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Brothers deals with the rites of passage of a teenage boy who struggles with his own homosexuality through the revelation of his dead younger brother’s. Whilst reading his brother's diary, the protagonist learns about his brother’s inner strength, both during his illness and in the admission that he is gay. The diary is a narrative mechanism for revealing both characters simultaneously to the reader, and a useful device for dealing with gay pride as well as denial. The surviving brother eventually learns not only to embrace life, but to accept the truth of his identity -- an identity his brother ironically built his own courage upon.
This is a children’s book, but one of those which lends itself well to adult reading. Whereas, as The Observer stated in one review, children’s fiction tends to lie by omission, Brothers deals ‘with tricky subjects such as death, sexuality and family relationships’ without prettifying the emotions. The book ‘is hard as a bone and all the better for it’. I agree, but to be honest, I did get a lump in my throat towards the end of this one.

Ted van Lieshout, Brothers. Collins 2001. £2.34

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Dale Peck GAY Fucking Martin S&M *1^st Ed*

Status: 1^ST 1994
Condition: VG tear to corner of front-free-endpage (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 228
ISBN: 0 09 926371 8
Publisher: Vintage
Edition date: 1994
Summary: A first and accomplished novel which explores homosexuality, AIDS, child abuse and sado-masochism. The author deploys a prodigious and broken narrative line to poetic and disturbing effect. It is 1982 and John, the 19-year-old narrator, flees his abusive father to become a hustler on the streets of New York. He falls in love with Martin, who soon becomes ill with AIDS. Starts off like Huck Finn … ends up like Dennis Cooper.
BOOK CHOICE Personal recommendation – deneoctober

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Ted van Lieshout GAY Brothers COMING OUT 1^st ed

Life, death, truth

Status: 1^st ed
Condition: Ex (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 155 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 00 711231 9
Publisher: Collins Flamingo
Edition date: 2001
Summary: Brothers is a book which is both compelling and intensely moving as it looks at life, death and love in the context of growing up and trying to make sense of it all. It is tender, sensitive and poignant as it deals with the sexual emergence of a teenage boy, trying to come to terms with the death of his brother and, while reading his brother's diary, discovers not only that his brother was gay, but that he himself is also. As a story of two brothers, it is both thought provoking and intriguing. The reader is engaged instantly through its intimate narrative diary format.
I honestly got a lump in my throat towards the end of this one. It’s a book for children but worthy of adult reading too. This is partly because it’s such a great story and also, as The Observer stated in an excellent review, whereas children's fiction tends to lie by omission, Brothers deals ‘with tricky subjects such as death, sexuality and family relationships’ without prettifying the emotions. This book ‘is hard as a bone and all the better for it’.
BOOK CHOICE Personal recommendation – deneoctober

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David Marcus Ed IRISH GAY & LESBIAN Alternative Loves *1^st ed*

IRISH GAY & LESBIAN stories

David Marcus Ed

Foreword by Ailbhe Smyth

Status: 1^st Edition 1994
Condition: VG tight bright and clean no reading crease to spine, v. minor crease and hole to top right corner (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 232 inc bibliographical notes
ISBN: 1 86023 001 6
Publisher: Maretello
Edition date: 1994
Summary: This anthology of Irish gay writing contains 17 stories from acknowledged masters of the genre - from Sean O'Faolain and William Trevor to Emma Donoghue, that have gay themes or undercurrents. The collection includes "The Mouth of the Cave" by Edna O'Brien, and "Blood Brothers" and "Soul Sisters" by Terry Prone.

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Ellen Galford LESBIAN Queendom Come *1^st ed*

Status: 1^st Virago 1990
Condition: VG tight copy with tan page edges and slight shelfwear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 158 + publisher ads
ISBN: 1 85381 262 5
Publisher: Virago
Edition date:1990
Summary: Written by the author of "Moll Cutpurse: Her True History" and "The Fires of Bride", this is a fantastic, political and satirical novel set into time past and time present, taking a piercing and surreal look at the politics of the 1980s and 1990s. With the help of her lesbian high priestess, a rather domineering female prime minister promises to deliver her people from times of trouble.
Swift meets Jeanette Winterson.

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Edmund White GAY Skinned Alive *1^st US ed*

Stories

Status: 1^st US ed
Condition: VG tight and bright with no reading crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 273
ISBN: 0 679 75475 X
Publisher: Vintage International, NY
Edition date: 1996
Summary: Providing an erotic, provocative study of gay life, a collection of eight stories, set in Europe and America, explores the ways in which humankind makes sense of personal experiences, in such works as "Pyrography," "An Oracle," and "Watermark."

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Larry Kramer GAY Faggots

Condition: VG+ tight bright with no reading crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 384
ISBN: 0 7493 9059 X
Publisher: Minerva
Edition date: 1996
Summary: A graphically sexual novel by the author of the AIDS drama, "The Normal Heart", this is the story of fit bloke Fred Lemish, aged 39, who seeks a permanent homosexual relationship, but tends to look for Mr Right in all the wrong places. Faggots sends up New York’s self-imposed gay ghetto, its gyms, discos, orgy rooms, army fatigues, moustaches, spread of promiscuity, sado-masochism and narcotics.

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Larry Kramer GAY Faggots

Condition: VG (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 384
ISBN: 0 7493 9059 X
Publisher: Minerva
Edition date: 1997
Summary: A graphically sexual novel by the author of the AIDS drama, "The Normal Heart", this is the story of fit bloke Fred Lemish, aged 39, who seeks a permanent homosexual relationship, but tends to look for Mr Right in all the wrong places. Faggots sends up New York’s self-imposed gay ghetto, its gyms, discos, orgy rooms, army fatigues, moustaches, spread of promiscuity, sado-masochism and narcotics.

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Edmund White GAY A Boy’s Own Story *2^nd printing*

Status: 2^nd printing
Condition: VG+ tight bright unread copy with no creases to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 218
ISBN: 0 330 281518
Publisher: Picador
Edition date: 1983
Summary: First published in 1982, White's semi-autobiographical novel became an instant classic. It is regarded as one of the most searing and glorious evocations of a child on the brink of maturity. Set on the hot streets and cool lawns of 50s America, A Boy's Own Story is a troubled elegy to adolescence. The narrator, in love with and fearful of his distant father and erratic mother, searches for love and adventure in the affluent homes and exotic backstreets of his town. He longs for the delights of maturity, while absorbing the loneliness and bruised desires of the adults around him. White's exhilarating, intimate and honest account will haunt the child's soul in every reader.

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Edmund White GAY A Boy’s Own Story *2^nd printing*

Status: 2^nd printing
Condition: G+ tight readable copy with some light internal marks (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 218
ISBN: 0 330 281518
Publisher: Picador
Edition date: 1983
Summary: First published in 1982, White's semi-autobiographical novel became an instant classic. It is regarded as one of the most searing and glorious evocations of a child on the brink of maturity. Set on the hot streets and cool lawns of 50s America, A Boy's Own Story is a troubled elegy to adolescence. The narrator, in love with and fearful of his distant father and erratic mother, searches for love and adventure in the affluent homes and exotic backstreets of his town. He longs for the delights of maturity, while absorbing the loneliness and bruised desires of the adults around him. White's exhilarating, intimate and honest account will haunt the child's soul in every reader.

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William Burroughs GAY Queer

With Introduction by Burroughs

Status: 1986
Condition: G+ tight copy, read with slight shelfwear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 122 inc Burroughs introduction + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 330 30016 4
Publisher: Picador
Edition date: 1986
Summary: Queer is a love story - the account of William Lee"s painfully circular seduction of Eugene Allerton in the Mexico City of the 1940"s. In his introduction Burroughs discussed frankly and courageously the shattering event that happened after the occurences described in Queer, and how this event has haunted his life and affected his work.

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Andrew Holleran GAY Dancer from the Dance *1^ST Ed*

Nights in the city in gay New York

Status: 1^ST Ed 1990
Condition: Ex tight and bright unread copy with no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 250 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 14 012193 5
Publisher: Penguin
Edition date: 1990
Summary: One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York’s emerging gay scene. From Manhattan’s Everard Baths and after-hours discos to Fire Island’s deserted parks and lavish orgies, Malone looks high and low for meaningful companionship. The person he finds is Sutherland, a campy quintessential queen -- and one of the most memorable literary creations of contemporary fiction. Hilarious, witty, and ultimately heartbreaking, Dancer from the Dance is truthful, provocative, outrageous fiction told in a voice as close to laughter as to tears.

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Colette SEXUALITY Gigi and The Cat

Condition: VG (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 157 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 14 008903 9
Publisher: Penguin
Edition date: 1986
Summary: In these two superb stories of the politics of love, Colette is at her witty, instinctive best. Gigi is being educated in the skills of the Courtesan: to choose cigars, to eat lobster, to enter a world where a woman's chief weapon is her body. However, when it comes to the question of Gaston Lachaille, very rich and very bored, Gigi does not want to obey the rules. In 'The Cat', a wonderful story of burgeoning sexuality and blossoming love, an exquisite strong-minded Russian Blue is struggling for mastery of Alain with his seductive fiancee, Camille.

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Jean Genet GAY Querelle of Brest

Granada reissue 1984

Status: 1^st 1984 edition
Condition: VG read copy with cover corner crease / wear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 252
ISBN: 0 586 02746 7
Publisher: Granada
Edition date: 1984
Summary: Set in the port of Brest, this book is the story of a young sailor and the evil and mysterious people whom he attracts. A sailor in Brest who murders and allows representatives of authority, like policemen and ponces, to act out their sexual fantasies on him. The author has also written "Our Lady of the Flowers" and "Funeral Rites" and was closely allied to the French intellectuals led by the late Jean Cocteau.

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Simone de Beauvoir VULNERABILITY The Woman Destroyed

Status: 5^th impression 1988
Condition: VG+ tight unread copy with no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 220 plus publisher ads
ISBN: 0 00 654058 9
Publisher: Flamingo
Edition date:1984 ed
Summary: First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability -- in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one. THE WOMAN DESTROYED is a collection of three stories, each an exquisite and passionate study of a woman trapped by circumstances, trying to rebuild her life. In the first story, 'The Age of Discretion', a successful scholar fast approaching middle age faces a double shock -- her son's abandonment of the career she has chosen for him and the harsh critical rejection of her latest academic work. 'The Monologue' is an extraordinary New Year's Eve outpouring of invective from a woman consumed with bitterness and loneliness after her son and her husband have left home. Finally, in 'The Woman Destroyed', Simone de Beauvoir tells the story of Monique, trying desperately to resurrect her life after her husband confesses to an affair with a younger woman. Compassionate, lucid, full of wit and knowing, Simone de Beauvoir's rare insight into the inequalities and complexities of women's lives is unsurpassable.

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Richard Kearney BROTHERLY LOVE Sam’s Fall

Status: 1^st ed
Condition: VG tight and clean, tan edges (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 228
ISBN: 0 340 66082 1
Publisher: Sceptre
Edition date:1995
Summary: Jack and Sam Toland enjoy a happy childhood in Cork during the 1960s, never far apart yet, to Sam, Jack always seems one step ahead - brighter, stronger and more popular. It is only after Sam's sudden death that Jack learns of his brother's feelings and just how far their rivalry led. The author wrote many books as Professor of Philosophy at University College, Dublin. This is his first novel set in Ireland during the 60’s and early 70’s with a glowing commendation by GEORGE STEINER comparing KEARNEY with JAMES JOYCE and UMBERTO ECO.

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James Baldwin GAY Giovanni’s Room

Condition: vg+ tight + clean with neat inscription (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 159
ISBN: 0 14 018412 0
Publisher: Penguin
Edition date: 1990
Summary: First published in 1957, this book attempts to tackle the conflict between homosexual and heterosexual love. It tells of David, a young man awakening to his true homosexual nature, through a relationship with a barman named Giovanni, as he awaits his fiancee's arrival from Spain. When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love.

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Joe Orton CAMP EROTICISM Between Us Girls *1^ST*

Status: 1^st ed
Condition: VG (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 179
ISBN: 0 413 74900 2
Publisher: Methuen
Edition date: 2000
Summary: Written in 1957 and discovered thirty years after his death, "Between Us Girls," Orton"s first solo work after years of collaborating on "unpublishable" novels with his lover Kenneth Halliwell, represents the turning point in Orton’s career. The work is a comic novel, the diary of young would-be actress named Susan Hope, whose picaresque adventures lead her from life on the London stage to imprisonment in the white slave trade of Mexico, and ultimately to film stardom in Hollywood. The fictional diary of Susan Hope, an oddly innocent 24-year-old would-be actress, who leaves the drab Soho of the 50s for a dubious nightclub engagement in Mexico, only to find herself the victim of the white slave trade -- an extraordinary blend of camp comedy and pent-up eroticism, featuring the first appearance of the unique voice of a writer whose plays would later achieve worldwide acclaim

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Jan Bradshaw LESBIAN FEMINIST STORIES Girls Next Door

Jan Bradshaw & Mary Hemming
Introduced by Alison Hemming

Status: 1st
Condition: VG bright and tight, small corner creases, some shelf marks and owner inscription (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 182 inc notes on contributors
ISBN: 0 7043 2871 2
Publisher: The Women’s Press
Edition date: 1985
Summary: see reverse photo

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Patricia Duncker [Ed] LESBIAN FEMINIST In and Out of Time

LESBIAN FEMINIST Fiction

Status: 1st
Condition: VG+ unread tight copy, tan, with no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 239 inc contributor notes + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 906500 37 0
Publisher: Only Women Press
Edition date: 1990
Summary: Contents: Gypsophila by Claire Macquet; Diwali Mubarak by Daljit Kaur; Naomi by Tina Kendall; Penelope is No Longer Waiting by Cherry Potts; The Wedding Stone by Caroline Halliday; The Lizard Barks at One by Valerie Potter; Dope Smoking Lesbians Can Never Be Good Teachers by Berta R. Freistadt; You Can"t Say That by Rebecca O"Rourke; In and Out of Time by Shameem Kabir; Another Garden by Aspen; The Secret of Chantal Grey by Margaret Melvin; Below Zero by Alison Ward; The Runners by Char March; The Great Tropical Hardwood Walkout by Frances Gapper; Someone in Some Future Time by Shelley Anderson; Saccharin Cyanide by Anna Livia; Scarlett O"Hara by Mary Dorcey; Suit, Goodbye by Helen Smith

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Alan Spence STORIES ZEN INNER JOURNEY Stone Garden

Status: Phoenix pb 1^st 1997
Condition: VG+ unread tight bright copy with no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 217
ISBN: 1 85799 453 1
Publisher: Phoenix
Edition date: 1997
Summary: Stone Garden is a collection of 12 stories set in Glasgow and around the world, but always with the Scottish collection. All the stories are marked by Alan Spence's wry humour and the tender beauty of his descriptions of a remembered childhood. By the acclaimed Scottish author of "The Magic Flute" and "Changed Days", who now runs the Sri Chinmoy Meditation Centre in Edinburgh

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Anna Wilson LESBIAN Cactus

Status: status page missing
Condition: VG tight with tan page edges (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 159
ISBN: 0 906500 04 4
Publisher: Only Woman Press
Edition date: 1980
Summary: Two lesbian couples, separated by 20 years, try life away from the big city.

