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at the age of 37

By: Neil Raffan

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Catamite heaven, Blue sky cancer, and Process controller memory leak are amongst the intriguing titles within this collection, though one can't help but wonder whether this eclectic assortment of shorts was written to be published? At times the level of whispered confessional seems all too raw, as if but for a close friend's eyes - though the emotion expressed is loud and clear and universal. 'So you are the other spastic, said the voice behind the door.' Self-mockery pulls the author back from the edge-of-life in the homosexual closet as well as from the trauma and embarrassment of unrequited love. Readers may sense that certain of these tales are an autobiographical version of Twelve O'clock Feet. Talking socks and feisty answer-machines add humour whilst far-flung locations ... the Okavango, Frankfurt, Aberdeenshire and Hong Kong ... mix travelogue with acerbic wit and family crisis. On occasion autobiography (Poisonous toe) and fiction (Shut up) do criss-cross (Bread) for greater effect.

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1291202935

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9781291202939

Heart & Sole (where terms & conditions apply)

By: Neil Raffan

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Heart & Sole (where terms & conditions apply)

By: Neil Raffan

I so longed to brush his cheek with my finger, to put my lips to his, to kiss him awake, to touch him as someone more than a pal with the aching tenderness that coursed my immobile body.' Neil Raffan exposes his personal vulnerability, both emotional and physical, through Lost in translation and What Phou respectively; whilst other more robust entries focus on the likes of vascular dementia and carmine bee-eaters, family hiatus and travel heaven. 'What was debt anyway? It had no emotion. Letters, cheques, pieces of mail, some more aggressively worded than others. Where was debt's heart and soul?' This is an eclectic collection of shorts with titles such as Buffet and Lanes, Woodside contract whist, and The Maiden Stone amongst others. And oh yes! Harvey, from At the of age of 37, is back in Botswana, but without Bryce ... 'Here in the Okavango the spring leaves fall, in preparation for the summer rains. How weird and wonderful is that?

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1291321241

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9781291321241

Bear Cheek

By: Neil Raffan

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Bear Cheek

By: Neil Raffan

We are all misfits. There is no such thing as normal. It is just that some are better than others at hiding their peculiarities.' So opens this latest collection from Neil Raffan. Whilst it may be too simplistic to say the content falls into two categories; either travelogues or displays of heart-on-sleeve; it contains the least fiction. The universal themes carry with them a sharp personal edge, however obvious the attempt to deflect it with humour. Travel to Mali or Zambia, Iowa, Mississippi and beyond.

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156

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1326244817

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9781326244811

275 Park Court Drive

By: Neil Raffan

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275 Park Court Drive

By: Neil Raffan

Forty years of Neil Raffan's poems. Other than the infamous Up me nose this collection also contains Elizabeth, Panic in Bolton, Moroccan sleep, Who shot John Lennon? and Endless killing. Sharing with the usual suspects of subjects (family, life, love, death and sex) are a number of odes at attempted self-declaration. Enjoy!

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1326172786

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9781326172787

George ffree-Lance

By: Neil Raffan

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George ffree-Lance

By: Neil Raffan

Imagine The Famous Five trapped inside A Clockwork Orange of their own creation. Crumbs! Amongst other issues in his life, former children's favourite, Ricky Buns has writer's block. His sister-in-law and her circle of twenty-something post-punk bored-again friends are looking for a hobby. It is the beginning of the 1980's when The Committee is formed, pre-the internet, mobile phone and social network revolution. And very much pre-the world of political correctness. Ostensibly out to help Ricky they are very much looking to amuse themselves. This stylised black comedy deals with layered levels of persecution and relative reality that boredom and angst have engendered, with the eponymous George unwittingly at both its centre and periphery.

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1291213570

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9781291213577

Concert for a dead piano

By: Neil Raffan

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Concert for a dead piano

By: Neil Raffan

Eighteen going on? Actually, Ian Roberts is eighteen and just going on - it is 1971 and with his school days about to end what next? Anything? Will he/won't he go to university? With his beloved Grandma Craig as a sounding board Ian's prose straddles the child/adult fault line - uncertain on which side to fall. Does he have to fall? A young Aberdonian's growing pains, what have Camus and Gide done to his mind? Despite himself this is a journey of self-discovery, accompanied, as in Cannibals eat bods, by Ian Ceri and Morag Kennedy.

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129173726X

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9781291737264

Hunting Roundabouts

By: Neil Raffan

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Hunting Roundabouts

By: Neil Raffan

Tokyo in the early 1990's ... the economy may well be in the beginnings of its decline but the foreign financial sector workers are still playing whoopee. Kevin Jones, one such worker, has finally come out to himself but to few others. Whilst his Svengali, Dave, is back in the UK will Kevin break free from his past of lost loves and denial of self. With the Tokyo gay-scene excluding open access to foreigners, how will Kevin's path towards coming out progress in this land where the 21st Century may have been reached technologically yet to Western eyes female emancipation appears at best as early 20th Century. Wonder at the beauty and contrasts of Japan through the eyes of a 30 something as he goes through life with his ears filled with popular music. Fellow Brit employee Kamal has skin colour to add to his gaijin make-up, thrown together by despising Front Office excesses will he and Kevin discover more in common ...

