Gay Romance at Oxford

Gay Romance #5

by Anthony McDonald

Two eighteen-year-old boys unexpectedly find themselves sharing a room when they first arrive at Oxford. University life draws them together at whirlwind speed as they find themselves playing opposite each other in a student production of Hamlet and, after a few false starts with other people, playing together in bed. They find that love has many lessons to teach them as they grapple together with their emerging sexuality, deal with the designs and machinations of others, and looking beyond the delights of bedtime, tentatively dare to look at the face of lasting happiness.

Genres: Gay

197 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 26, 2013

About the author

Anthony McDonald studied history at Durham University. He worked very briefly as a musical instrument maker and as a farm labourer before moving into the theatre, where he has worked in almost every capacity except those of Director and Electrician.
His first novel, Orange Bitter, Orange Sweet, was published in 2001 and his second, Adam, in 2003.
Orange Bitter, Orange Sweet became the first book in a Seville trilogy that also comprises Along The Stars and Woodcock Flight.
Other books include the sequel to Adam, - Blue Sky Adam - and the stand-alone adventure story, Getting Orlando.
Ivor's Ghosts, a psychological thriller, was published in April 2014.
The Dog In The Chapel, and Ralph: Diary of a Gay Teen, both appeared in 2014. Anthony is the also the author of the Gay Romance series, which comprises ten short novels.
Anthony McDonald's short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic
He has also written the scripts for several Words and Music events, based around the lives and works of composers including Schubert and Brahms, which have been performed in Britain and in Portugal.
His travel writing has appeared in the Independent newspaper.
After several years of living and teaching English in France McDonald is now based based in rural East Sussex.

Reviews

[Guy Venturi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Shakespeare Pip Rogers Coker & Loves it.

Oxford is not prepared for the events on stage and in dorm rooms as a group of friends and actors catches the attention of the UK college world and newspapers as a battle for fairness builds tension and awareness in the unspoken world of gay love as it spreads with madness through Hamlet and other plays and brings great frustration to multiple parents houses and family relations.

But the world has changed and not everything works out for the best. Butt Cocker gets his Pip.

[Philip J Harris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Too short

For any young man to read this is a must. Although middle class and high education the story levels at the ordinary relationships of two younger guys. I would have liked the coming out periods in more details. This could only soften what can be a worrying and deviating experience for a guy.
Antony McD is a thoughtful and sypathetic illustrator of what is, maybe and could have been in such relationships.
An education in a book for parents as well as people of all orientations.

[⚓Dan⚓ · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you haven't treated yourself and read any of Anthony McDonalds work, your missing some beautiful writing talent. Five plus stars.