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Mary Lawson DANGEROUS LOVE The Other Side of the Bridge 1^st 2007

Status: 1^st ed
Condition: VG+ (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 275 inc acknowledgements
ISBN: 978 0 099 43276 0
Publisher: Vintage Books
Edition date: 2007
Summary: Two brothers, Arthur and Jake, are the sons of a local farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful, set to inherit the farm and his father's character; Jake is younger, attractive, mercurial and dangerous to know. A young woman, Laura, comes into the community and tips the fragile balance of sibling rivalry over the edge...And then there is Ian, son of the local doctor, much younger, thoughtful, idealistic, and far too sure that he knows the difference between right and wrong. By now it is the Fifties, and the world has changed - a little, but not enough. The stories of these two generations in the small town of Struan and its harsh rural hinterland are tragically interlocked, linked by fate and community but separated by a war which devours its young men and whose unimaginable horror reaches right into the heart of this remote corner of an empire. Lawson has an astonishing ability to turn the ratchet of tension slowly and delicately, building to a shocking climax. Taut with apprehension, surprising the reader with moments of tenderness and humour, "The Other Side of the Bridge" is a compelling, humane and vividly evoked novel with an irresistible emotional undertow.

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Aiden Shaw GAY Brutal RARE OOP TITLE

Out of print until June 2008

Nice portrait of Shaw on cover

Status: 2001
Condition: vg tight and bright read copy (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 189 + publisher ads
ISBN: 19085229-X
Publisher: Gay Men’s Press
Edition date: 2001
Summary: Debut novel explores the life of a young man as a prostitute set mainly in London’s underground club scene. Out of control on drink and drugs, Paul seeks out men who will abuse him. He sells them his body, he snorts their coke, he wakes from nightmares barely knowing what was real. But eventually, with the help of therapy and his women friends, Paul tries to connect with his own true feelings. It is not east to embrace life – especially with the knowledge that he has HIV – but it is even harder to stay in a demi-mode of degradation. The first novel from the author of Boundaries and Wasted is an extraordinary portrait of a lost generation for whom death is as much a companion as lovers, friends and family. Shockingly explicit and shiningly honest, Brutal is an inspiration.

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Jeffrey McMahan GAY VAMPIRE Somewhere in the Night 1^ST ED

1^ST Edition

Status: 1^ST ED
Condition: vg bright and tight, no reading crease, some spotting to page edges(see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 182 + publisher ads
ISBN: 1 55583 157 5
Publisher: Alyson
Edition date: 1989
Summary: Gay stories of suspense; a breakthrough in horror, eight disturbing tales, each blending the supernatural and the contemporary gay experience.

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Jeffrey McMahan GAY VAMPIRE Vampires Anonymous 1^ST ED

1^ST Edition, 2^nd Printing January 1992

Status: 1^ST ED - 2^nd Printing January 1992
Condition: vg bright and tight unread copy, no reading crease, some spotting to page edges (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 182 + publisher ads
ISBN: 1 55583 183 4
Publisher: Alyson
Edition date: 1992
Summary: Jeffrey N. McMahan won a Lambda Literary Award for his short-story collection Somewhere in the Night. And now Andrew, the wry vampire who was introduced in those stories, is back with a book of his own. Vampires Anonymous is a blood-chilling, action-packed, super-natural thriller, written with razor-sharp humour. McMahan’s sassy and sexy hero, Andrew, makes Anne Rice’s vampires look like stiffs!

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John Patrick [Ed] GAY Legends: sexy men DAVID BOWIE Jeff Stryker

The World’s Sexiest Men Vol 1

A Provocative Look at the Lust Fans have for Stars

Includes rare photographs, some never before published

Status: 1st
Condition: G+ rather shelf worn with some creases but tight (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 157 inc index + publisher ads inc b/w photos
ISBN: 1 877978 24 8
Publisher: Starbooks Press, FL
Edition date: 1991
Summary: A look at fan lust for great male beauties in Hollywood and the rock world. Some black and white photos included

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Kathryn Harrison FATHER/DAUGHTER LOVE The Kiss 1^st ED

Autobiography

Status: 1^st Ed
Condition: VG+ bright and tight unread copy with no crease to spine + light spotting to page edges (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 207
ISBN: 1 85702 708 6
Publisher: 4^th Estate
Edition date: 1998
Summary: Kathryn Harrison's parents married at 17 years of age, but were forced apart by disapproving parents within a year. Kathryn had just been born, but she did not see her father again until she was ten. Instantly, the two were attracted to one another; they even looked alike. By the time Kathryn was 20 they were having an affair. Kathryn's relationship with her mother had never been easy and now there was an added complication, made worse by the love which still existed between her parents. This is an account of the four-year affair between the author and her father.

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Henry Miller BANNED EROTIC Tropic of Cancer

With an introduction by Robert Nye

Condition: VG+ unread tight copy with no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 318
ISBN: 0 00 654583 1
Publisher: Flamingo
Edition date: 1993 Ed
Summary: Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years, now reinvigorated in a new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. A fictional account of Miller's adventures amongst the prostitutes and pimps, the penniless painters and writers of Montparnasse, Tropic of Cancer is an extravagant and rhapsodic hymn to a world of unrivalled eroticism and freedom. Tropic of Cancer's 1934 publication in France was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. The novel was subsequently banned in the UK and the USA and not released for publication for a further thirty years.

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Rhoda Broughton LOVE VS PROPRIETY Belinda

Introduction by Tamie Watters

Status: 1^st thus Virago 1984
Condition: VG+ bright and tight unread, no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: thick pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 478 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 86068 505 5
Publisher: Virago
Edition date: 1984
Summary: Dresden in the 1880s. Belinda Churchill falls for a young student but this is the age of reticence and propriety, so she is unable to find voice for her passions. Set against the androcentric and fusty world of Oxbridge Academe.

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Maura Laverty IRELAND 1920 Never No More * Maeve Binchy 1^ST

Introduction Maeve Binchy

Status: 1^st Virago 1985
Condition: VG+ unread bright + tight with no spine crease, some shelf wear(see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 284
ISBN: 0 86086 484 9
Publisher: Virago
Edition date: 1985
Summary: When Delia's family moves away, Delia goes to live with her grandmother in a farmhouse in the Irish countryside. Here, she experiences the happiest years of her life as she watches the seasons come and go until, one November day, she stands poised for independence - and Spain.

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Siri Hustvedt EROTIC MENACE The Blindfold AS NEW

Condition: Ex as new(see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 221
ISBN: 0 340 58123 9
Publisher: Sceptre
Edition date: 1993 ed
Summary: Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered woman; a photographer whose eerie portrait of Iris takes on a life of its own; an old woman in hospital who tries to claim a remnant of the ailing Iris; and a professor she has an affair with. An exploration of female identity in an age when the old definitions - as some man's daughter/wife/mother - no longer apply, fuelled with eroticism and a sense of menace.

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Anita Shreve DANGEROUS LIASIONS Strange Fits of Passion EX

Status: Reprint
Condition: Ex with slight tan to top page edge (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 372
ISBN: 0 349 10586 3
Publisher: Abacus
Edition date: 2003
Summary: A young and successful journalist working in New York, Maureen English appears to have the perfect life and family. But Maureen's husband, a highly respected fellow reporter, has in private a tendency towards alcohol and violent abuse. When the situation at home becomes intolerable, Maureen takes her baby daughter and flees. In a Maine fishing town she assumes a new identity and spends six weeks battling sub-zero temperatures, the intrusive glare of the townsfolk - and her fears of discovery. Against the force of the wintry sea - the cawing of the gulls, the lobstermen hauling their catch, the press of waves against the rocks - Maureen settles into the rhythms of a new life. Two married men pursue her, and one captures her heart. But this calming respite ends suddenly, leaving in its wake a murder, a rape charge, a suicide and a helpless child. Nearly nineteen years later, a cache of documents regarding Maureen English - abused, accused and imprisoned - are given to her daughter by the journalist who made her name reporting the case. The truth should lie within them, but the papers raise far more questions than they answer...

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Klaus Theweleit FREUD Object Choice [All you need is love]

On Mating Strategies & a Fragment of a Freud Biography

Trans Malcolm R Green

Status: First Verso 1994, first published as Objektwahl, 1990
Condition: Ex, unread, some shelf wear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 112
ISBN: 0 86091 642 1
Publisher: Verso
Edition date: 1994
Summary: Whom do we choose when we fall in love? How do we make the love-object into what we want? These are questions which only became important at the end of the nineteenth century, as Freud began to formulate a new discipline which could be called psychoanalysis. Freud, argues Klaus Theweleit, was the first theoretician of the new situation: boy versus girl in the world series of love. Theweleilt looks at a number of relationships: Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville; the triangle of Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger and Elfriede Heidegger; Jung and Sabina Spielrein. But the key figure is Freud himself. Who would, who could Freud choose. As it happened, Freud proposed to Martha Bernays. The 1,500 letters of Freud's courtship became something like the first psychoanalysis; without knowing it, Martha Bernays became an analytical instance. But Object-Choice is not only a study of the founder of psychoanalysis, it is also an illuminating lexicon of love in the twentieth century. Freud is accompanied here by Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks and the Velvet Underground. Like Theweleit's Male Fantasies, this is a collage book, mixing autobiography, theory and pop culture, and always haunted by history, above all the history of Nazism. As an epilogue, Theweleit brings Freud back to the scene of his courtship, and the Beatles back to Hamburg, in an exploration of that city's Wandsbek district, once home to an important Jewish community. His comments on the transformations and destruction that Wandsbek has endured form an elegiac tribute to German Jewry, and a powerful conclusion to this remarkable book.

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G Cabrera Infante EROTIC Infante’s Inferno

Trans Suzanne Jill Levine

Status: first thus 1985
Condition: VG tight, no reading crease to spine, tanned page ends (see below for guidance)
Format: thick pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 410
ISBN: 0 571 13605 2
Publisher: Faber
Edition date: 1985
Summary: A humorous novel about the sensual education of a young journalist in Havana. The novel is set in pre-Castro Havana and includes a huge cast of colourful characters. The author's previous books include "Three Trapped Tigers" and "Holy Smoke".

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Marc E Burke GAY Coming Out of the Blue

British police officers talk about their lives in ‘the job’ as lesbians, gays and bisexuals

Foreword by Alison Halford

Status: 1^st 1993
Condition: VG tight and bright, some shelf wear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb with French flaps
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 259 inc index
ISBN: 0 304 32714 X
Publisher: Cassell
Edition date: 1993
Summary: This book examines the delicate and controversial issues which affect the lives of police officers who are lesbian, gay or bisexual. Drawing on interviews with officers from various regions, departments and ranks, the book provides a sociological account of two of society's most contentious minority communities. The material asks which community, if any, has the loyalty of these officers; what it is that makes a person attempt to combine what would appear to be incompatible, and what strategies lesbian, gay and bisexual officers adopt to cope with the pressures of living a double life and when enforcing laws which discriminate against gay people. Officers discuss coming out, equal opportunities, cruising, cottaging and "queer bashing". The interviewees tell their stories with emotion, anger, honesty, frustration, regret and humour.

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Eric Rofes GAY Socrates, Plato & Guys Like Me 1^st Ed

Confessions of a Gay Schoolteacher

Autobiography

Status: 1^st Ed 1985
Condition: vg, tight bright, no spine crease, some shelf wear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 163
ISBN: 0 932870 67 8
Publisher: Alyson
Edition date: 1985
Summary: Spine slightly creased. Biography of an openly gay schoolteacher in suburban Massachusetts. An opportunity to examine a controversial issue from the other side of the desk.

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Dale Gunthorpe LESBIAN Georgiana’s Closet

Status: 1^st Virago
Condition: VG+ bright and tight (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
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Pages: 345
ISBN: 1 86049 745 4
Publisher: Virago
Edition date: 1999
Summary: A high-camp story about a group of dykes, stylish transsexuals and glamorous queens. Into their 1980s London circle comes Lucy, a plain-faced, hungry, blunt and extremely manipulative young lesbian who has a lethal effect on their pretentiously self-indulgent, narcissistic world. Georgiana, an ageing actress has lived a colourful life - acting with the famous, mingling with the not so famous and sleeping with everyone (male as well as female). She now lives an impoverished but still elegant life in a tiny flat chosen for its full- length stunning windows. The highlight of her social calendar is her monthly soiree held for her colourful, highly camp, gay circle of friends. Reflected in her glorious windows are: Ulric, who loves opera but teaches choirs, Midge, a mild alcoholic but a sweet lover (as they have all experienced), fussy, womanly Steven-John who was Sheila before his sex-change, beautiful Fiona and her photographer 'wife' Lorraine, Chelsey, a fiery middle-aged actress still waiting for her moment of glory, Sir Toby of some foreign office and some hangers-on. The composition of their party is severely and serenely controlled by Georgiana and never varies, until one day Lorraine brings along Lucy.

