Children of the Sun

Muswell Press is proud to publish a classic list of rainbow voices, a vintage series of reissues that can be considered canons of gay literature. Children of the Sun was first published 10 years ago by Grantato critical acclaim. Long out of print, it is as prescient now as it was then

Latest title in Muswell Press’s Queer Classics series. First published 10 years ago by Granta to critical acclaim and long out of print, it is as relevant now as it was then. This edition includes a new afterword1970. Fourteen-year-old Tony is seduced by the skinhead movement, sucked into a world of racist violence and bizarre ritual. It's a milieu in which he must hide his homosexuality, in which every encounter is explosively risky. 2003. James a young TV researcher, becomes obsessed with Neo Nazis and British Movement activist Nicky Crane in particular. As he becomes immersed in research, he begins to receive threatening phone calls. Two different worlds, two different eras but two lives that will ultimately and unforgettably collide.