The unkindest cut of
all. James Augustine-Jones has classic blond English good looks and
plenty of money. He oozes talent as London's leading interior designer
and he oozes sex appeal. So does his long-time friend and lover, David
Prior, of Prior Properties. But James has a problem. Years ago, in his
teens, he gazed up at Michelangelo's statue of David in Florence - the
one that has middle-aged matrons fainting on the floor - and realised
that the statue had something that James didn't: a tassel, a veil, a
Walnut Whip, a foreskin - call it what you will. James resents the
'cut', resents his parents, and resolves to bite back. A series of
horrendous attacks by the 'Red Snapper' hits London's Earl's Court and
other gay zones. Then a handsome policeman comes on the scene, and life
for James gets very, very difficult... and very, very painful. Glamorous
venues ranging from Chelsea to South America and Sri Lanka, plus
exquisitely observed camp banter and chintzy behaviour, mark Robin
Anderson's shockingly penetrating novel as a gay masterpiece. Behind the
gloss and the glitz, however, there's a stern, even moralistic,
message: don't do unto others what you don't want done to yourself...
Now read on if you dare Robin Anderson was born in Scotland and educated
in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and South Africa. He is a recognised
international interior designer, having started his London-based
business in the late sixties. Red Snapper is his second novel. His first
novel, Regina, set in the glossy, bitchy world of interior design, was a
bestseller in the nineties. Two new novels, Sebastian and Seline and
Versus, are also scheduled for publication in 2008
