PAUL BURSTON - AUTHOR

I’m an author and journalist whose books include the critically-acclaimed novels ‘Shameless’ (2001), ‘Star People’ (2006), ‘Lovers & Losers’ (2007) and ‘The Gay Divorcee’ (2009).

All four novels have since been reprinted.

I’m also a curator at the London Literature Festival and

host of “London’s peerless gay literary salon” Polari -

both at the Southbank Centre.

I’ve also appeared at King’s College Cambridge, the Museum of London, the National Portrait Gallery, the

V&A and the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.

When I’m not making up stories, I write for Time Out magazine, for which I won the Stonewall Award 2008.

I also contribute to a wide range of magazines and newspapers including The Times, The Independent,

The Financial Times and Attitude.

I’m also a frequent contributor to TV and radio. TV credits include ‘Films of Fire’, ‘Newsnight’, ‘The One Show’ and ‘The Vanessa Show’.

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‘Hootingly funny’ - The New York Times Review of Books

‘Paul Burston is the nearest thing the UK has to Armistead Maupin. They share a warmth for their characters, have that same page turning quality, a nice, light comic touch and deft plotting’

Jonathan Harvey (‘Beautiful Thing’)

‘Gay London’s Jane Austen... a fearless chronicler of modern gay life’ - The Independent on Sunday

‘Paul Burston has penned the sharp truth about gay London, cleverly coated with sweet and sour wisecracks’ - Will Self

‘Brilliant’ - Candace Bushnell

‘Hilarious, witty and deliciously cruel’ - Marc Almond

‘Easily one of the most important commentators of his generation’ Attitude

‘The gay novelist of now’ - Boyz

‘One of the most surprising, clever and entertaining commentators around’ - Julie Burchill

‘Funny, provocative, thoughtful and spiky... Burston is incapable of writing a boring sentence’

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