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Peter Carey *1^st 2007* Theft - A Love Story EX AS NEW

Status: 1^st ed
Condition: Ex, as new, tight and bright, no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 304
ISBN: 978 0 571 23150 8
Publisher: Faber
Edition date: 2007
Summary: Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, "Theft: A Love Story" once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption.

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Gretta Mulrooney FAMILY LOVE Araby

Status: 2^nd imprint
Condition: VG+ tight bright unbroken spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 183
ISBN: 0 00 655101 7
Publisher: Flamingo
Edition date: 1999
Summary: As a young boy, Rory Keenan finds his mother bewilderingly and embarrassingly eccentric as his childhood is punctuated by hilarious, cringe-making episodes caused entirely by her unpredictable behaviour and bizarre habits and exploits. The novel charts their turbulent relationship. ‘On hearing of Kitty Keenan’s admittance to hospital, her grown-up son Rory returns to Ireland to comfort his father and await the diagnosis… Rory’s narrative, charting the steady decline of her health, is interspersed with a series of flashbacks… through which Kitty emerges larger than life. For Rory, these snapshots of the past are part of a process of unpicking the odd tangle of love and petty grievances that characterise familial relationships. Mulrooney’s ability to make sense of the contradictions in clear, precise prose is the most remarkable achievement of the novel. A beautifully observed study of reconciliation, Araby makes astute points about conflict and shifting values between generations.’ James Eve, The Times

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Mari Akasaka THEME Vibrator *1^st Faber 2006

Status: 1^st Faber 2006
Condition: Ex as new(see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 130
ISBN: 0 571 21087 2
Publisher: Faber
Edition date: 2006
Summary: Following a chance encounter with a truck driver one night, Rei Hayakawa, a troubled young journalist, embarks on a journey through the snowy wastelands of northern Japan. Together the unlikely pair explore their sexuality and their demons, and the memories that compel them to keep moving. Powerful and highly original, Vibrator is a novel that drives at the broken heart of a lost generation.
Emotionally charged and sensual exploration of the loneliness and alienation of contemporary Japan.
Personal Recommendation -- deneoctober

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Rachel King SEXUAL OBSESSION Alba

Status: 1st
Condition: VG tight copy (see below for guidance)
Format: pb with French flaps
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 331
ISBN: 1 86230 006 2
Publisher: Anchor
Edition date: 1997
Summary: ‘A powerful and haunting story which brilliantly examines the outer limits of male sexual obsession’ Pat Barker. Alba, named by her mother, is tormented by her too. Until she met Dutch, her life was as bleached out as her eyes and her body. Dutch is a man who lives by his own rules, shunned by the conformist world of the school where Alba teaches. But now lives with his hawks in exile and Alba stays away.

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Joseph Cohen CULTURAL CELEBRATION The Penis Book

Review copy with press release included

Status: 1st
Condition: Ex (see below for guidance)
Format: hb
Dust-jacket: Ex unclipped (see below for guidance)
Pages: 108
ISBN: 0 091 90614 8
Publisher: Ebury Press
Edition date: 2006
Summary: Ah, the trusty penis. The cock, knob, widgie, pink python, groin bollard - call it what you will, this is one part of the male anatomy that never ceases to provide endless fascination, and frequently mirth. Half the population have one, and the other half, so Freud would have us believe, would like to. And yet still our flaccid friend is so often misunderstood. The "Penis Book" seeks to redress the balance, exposing all (quite literally) there is to know about the honourable member. Throbbing with facts, figures, photos and illustrations, the book leaves no foreskin unturned in its quest to bring you the low-down on its subject. Told with wit, vim and lashings of wicked humour, even the most prudish won't be able to resist raising a smile (and perhaps something else). The "Penis Book" is a celebration of the male member in all its purple-helmeted glory. So whether you're male or female, straight or gay, you'll find something in here to titilate and stimulate.

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Maria Leach CENTENARY ED The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde

Illustrated Aubrey Beardsley

Centenary Edition

Compiled by Maria Leach

Condition: Ex (see below for guidance)
Format: hb
Dust-jacket: VG+ unclipped (see below for guidance)
Pages: 154
ISBN: 1 85479 542 2
Publisher: Michael O’Mara
Edition date: 2000
Summary: "The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde" is a celebration of the author's finest witticisms, aphorisms, paradoxes and ironical remarks. It features hundreds of acerbic and razor-sharp quotations from the iconic Victorian Aesthete and rebel and is beautifully decorated with black-and-white illustrations including those by Wilde's contemporary and friend, Aubrey Beardsley - the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era. It is an accessible and elegantly organized collection, with quotes gathered according to themes, perfect to dip into on the reader's whim. "The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde" brings before the reader the virtuoso of a well-turned phrase and the master of the studied insult; indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have been the cause of them. His aphorisms and paradoxes, ironical remarks and needle-sharp rejoinders were repeated with delight - not least by Wilde himself, who took an artist's pride in his work. Yet for all that, his shafts were rarely cruel, for behind them lay great warmth of character, generosity of spirit, and a profound understanding of human life and human vanities.
"The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde" shows us why, more than a hundred years after his death, people of every age and from all walks of life are still drawn to Wilde's dazzling repartee and the wicked brilliance of his social observations, while his plays and stories continue to entertain and enthral succeeding generations.

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Jane Juska SEX & ROMANCE A Round-Heeled Woman

My Late-Life Adventures in Sex & Romance

Memoir

Status: 1^st ed
Condition: VG+ tight bright copy (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 272
ISBN: 0 099 46670 8
Publisher: Vintage
Edition date: 2004
Summary: 'Round-heeled' is an old-fashioned term for a promiscuous woman of easy virtue. It's a surprising way for a respectable English teacher of a certain age, with a passion for the novels of Anthony Trollope, to describe herself, but then that's just the first of many surprises to be found in this poignant, funny, unique memoir. Inspired by Eric Rohmer's film "Autumn Tale", Jane Juska, a smart, energetic divorce, decided she'd been celibate too long, and placed a personal ad in her favourite newspaper, "The New York Review of Books". The response was overwhelming, and Juska took a sabbatical from teaching to meet some of the men who replied. And since her ad made it clear that she wasn't expecting just hand-holding, her dates zipped from first base to the full monty in record time. Juska is a totally engaging, perceptive writer, funny and frank about her exploits. It's high time someone revealed the fact that older single people are as eager for sex and intimacy as their younger counterparts. Jane Juska's brave, honest memoir will probably raise eyebrows and blood pressure, but it will undoubtedly appeal to the very large audience of grown-up readers who will be fascinated and inspired by her daring adventure.

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Marjorie Seldon LOVE STORY Poppies & Roses

A Story of Courage

Wilfred & Eileen of BBC’s Love Story

With recollection from Richard Cobb

Status: 1st
Condition: VG+/Ex (see below for guidance)
Format: hb
Dust-jacket: VG+/Ex unclipped (see below for guidance)
Pages: 200 + illustrations
ISBN: 0 948115 00 9
Publisher: E&L
Edition date: 1985
Summary: Marjorie Seldon writes about her parents and how they coped heroically with adversity. Her father Wilfred saw active service in the First World War and was wounded and disabled. Illustrated by sepia-toned photographs and genealogies.

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Paul Gambaccini GAY Love Letters 1^ST ED

Status: 1^ST ED
Condition: VG+ (see below for guidance)
Format: hb
Dust-jacket: VG slight shelfwear (see below for guidance)
Pages: 188
ISBN: 1 85479 644 5
Publisher: Michael O’Mara
Edition date: 1996
Summary: This is a collection of six letters written by Paul Gambaccini, and never sent, to past lovers and lost friends. Together the letters combine to tell a love story in a narrative that reveals Gambaccini's passion for music and a sexuality that exists alongside the awareness of AIDS.

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Alice Turner [Ed] *1^st Ed* The Playboy Book of Short Stories

Kerouac * Updike * Nabokov * Mailer * Borges * Heller * Marquez

Status: 1st
Condition: VG+ tight + bright (see below for guidance)
Format: thick pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 609
ISBN: 1 85702 203 3
Publisher: 4^th estate
Edition date: 1994
Summary: Cult short story volume including Kerouac, Updike, Nabokov, Mailer, Borges, Heller and Marquez.

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Kate Westbrook PROOF / NEW The Moneypenny Diaries

Exclusive early reading copy

Intended for Her Eyes Only

Samantha Weinberg

Status: True 1^st ed Proof Copy 2005
Condition: Ex unread unmarked (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 272
ISBN: --
Publisher: John Murray
Edition date: 2005
Summary: From her childhood in wartime Kenya to her death in 1990, Jane Moneypenny led an extraordinary life. At the heart of British intelligence she had a ringside seat at the political intrigues that shaped world history. But, contrary to popular belief, she was not simply a bystander while James Bond saw all the action. With so many secrets and yet no-one she could confide in, Jane Moneypenny found herself breaking the first rule of espionage. Unbeknownst to anyone, she kept a secret diary. This became an outlet into which she could commit her innermost thoughts and classified secrets without fear of reprisal. But it should never have been released.

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Amy Bloom SEXUAL NON-CONFORMITY Come to Me

Status: 2nd
Condition: VG+ tight unread copy no crease to spine, slight tan to page ends (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 177
ISBN: 0 330 33988 5
Publisher: Picador
Edition date: 1995
Summary: This collection of stories present a range of characters and points of view. The protagonists - a single mother who falls for her doctor, a widow who makes love to her husband's son and the schoolgirl adored by a middle-aged furrier - all have an irrepressible and infectious faith in life. Nominated for a National Book Award, this fresh and stunning collection of stories takes the reader deep into the heart of the most alarming and joyful human relationships.

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Tillie Olsen HUMAN ENDURANCE Yonnondio: From the Thirties

Introduction Cora Kaplan

Status: 1^st
Condition: VG+ tight bright copy no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages:
ISBN:
Publisher: Virago
Edition date: 1980
Summary: A haunting novel of social realism during the Great Depression in the words of the oldest daughter of the Holbrook family, recording the family’s migration from a Wyoming mining town, to a tenant farm and to bloodied floors of Omaha, Nebraska’s slaughterhouses. A tale of poverty, of helplessness, and human endurance and hope. First begun in the 1930s when the author was nineteen, the manuscript emerged among papers and dusted off for publication in 1974. This novel was preceded by Tell Me a Riddle (1962) and followed by the non-fiction Silences (1978).

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Sandi Toksvig LESBIAN Flying Under Bridges

Status: 1^st pb
Condition: G reader copy with packing tear to back (see pic) otherwise VG tight and bright (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 310
ISBN: 0 7515 3133 2
Publisher: Warner
Edition date: 2001
Summary: Inge and Eve are part of the same generation, grew up in the same town, went to the same school together. But adult life has left them with nothing in common apart from their past - until the summer when their lives become entwined again, when one becomes a killer, and the other approves.

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Patrick Gale GAY Rough Music

Condition: VG+ tight bright copy (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 375
ISBN: 0 00 655220 X
Publisher: Flamingo
Edition date: 2001
Summary: A subtle and entertaining tragicomic love story. Julian as a small boy is taken on the perfect Cornish holiday. When glamorous American cousins unexpectedly swell the party, however, emotions run high and events spiral out of control. Though he has been brought up in the forbidding shadow of the prison his father runs, though his parents are neither as normal nor as happy as he supposes, Julian's world view is the sunnily selfish, accepting one of boyhood. It is only when he becomes a man -- seemingly at ease with love, with his sexuality, with his ghosts -- that the traumatic effects of that distant summer rise up to challenge his defiant assertion that he is happy and always has been.

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Alice Munro *1^st UK ed* Lives of Girls & Women

Status: 1st
Condition: Ex tight bright and unread copy with no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 212 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 7043 3821 1
Publisher: The Women’s Press
Edition date: 1978
Summary: The author’s second book of short stories and winner of the Canadian Booksellers Association International Book Year Award. Her debut, The Dance of the Happy Shades, won the Governor Generals Award. Alice Munro is an internationally acclaimed short story writer often referred to as the ‘Chekhov of the north’.

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Joe Hyams A LOVE STORY Bogart & Bacall *1^ST*

Biography

Status: 1^ST Sphere ed
Condition: VG vintage pb with typical tan page edges (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 205 inc index + 32 photographic pages
ISBN: 0 7221 0416 2
Publisher: Sphere
Edition date: 1976
Summary: A love story about a teenage model and a famous movie star - a romance that became a legend.

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Mellisa P. EROTIC One Hundred Strokes of the Brush before Bed 1ST

Scarce 1^st Ed with French flaps

Status: 1ST
Condition: Ex (see below for guidance)
Format: pb with French flaps
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 154
ISBN: 1 85242 866 X
Publisher: Serpent’s Tail
Edition date: 2004
Summary: One very hot Italian summer, a schoolgirl sits alone in her bedroom, staring at posters of Marlene Dietrich and listening to classical music. She strips before her mirror, examining her adolescent body pleasurably, yet without desire. She writes: 'I want love, diary.' "What"s most remarkable about this staggeringly assured debut is not the sexual smorgasbord - voyeurism, sadomasochism, group sex, etc. - but the utter lack of any distractions from sex ..." Kirkus Reviews.
100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed is the fictionalized memoir of Melissa P., a Sicilian teenager whose quest for love rapidly devolves into a shocking journey of sexual discovery. Melissa begins her diary a virgin, but a stormy affair at the age of fourteen leads her to regard sex as a means of self-discovery, and for the next two years she plunges into a succession of encounters with various partners, male and female, her age and much older, some met through schoolmates, others through newspaper ads and Internet chat rooms. In graphic detail she describes her entry into a Dante-esque underworld of eroticism, where she willingly participates in group sex and sadomasochism, as well as casual pickups. Melissa’s secret life is concealed from family and friends, revealed only in her diary entries. Told with disarming candor, Melissa P.’s bittersweet tour of extreme desires is as poignant as it is titillating. One Hundred Strokes of the Brush before Bed is a stunning erotic debut, a Story of O for our times.

