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)

-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.

Trim Size

5.500" x 8.500" (216mm x 140mm)

Interior Color and Paper

Black & White: Groundwood

Binding

Hardback: Jacketed Case Laminate

Cover Finish

Gloss

Page Count

428

Print ISBN

978-1-997067-12-2

Spine Width

1.18750 in (30.16 mm)

Carton Qty

14

Weight

1.316 lb (596.93 g)

Original in Production Date

28-AUG-26

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.