5 Novels by Chris Hunt (.ePUB)(.AZW3)
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5 Novels by Chris Hunt
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Overview:
The leading light of gay historical fiction is GMP’s Chris Hunt. His protagonists and their sex lives tend to be idealised, and the pace is Boy’s Own, but Hunt’s storylines pursue historical accuracy. Like that late, great doyenne of straight romantic fiction, Georgette Heyer, he obviously does a great deal of research; his books have masses of period detail, although it can sometimes make them seem set in an olde worlde theme park.
Also like Georgette Heyer, Chris Hunt proved retiring and difficult to get hold of, although he eventually agreed to interview by letter – which is perhaps more in keeping with the period world which he inhabits. Hunt began writing in the Eighties. His first published book was Street Lavender (1986). Set in 1880s London, it follows the story of Willie Smith who uses his cherubic young charms – he turns his first trick when he’s about 10 as far as one can gather, in return for two ripe peaches – to escape the grinding poverty of the East End slums for a life of rent- boy decadence in the salons of the West End. But he finally finds true love in the arms of a decent older man (a classic Hunt conclusion) back in the East End, helping others to escape poverty by less desperate means than his own.
“The greatest influences on my writing to begin with were the swashbuckling films which I saw as a child in the Fifties,” he says. “Errol Flynn and Stewart Grainger were particular heroes. Also around that time, John Buchan, whose Richard Hannay says, ‘I have always had a boy’s weakness for a yarn.’ Later I acquired an English degree, and was influenced by medieval and Elizabethan literature, Thomas Hardy, Dickens, various historical novelists, Mary Renault and Daphne du Maurier.”
Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance, MM, coming-of-age, Gay
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