Michel Russell: 5 books

A handsome 30-year-old gay Brit returns after spending 10 years in the U.S., where he became an award-winning fashion designer with a top fashion house. Scott Farrell has left behind his lover (a famous porn star), to spend Christmas with his lesbian friends in dear old Plymouth, a place that will never ever be the same!

On the eve of his 65th birthday, Sir Nigel Ingram, Surgeon Vice Admiral, RN, has a massive heart attack and dies at his home in Salisbury, Wilts. His 35-year-old partner, although some would say gay lover, Callum Ryan, is with him. After the funeral, Callum has to arrange for a thanksgiving service...

Bradley (Braydie) Neilson, a 35-year-old gay man, works for a charity in the beautiful Georgian city of Bath, on the river Avon. He belongs to a group of seven known as the CC circle, headed by 75-year-old Clarence Collier, a Bathonian and a rather eccentric but loveable old man who entertains in a rather lavish house full of antiques.

Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience....

As America debates the merits of government-provided health insurance, it is important to note that the U.S. government is already the largest insurance provider in the world. For decades, it has used taxpayer funds to support the world's largest health care insurance programs (Medicare and Medicaid)...