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Between the murky waters of the Thames and the candlelit rooms of Silverbourne Manor, two men are about to discover that the hardest race isn't on the water. Freddy Penhaligon-Warren is a senior rower, club captain and professional consultant who has perfected the art of keeping his personal life as disciplined as his training schedule. Andy is a bisexual photographer with a Mexican heritage, a Fulham flat, and a talent for finding beauty in human forms. When they collide in a Richmond café, a boat club changing room and an ill-advised champagne lunch in Fulham, neither of them is looking for a relationship. That, of course, is precisely when it happens.
Set across the boathouses, galleries and country estates of West London and Oxfordshire, First Shot is a literary gay romance that takes its time. This is not a story of grand declarations or instant connection; it is the slower, more honest story of two men circling each other across oysters and Mezcal, gallery openings and head races, learning whether what they feel is real enough to act on. Woven through their story are Finn, a quietly aristocratic rower navigating love and loyalty at Silverbourne Manor, and Aly, his relentlessly charismatic boyfriend, whose presence complicates everything in the most entertaining way possible.
Warm, witty, and unashamedly specific about the world it inhabits, First Shot is the first full novel in the Silverbourne series. It is a book about belonging, about the small courage it takes to ask someone to stay, and about what happens when a man who rows before dawn and drinks Taittinger at lunch unexpectedly adopts a pub corgi called Braveheart. For readers who want their romance literary, their characters real, and their champagne properly cold.
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À propos de l'auteur
A writer and neoclassical composer, Alexander Paul Burton unifies his work across fiction, philosophy, and music through a sustained focus on migration, identity, and lived experience. His writing ranges from the philosophical to the absurd, drawing on mythological and fantastical frameworks, alongside literary gay romance that prioritises emotional truth and authenticity. His work has been covered in the national press.He is based in Toronto, where he lives with his partner and their corgi. He holds Swiss, Canadian, and British citizenship.Burton is a member of the Authors Guild. His works are catalogued under ISNI 0000 0005 3018 6907 and ORCID 0009-0009-7526-9753.
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First Shot (Hardcover)
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ISBN 10 : 1997999285
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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. For readers of literary queer fiction who like their rowing accurate, their houses old, and their corgis obstinate. New readers welcome; returning readers rewarded.Freddy is a former club captain, quietly ousted from his old boat club, rebuilding at Mortlake Amateur ahead of Henley next summer. Andy is a Swiss-origin photographer in Fulham, recently left by his girlfriend, with a superglued drawer in his flat he hasn't opened in two years. They meet in a Richmond cafe one morning in early October 2024, and by the end of the month there is a rescued pub corgi asleep on the sofa between them.Between them sits everything both men have been carrying: Freddy's decade of being read a beat too closely by teammates who never quite said so, Andy's slow recognition of a self his old life could not hold, and the small honourable question of whether it is possible to arrive at love late, gently, and without pretending the past was tidier than it was.First Shot is the fifth book in the Silverbourne series of gay British literary rowing romances, and the book in which the world of the series finally shows its full shape. Around Freddy and Andy: Finn and Aly (of Book 3 and 4) as the older mirror couple, Jack the transplanted Princeton engineer at Mortlake, an Elizabethan manor in the Chilterns with a hot tub and a Bordeaux-drunk matriarch on the telephone, and the whole slow, careful geography of chosen family taking shape across Putney, Richmond, Mortlake, and the finish line at Dorney Rowing Lake.Every word of the manuscript is human-authored own-voices prose, drafted in a single continuous keystroke history archived at Figshare and verifiable by any independent auditor. Interior illustrations are drawn by hand. No generative AI was used in composition or artwork.Some books are about falling in love. This one is about learning to be still enough to let it happen. Book 5 in the Silverbourne series of gay British literary rowing romances. Freddy rebuilds at Mortlake ahead of Henley; Andy learns to be still enough to let love in. Rescued corgi included. Hand-drawn illustration. Human-authored own-voices This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781997999287