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J.-K. Huysmans DECADENT Against Nature

Literature

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Trans + Introduction Robert Baldick

Condition: G+/VG tight + internally clear with no marks + tan page ends / inner covers (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 220 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 14 044086 0
Publisher: Penguin
Edition date: 1959 ed, 14^th reprint, nd
Summary: The hero of this curious novel is Des Esseintes, a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa. Here, accompanied only by a couple of silent servants, he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems, and complex perfumes and embarks on a series of increasingly strange aesthetic experiments, starting with the decision to give his giant pet tortoise a jewel-encrusted shell. 'It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.' As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in 1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other. Resisting the models of classic nineteenth-century fiction, it focuses on the attempts of its anti-hero, the hypersensitive neurotic and aesthete, Des Esseintes, to escape Paris and the vulgarity of modern life. Holed up in his private museum of high taste, he offers Huysmans's readers a treasure trove of cultural delights which anticipates many of the strains of modernism in its appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarme and Poe.

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John Lee Weldon GAY Memory Touches Memory

Status: 1st
Condition: vg+ tight bright unread copy, no crease to spine, slight shelfwear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 171
ISBN: 0 85449 114 7
Publisher: The Gay Men’s Press
Edition date: 1989
Summary: The first and highest law must be the love of man to man.

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Ben Okri MODERN FABLE Astonishing the Gods 1ST

Status: 1st
Condition: VG tight bright with corner crease /cover shelfwear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 159
ISBN: 1 85799 374 8
Publisher: Phoenix
Edition date: 1996
Summary: This is a story for all ages, set in a time and place best known to lovers of fairytales and myths. It is a modern fable, a way of understanding who we are now and how our search for identity affects our perceptions and actions, shot through with the gentle magic of Ben Okri's imaginative prose. 'Astonishing the Gods is properly worked and exact, and fulfils Calvino's prescription for lightness - being like a bird rather than a feather' New Statesman & Society.

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Adam Mars Jones GAY Lantern Lecture

Status: 3rd
Condition: VG (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 192
ISBN: 0 330 26805 8
Publisher: Picador
Edition date: 1982
Summary: A collection of short stories for which the author was awarded the Somerset Maugham Award. Three short stories: Lantern Lecture, Hoosh-Mi and Bathpool Park.

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Frederic Raphael DANGEROUS LOVE The Latin Lover

Status: 1st
Condition: VG+ tight unread copy with no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 214
ISBN: 1 85799 064 1
Publisher: Phoenix
Edition date: 1995
Summary: A collection of short stories reflecting the author's experiences as a writer living in Spain, France, Italy and Greece, and to his love-hate relationship with the cinema. The title story is an elegant elegy for a public school classics master with an obsession for the German 18th century scholar Wincklemann. But when he makes a summer pilgrimage to Italy he discovers the dangerous nature of love.

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Mark Ravenhill GAY Shopping and F***ing

Condition: Ex unread see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 89 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 413 71240 0
Publisher: Methuen
Edition date: 1997
Summary: "Shopping and F***ing" is falling in love with your best friend - if you can get the right mix of Es and whizz Passion buried beneath layers of bubble and wrap and cellophane. A world where microwaves are the only source of heat- A place where Shopping is sexy and F***ing is a job. And if you killed someone what would it feel like? Or maybe there are no feelings left. "Shopping and F***ing" is a witty and shocking look at a corrosive disposable world whose values have been determined by a disinherited generation. "Shopping and Fucking": "is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings a real coup de theatre" - Nicholas de Jongh, "Evening Standard".

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Alan Hollinghurst GAY The Line of Beauty *1^ST*

Status: 1ST
Condition: VG+ tight + bright with v.slight shelfwear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 501
ISBN: 0 330 48321 8
Publisher: Picador
Edition date: 2005
Summary: It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend and his uneasy responsibility. At the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens' world. In an era of endless possibility, Nick finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession, with beauty - a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends.

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Alexander Stuart ADOLESCENT ANGST INCEST The War Zone

‘The Catcher in the Rye of the nineties’ Time Out

Status: 1^st Vintage
Condition: VG (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 232
ISBN: 0 09 971660 7
Publisher: Vintage
Edition date: 1990
Summary: Dragged from the evil influences he enjoyed in London when his family decide to move to Devon, a young boy stumbles on violence of another kind when he spies on his father and his sister sharing an intimate bath. As his obsession with the relationship grows, so does the need to end it.

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Scott Heim GAY Mysterious Skin *1^st Movie Tie-In Ed*

First Movie Tie-In Edition

Status: 1st
Condition: VG+ tight and bright no crease to spine, slight shelfwear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 292
ISBN: 0 06 084 169 9
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Edition date: 2005
Summary: At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five–hour period of time. During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may have been the victim of an alien encounter. Neil McCormick is fully aware of the events from that summer of 1981. Wise beyond his years, curious about his developing sexuality, Neil found what he perceived to be love and guidance from his baseball coach. Now, ten years later, he is a teenage hustler, a terrorist of sorts, unaware of the dangerous path his life is taking. His recklessness is governed by idealized memories of his coach, memories that unexpectedly change when Brian comes to Neil for help and, ultimately, the truth.

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Felice Picano GAY Late in the Season

Status: 1^st US Ed
Condition: EX (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 254
ISBN: 0 312 15564 6
Publisher: St Martin’s Press
Edition date: 1997
Summary: Jonathan Lash, a successful composer, is staying alone at the summer cottage shares with his lover Dan when he meets Stevie Locke, the eighteen-year-old girl who lives next door. Both try to make sense of their complicated lives.

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Mark Merlis GAY American Studies *1^st*

Status: 1st
Condition: VG tight bright, slight shelfwear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 275
ISBN: 1 85702 338 2
Publisher: 4^th Estate
Edition date: 1995
Summary: A debut novel from this author, a novel based on the reminiscences of a 62-year-old gay man recovering from being beaten up. Reeves thinks his life is over. His career is at a dead end, and he has been evicted from his apartment. As he lies in hospital, he finds himself distracted by strange desires and by the story of Tom Slater, a communist driven to suicide.

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Mark Merlis GAY Pyrrhus *1^ST Ed / French flaps*

Status: 1st
Condition: Ex unread tight bright slight crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb with French flaps
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 376
ISBN: 1 85702 679 9
Publisher: 4^th Estate
Edition date: 1998
Summary: As modern as a mobile phone and as ancient as The Iliad, Mark Merlis's second novel occupies two worlds simultaneously. Behold Pyrrhus -- an archer's body and a hero among hustlers. Bartop stripper with the world at his feet or at least that part of which gathers nightly at the Escapade. But Destiny has scheduled him for a career change. He is the grandson of a goddess, son of the mighty Achilles, legendary fighter at the endless siege of Troy. Since his father's premature death, it is Pyrrhus who must now lead the Myrmidons to victory, or so the oracle proclaims. Only Pyrrhus can end the stalemate, only he can strike down the doddering king of Troy and deliver his city to the plundering Greeks. Unsure of quite why, Pyrrhus falls in with his fate, leaving his little stage at the Escapade for the clamorous theatre of war. Yet the challenges in store for him are not the ones he's been expecting; his journey will change him far more than he knows. An awesome and tender novel, Pyrrhus is a contemporary classic.

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Gus Van Sant GAY Pink * First Ed / French flaps*

First ed with French flaps

Status: First ed with French flaps
Condition: Ex bright and tight no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb with French flaps
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 260
ISBN: 0 571 19106 1
Publisher: Faber
Edition date: 1997
Summary: A first novel, by the film-maker Gus Van Sant. It tells the story of a maker of "infomercials" who lives in the Pacific Northwest, and his close encounters with two young men. He is attracted by their strange aura, especially as one of them reminds him of a young star who died of a drug overdose.

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Jean Cocteau *1^st NEL pb Ed* Opium - The Diary of a Cure

Illustrations by Jean Cocteau

Trans + introduction Margaret Crosland and Sinclair Road

Status: 1^st NEL pb Ed*
Condition: VG tight copy with no crease to spine, tan pages, crease to cover (as shown) + shelfwear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 126 + publisher ads
ISBN: 450 01093 7
Publisher: New English Library
Edition date: April 1972
Summary: see reverse photo

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Simon Cooper (Rag Dolls) The Pretty Boys

1^st Corgi ed 1971

Status: 1st
Condition: G+ creasing to spine + corner, tan page ends (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 286 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 552 08793 9
Publisher: Corgi
Edition date: 1971
Summary: The Pretty Boys never say no to a free luunch, whether from a chick or a ‘male chick’ They are a disturbing new species of users. Yes, folks, it really says all this in the blurb. Great material for someone doing a thesis on the new new new new man.

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James Baldwin GAY Giovanni’s Room

Great pic of Baldwin on reverse

Status: 1^ST Corgi Ed 1963
Condition: G+/VG tight, vg cover but tan page ends + shelfwear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 127 + publisher ads
ISBN: --
Publisher: Corgi
Edition date: 1963
Summary: First published in 1957, this book attempts to tackle the conflict between homosexual and heterosexual love. It tells of David, a young man awakening to his true homosexual nature, through a relationship with a barman named Giovanni, as he awaits his fiancee's arrival from Spain. Brilliant cover art + great photo of Baldwin on reverse.

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Drew Gummerson *The Lodger* GAY Richard James *Red*

A GMP Promotional Sampler

Status: 1^st / GMP Promotional Sample
Condition: Ex (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 82
ISBN: --
Publisher: Gay Men’s Press
Edition date: 2002
Summary: Promotional Sample excerpts of two novels: In The Lodger, Honza takes in a lodger, Andy, who seems like his opposite - a coarse straight guy who comes home drunk every night to fart happily in front of the TV. But when, in a drunken stupor, Andy confesses to murder, Honza refuses to believe him. Then one weekend Andy disappears, only to return with his face rearranged. In Red, This is a celebration of one man's extraordinary life - a life that spans oceans and centuries. In part, Red is a literary thriller in the European tradition, focusing on mysterious art collectors and the curious machinations of Dr Mabuse (who may or may not be the Devil). But, as it moves cinematically from the English Civil War to the Mexican Revolution and from Venice to New York, there is much more to this story.

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George Stambolian [Ed] Men on Men – Dennis Cooper / Edmund White

Best New Gay Fiction

Dennis Cooper + Edmund White + Felice Picano + Andrew Holeran

Status: First printing November 1986 10 11 12 13 14 15
Condition: VG+ tight and bright, no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 375 inc author biogs
ISBN: 0 452 25882 0
Publisher: Plume USA
Edition date: 1986
Summary: This collection gathers together the most popular and gifted voices in gay fiction today, with writers such a Dennis Cooper, Robert Ferro, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano and Edmund White.

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Juliet Carrera LESBIAN Inside Out

Status: 1st
Condition: Ex, as new (see below for guidance)
Format: thick heavy pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 384 inc author biog
ISBN: 1 56023 203 X
Publisher: Alice Street Editions, NY
Edition date: 1999
Summary: see reverse photo

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Peter-Dirk Uys GAY Elections & Erections

A Memoir of Fear and Fun

With drawings by Zapiro

Status: 2nd impression
Condition: Ex as new (see below for guidance)
Format: large pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 230
ISBN: 1 86872 665 7
Publisher: Zebra
Edition date: 2002
Summary: Pieter-Dirk Uys is arguably South Africa's most famous satirist, AIDS activist and entertainer. Here, in his memoirs, he writes with his customary combination of wit and wisdom on such diverse topics as his youth, his early days in theatre, and the birth of Evita Bezuidenhout - his alter ego. He deals frankly with sex, politics, HIV/AIDS and the bizarre twists and turns of contemporary South Africa. It is also a book of journeys, such as Evita Bezuidenhout's road trip through South Africa on the eve of the 1999 election, to educate the populace on how to vote. Needless to say, one hilarious adventure after another unfolds along the dusty country by-roads. Much of the book is about Uys' great passion: educating schoolchildren about the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Uys decided that it was time to go to war against ignorance, brandishing his own unique assortment of weapons - wigs, costumes and - of course - a plastic penis. On his visits to schools far and wide, Uys and Evita convey the safe-sex message through honesty, openess and outrageous humour. The characters he meets are sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always human.

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Sean Thomas EROTIC Absent Fathers

Status: 1st
Condition: VG+ tight + bright, no crease to spine, slight corner crease to cover (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 280
ISBN: 0 233 99003 8
Publisher: Andre Deutsch
Edition date: 1996
Summary: A young foreign exchange dealer's hedonistic lifestyle comes to an abrupt halt when he finds out that his ex-girlfriend is pregnant, and that his two year old niece has become permanently brain damaged.

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Anita Amirrezvani PROOF / NEW The Blood of Flowers

Status: Proof / Advance Copy
Condition: Ex new (see below for guidance)
Format: pb large
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 376
ISBN: --
Publisher: Headline
Edition date: 2007
Summary: Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian storytelling tradition, we are never to know) lives with her mother and rug-maker father. On the sudden death of her father our heroine and her mother fall upon hard times and are forced to travel to the bustling, beautiful, exotic city of Isfahan where relatives take them in. Everything is new: the grudging charity of her aunt, the encouragement of her uncle, one of the finest carpet-makers in the world, who begins to teach her his craft, the treacherous friendship of the daughter of rich neighbours. And there's an adventure ahead which will introduce her to the sensual side of life as well as to the cruelty of betrayal and rejection before she finds her way to contentment and possibly, even, to happiness, in a world full of contrasts and dangers.

