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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 17 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781739123826 | ISBN 10: 1739123824
Queer Life, Queer Love celebrates the best new queer writing from around the world, by both new and established writers and features voices across all narrative forms. The new book includes 44 stories, poems, essays and flash-fiction. This is writing ... more
View book details£10.00 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781527294219 | ISBN 10: 1527294218
The Sun isn't Out Long Enough is an anthology about queer experiences across borders and other stories told with no shame. Edited by Tatevik Sargsyan, with a foreword by Mary Jean Chan and an afterword by Kazim Ali. Through poetry and prose ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529384529 | ISBN 10: 1529384524
In the spring of 2012, Calum finds himself single again after his relationship of six years comes to an end. Heartbroken, unhappy and unsure of what to do next, he leaves the hometown he has been in all his life to embark on a journey that take ... more
View book details£4.50 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781542462952 | ISBN 10: 1542462959
Do you know where Winnie the Pooh currently lives? Are you aware of the real reason Margaret Thatcher pursued her infamous Clause 28 anti-LGBTQ campaign? And what's it like to relive a Welsh gay love affair while sitting on a little green bus? Or spy ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781107618183 | ISBN 10: 1107618185
This Companion offers fresh insight into the art and politics of James Baldwin, one of the most important writers and provocative cultural critics of the twentieth century. Black, gay, and gifted, he was hailed as a 'spokesman for the race', although ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141398990 | ISBN 10: 014139899x
Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry. And yet he is a figure that remains little underst ... 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£8.50 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780957014107 | ISBN 10: 0957014104
"Is there a time somewhere I don't know Where The Man stood alone Atop his ivory tower and declared to the world That his voice Would be the only voice obeyed? In that same time-space I don't know, Did all the other men agree?"(Fro ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781551523972 | ISBN 10: 1551523973
In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result i ... more
View book details£24.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846315015 | ISBN 10: 1846315018
Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious authorit ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781848851481 | ISBN 10: 1848851480
Gertrude Stein and Alice Babette Toklas met on Sunday 8 September 1907, in Paris. From that day on they were together, until Gertrude's death on Saturday 27 July 1946. This title presents story of their remarkable life together, of the path ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780872864900 | ISBN 10: 0872864901
King of Shadows assembles twenty-one highly charged personal essays circling around the author's gay and literary life in San Francisco, a poet's excursion through identity, sensibility, and the dangerous joy of living in the open."King of Shadows is ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141189291 | ISBN 10: 0141189290
When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media - though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candour about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and su ... more
View book details£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
View book details£9.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780953983322 | ISBN 10: 0953983323
A third volume of poems from R.N. Taber certainly lives up to expectations. Whether a serious read or leisurely dip 'n' dive on bus, train or plane, here are poems that fire the imagination and to which we can easily relate, sometimes less than comfo ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780253216076 | ISBN 10: 0253216079
This groundbreaking study explores the Harlem Renaissance as a literary phenomenon fundamentally shaped by same-sex-interested men. Christa Schwarz focuses on Countée Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Richard Bruce Nugent and explores these ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (1933) - ISBN 13: 9780141185361 | ISBN 10: 0141185368
For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue do Fleurus and the Saturday evenings, and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Picasso was there with 'his high whinnying spanish giggle', as were Ceza ... more
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