Anywhere: tales of the city maupin (Keywords)

An ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby that meets the eye in Babycakes. Help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a gay neighbour, and an international ring of mail-order brides.

'The Days of Anna Madrigal', the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin's bestselling 'Tales of the City' series, follows one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters - Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane - as she...

The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchor-woman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychop...

Mary Ann Singleton returns to San Francisco a very different person from when she left. Her career has faded away, her husband has run off with her own life coach and she faces invasive surgery for cancer. In such circumstances, there is only one person and one city she can turn to: Michael 'Mous...

Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers, Michael Tolliver has learned to embrace the sacred dailiness of life, the loving connections that sustain him in the hardest of times. This journey takes him from the garden of a troublesome client, to the bed of a younger ma...

Mona is the eccentric Lady of Easley House, running a bed and breakfast to keep her inherited English manor afloat. Wilfred is Mona's 26-year-old adopted son who spends his weekends in London, looking for love in the gay bars of Soho while pining after his pen pal, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver. The c...

The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cosy nest for adventures far afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppelgñger in a desert whorehouse, and Michael Tolliver bumps into his favourite gynaecologist in a Mexican bar. Meanwhil...

A holiday in the redwoods goes awry when the opposing sexes camp out rather too close to each other for comfort. Among those caught up in the mayhem are DeDe Halcyon, reformed debutante, and troubled house-husband Brian Hawkins.

A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, 'Sure of ...

A young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, and outrageous.