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Maya Slater PROOF / NEW Mr Darcy’s Diary

The romantic hero of Pride and Prejudice tells his own story

Status: Uncorrected Bound Proof + press release
Condition: Ex new (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 250
ISBN: --
Publisher: Phoenix
Edition date: 2007
Summary: The novel traces the events of Jane Austen's well-loved Pride and Prejudice through the eyes of Mr Darcy. It reveals his reactions to Elizabeth, his gradual falling in love and the process by which he painfully gains self-knowledge, and it brings to life all the off-stage events that are only referred to in Austen's novel. We learn of Darcy's life in London, of his dangerous friendship with Byron, of the responsibilities that come with running Pemberley, and the terrible guilt he feels at not protecting his sister well enough from the dastardly Wickham. We also see Miss Bingley's increasingly desperate attempts to woo Darcy, and his own part in bringing about the separation between Elizabeth's sister and his own best friend. But above all, we come to know Fitzwilliam Darcy as a fully-rounded character, with all his flaws and all his attractions, and we learn that the story told from his point of view is as enchanting, gripping and unforgettable as Jane Austen's original.

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Laura Esquivel PROOF / NEW Swift as Desire

Author of Like Water for Chocolate

Status: Uncorrected Book Proof
Condition: new, with slight crease to corner (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 234
ISBN: 0385 602766
Publisher: Doubleday
Edition date: 2001
Summary: Instead of entering the world crying, like other babies, Jubilo was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sing and insects whisper. Even as a young boy, acting as an interpreter between his warring Mayan grandmother and Spanish-speaking mother, he would translate words of spite into words of respect, so that their mutual hatred turned to love. When he grew up, he put his gift to good use in his job as a humble telegraph operator. But now the telegraph lies abandoned, obsolete as a form of communication in the electronic age, and Don Jubilo is on his deathbed, mute and estranged from his beloved wife, Lucha, who refuses to speak to him. What tragic event has come between such two such sensuous, loving people to cause their seemingly irreparable rift? What mystery lies behind the death of the son no-one ever mentions? Can their daughter bring reconciliation to her parents before it is too late, by acting as an interpreter between them in Morse code, just as Jubilo used to do for other people? In this magical, bittersweet story, touched with graphic earthiness and wit, Laura Esquivel shows us how keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness, and how communication is the key to love.

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Angus Wilson THEME The Wrong Set

Status: 1982 ed
Condition: VG no crease to spine, light creasing to wraps (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 201 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 586 04905 3
Publisher: Granada
Edition date: 1982
Summary: The first thing one notices about these twelve stories is how they make one laugh. Only later does one realize what a skilled exposure the author has made of those self-righteous and hollow conventions, those smug clique ideologies, those whimsical sayings and philosophical attitudes, in fact, the protective devices with which people seek to mask deep-laid egotism.

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Colette THEME Ripening Seed

Trans. Roger Senhouse

Status: reprint
Condition: VG+ tight bright no crease to spine / cover (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 122 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 14 00 1359 8
Publisher: Penguin
Edition date: 1980
Summary: The author captures that precious, painful moment when childhood retreats at the onslaught of dawning knowledge and desire. Philippe and Venca are childhood friends. In the days and nights of late summer on the Brittany coast, their deep-rooted love for each other loses its childhood simplicity.

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Bronte Adams / Trudi Tate [Eds] That Kind of Woman

Stories by Colette, H.D., Anais Nin, Jean Rhys, Virginia Woolf and others

Introduced and Edited by Bronte Adams & Trudi Tate

Status: 1st
Condition: VG tight bright no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 280 inc contributor notes + publisher ads
ISBN: 1 85381 196 3
Publisher: Virago
Edition date: 1991
Summary: see reverse photo

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Anais Nin THEME Collages

Status: 1^st Virago pb 1993
Condition: G+ tight but tan, creases and wear to spine / edges (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 170 + publisher ads
ISBN: 1 85381 507 1
Publisher: Virago
Edition date: 1993
Summary: Against the continually changing backgrounds of Vienna, Mexico, California and New York, the author reveals the kaleidoscopic patterns of life with all the vividness of dreams. The author has also written "The Four Chambered Heart", "A Spy in the House of Love" and "Journals" (1966-1977).

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Mary Webb WOMEN’S FICTION Precious Bane VIRAGO 1^ST

Introduction Stanley Baldwin
Preface Michelene Wandor

Status: 1^st Virago pb 1978
Condition: VG + tight bright no creases to spine / cover (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 288
ISBN: 0 86068 063 0
Publisher: Virago
Edition date: 1978
Summary: Born at the time of Waterloo in the wild country of Shropshire, Prudence Sarn is a wild, passionate girl, cursed with a hare lip - her 'precious bane'. Cursed for it, too, by the superstitious people amongst whom she lives. Prue loves two things: the remote countryside of her birth and, hopelessly, Kester Woodseaves, the weaver. The tale of how Woodseaves gradually discerns Prue's true beauty is set against the tragic drama of Prue's brother, Gideon, a driven man who is out of harmony with the natural world.

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David Garnett THEME Lady into Fox / A Man in the Zoo

Introduction Neil Jordan

Wood-engravings R A Garnett

Status: 1^st Hogarth Press
Condition: VG tight copy, VG+ cover with light creases to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 94 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0701219238
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Edition date: 1985
Summary: see photo of reverse

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D.H. Lawrence *Lady Chatterley’s Lover* with A Propos / notes

Edited with introduction by Michael Squires

Includes notes, chronology, A Propos of Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Condition: VG tight bright light creasing to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 365 inc notes, chronology, introduction, notes on text, advisory notes, A Propos of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Appendix, Explanatory Notes, Further Reading, Glossary of Dialect forms + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 14 018786 3
Publisher: Penguin
Edition date: 1994
Summary: Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the gamekeeper who works for the estate owned by her husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, Lawrence's masterful and lyrical writing, and a story that takes us bodily into the world of its characters.

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Omar Tyree THEME For the Love of Money

Flyy Girl Returns

Condition: VG+ tight and bright with no crease to spine/cover (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable(see below for guidance)
Pages: 414 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 684 87292 7
Publisher: Scribner, NY
Edition date: 2001
Summary: Tracy Ellison, the sizzling heroine of the bestselling Flyy Girl, returns in an eye-opening and sharply crafted sequel from "one of the hottest young black male novelists in a long, long time" (Rosalyn McMillan). From tough Philadelphia all the way to glamorous Hollywood, Tracy Ellison has truly walked the walk. Now twenty-eight years old and a big-time movie star, Omar Tyree's infamously uncompromising, erstwhile "Flyy Girl" is going back to her East Coast roots. As she drops in to reconnect with her friends, Tracy seems on the brink of a happily-ever-after existence, bountifully armed as she is with over-the-top beauty, unstoppable attitude, and mountains of cash. But what is life, after all, if not a continuous stream of challenges? Tracy's homecoming stirs up a string of difficult questions about past loves, ambivalent family ties, and her artistic ambitions. Crackling with honesty and passion, For the Love of Money is a triumphant continuation of the singular adventures of one of contemporary fiction's most outrageous young heroines.

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Omar Tyree THEME Single Mom

Author of Flyy Girl

Condition: VG+ tight and bright with no crease to spine/cover (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable(see below for guidance)
Pages: 400 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 684 85593 3
Publisher: Scribner, NY
Edition date: 1999
Summary: After ten years spent raising her own two sons alone, single mother Denise Stewart finds herself facing a new set of life challenges as she becomes involved with truck driver Dennis and faces custody battles with both her sons' fathers.

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Omar Tyree THEME A Do Right Man

Author of Flyy Girl

Condition: Ex tight and bright with no crease to spine/cover (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 350
ISBN: 0 684 84803 1
Publisher: Scribner, NY
Edition date: 1998
Summary: Bobby Dallas is a straight, single, good-looking, employed black man - and he doesn't even have kids. Every woman dreams of him. But what does Bobby Dallas dream of?

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Omar Tyree THEME Flyy Girl

Condition: Ex tight and bright with no crease to spine/cover (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 415 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 684 83566 5
Publisher: Scribner, NY
Edition date: 1997
Summary: Will this Material Girl Ever Understand the Important Things in Life?; From the author of the New York Times best-seller for the Love of Money comes the fabulous mass-market priced reprint of this best-selling urban classic about a young woman coming of age amidst the greed of the late 1980s. Tracy Ellison, a young knockout with plenty of attitude, is living life as fast as she can. Motivated by the material world, she and her friends love and leave the men who'll do anything, and give them anything, to get next to them. With conflicting advice coming in from her more conservative neighbour and some political college students, Tracy thinks it's better to live life the way she knows how. It's only when her lifestyle threatens heartbreak that she begins to examine her life, her goals and her sexuality.

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Yolanda Joe THEME This Just In *1^st ed*

Author of He Say, She Say

Status: 1^st ed
Condition: VG+ tight and bright with no crease to spine/cover (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable(see below for guidance)
Pages: 281 inc author biog
ISBN: 0 345 44646 1
Publisher: One World, Ballantine
Edition date: 2001
Summary: Best-selling author and veteran news writer Yolanda Joe offers a warm, witty, and provocative look at broadcast news that only an insider could write. At WKBA in Chicago, five women - four black and one white - are walking a tightrope of determination and ruthlessness, race and relations, personal life and office politics. While fighting to survive in the old-boys network, they are forced to tackle the biggest story of all...their own lives. Readers will fall in love with Holly Johnston, the young reporter who prays that she's more than just eye candy; Alexandra Harbor, the street-smart but burned out photographer; Kenya Adams, the news writer struggling to succeed in TV news without destroying her home life; Meg Rippley, the first female cameraman forced onto the dividing line between black and white; and Denise Mitzler, the only woman in upper management, whose ambition is forced into conflict with her sense of right and wrong. This Just In...is a delicious peek at what the viewer doesn't see - the hot stories that spring from the heart of five very different women as they jockey for respect in a fiercely competitive world. At once moving and hilarious, it sends a penetrating message about life and love that will resonate with women everywhere.

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Anton Marks THEME Dancehall

It was level vibes until he made the mistake of dealing with the ‘wrong’ woman

Status: 1^st 1996
Condition: VG tight and bright with no crease to spine, some shelfwear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable(see below for guidance)
Pages: 280 + publisher ads
ISBN: 1 874509 19 0
Publisher: The X Press
Edition date: 1996
Summary: A ganja filled ride through the unique world of reggae music. Dancehall deejay, Simba Ranking, is close to making it big … then he meets Monique St John … whose husband is the most ruthless politician in Jamaica. Should appeal to fans of Victor Headley's 'Yankee'.

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Marcia Williams THEME Waiting for Mr Wright

Beyond attraction lies obsession

Status: 1st
Condition: VG tight and bright, lightly read, slight shelfwear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 250 + publisher ads
ISBN: 1 874509 49 2
Publisher: The X Press
Edition date: 1998
Summary: Yvette and Anne-Marie lead totally separate lives, but when they accidentally meet each other, they discover they have a great deal in common. It is revealed they share the same boyfriend, Errol Wright. The story follows their lives and relationships as each is adamant they will not give up their man.

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Patrick Augustus ROMANCE When a Man Loves a Woman

This kind of love is worth waiting for

Status: 1^st 1996
Condition: VG tight unread copy with no crease to spine, small shelfwear tear to bottom back cover (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 182 + publisher ads
ISBN: 1 874509 24 7
Publisher: The X Press
Edition date: 1996
Summary: Campbell Clarke grew up poor, where as Dionne Owen came from a wealthy and respected buppie family. When they met a week before her marriage to city broker Mike Phillips, Campbell knew instantly that Dionne was the woman he wished HE was marrying. The following years took their lives down very separate roads, he became a successful businessman and she lived the role of the perfect wife to Phillips. But despite their different backgrounds, Campbell and Dionne became close friends and shared each other’s highs and lows.

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Connie Briscoe THEME Sisters and Lovers *1^st Ed*

Status: 1^st ed pb original
Condition: VG read copy / no spine crease (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 373
ISBN: 0 00 649804 3
Publisher: Harper Collins
Edition date: 1996
Summary: Charmaine, and Evelyn are three sisters living in the same Maryland town outside Washington D.C., each wishing her life were just a little different. Beverly is twenty-nine and single. She’s a successful magazine editor who would love to be in love. The problem is, no man can meet her high standards. Charmaine longs to finish her degree, but meanwhile, she has to juggle a thankless job, a beautiful, and an irresponsible husband she doesn’t quite have the nerve to leave. Evelyn seems to have it made. She has a successful psychology practice and her husband is a partner in a prestigious law firm. But there’s trouble in paradise, and Evelyn refuses to face the facts.

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Cyrus Colter THEME A Chocolate Soldier

Status: 1^st thus 1999
Condition: VG tight unread copy, no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 278
ISBN: 1 874509 44 1
Publisher: Nia
Edition date: 1999
Summary: Set on the campus of a small black college, this novel explores the theme of racial tension and the possibilities and perils of a black revolution. From the author of NIGHT STUDIES and THE BEACH UMBRELLA

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Neffetiti Austin ROMANCE Abandon

Author of Eternity

Status: 1^st 1996
Condition: VG+ unread copy tight, tan to inner covers (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 251 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 7860 0326 X
Publisher: Pinnacle
Edition date: 1996
Summary: It's 1969 and UCLA senior Denise Davis is at rallies and marches, determined to help make a difference. Then she meets charismatic activist Carlton Wilson, and is swept into a heated relationship with him.

