Paul Burston

About me:

I'm an award-winning author, journalist, curator and accidental DJ whose books include my best-selling first novel 'Shameless' and my latest, 'The Gay Divorcee'.

My books have been published in the UK, USA, Australia, France, Germany, Hungary and Poland.

I've appeared at the London Literature Festival, the National Portrait Gallery, King's College Cambridge, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern and the Bridgend Conservative Club.

My last novel, 'Lovers & Losers', was shortlisted for the Stonewall Award for Best Writer 2007.

My new novel 'The Gay Divorcee' is out now and getting great reviews!

'Immensely enjoyably' - Julian Clary

'I absolutely loved it. Paul Burston is the nearest thing the UK has to Armistead Maupin' - Jonathan Harvey

'Accomplished entertainment...a rollicking, steamy, witty saga steeped in love, sex and no small amount of cocaine... Social politics underscore the delicious froth... the maelstrom of modern gay life (from drugs to online sex, vanity to homophobia) is concisely deconstructed by Burston' - The Times

'Gay London's Jane Austen... a fearless chronicler of modern gay life in all its glory and grotesqueness.. up-to-the-minute, unashamedly commercial and absolutely in-yer-face...' The Independent on Sunday

'Burston expertly handles entwined storylines and evokes the energy and anxiety of gay London nightlife. Moving and witty... "The Gay Divorcee" is a diverting read to settle down with' - Metro

'An entertaining novel that, like most relationships, is bittersweet and heart-warming. A new angle on chick lit. Loved it! Five stars' - Now Magazine

'A great read. So much so, I read it in one day' - Lorraine Kelly

'Wonderful, wicked and witty, laugh-out-loud funny and touching. Burston’s best yet. Loved it!’ - Marc Almond

' Bitchy, funny, acute and moving. A triumph' - Suzanne Moore

'A fascinating portrait of Soho in the noughties: vivid, charming and romantic' - Susie Boyt

In August 2010, I made The Independent's Pink List of the 101 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain for the fourth year running.

When I'm not making up stories, I edit the Gay & Lesbian section of Time Out. In November 2008 I received the Stonewall Award for Time Out's coverage of gay and lesbian life in London.

I also freelance for various newspaper and magazines including The Independent on Sunday, The Times and The Financial Times.

Visit my official website at www.paulburston.com

PLEASE NOTE: If you wish to contact me about coverage in Time Out, please email paulburston@timeout.com. I don't take listings requests via myspace.

I also host Polari ('London's peerless gay literary salon' according to The Independent on Sunday), and am a curator of The House of Homosexual Culture at the Southbank.

See House Of Homosexual Culture and Polari in my Top Friends below.

There's a filmed report on Polari at www.homovision.tv/pump-up-the-polari/