Author: jonathankemp

“London itself is as powerful a presence here as the three gay men whose lives it absorbs.”?The Times Literary Supplement “Vivid and visceral, London Triptych cuts deep to reveal the hidden layers of a secret history.”?Jake Arnott, author of The Long Firm Rent boys, aristocrats, artists, and criminals populate this sweeping novel in which author Jonathan Kemp skillfully interweaves the lives and … interweaves the lives and loves of three very different men in gay London across the decades. In the 1890s, a young man named Jack apprentices as a rent boy and discovers a life of pleasure and excess…