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Andrea Levy THEME Never Far from Nowhere *1^st Ed*

Status: 1^st ed 1996
Condition: VG+ tight unread copy, no crease to spine, slight shelfwear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 282
ISBN: 0 7472 5213 0
Publisher: Headline Review
Edition date: 1996
Summary: "Never Far from Nowhere" is the story of two sisters, Olive and Vivien, born in London to Jamaican parents and brought up on a council estate. They go to the same grammar school. Vivien's life becomes a chaotic mix of friendships, youth clubs, skinhead violence, A-levels, discos and college. Olive, three years older and a skin shade darker, has a very different tale to tell!

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni THEME Arranged Marriage

By the author of The Mistress of Spices

Condition: VG+ unread copy (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 307 inc glossary + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 552 99669 6
Publisher: Black Swan
Edition date: 1997
Summary: The possibility of change, of starting anew, in this stunningly beautiful and poignant collection of short stories, is at once terrifying and filled with promise. For those Indian-born women living new lives in America, independence is a mixed blessing. It means walking the tightrope between old treasured beliefs and surprising newfound desires, and understanding the emotions which that conflict brings. Together these stories create a tapestry of existence as colourful, as delicate and as enduring as the finest silk sari.

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Adib Khan THEME Solitude of Illusions

Status: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
Condition: VG tight and bright lightly read copy with light spotting to page ends (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 268
ISBN: 1 86448 147 1
Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Australia
Edition date: 1996
Summary: Winner, Tilly Aston Award for Best Braille Book, Braille and Talking Book Library Awards 1997Shortlisted, Christina Stead Prize and Ethnic Affairs Commission Awards, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards 1997Shortlisted, Tilly Ashton Award for Best Braille Book, Benella Award for Best Audio Book, Braille & Talking Book Library Awards 1997"She was meant to teach him about manners and behaviour, about love-making and its pleasures beyond the act itself. Instead. he learned about the vulnerability of the human heart and the way it defies reason."Plagued by terminal illness, Khalid Sharif leaves his home in Calcutta to visit his Australian son, Javed. Javed is confounded by the old man's rebellious idiosyncrasies that contradict a life-long impression of a dull, predictable father who had devoted his life to business and family. What Javed does not know is that, as a young man, Khalid Sharif was sent to a sophisticated house of courtesans for a cultural education. Against convention, he fell in love with a young courtesan, Nazli, and asked her to marry him. An outraged family pressured him into breaking his betrothal. It is this broken promise that continues to haunt Khalid Sharif for the rest of his life.As he gets close to death, memories of his youth, especially his passion for Nazli, become more vivid. Family, home, the meaning of love and the consolation to be derived from the past are all strong themes of this gentle yet powerful and moving novel from the multi award-wining author of Seasonal Adjustments.

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Maria McCann EROTIC THRILLER As Meat Loves Salt

Status: 1^st pb 2002
Condition: VG+ tight and bright lightly read copy (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 532
ISBN: 0 00 655248 X
Publisher: Flamingo
Edition date: 2002
Summary: Jacob is an educated manservant in a loyalist household. He is fearful of being identified as the murderer of a local boy, and is forced to flee on the day of his wedding feast, dragging his new wife with him. He proceeds to wreak havoc on the lives of others, but mostly on his own fortunes. 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a Royalist estate. As Meat Loves Salt is the testament of Jacob Cullen, homicide and fugitive... An electrifying erotic thriller, rich in secrets and surprises.' Independent

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Rowan Coleman THEME Growing Up Twice

Condition: Ex tight and bright unread copy with no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages:
ISBN: 0 09 942768 0
Publisher: Arrow
Edition date: 2002
Summary: Jenny, Rosie and Selin have been best friends since school. Their teenage years were spent drinking too much wine in the park, dressing up for Friday night, and making the wrong choices with the wrong men because tomorrow seemed a very long way off. Eleven riotous years later, Jenny realises something. After more than a decade of waiting for her real life to begin, nothing has really changed. Here she is, still hung-over in the park, still dressed up in Friday night clothes and about to make her most inappropriate choice of man yet. But Jenny's not the only one waiting for real life to begin. And when tragedy turns their world upside down, all three friends are forced to realise that the real growing up is still to come...

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James Meek THEME The People’s Act of Love * As new 1^st 2006*

Status: 1^st 2006
Condition: Ex unread copy as new (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 405
ISBN: 9 781841 957067
Publisher: Canon Gate
Edition date: 2006
Summary: In 1919 Siberia, in the outer reaches of a country recently torn apart by civil war, lives a small Christian sect and its enigmatic leader, Balashov. Stationed in their midst is a company of Czech soldiers, on the losing side of the recent conflict and desperate to get home. Into this isolated community trudges Samarin, an escapee from Russia's northernmost prison. His arrival intrigues many of the locals, including Anna Petrovna, a beautiful young war widow, but when the local shaman is found dead, suspicion and terror engulf the little town..."The People's Act of Love" is an epic drama of desire and sacrifice, a grand fable for modern times.

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Rebecca Gilman THEME Boy Meets Girl *As new 1^st 2001*

Play

Status: first
Condition: as new (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 111
ISBN: 0 571 20927 0
Publisher: Faber / Royal Court
Edition date: 2001
Summary: A play by Time magazine's number one playwright for 2000. 'With Spinning into Butter, her play about race relations on campus, Rebecca Gilman gave notice that she was a playwright to watch. And with this intense drama of a woman's encounter with a stalker, she became one to hail. Not just a gripping play but also an important one.' Time First produced by Chicago's Goodman Theatre in 2000, the play received its British premiere in 2001.

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Garrison Keller THEME Radio Romance *1^st*

Status: 1^st pb
Condition: VG+ tight and bright copy with one light crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 401
ISBN: 0 571 22554 3
Publisher: Faber
Edition date: 1999
Summary: In 1926, the Soderbjerg brothers, Ray and Roy, plunge into radio and found station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) in order to rescue their failing restaurant and become the sandwich kings of South Minneapolis. For the next 25 years the station produces an array of shows and stars.

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Gay Talese THEME Thy Neighbour’s Wife * Pan 1981*

Sex / Sociology

Status: Pan 1981
Condition: VG+ tight + bright unread copy no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 512 inc index
ISBN: 0 330 26404 4
Publisher: Pan
Edition date: 1981
Summary: Thy Neighbour’s Wife is the story of how they brought sex out from behind the closed doors of the marital bedroom and made it a growth industry. Gay Talese journeys through a world of massage parlours and blue movies, topless bars and group sex experiments, peopled by centrefold nudes and sexual showmen, Al Goldstein of Screw magazine and Hugh Hefner who built a global empire out of male fantasies, Alex Comfort the guru of sexual discovery and John Williamson the impresario of the wife-swappers.

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Monica Belle EROTIC Black Lipstick Kisses

Status: First published 2004
Condition: VG+ tight and bright copy, light reading crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 241 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 352 33885 7
Publisher: Black Lace
Edition date: 2004
Summary: Sultry and mischievous Angela McKie loves dressing up in fetish clothing inspired by Victorian decadence. Perfecting an air of occult sexiness, she enjoys teasing men to distraction, She attracts the lustful attentions of two very different people: Stephen Byrne is a serious young politician with a bright future; Michael Merrick is a cartoonist for a horror comic. Both want her and set out to get her, but quickly discover they have bitten off more than they can chew when they allow themselves to be seduced by the maverick Ms McKie.

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Michael Green RUGBY SONGS Why was he born so beautiful

Why was he born so beautiful and other RUGBY SONGS

Preface Michael Green

Condition: VG tight copy, clean - no marks, light wear to cover (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 187 + publisher ads
ISBN: --
Publisher: Sphere Original
Edition date: April 1968
Summary: Rugby songs are sung wherever rugby is played and in a lot of other places besides. This unique and comprehensive collection of more than 140 songs ranges from such all time favourites as Eskimo Nell and The Good Ship Venus to lesser known but equally worthy gems gathered from every corner of the world.

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Anais Nin EROTIC Little Birds

Status: 10 9 8 7
Condition: VG+ tight unread no crease to spine, slight tan pages (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 159
ISBN: 0 671 68011 0
Publisher: Pocket Books
Edition date: March 1990
Summary: Anais Nin's second volume of erotic short stories is broader in scope, encompassing the entire breadth of human sensuality. Each of the 13 stories captures a moment of pure desire, in all its complexity and paradoxical simplicity.

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Norman Gant EROTIC Slave Queen * 1st MEWS ed 1976*

A savage, lusty novel of the slave trade

Status: First MEWS ed July 1976
Condition: G+/VG copy, sunning / spotting to page ends, shelf wear to lower spine as shown (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 176
ISBN: --
Publisher: MEWS books
Edition date: July 1976
Summary: see reverse

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Molly Parkin EROTIC Up & Coming

Condition: VG+ tight and bright (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 159
ISBN: 0 352 30758 7
Publisher: Star
Edition date: 1985
Summary: Boedicea Jones is eighteen, with a vast appetite for the pleasures of the senses.

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Jean Effel THEME Garden of Eden

89 cartoons by Jean Effel

Status: 1^st 1971
Condition: VG+ (see below for guidance)
Format: hardback
Dust-jacket: VG unclipped some shelfwear (see below for guidance)
ISBN: 0 460 03973 3
Publisher: Dent
Edition date: 1971
Summary: see reverse pic

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Morton M Hunt *1^st Four Square*The Natural History of Love

Status: 1^st Four Square ed 1962
Condition: G+ cracked spine, no loose pages, sunned, tear to top spine as shown (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 415 + publisher ads
ISBN: -
Publisher: Four Square
Edition date: 1962
Summary: see reverse

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Neil Miller GAY Sex-Crime Panic

A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s

Status: 1^st January 2002
Condition: vg+ tight and bright, lightly read no crease to spine / cover(see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 313
ISBN: 1 55583 659 3
Publisher: Alyson
Edition date: January 2002
Summary: A True Account of Lives Ruined by Anti-Gay Hysteria in Post-War America; A grippingly-told and brutal true account that will appeal to gay readers, American history buffs and academic circles alike. Following the brutal murders of two children in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1954, police, in an attempt to quell public hysteria, arrested 20 men whom the authorities never claimed had anything to do with the crimes. Labelled as sexual psychopaths, the men were sentenced to a mental institution until cured. A gripping story of murder and homophobic hysteria, award-winning journalist Neil Miller's carefully researched account shows how the paranoia of the McCarthy era destroyed the lives of gay men in the American heartland.

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Kay Turner *1^st 1993* I Dream of Madonna

Women’s Dreams of the Goddess of Pop

Compiled by Kay Turner

Illustrated David Kolwyck / Kay Turner

Status: c 1993
Condition: Ex – neat dedication (see below for guidance)
Format: hardback
Dust-jacket: glossy boards, no dj as issued (see below for guidance)
Pages: 128 inc colour illustrations
ISBN: 0 500 015953
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Edition date: 1993
Summary: Here are fifty of the most intimate and astonishing women’s dreams about Madonna - as friend, lover and life force, inspiring women to take control of their own destinies and desires. This is a vivid, thoroughly engrossing work on Madonna as the new female archetype. Packed with collages that combine images of the pop star with classic artworks and other snippets of world culture, this is a post-modern scrapbook of the ages. It features many women’s experiences of Madonna, and shows us how she’s redefined the feminine ideal. The most famous woman alive, Madonna has become more than just a pop megastar. She has become part of global culture - she has redefined Woman for ever. So powerful is Madonna's influence that it extends deep into the subconscious world of imagination and dreams. Here are fifty of the most intimate and astonishing women's dreams about Madonna - as friend, lover and life force, inspiring women to take control of their own destinies and desires. Dr Kay Turner is a folklorist and feminist who specializes in women's art and popular culture.

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Gyles Brandreth *1^st NEW* Charles & Camilla

Portrait of a love affair

Biography

Status: 1st
Condition: (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 356 + colour plates
ISBN: 0 09 949087 0
Publisher: Arrow
Edition date: 2006
Summary: This is the definitive account of one of the most extraordinary stories of our time. Gyles Brandreth, acclaimed biographer of the "Queen and Prince Philip", presents a unique portrait of their son, Charles, Prince of Wales, and of the one 'non-negotiable' love of his life, Camilla Shand, now Duchess of Cornwall. What are Charles and Camilla really like? What is their heritage? What has made them the way they are? This is both a revealing portrait of two unusual individuals and a family saga like no other, told with unrivalled authority and insight - and humour - by a best-selling writer who has met all the key characters in the drama: Charles, Camilla, Diana, their children, their families and their friends.

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Tricia Stewart THEME Calendar Girl 1ST

In Which a Lady of Rylstone Reveals All

Status: 1st
Condition: Ex (see below for guidance)
Format: hardback
Dust-jacket: VG++ unclipped (see below for guidance)
Pages: 259 + plates
ISBN: 0 283 07341 1
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson
Edition date: 2001
Summary: When John Baker died of cancer, many of his friends in the small Yorkshire village of Cracoe were devastated. During his illness Tricia Stewart had joked with him about creating an 'alternative' W.I. calendar - she and his wife Angela were members - and after his death they were determined to continue and give the proceeds to leukaemia research. It took guts - and a big glass of red wine - for eleven mature women to pose wearing nothing but a string of pearls and a smile. The result was an astonishing two-year rollercoaster ride as the ladies became international stars. In "Calendar Girl" Tricia Stewart writes honestly about the whole experience: Angela's courage and strength, the enormous strain that fame placed on marriages, friendships and family, being doorstepped by the tabloid press, but above all about the positive transforming effect the calendar has had on their lives. Funny, insightful and moving, this book will change your view of the W.I. forever. "Riveting" - Valerie Grove, "Times".

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Jane Campion SCREENPLAY The Piano *1^st US ed*

Screenplay

Status: 1^st US ed
Condition: VG+ v. tight bright copy but with crease to cover as shown, some shelfwear (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 160 inc sepia text + photos
ISBN: 1562827030
Publisher: Hyperion
Edition date: 1993
Summary: This is the screenplay of the film starring Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel. Ada, together with her nine-year-old illegitimate daughter Flora, and her piano, leave Scotland to arrive in the remote bush of 19th-century New Zealand for a marriage arranged by her father.

