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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 18 books in this booklist
£25.00 hardback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781847927071 | ISBN 10: 1847927076
Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century’s most complex and compelling figures. 'A book of metÂiculous sensitivity and research' TELEGRAPH& ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783787029 | ISBN 10: 1783787023
Fire Island: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and a place of hedonism, reinvention, liberation. Arriving on the island after a break-up back home in England, scholar and poet Jack Parlett was beguiled by what he found. Here we ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529114478 | ISBN 10: 1529114470
A luminous memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a tender exploration of queer identity. 'Beautiful' Colm TóibÃn 'Rapturous' New York Times 'Extraordinary' Observer 'Stunning' Sunday T ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780500297032 | ISBN 10: 0500297037
A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today’s varied gay culture. This book gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major conti ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780750999021 | ISBN 10: 0750999020
In this shockingly raw but beautifully written book, Michael Handrick unpicks the toxic narratives and myths built up by society of what it means to be a man, gay and working class. Moving through time and memory, from a rural council estate surround ... more
View book details£15.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914595097 | ISBN 10: 1914595092
Jeffrey Weeks has been called ‘the most significant British intellectual working on sexuality to emerge from the radical sexual movements of the 1970s’. Yet behind the titles and acclaim lies the story of a hugely fascinating, inspirational life ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781409189121 | ISBN 10: 1409189120
'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant r ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786784964 | ISBN 10: 1786784963
This is the tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short - it's also a love story. Derek, a distinguished designer, and J, a pioneering entrepreneur and creator of Heaven, the iconic gay dance club, met and fell in love more ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781788167734 | ISBN 10: 1788167732
An international bestseller and winner of the Stonewall Book Award, which inspired an award-winning film. Randy Shilts was the first openly gay journalist dealing with gay issues for the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1981, the year when AIDS c ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780753553732 | ISBN 10: 0753553732
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The book is meant to spread joy, personal acceptance, and most of all understanding. Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will b ... more
View book details£10.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787301221 | ISBN 10: 1787301222
Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy – the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father. In Who Killed My Father, Édouard Louis explores key moments in his father’s life, and the tenderness and disconnects in ... more
View book details£4.50 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780717179459 | ISBN 10: 0717179451
Oscar Wilde was one of Ireland’s finest and most prolific 19th-century writers and a celebrated wit. He became a popular playwright in the early 1890s and is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, the circ ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008276980 | ISBN 10: 0008276986
The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781786102331 | ISBN 10: 1786102331
In this funny, warm and touching book Terry Sanderson reveals how he – the most unwilling and unlikely of activists - honed his skills as a campaigner at the very beginning of the struggle for gay rights in Britain. But this is more than just the sto ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781405918831 | ISBN 10: 1405918837
Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me. 'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing dow ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781855144781 | ISBN 10: 1855144786
One of literature's most flamboyant and witty personalities, the much-quoted Oscar Wilde captivated and scandalised late nineteenth-century society in Europe and America. Wilde was a pioneer of celebrity, whose friends and contemporaries in ... more
View book details£25.00 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099565222 | ISBN 10: 0099565226
A great writer nails the sixties, from California to swinging London, in his fearless, insightful diaries - with a preface by Christopher Hitchens. This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780091938383 | ISBN 10: 0091938384
With his infectious energy and charisma, Gok Wan has an incredible gift of making women feel more confident within themselves - but it’s not until you read his own inspirational story that you find out where he got that gift from. Gok g ... more
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