A Gay Berlin New Year: Nascent Amour & Luck Between the Years
A single Canadian coin, flipped moments before the Christmas pudding goes up in flames at Silverbourne Manor, decides who flies to Berlin for New Year's Eve.
Matt has lived in England for barely a year, his Royal Bank of Canada card won't work at Paddington, and he has no idea why Freddy and Andy, a rowing couple from Fulham with a corgi and an exhausting talent for innuendo, would want him along. Within hours he is in a Wilmersdorf hotel suite booked under a cheerful lie, at an avant-garde house party where a silent photographer with cinnamon-bun hair teaches him to dance, and in the middle of a midnight kiss for three.
When Andy vanishes into Berlin's art scene, Freddy and Matt are left with martinis, the frozen Tiergarten and a question neither of them wants to ask. In Munich, Jonty and Jack share Glühwein beneath the Angel of Peace while insisting they are only friends, then catch a train to Berlin, where a fire performer from Jack's past turns up at a lakeside art opening. Back in Fulham, Finn and Aly discover that Braveheart the corgi will only eat sweet and sour chicken balls. At Silverbourne, Brian finally confesses to Lady de Clare what happened to the pendant she sent, and Finn learns from his brother George that their mother's lifelong love of tennis was never really about tennis.
Once the holiday is over, it has to survive real life. There is a capsize on the Tideway, an Art Deco bar cart to move out of Jericho, a group-chat misunderstanding about Canadian Doubles, George's quiet departure for New York, and a dinner at Chez Bruce where three men have to decide what they are to one another.
Told by twelve narrators across two acts, Fortuna and Veritas, A Gay Berlin New Year is a cosy, witty, low-steam comedy of friendship and new love, set in the quiet days the Germans call zwischen den Jahren, the time between the years. This Parlour Edition has been rewritten and expanded to more than twice the length of the first edition, and it can be enjoyed on its own or as Book Eight of the Silverbourne series.
Written by a gay author and former Thames rower, certified Human Authored by the Authors Guild, with the full keystroke record of its writing published openly.
Author: Alexander Paul Burton
Formats: Paperback, 350 pages (ISBN 9781997067320); Hardcover with Dust Jacket, 350 pages (ISBN 9781997067337)
Language: English
Publisher: Tremolo A Tiempo Design House
A single Canadian coin, flipped moments before the Christmas pudding goes up in flames at Silverbourne Manor, decides who flies to Berlin for New Year's Eve.
Matt has lived in England for barely a year, his Royal Bank of Canada card won't work at Paddington, and he has no idea why Freddy and Andy, a rowing couple from Fulham with a corgi and an exhausting talent for innuendo, would want him along. Within hours he is in a Wilmersdorf hotel suite booked under a cheerful lie, at an avant-garde house party where a silent photographer with cinnamon-bun hair teaches him to dance, and in the middle of a midnight kiss for three.
When Andy vanishes into Berlin's art scene, Freddy and Matt are left with martinis, the frozen Tiergarten and a question neither of them wants to ask. In Munich, Jonty and Jack share Glühwein beneath the Angel of Peace while insisting they are only friends, then catch a train to Berlin, where a fire performer from Jack's past turns up at a lakeside art opening. Back in Fulham, Finn and Aly discover that Braveheart the corgi will only eat sweet and sour chicken balls. At Silverbourne, Brian finally confesses to Lady de Clare what happened to the pendant she sent, and Finn learns from his brother George that their mother's lifelong love of tennis was never really about tennis.
Once the holiday is over, it has to survive real life. There is a capsize on the Tideway, an Art Deco bar cart to move out of Jericho, a group-chat misunderstanding about Canadian Doubles, George's quiet departure for New York, and a dinner at Chez Bruce where three men have to decide what they are to one another.
Told by twelve narrators across two acts, Fortuna and Veritas, A Gay Berlin New Year is a cosy, witty, low-steam comedy of friendship and new love, set in the quiet days the Germans call zwischen den Jahren, the time between the years. This Parlour Edition has been rewritten and expanded to more than twice the length of the first edition, and it can be enjoyed on its own or as Book Eight of the Silverbourne series.
Written by a gay author and former Thames rower, certified Human Authored by the Authors Guild, with the full keystroke record of its writing published openly.
Author: Alexander Paul Burton
Formats: Paperback, 350 pages (ISBN 9781997067320); Hardcover with Dust Jacket, 350 pages (ISBN 9781997067337)
Language: English
Publisher: Tremolo A Tiempo Design House