Private Party
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‘… one of the very best novels released this year. Witty, warm and original.’ CLEO
‘… a secret and magic story which is grotesque and infinitely funny … a zany book, highly entertaining, and with enough twists and turns to keep you glued to the end … 50 Ways is fabulous, whichever way you say it.’ BARFLY
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This short stand alone ebook by Graeme Aitken is also available.
Top Mark
By Graeme Aitken
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Meet ‘the Marks’.
It was strange at first for Mark, dating a guy with the same first name as him. But ‘the Marks’ developed nicknames for each other. Mark became ‘Top Mark’, a sly nod to his role in the bedroom.
But after seven years together, Mark hasn’t had much opportunity to be on top lately. There have been a lot of conversations avoided, unexplained absences, and some very unsettling phone calls.
From the author of the very popular Sydney based ebook series The Indignities comes this new e-book short. In his trademark sexy style, Graeme Aitken explores the intricacies of a modern gay relationship with wit, insight and empathy.
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Author’s Note
Private Party is the second book in the three book series entitled The Indignities .
The other titles in the series are Time to Upsize (Book One) and Me, Myself and Someone Else (Book Three).
This series was originally published as one single volume entitled The Indignities by Clouds of Magellan Press (Melbourne, Australia) in December 2010. The Indignities series is a sequel to the earlier novel Vanity Fierce (Random House Australia).
About the Author
Graeme Aitken is the author of three novels: 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (1995), Vanity Fierce (1998), and its sequel The Indignities (2010). He also edited The Penguin Book of Gay Australian Writing (2002). His most recent work is an ebook short Top Mark (2012). 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous was adapted into a feature film by writer/director Stewart Main in New Zealand and had its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2005. Graeme was born and raised on a remote farm in Central Otago, New Zealand. This upbringing provided the background for his first novel 50 Ways. Graeme has now lived in Sydney, Australia for twenty-eight years. For much of that time, he has worked as the manager/buyer of a small specialist bookshop. This position has complemented his work as a writer. He has also reviewed books for several Australian gay newspapers and magazines over the years. Graeme has served as DNA Magazine’s chief book critic for more than fifteen years now, since their first issue.
You can contact Graeme via his website, sign up for his newsletter, or keep up-to-date on his activities via social media.
Website: http://graemeaitken.com/contact/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_GraemeAitken
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AitkenGraeme
Author photograph – José Rincon Castro
Print and ebook titles by Graeme Aitken
50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (novel) – available in a two volume 20th anniversary edition ebook series (20Ten Books). The print edition can be obtained from The Bookshop Darlinghurst (see details below) or directly from the author.
Vanity Fierce (novel) – available as a printed book and ebook (Random House Australia, 1998).
The Indignities (novel) – available as a printed book (Clouds of Magellan, 2010) and a three part ebook series (20Ten Books, 2012). Note: this is a sequel to Vanity Fierce.
Top Mark (ebook short) (20Ten Books, 2012)
Also available 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous DVD, a 2005 feature film adaptation of the novel, written and directed by Stewart Main.
Ebooks by Graeme Aitken are available from major ebook retailers (Amazon, iBooks, Kobo, Google play, Nook etc).
The best bookshop to obtain print editions of titles by Graeme Aitken or the 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous DVD is The Bookshop Darlinghurst, 207 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia. They will mail order anywhere in the world.
Website – http://www.thebookshop.com.au/brands/Graeme-Aitken.html
Email – info@thebookshop.com.au
Praise for Graeme Aitken
50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (novel)
‘If I knew fifty ways of saying fabulous, I’d use them all to praise this charming first novel.’ Edmund White
‘A sort of gay Adrian Mole … There are laughs aplenty but also moments of agony … Told with bare-faced honesty, it is a warm, cruel, funny tale.’ The Sunday Age (London)
‘Touching and sad, 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous also has some very funny moments.’ The Times (London)
‘A gentle, poignant story of a fat boy who fantasises romance and glamour without yet having a name for what he is … Aitken writes with a distinctive voice, one that is wonderfully evocative.’ Dennis Altman, The Age (Melbourne)
Vanity Fierce (novel)
‘A deceptively engaging read; a thoroughly modern satire of urban ghetto lifestyles … peppered with characters both pungent and picaresque, it’s something of an antipodean Bildungsroman.’ Gay Times (London)
‘Required reading … Aitken’s depictions are real to the point of recognition. Light, funny, and a great holiday read.’ Time Out (London)
‘The evil yet somehow natural jealousy that one feels when scorned in love is captured with alarming accuracy … Vanity Fierce has the easy appeal of a soap opera, but the depth and wit one expects from a first class writer.’ QX Magazine (London)