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 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’ and ‘The One Show’.

Photo by Adrian Lourie

‘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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