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Neil Labute PLAY The Shape of Things

Faber plays

Status: 1st
Condition: VG tight + bright with shelfwear + creases to corners (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 138
ISBN: 0 571 21246 8
Publisher: Faber
Edition date: 2001
Summary: This drama peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships. The play is about the transformation of plump and bespectacled Adam goes through after meeting new girlfriend, the sexy Evelyn.

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Edmund White GAY The Beautiful Room is Empty *1^st Pan 1988*

Sequel to A Boy’s Own Story

Status: 1^st Pan 1988
Condition: VG with small tears to cover as shown and tan inside covers (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 184
ISBN: 0 330 30437 2
Publisher: Picador / Pan
Edition date: 1988
Summary: The sexually obsessed, yet conventional narrator from the book "A Boy's Own Story" has emerged from adolescence into early adulthood. He moves to New York lives a life of exploration and passion, revolving around Maria and Lou.

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Nikolaj Frobenius THEME De Sade’s Valet

Trans Tom Geddes

Status: 1st
Condition: VG+ tight and bright, lightly read (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 239
ISBN: 0 7145 3060 3
Publisher: Marion Boyars
Edition date: 2000
Summary: A dark new cult classic - Perfume meets The Anatomist; In eighteenth-century Honfleur, a child is born with a horrific destiny before him. His name is Latour and he is physiologically incapable of feeling pain. Obsessed by his abnormality and fascinated by the mysteries of pain, Latour loses himself in a dark spiral of death, murder and dissection as he attempts to fathom the secrets of the human body. Eventually he meets the infamous Marquis de Sade, whose faithful servant and accomplice he becomes. Born in Oslo in 1965, Nikolaj Frobenius has worked as a scriptwriter for both the theatre and the cinema. In this, his first novel to appear in English, he has taken the historical facts of Georges Latour's existence and transformed them into a terrifying narrative of flesh, blood and bones. Reading De Sade's Valet is like being flayed alive by language. The book was critically acclaimed in trade paperback when it was published in 2000 - QPD who made the book a Fiction Best Choice and ordered three times, said Frobenius..."has added flesh and blood to the bare bones of the real life Latour, in a terrifying novel that crosses Perfume with Ingenious Pain."

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Karina Mellinger AS NEW A Bit of a Marriage

Humour / chic lit satire

Status: 1st
Condition: as new (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 226
ISBN: 1 903517 46 X
Publisher: Dedalus
Edition date: 2006
Summary: This book is the Dedalus lead title for 2006. It is a satire on chick lit, and a laugh out loud black comedy. Laura's going to leave her husband. She's going to do it today. All she needs to do now is to find a reason why. Laura Denver-Barrette has been happily married to her rich, handsome, considerate husband, David, for 15 years. She can't help thinking that there must be more to life than this. When they wake up this morning and David tenderly attempts to make love to her - that's when she decides she just can't take any more. She has become allergic to him - the way he eats, sleeps, talks and breathes are all driving her mad. None of it is the way it would be if it were perfect. All marriages have their ups and downs and this one, today, is no different from all the rest. Her husband has an affair with Laura's best friend and gets the cleaner pregnant. She seduces his business partner while her mother dies in the second best guest bedroom. All this while she struggles to find a good reason to go. Does Laura leave him? Or does David learn to exist in a way she does not find offensive so their marriage can go on to survive another day?

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Hanif Kureishi THEME Love in a Blue Time *1^st Faber 1997*

Status: 1^st Faber 1997
Condition: VG+ tight unread copy with no crease to spine / cover (see below for guidance)
Format: pb with French flaps
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 212
ISBN: 0 571 17739 5
Publisher: Faber
Edition date: 1997
Summary: Hanif Kureishi, author of "The Buddha of Suburbia", is one of a generation of British writers whose experience of the United Kingdom is refracted, socially and culturally, through his Pakistani heritage. The stories in this collection incorporate the humour, bawdiness and aggression of his novels.

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Barbara Kingsolver THEME Pigs in Heaven *1^st Faber 1994*

Status: 1st
Condition: VG+ tight and bright unread copy with no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 343
ISBN: 0 571 17178 8
Publisher: Faber
Edition date: 1994
Summary: Continuing the story begun in "The Bean Trees", this novel features the characters Taylor and Turtle as they witness an event whose repercussions will change their lives forever. By the author of "Animal Dreams" and "Homeland". Taylor Greer and her adopted Cherokee daughter Turtle, first met in The Bean Trees , will captivate readers anew in Kingsolver"s assured and eloquent sequel, which mixes wit, wisdom and the expert skills of a born raconteur into a powerfully affecting narrative. Now six years old and still bearing psychological marks of the abuse that occurred before she was rescued by Taylor, Turtle is discovered by formidable Indian lawyer Annawake Fourkiller, who insists that the child be returned to the Cherokee Nation. Taylor reacts by fleeing her Tucson home with Turtle to begin a precarious existence on the road; skirting the edge of poverty and despair, she eventually realizes that Turtle has become emotionally unmoored. In taking a fresh look at the Solomonic dilemma of choosing between two equally valid claims on a child’s life, Kingsolver achieves the admirable feat of making the reader understand and sympathize with both sides of the controversy, as she contrasts Taylor’s inalterable mother’s love with Annawake’s determination to save Turtle from the stigmatization she can expect from white society. The chronicle acquires depth and humour when Kingsolver integrates the story of Taylor’s mother Alice, a woman who believes that the Greers are "doomed to be a family with no men in it" (that she is proven wrong adds a delicious element of romance to the story). Alice’s resolve to help her daughter takes her into the heart of the Cherokee Nation and results in an astonishing but credible meshing of lives. In the end, both justice and compassion are served..

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Susan Sontag SEX / REVOLUTION The Volcano Lover *2nd*

A Romance

Status: 2nd
Condition: VG+ tight and bright unread, no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: large format pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 419
ISBN: 0 385 26713 4
Publisher: Anchor Books
Edition date: 1993
Summary: Based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson, this novel is about sex and revolution, the fate of nature, art and the collector's obsession, and love. The author also wrote "The Benefactor", "Death Kit", "AIDS and its Metaphors" and "The Way We Live Now".

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Dayo Forster *AS NEW 1^st 2007* Reading the Ceiling

The decision of a moment. The story of a lifetime …

Status: 1^st 2007
Condition: Ex as new (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 277
ISBN: 0743295714
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Edition date: 2007
Summary: It is Ayodele's eighteenth birthday in her native Gambia - it is the day she has decided to lose her virginity. She's drawn up a short list: Reuben, the failsafe; Yuan a long-admired school friend; Frederick Adams, the 42-year-old, soon-to-be-pot-bellied father of her best friend. Ayodele's life will tread a different path according to this night's decision; but how can she know which one to choose? Tracing each of Ayodele's possible stories, Reading the Ceiling takes us from Gambia, to London, to Boston and Mali as Ayodele confronts dilemmas universal to women across the globe: what do we settle for, how long do we wait for love - and what are the consequences of our decisions? Dayo Forster's first novel is a remarkable achievement: fresh, funny and wholly authentic, it paints a compelling portrait of the modern African experience for women.

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Diana Souhami LESBIAN The Trials of Radclyffe Hall *1^ST*

Status: 1^st
Condition: VG+/Ex unclipped dj (see below for guidance)
Format: hardback
Pages: 418 inc index + plates
ISBN: 0 297 81825 2
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Edition date: 1998
Summary: Radclyffe Hall was born in 1884 in Bournemouth in a house of horrors called 'Sunny Lawn'. It was an unhappy childhood, until her father's death when Radclyffe inherited £200,000. She was 18. She leased a London house, dressed in chappish clothes, called herself Peter then John & wrote her first collection of verse. She was a political reactionary, a reformed Catholic, obsessive about work, hunted with 3 packs, got her pipes from Dunhill's, wore brocade smoking jackets & had her hair cropped. She thought real women were born to be wives & disliked doing any business with them. Her 1st love was Mabel Batten, known as Ladye, who reputedly had an affair with Edward VII. Radclyffe Hall is now most famous for THE WELL OF LONELINESS, written in 1928. A novel about 'congenital inverts' - lesbian love - the book was suppressed both here & the US & caused Radclyffe to be put on trial under the Obscene Publications Act. Brilliantly written, this biography is a fresh and irreverent insight into the lives of one of the most alluring and eccentric women of this century.

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Wayne Sruder GAY Rock on the Wild Side *1^st ed* BOWIE etc

Gay male images in popular music of the rock era

Status: 1^st ed
Condition: VG+ tight bright with no crease to spine, Ex-lib copy (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 287 inc index / photos + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 943595 46 0
Publisher: Leyland, San Fran
Edition date: 1994
Summary: Gay male images in popular music of the rock era. An informative look at more than 200 songs of this era that describe gay men or express various attitudes about gayness.

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Ultra Violet THEME Famous for 15 Minutes

My Years with Andy Warhol

Status: 1^st
Condition: VG+ (see below for guidance)
Format: hardback
Dust-jacket: VG+ unclipped (see below for guidance)
Pages: 1989
ISBN: 0 413 61530 8
Publisher: Methuen
Edition date: 1989
Summary: The author recounts her years as a celebrated member of Andy Warhol's New York art-and-society group, Warhol's activities and phobias, and his impact on individuals, society, and art.

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Karen Wallace ROMANCE The Unrivalled Spangles *1^st*

Status: 1st
Condition: Fine in fine dj (see below for guidance)
Format: hb
Dust-jacket: see above (see below for guidance)
Pages: 217
ISBN:
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Edition date: 2005
Summary: The dramatic and colourful tale of the Spangles, a nineteenth century circus family, and their lives, loves, romances and rivalries against the backdrop of London town. The story follows Ellen, the ringmaster's daughter and one half of horse-riding duo The Incredible Scarletta Sisters, as she struggles to break with family tradition and get an education - and to hide her sister's secret romance with a rival circus owner's son...A beautifully written historical adventure, from the author of Wendy and Raspberries on the Yangtze.

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Meg Rosoff ROMANCE How I Live Now *1^st*

Status: 1^st Print
Condition: Fine in fine dj (see below for guidance)
Format: hb
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Pages: 186
ISBN: 0141 38075 6
Publisher: Penguin
Edition date: 2004
Summary: It would be much easier to tell this story if it were all about a chaste and perfect love between Two Children Against the World at an Extreme Time in History. But let's face it, that would be crap. Daisy is sent from New York to England to spend a summer with cousins she has never met. They are Isaac, Edmond, Osbert and Piper. And two dogs and a goat. She's never met anyone quite like them before - and, as a dreamy English summer progresses, Daisy finds herself caught in a timeless bubble. It seems like the perfect summer. But their lives are about to explode. Falling in love is just the start of it. War breaks out - a war none of them understands, or really cares about, until it lands on their doorstep. The family is separated. The perfect summer is blown apart. Daisy's life is changed forever - and the world is too.

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Graeme Aitken GAY Vanity Fierce *1^st Ed 1998*

Status: 1^st Ed 1998
Condition: VG tight and bright (see below for guidance)
Format: pb large format
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 408
ISBN: 0 7472 7649 8
Publisher: Review
Edition date:1998
Summary: Stephen Spear is blond, blue-eyed and blessed with countless talents. In matters of the heart, he assumed it would be no different. It is quite a shock when he falls in love for the first time, to find his desire is unrequited. But he will have his way - even if he has to cheat, lie and plot.

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Christopher Isherwood GAY Down There on a Visit

Status: White Lion Ed 1974
Condition: VG+ tight and bright no marks (see below for guidance)
Format: hardback
Dust-jacket: VG unclipped, chipping to some corners top spine as shown(see below for guidance)
Pages: 352
ISBN: 0 85617 454 8
Publisher: White Lion
Edition date: 1974
Summary: By the author of The Berlin Stories. An autobiographical novel set in the thirties and forties.

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Julian Fleisher GAY The Drag Queens of New York

An illustrated field guide

Status: 1st
Condition: VG+ tight bright no crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 178 inc index illustrated
ISBN: 0 04 440994 X
Publisher: Pandora
Edition date: 1997
Summary: Meet the drag queens of New York in this illustrated field guide about "dragging". From club queens and theatre queens to singing, dancing, acting and disc jockey queens, we get a brief history of New York drag and a glimpse of all the major players who pass behind the footlights.

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Sally R Munt [Ed] *Butch / Femme* Inside Lesbian Gender

Status: 1^st 1998
Condition: VG+ tight and bright (see below for guidance)
Format: hardback
Dust-jacket: none issued (see below for guidance)
Pages: 244 inc references
ISBN: 0 304 33958 X
Publisher: Cassell
Edition date: 1998
Summary: Combining critical theory with short fiction, poetry, performance texts and photographs, this is a collection of lesbian essays and fictional works on the theme of butch and femme identities. Despite its evident significance in lesbian communities, the designations of butch and femme have rarely been theorized or written about from a critical perspective. For many lesbians, butch and femme are expressive lived identities, yet prevalent intellectual trends encourage us in the view that these are somehow provisional, empty, and artificial. This book is an attempt to think creatively about hutch/femme in a way which honours the intimacy of these identities, hoping to articulate the closeness we hold to these evocative categories, respecting the power they hold in lesbian cultures, but also avoiding the cliched romanticisation often endemic to their representation. Far from being sentimentally unreflective, the pieces in this collection also intend to offer up the mirror of estrangement, so we can think about these categories in new ways, combining the critical eye with affect. All the essays in this collection communicate the complexity of butch/femme without sacrificing the emotional integrity with, which these identities are lived. Many of the chapters take the form of traditional academic analyses, but there are also contributions which choose the imaginative form, written by performance artists or poets.

