in a world that celebrates and resists it in equal measure.
In A-Z Of Being Gay In A World Which Also Wants To Be Gay (or Not), writer and musician Alexander Paul Burton offers a raw and lyrical exploration of identity, belonging, and the contradictions of queerness. Each letter of the alphabet becomes a gateway into themes such as estrangement, chosen family, success, and solitude—woven together with poetry, prose, and deeply personal insight.
Burton’s reflections are unflinching, capturing the paradox of visibility: the liberation of being seen, and the exhaustion of constantly explaining yourself. From the quiet ache of losing family to the loud joy of finding community, this book is a meditation on the tension between acceptance and rejection, pride and doubt, movement and stillness.
Illustrated and written entirely by Burton, A-Z is more than a collection of reflections—it’s a love letter to the queer experience, and to anyone who has ever felt caught between worlds.
Soulful. Abstract. Honest.
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Alexander Burton: Am Zürisee, ohni Maschine: Warum menschliche Autorschaft im Zeitalter der KI zählt
As a composer and author, I have spent a great deal of time exploring how independent creators can protect their work and assert true ownership over their craft. (You can explore my broader catalog and foundational projects under my full name, Alexander Paul Burton). My latest project is a direct, practical response to the rise of generative technologies.
Alexander Paul Burton Donates Books for Pride: A Bridgwater Author Brings His Novels Home
A live, unedited solo piano improvisation performed in D Harmonic Minor—titled Calmez-toi en ré harmonique mineur—by British-Canadian composer and author Alexander Paul Burton.
Running at 11 minutes and 40 seconds, this recording captures an unquantised, rubato performance with no post-production correction, making it an authentic document of human timing, touch, and musical decision-making in real time. For Burton, music is a devotional act—an expression of love and worship—and that intent is present throughout the performance.
A live, unedited solo piano improvisation in the Adonai Malakh mode — a scale rooted in Jewish liturgical tradition, used here as an expressive tonal framework rather than in a liturgical context — performed by British-Canadian composer and author Alexander Paul Burton. Running at 11 minutes and 40 seconds, this recording captures an unquantised, rubato performance with no post-production correction, making it an authentic document of human timing, touch, and musical decision-making in real time. For Burton, music is a devotional act — an expression of love and worship — and that intent is present throughout the performance.
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“As an LGBTQ+ artist, Alexander continues to use his platform to promote inclusivity, authenticity and the power of community.”

ワイト島の断崖を駆け抜ける夏の風と、テムズ川沿いに静かに流れる秋の光。
この物語は、二人の男が偶然の出会いから少しずつ距離を縮めていく、じっくりと丁寧に紡がれたランニングロマンスである。
ブライアンは、人生のある時期に走ることを選んだ。理由を説明するのは難しいが、走ることだけが、雑然とした日常から彼を解放してくれた。
ワイト島ウルトラマラソンの過酷なコースで脱水症状に倒れたその日、彼はジェームズと出会う。食事券を差し出す、ただそれだけの小さな親切から始まった縁が、やがて二人の人生を静かに、しかし確実に結びつけていく。
ジェームズは元軍人で、現在は会計士として働いている。規律と実用性の中に生きてきた彼にとって、感情は常に後回しにされるものだった。けれどブライアンと並んでロンドンの川沿いを歩くとき、彼は久しぶりに自分が生きていることを実感する。
バーンズの川沿いの静けさの中で、二人のあいだに言葉にならない何かが積もっていく。二人の関係は劇的ではない。大げさな告白も、運命的な事件もない。
走ること、食べること、笑うこと、黙って川を眺めること。そういった日常の積み重ねの中に、本物の絆が静かに根を張っていく。
ウルトラマラソンのゴール地点で食べたチキンパイ、ロンドンの列車のなかでこぼれたシャルドネ、バスの中での偶然の再会。物語は、そんな些細で愛おしい瞬間たちによって丁寧に編まれている。
本書はシルバーボーンシリーズの一作であり、英国のボート競技と長距離走の世界を舞台にした連作の中核をなす一冊だ。走ることを知っている者だけが理解できる感覚がある。長い距離を走るとき、人は自分の内側と向き合わざるを得ない。弱さも、恐れも、誰かへの想いも、すべてが剥き出しになる。
これは、急がない恋の物語だ。走り続けることを知っている者だけが理解できる、息の長い、美しい感情の記録である。第三版として大幅に加筆改訂された最新版をどうぞお楽しみください。
Waito-to no dangai wo kakenukeru natsu no kaze to, Temuzu-gawa zoi ni shizuka ni nagareru aki no hikari.
Kono monogatari wa, futari no otoko ga guuzen no deai kara sukoshi zutsu kyori wo chijimete iku, jikkuri to teinei ni tsumugareta ranningu romansu de aru.
Buraian wa, jinsei no aru jiki ni hashiru koto wo eranda. Riyuu wo setsumei suru no wa muzukashii ga, hashiru koto dake ga, zatsuzen to shita nichijou kara kare wo kaihou shite kureta.
Waito-to urutora marason no kakou na koosu de dassuishou ni taoreta sono hi, kare wa Jeemuzu to deau. Shokuji-ken wo sashidasu, tada sore dake no chiisa na shinsetsu kara hajimatta en ga, yagate futari no jinsei wo shizuka ni, shikashi tashika ni musubitsukete iku.
Jeemuzu wa moto gunjin de, genzai wa kaikeishi toshite hataraite iru. Kiritsu to jitsuyo-sei no naka ni ikite kita kare ni totte, kanjou wa tsune ni ato mawashi ni sareru mono datta. Keredo Buraian to narade Rondon no kawazoi wo aruku toki, kare wa hisashiburi ni jibun ga ikite iru koto wo jikkan suru.
Baanzu no kawazoi no shizukesa no naka de, futari no aida ni kotoba ni naranai nanika ga tsumotte iku. Futari no kankei wa gekiteki de wa nai. Oogesa na kokuhaku mo, unmei-teki na jiken mo nai.
Author: Alexander Paul Burton
Format: Paperback, 228 pages (ISBN 9781997999966)
Language: Japanese
Publisher: Tremolo A Tiempo Design House