Fiction

Paul Burston

Jan 8, 20232 min read

Children of the Sun

I loved this book, though it took me a while to read it. I began, appropriately enough, on a sunny beach in Tenerife - and finished it...

Paul Burston

Dec 21, 20222 min read

American Scholar

Novels in which the main character is a novelist can tend towards self-indulgence. And I say that as someone who’s published one (The...

Paul Burston

Apr 30, 20221 min read

Pride & Prejudice in Harrogate

Word is out! I’ll be chairing my first ever panel at Harrogate in July. I’ve been attending as a punter since 2017, and last year I...

Paul Burston

Jun 19, 20212 min read

Twist In My Sobriety

Like many people, I’ve really missed live performance – both as a spectator and as a producer / performer. Last month, Polari returned to...

Paul Burston

Apr 21, 20204 min read

Lockdown Bookclub – The Good Son

There aren’t many sassy, sexually-ambiguous, ten year-old, Irish first-person narrators in fiction. So thank heavens for Mickey Donnelly....

Paul Burston

Apr 14, 20202 min read

Lockdown Bookclub – Erotic Lives of the Superheroes

These are queer times for superheroes. Last October, Batwoman came out as the first crime-fighting lesbian to front her own TV show....

Paul Burston

Apr 13, 20202 min read

Lockdown Bookclub – A Place Called Winter

My last post about EM Forster and Maurice got me thinking about another much-loved, more recent read. Published in 2015 and shortlisted...