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  Fire Island: A Queer History - by Jack Parlett

  £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

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  Fire Island: A Queer History

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  Father Mychal Judge: An Authentic American Hero - by Michael Ford

  £15.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780809153084 | ISBN 10: 0809153084

  Now revised, with a new introduction and reflections on events since 9/11, this spiritual portrait of Father Mychal Judge is a remarkable testimony to the hope and courage that he brought to thousands of people, not only as the New York City fire cha ... more

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  Father Mychal Judge: An Authentic American Hero - by Michael Ford

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  More Fool Me - by Stephen Fry

  £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

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  Black and Gay in the UK: An Anthology - by Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R Gordon (Editors)

  £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780956971968 | ISBN 10: 0956971962

  A ground-breaking, provocative and diverse anthology of writing about black gay men's lives in the UK - essays, activist memoirs, (auto)biographies, poems and fiction, edited by multi-award-winning writers Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R Gordon.  Cont ... more

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  Becoming a Londoner - by David Plante

  £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408840115 | ISBN 10: 1408840111

  Nikos and I live together as lovers, as everyone knows, and we seem to be accepted because it's known that we are lovers. In fact, we are, according to the law, criminals in our making love with each other, but it is as if the laws don't apply. It is ... more

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  Liberation: Diaries, Vol 3 - by Christopher Isherwood

  £16.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099575474 | ISBN 10: 0099575477

  Hilarious and often deeply moving, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's extraordinary diaries chronicles the 1970s, with a preface by Edmund White.  In this final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries, capstone of a million-word mast ... more

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  It's Ok To Be Gay: Celebrity Coming out Stories - by Alison Stokes (Editor)

  £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781909624122 | ISBN 10: 1909624128

  Launched to coincide with National Coming Out Day, It's OK to be Gay is a collection of inspirational coming out stories from well-known figures from the LGBT community, who talk frankly about their own experiences and how their sexuality has shaped ... more

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  Love is Where it Falls: An Account of a Passionate Friendship - by Simon Callow

  £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781854599766 | ISBN 10: 1854599763

  When Simon Callow first met Peggy Ramsay he could hardly have suspected that his encounter with the play agent would blossom into passionate love. There was the age difference for one thing: Callow was barely 30, Peggy was in her seventies. And then ... more

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  Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle's Memoir - by Edwin John Wintle

  £6.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781416511175 | ISBN 10: 1416511172

  When you are a fortysomething gay New Yorker with a stressful job as a film agent and the odd obsessive-compulsive tendency, you may not see yourself as an ideal parent.  However, when Ed's sister asks him to take in her daughter - the beautiful, cap ... more

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  The Way We Are Now: Gay and Lesbian Lives in the 21st Century - by Edited by Ben Summerskill

  £18.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780826487858 | ISBN 10: 0826487858

  The arrival of civil partnership in Britain in 2005 was welcomed with a Sun editorial celebrating the forthcoming wedding of Elton John and David Furnish. Beneath the headline 'Gay Pride' the newspaper - once doggedly hostile to homosexuality - claim ... more

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