Andrew Cheffings is an author of LGBTQ+ Fiction. Join me for: local place/local culture through a Queer lens; Queer Romance; and a spirituality grounded in Queer Ecology.
Andrew Cheffings is an author of LGBTQ+ Fiction. Join me for: local place/local culture through a Queer lens; Queer Romance; and a spirituality grounded in Queer Ecology.
Teenager Harry Dixon is feeling ill, desperate and lonely as the last summer term at his dreadful high school grinds on – until his quirky Parisian friend Xavier comes to visit. Mischievous, amiable, distracting… and attractive, Xavier might be just the medicine Harry needs...
As time passes and the two boys grow up, their childhood problems...
Following an unfortunate incident 90 years earlier, life at Green Twining Farm seems terminally blighted. But, by the summer of 1985, Joe – the farmer’s son – has secretly fallen in love with David, his handsome work friend at the town hall. And Joe wonders if David feels the same way about him. Then – when Tim, Joe’s former musical friend,...
In this life it is important to tell our stories, not hide realities through fear, which anyway only perpetuates fear through silence. In ‘The House With The Round Window’ I have tried to tell my OCD story. I have done so by fictionalising it. I hope that by doing so I have made a metaphor which can be more useful than a nuts and...
London is full of echoes and shadows of the past. Sometimes this past was barbarically cruel towards those who were different. These poems are poems of remembering and healing.
I was recently in Marseille. I went partly because I mentioned the city in "Harry and Xavier" and wanted to have a look at the place first hand. But before I went I read a good number of books set in Marseille or written by Marseille authors.
From an LGBTQ+ perspective, I really enjoyed 'Romance in Marseille' by Claude McKay. I also read 5 novels by Jean-Claude Izzo. And through the works of Izzo I discovered the poetry of Louis Brauquier.
While in Marseille, I finished translating one of...
I have a couple of my books available now through the Indie Author Bookstore, "Green Twining" and "Harry and Xavier".
Both stories are set on the Lincolnshire Marsh in the 80s and centre on mm romances.
In "Green Twining" the three members of an impromptu folk band, each representing a different shade of Queer, are looking for love.
In "Harry and Xavier" two friends from very different backgrounds and with different challenges in life find unexpected qualities in each other which could lead to...