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Silverbourne: First Shot: A Gay British Rowing Literary Romance (Third Revised Edition) (Silverbourne British Gay Romance)
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ISBN 13 : 9781997999287
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First Shot (Hardcover)
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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. For readers of literary queer fiction who like their rowing accurate, their houses old, and their corgis obstinate. New readers welcome; returning readers rewarded.Freddy is a former club captain, quietly ousted from his old boat club, rebuilding at Mortlake Amateur ahead of Henley next summer. Andy is a Swiss-origin photographer in Fulham, recently left by his girlfriend, with a superglued drawer in his flat he hasn't opened in two years. They meet in a Richmond cafe one morning in early October 2024, and by the end of the month there is a rescued pub corgi asleep on the sofa between them.Between them sits everything both men have been carrying: Freddy's decade of being read a beat too closely by teammates who never quite said so, Andy's slow recognition of a self his old life could not hold, and the small honourable question of whether it is possible to arrive at love late, gently, and without pretending the past was tidier than it was.First Shot is the fifth book in the Silverbourne series of gay British literary rowing romances, and the book in which the world of the series finally shows its full shape. Around Freddy and Andy: Finn and Aly (of Book 3 and 4) as the older mirror couple, Jack the transplanted Princeton engineer at Mortlake, an Elizabethan manor in the Chilterns with a hot tub and a Bordeaux-drunk matriarch on the telephone, and the whole slow, careful geography of chosen family taking shape across Putney, Richmond, Mortlake, and the finish line at Dorney Rowing Lake.Every word of the manuscript is human-authored own-voices prose, drafted in a single continuous keystroke history archived at Figshare and verifiable by any independent auditor. Interior illustrations are drawn by hand. No generative AI was used in composition or artwork.Some books are about falling in love. This one is about learning to be still enough to let it happen. Book 5 in the Silverbourne series of gay British literary rowing romances. Freddy rebuilds at Mortlake ahead of Henley; Andy learns to be still enough to let love in. Rescued corgi included. Hand-drawn illustration. Human-authored own-voices This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781997999287
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Edité par
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ISBN 13 : 9781997999287
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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. For readers of literary queer fiction who like their rowing accurate, their houses old, and their corgis obstinate. New readers welcome; returning readers rewarded.Freddy is a former club captain, quietly ousted from his old boat club, rebuilding at Mortlake Amateur ahead of Henley next summer. Andy is a Swiss-origin photographer in Fulham, recently left by his girlfriend, with a superglued drawer in his flat he hasn't opened in two years. They meet in a Richmond cafe one morning in early October 2024, and by the end of the month there is a rescued pub corgi asleep on the sofa between them.Between them sits everything both men have been carrying: Freddy's decade of being read a beat too closely by teammates who never quite said so, Andy's slow recognition of a self his old life could not hold, and the small honourable question of whether it is possible to arrive at love late, gently, and without pretending the past was tidier than it was.First Shot is the fifth book in the Silverbourne series of gay British literary rowing romances, and the book in which the world of the series finally shows its full shape. Around Freddy and Andy: Finn and Aly (of Book 3 and 4) as the older mirror couple, Jack the transplanted Princeton engineer at Mortlake, an Elizabethan manor in the Chilterns with a hot tub and a Bordeaux-drunk matriarch on the telephone, and the whole slow, careful geography of chosen family taking shape across Putney, Richmond, Mortlake, and the finish line at Dorney Rowing Lake.Every word of the manuscript is human-authored own-voices prose, drafted in a single continuous keystroke history archived at Figshare and verifiable by any independent auditor. Interior illustrations are drawn by hand. No generative AI was used in composition or artwork.Some books are about falling in love. This one is about learning to be still enough to let it happen. Book 5 in the Silverbourne series of gay British literary rowing romances. Freddy rebuilds at Mortlake ahead of Henley; Andy learns to be still enough to let love in. Rescued corgi included. Hand-drawn illustration. Human-authored own-voices This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781997999287
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