Works by
Shaun Levin
(Writer)

Seven Sweet Things (2003)
An affair between two South African men in London begins in an internet chat room and takes them further into love than either could have imagined. A disturbingly honest and intensely erotic work, Seven Sweet Things is as much an exploration of love as it is the lovers' exploration of the city. Eking out a living by selling cakes and desserts, the narrator reads Plato, sits on park benches, and feeds his beloved. Each meeting between them is framed by the making, or the promise of a sweet thing.

Shifting between hidden archaeological mysteries in London and a fantastical stay in an old house in Yorkshire, and between Clissold Park in North London and Roslyn Glen in Scotland, where the narrator gets invited to prepare extravagant desserts for an aristocratic family, the landscape is always love.

Seven Sweet Things is a reminder that each time we fall in love we re-invent our codes, our values, and our sources of inspiration.

A Year of Two Summers (2005)
A Year of Two Summers comprises a – roughly chronological – series of short stories starting with adolescent sex in South Africa, to suppressed emotions in South Africa, to gay life in London.

This collection introduces an array of interesting characters: a young man experimenting with cross-dressing, a new recruit in the Israeli army fantasizing about a fellow soldier and trying to live as fully human during the invasion of Lebanon, a South African woman and her Syrian boyfriend tiptoeing around each other in their London flat – unsure how to relate to each other after the birth of their child.

The Gay Times Book of Short Stories: New Century, New Writing (2001), P-P Hartnett, ed.
The first book in a new series, New Century, New Writing offers an exciting mix of established names plus and adventurous new wave of gay and bisexual voices from England, Scotland and Wales. If you are looking for a new and fresh form of writing that moves away from the ghetto, the stereotypes and the predictability of 20th Century gay writing, don't miss out on this landmark collection of all-new fiction.

Boyfriends from Hell: True Tales of Tainted Lovers, Disastrous Dates, and Love Gone Wrong (2003), Kevin Bentley, ed.
Everyone has suffered the tortures of an unfaithful, unavailable, controlling, or demanding date, boyfriend, or lover. They may be hell to live through, but they make riveting postmortems, collected here as twenty gay writers recount adventures from the deep end of the dating pool.