Lethe Press, Day 16 Giveaway: His Steadfast Love & Other Stories by Paul Brownsey

*** Congrats to MARK and PHILIP, who both won a copy of His Steadfast Love & Other Stories! ***

To celebrate On Top Down Under Book Review’s 3rd blog-versary, Steve Berman and Lethe Press have kindly offered to give away a book a day during the entire month of October.

All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on the bottom of each post. If you receive a spam notification while commenting, no worries. We will see it and move it to the appropriate post.

Good luck to all who enter and make sure you check back daily to see the next giveaway!

Join us in sending a huge thank you to Steve and Lethe Press for the generosity in helping us celebrate our 3rd year!

His Steadfast Love & Other Stories by Paul Brownsey

In the world of Paul Brownsey, God is a camp old queen trying to split up a gay couple; Judy Garland did not die in 1969 and instead ended up wowing her fellow residents in a Scottish care home on karaoke night; a fan of musical theatre steals an Irving Berlin lyric as a Valentine’s poem and spends decades contriving to hide the theft from his lover; after a one-night stand, two men maintain a distant awareness of each other’s lives for a quarter of a century and then face the question: are we in love? Often playful, Scottish author Brownsey’s stories in this collection cast an imaginative eye on gay romance–but, make no mistake, they deal with the life most gay men will recognise, in which meeting lovers and sustaining relationships go alongside the uneasy terrain of acceptance, both internal and external. And as a former philosophy professor at Glasgow University, Brownsey knows how our everyday lives embody the big questions, but he shows this with a light touch and dark humour.

His Steadfast Love & Other Stories

Paul was recommended to me by another author–see, it really is a community rather than a massive foot race. I had never read his work before but found some of his stories published in Scottish LGBT anthologies. What a find! Paul is a masterful writer–it’s why Publishers Weekly gave this collection a starred review. If you like romance and wit, then Paul is the storyteller for you. I’m so happy when someone recommends me a book, an author, and I meet a new, fresh voice.

We have two copies of His Steadfast Love & Other Stories to give away either in print or digital editions.

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Mark Ward

This looks great!

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Ree Dee

Another new author for me but the book sound very entertaining! Thank you!

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I haven’t seen or heard of this book before but it sounds so different. I like thinking Judy Garland is still performing too. 😀

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Alexi

What a beautiful cover. I would love to be added to the giveaway please.

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Casey

This looks really good. I’d love to win a copy

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Dianna

This sounds an interesting collection. Please count me in as well. Thanks

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Philip

Librarian and blogger. I crave gay male love stories written by gay men. Not an easy task in today’s M/M world. Thanks for considering me for a digital copy of His Steadfast Love and Other Stories

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Carolyn

I don’t recall Paul Brownsey’s name and know I don’t have His Steadfast Love and Other Stories, but I know I have read: “a fan of musical theatre steals an Irving Berlin lyric as a Valentine’s poem and spends decades contriving to hide the theft from his lover.” I loved this story, so I must have read it somewhere, maybe included in some other anthology perhaps? So, now I’m totally predisposed to read the rest in this one. Thank you for the chance!