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132642145X

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9781326421458

Neuter Spectator

By: Neil Raffan

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Neuter Spectator

By: Neil Raffan

Changed circumstances lead Gabrielle Trythall, a widow, to push her surviving son into exile from the cosy family home on the West Sussex coast of England. Against his better judgement Paul temporarily relocates to a flat within an old Victorian house in South London. How he does or doesn't cope is closely linked to his relationship with the occupants of the other flats within the house. But which one is the neuter spectator?

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1291203702

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9781291203707

Cannibals eat bods

By: Neil Raffan

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Cannibals eat bods

By: Neil Raffan

Thirteen months in the life of the closest of friends. Ian Roberts and Ian Ceri are the epitome of best friends, from school days on to attendance at their home town university ... Aberdeen. Long suffering fans of the Dons a couple of years before the Alex Ferguson revolution the novel kicks off with Ian Roberts running away from home, university, his girlfriend; leaving his best friend behind. Whilst Ian Ceri's narrative handles the young men's common history as well as the downturn in their football club's fortunes Ian Roberts appears to be on the edge of a London now in transit from glam rock androgyny whilst he clings to music from the beginning of the decade. The era of Don Revie as the England manager, and as 1976 heads for its summer of summers Jaws and One flew over the cuckoo's nest are the films to see. Their mid-1970's correspondence highlights their differences as well as their shared past. Who is the cannibal, who is the bod?

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1291732403

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9781291732405

Regression in Galatians

Paul and the Gentile Response to Jewish Law

By: Neil Martin

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Regression in Galatians

Paul and the Gentile Response to Jewish Law

By: Neil Martin

Exposing strengths and weaknesses in the 'Old', 'New' and 'Radical New' Perspectives on Paul, Neil Martin's analysis of regression language in Galatians in its first-century context argues that the apostle's supposed anti-law polemic reflects an underlying antipathy for pagan, not Jewish religiosity." --

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161597621

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9783161597626

The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde

By: Neil McKenna

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The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde

By: Neil McKenna

Oscar Wilde said of himself, "I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my work." Now, for the first time, Neil McKenna focuses on the tormented genius of Wilde's personal life, reproducing remarkable love letters and detailing Wilde's until-now unknown relationships with other men. McKenna has spent years researching Wilde's life, drawing on extensive new material, including never-before published poems as well as recently discovered trial statements made by male prostitutes and blackmailers about Wilde. McKenna provides explosive evidence of the political machinations behind Wilde's trials for sodomy, as well as his central role in the burgeoning gay world of Victorian London. Dazzlingly written and meticulously researched, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde fully charts Wilde's astonishing odyssey through London's sexual underworld and paints a frank and vivid psychological portrait of a troubled genius.

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Basic Books

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0786734922

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9780786734924

Galatians Reconsidered

Jews, Gentiles, and Justification in the First and the Twenty-First Centuries

By: Neil Martin

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Galatians Reconsidered

Jews, Gentiles, and Justification in the First and the Twenty-First Centuries

By: Neil Martin

What would the world look like if the Old Perspective on Paul was right about justification, the New Perspective was right about Judaism, and the Radical New Perspective was right to note ongoing differences between Jewish and Gentile converts? Galatians Reconsidered is a compelling, practical study of Paul the Apostle’s writing that explores just that. Emphasising the central role played by regression in Paul’s argument on justification, Neil Martin examines the dichotomy between faith and works and how the apostle envisaged the differences in how Jews and Gentiles should interact with the Law. By re-establishing Galatians in its original Jewish and pagan context, Martin exposes the problems faced by Galatian churches and shows how they still speak to modern churches today. His insight not only helps us better appreciate Paul’s message but challenges us to put his wisdom into practice in our own church settings. Provocative and stimulating Galatians Reconsidered is a robust new look at the question of justification. It will leave you with a thorough knowledge of the merits and failings of both the old and new perspectives on Paul, as well as a broader understanding of the letter to the Galatians both in the context in which it was written and its continued relevance today.

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Inter-Varsity Press

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1789743907

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9781789743906

Cannibals eat bods

By: Neil Raffan

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at the age of 37

at the age of 37

Heart & Sole (where terms & conditions apply)

Heart & Sole (where terms & conditions apply)

Bear Cheek

Bear Cheek

275 Park Court Drive

275 Park Court Drive

George ffree-Lance

George ffree-Lance

Concert for a dead piano

Concert for a dead piano

Hunting Roundabouts

Hunting Roundabouts

Neuter Spectator

Neuter Spectator

Cannibals eat bods

Cannibals eat bods

Regression in Galatians

Regression in Galatians

The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde

The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde

Galatians Reconsidered

Galatians Reconsidered

Cannibals eat bods

Cannibals eat bods

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