Lazlo Thorn: 2 books

Autumn, 1913. Davy Buckland, a boiler cleaner in the engine shed at the local station, was nineteen when he took a shine to the signalman at the nearby Oakwood Junction. He didn't know much about Nathaniel Bixby, but he recognised a man who could show him the ropes and the isolated signal box where...

"Didn't anyone ever tell you? Pain and promise, they're all mixed up in our lives. A bit like good sex, really." June, 1981: The small town of Frentana on the Adriatic coast of Italy was the last place Bobby would have suspected that his titanic struggle with being gay would come...