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Eric Braun GAY CINEMA Frightening the Horses

Gay icons of the cinema

Status: 1st
Condition: VG+ / Ex no reading crease to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 224 inc bibliography
ISBN: 1 903111 10 2
Publisher: Reynolds and Hearn
Edition date: 2002
Summary: Frightening the Horses: The Rise and Rise of Gay Cinema is the first accessible and inclusive account of gay and gay-themed cinema published in one accessible volume. Avoiding an overty dry and theoretical approach, Braun celebrates the achievements of cinema's gay icons from the years before gay men and lesbians could be openly depicted on the screen - and carries the story right through the introduction of the Production Code in 1930, through the 'undercover' gay icons of the forties and fifties, to the sexual revolution of the sixties and seventies - and beyond. Chapters include: Forbidden Topics Circumventing the Censor Gay Icons Nowt so Queer as Folks - Public versus Private Lives among the Stars Out of the Closet Frightening the Horses embraces all movies and themes from movies dealing with overtly gay themes (mainly from the sixties and after), as well as the subtexts, in-jokes and coded messages which run through Hollywood and other film cultures. Extended treatment is given to all the major gay icons - from Judy Garland and Joan Crawford via James Dean and Marlon Brando, right through to River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves and Madonna.

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Victoria Holt *1^st 1982 nr F/F* The Demon Lover PLAIDY / CARR

Aka: Philippa Carr / Jean Plaidy

Romantic Suspense

Status: 1st
Condition: nr Fine with tan to page edges (see below for guidance)
Format: hardback
Dust-jacket: nr Fine unclipped but slightly bumped (see below for guidance)
Pages: 382
ISBN: 0 00 222692 8
Publisher: Collins
Edition date: 1982
Summary: When Kate Collison, to help her ailing father, completes his portrait of the powerful Baron de Centeville, her only thought is to be a dutiful daughter. But when the Baron presents her to Parisian society as the painter, Kate finds herself basking in the recognition . . . until she discovers that the Baron has plans for her -- shocking plans that will change her life unless she can fight the Baron with his own weapons.

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Peter Taylor *1^st UK d/w* A Woman of Means ROMANCE>

Status: 1^st printing UK
Condition: VG, bright pages, brown boards with gilt titles to spine, bumped to spine / corners (see below for guidance)
Format: hardback
Dust-jacket: a lot of wear to edges, some tears, chipping -- now in protective wraps (see pictures)
Pages: 160
ISBN: -
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul
Edition date: 1950
Summary: very rare UK edition. Taylor’s second book went on to successful further print runs after an initial cautious first printing

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Lynne Reid Banks *1^st Ed d/w* The L-Shaped Room

Romance

Status: 1st
Condition: VG bright pages, green boards, gilt to spine, slight bumping, owner name ffep (see below for guidance)
Format: hardback
Dust-jacket: G+ tears + chips to edges, price-clipped, now in protective wraps (see below for guidance)
Pages: 319
ISBN: -
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Edition date: 1960
Summary: Jane Graham, alone and pregnant, retreats to a bug-infested attic bedsit in Fulham, where she finds unexpected companionship, happiness and love.

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Martin Amis *1^st Penguin 1984* The Rachel Papers

‘Extravagantly sexual ..’

Status: 1^st thus
Condition: VG+/Ex tight bright unread copy with no creasing to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 219 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 14 00.7001 X
Publisher: Penguin
Edition date: 1984
Summary: Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.

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Helen Hanff *1^st Warner 1993 Rare* Letter from New York

BBC Woman's Hour broadcasts

Non fiction

Status: 1st
Condition: VG+/Ex tight bright unread copy with no creasing to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 178 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 7515 0243 X
Publisher: Warner books
Edition date: 1993
Summary: For six years Helene Hanff, author of "84 Charing Cross Road", made monthly broadcasts on BBC Radio's "Woman's Hour". In five-minute vignettes she conveyed the ups and downs of life in a high-rise apartment building in the heart of New York City. This is a collection of those humorous and witty pieces. Hanff talks of Bentley, the Old English sheepdog who stole the show at a neighbour's New Year's Eve party; of the regeneration of the Shakespeare Garden in Central Park; of the St Patrick's Day Parade, when all of New York turns green; of Arlene, her high-flying friend whose social life - and wardrobe - puts Hanff's tiny apartment and simple writer's life into perspective; and of how Hanff prepared to fly to London to realize a lifelong dream on the opening night of the play of "84 Charing Cross Road".

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Nicholas Monsarrat *Vintage Pan 1967* The Pillow Fight

Status: 1967 ed
Condition: G+ (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 333 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 330 20188 3
Publisher: Pan
Edition date:1967
Summary: The Pillow Fight is the story of a man and a woman who begin their marriage with strongly-held, utterly opposed beliefs and find that time and circumstances reverse their attitudes so completely that each finally reflects the other’s earlier convictions, thus perpetuating a state of unremitting conflict. Moving expertly from Cape Town to New York, to Barbados and back to Cape Town, Monsarrat studies the corrupting influence of wealth and fame on this ill-assorted couple - on Kate Marias, a brilliantly successful young Afrikaner devoted to the preservation of the life of luxury she has enjoyed since her childhood; and on Jonathan Steele, an idealistic, impecunious young writer from England with whom Kate falls in love, and whom she marries after a stormy courtship, despite his violent and infuriating endeavours to arouse her social conscience.

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Gable & Lombard & Powell & Harlow *1^st printing Dell 1975*

Joe Morella & Edward Z Epstein

The greatest screen lover of them all

With exclusive photographs

Status: First printing February 1975
Condition: VG+ tight bright unread copy with no creasing to spine / soft crease to cover (see below for guidance)
Format: soft cover
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 272 with photographs
ISBN: --
Publisher: Dell
Edition date: February 1975
Summary: The greatest screen lover of them all

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Rosamond Lehmann *Penguin 328 1962* Invitation to the Waltz

Status: 1962 reprint of 1941 Penguin pb
Condition: VG+ tight bright lightly read copy with no creasing to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 174
ISBN: --
Publisher: Penguin
Edition date: 1962
Summary: A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first evening dress: these are the gifts Olivia Curtis receives for her seventeenth birthday. She anticipates her first dance, the greatest yet most terrifying event of her restricted social life, with tremulous uncertainty and excitement. For her pretty, charming elder sister Kate, the dance is certain to be a triumph, but what will it be for shy, awkward Olivia? Exploring the daydreams and miseries attendant upon even the most innocent of social events, Rosamond Lehmann perfectly captures the emotions of a girl standing poised on the threshold of womanhood.

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Tracy Chevalier DOUBLE Falling Angels / Girl With a Pearl Earring

Two Tracy Chevalier books in Harper Collins editions -- matching set.

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Tracy Chevalier THEME Falling Angels

Status: 2002
Condition: VG+ tight bright lightly read copy (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 404
ISBN: 0 00 710826 5
Publisher: Harper Collins
Edition date: 2000
Summary: 1901 was the year of Queen Victoria's death. The two graves stood next to each other, both beautifully decorated. One had a large urn - some might say ridiculously large - and the other, almost leaning over the first, an angel - some might say overly sentimental. The two families visiting the cemetery to view their respective neighbouring graves were divided even more by social class than by taste. They would certainly never have become acquainted had not their two girls, meeting behind the tombstones, become best friends. And furthermore - and even more unsuitably - become involved in the life of the gravedigger's son. As the girls grow up, as the century wears on, as the new era and the new King change social customs, the lives and fortunes of the Colemans and the Waterhouses become more and more closely intertwined - neighbours in life as well as death.

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Tracy Chevalier THEME Girl With a Pearl Earring

Status: 2000
Condition: VG+ tight bright lightly read copy (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 249
ISBN: 0 00 651320 4
Publisher: Harper Collins
Edition date: 2000
Summary: Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeenth century Holland, obtains her first job, as a servant in Vermeer's household. Tracy Chevalier shows us, through Griet's eyes, the complicated family, the society of the small town of Delft, and life with an obsessive genius. Griet loves being drawn into his artistic life, and leaving her former drudgery, but the cost to her own survival may be high.

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Helen Fielding *Ex Unread* Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination

Status: 2nd
Condition: VG+/Ex tight bright unread copy with no creasing to spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 344
ISBN: 0 330 43274 5
Publisher: Picador
Edition date: 2004
Summary: From the white heat of Miami to the implants of LA, the glittering waters of the Caribbean to the deserts of Arabia, Olivia Joules pits herself against the forces of terror armed only with a hatpin, razor sharp wits and a very special underwired bra. How could a girl not be drawn to the alluring, powerful Pierre Ferramo, with his hooded eyes, impeccable taste, unimaginable wealth, exotic homes across the globe and a rather dubious French accent? But is it possible that Ferramo is actually a major terrorist, bent on the western world's destruction. Or, is it all just a product of Olivia Joules's overactive imagination. Join Olivia in her heart-stopping and hilarious quest to save the world in this witty, contemporary and utterly unputdownable thriller. 'If Bridget Jones shaped and named a certain kind of life in the 1990s, it looks as if Olivia Joules, Helen Fielding's new heroine, may do the same for the new decade' - "The Times".

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John Fowles *Unread Copy* The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Status: 1992
Condition: VG+ tight unread copy with unbroken spine (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 399
ISBN: 0 330 32537 X
Publisher: Picador
Edition date: 1992
Summary: Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, his book is an immaculate recreation of Victorian England. Not only is it the epic love story of two people of insight and imagination seeking escape from the cant and tyranny of their age, The French Lieutenant's Woman is also a brilliantly sustained allegory of the decline of the twentieth-century passion for freedom.

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Sebastian Faulks VG 2006 Human Traces

Status: 2006 ed
Condition: VG bright read copy no crease to cover (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 611 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 099 45826 8
Publisher: Vintage Books
Edition date: 2006
Summary: "Human Traces" explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. As psychiatrists, they travel on a quest from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. Their search is made urgent by the case of Jacques' brother Olivier, for whose severe illness no name has yet been found. Thomas' sister Sonia becomes the pivotal figure in the volatile relationship between the two men. It threatens to explode with the arrival in their Austrian sanatorium of an enigmatic patient, Fraulein Katharina von A, whose illness epitomises all that divides them. As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the novel rises to a climax in which the value of being alive is called into question. This is Sebastian Faulks' most ambitious novel yet, with scenes of emotional power recalling his most celebrated work, yet set here on an even larger scale.

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Amanda Craig *1^st 1992 Ed Unread* A Private Place

Status: First edition
Condition: VG+/Ex tight bright unread copy with no creasing to spine, no marks, slight tan to page ends (see below for guidance)
Format: pb
Dust-jacket: not applicable (see below for guidance)
Pages: 246 + publisher ads
ISBN: 0 586 21692 8
Publisher: Flamingo
Edition date: 1992
Summary: Written by the author of "Foreign Bodies", this is a frightening story of adolescent power-games and sex-games played out among the beautiful, crumbling neo-classical buildings of a progressive public school. When Winthrop T Sheen, a much-expelled American preppy, arrives he falls in love with the chaste and despised Alice, setting off a school underground power struggle that leads from fear and loathing to the greatest crime of them all. This is a magical novel of politics, hate, music, the crushing of innocence and redemption through love. Nobody who has seen the public face of co-education should be without A Private Place.

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The Month's Theme <<resolutions -- reading to revitalise>>
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Feature Book << The Green Witch>>
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NAVIGATION: repeat click January in the Blog Archives to view all features
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Next month: February theme is Other Love
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January special

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Books on self-improvement comprise the rather broad theme for this month. The books on sale range from the spiritual to the overtly materialistic, from alternative health to effective business. As such, the message emphasises the successful path of the individual through the social -- a rite of passage that is appropriate to the time of year.
Some of the work is more individualistic than others. David Icke, for example, surely is a one-off. Whereas many other books highlight group or team consciousness-raising, whether that is on the spiritual plane (such as Stanley Rosenthal's Tao: A Way of Being) or the rather more banal and mediated reality of journalism (Alexandra Kitty's Don't Believe It).
Whether you're waiting to start a resolution, or revolution, you won't want to be kept waiting. So these books are available exclusively at Buy it Now or Best Offer prices. No need to wait ten days for an auction to end, Buy it Now and your book will be in the post immediately and on its way to you.
Start when it suits you ... in your time! The theme will run throughout January, right up to the Chinese New Year -- being the year 4706 -- beginning on February 7th.
And if you want to send an incentive to someone special, there is even an option for gift wrap and shipping to the recipient of your choice, together with a personal greeting (see below for details).
I wish you every success, and a very happy new year,
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Resolutions: a new year, a new you.
books on life goals, health and spirituality ~ reading to revitalise
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Thought for the month

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William Shakespeare was a rat!
In ancient time, Buddha called all the animals to meet him on Chinese New Year. Only twelve showed up, including the rat, and Buddha named a year after each loyal animal. 2008 is the Year of the Rat and, as you have probably already gathered, the great playwright, William Shakespeare, was born in such a year. Happy Chinese New Year!

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Book Grading Guide

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The following is the system I use for grading books ~
Mint ~ New or as new, clearly unread, no tanning to pages, no creasing to spine or cover, no marks or inscriptions. This is the condition you would expect to find in a high street bookstore or on mail-order.
Excellent ~ The book appears to be in fine condition. A closer look reveals some signs of previous ownership, such as shelf-rubbing and in some cases an inscription. Yet on the whole, the book is perfect.
Very Good + ~ Less than excellent condition with no more than mild tanning or foxing to pages, minor creasing to spine or cover, possible shop sticker/pencilled price or previous owner name, but no other marks or inscriptions. This is still a tight and bright copy.
Very Good ~ The book shows clear signs of previous ownership / shelf wear. There may be some tanning / foxing to pages, slight creases to spine or cover, inscriptions from previous owner (typically their name or words of presentation).
Good + ~ The book cover and contents may have faded in colour and there may be creases, wear and inscriptions. However the book is still intact and readable and there is no loosening to spine or pages.
Good ~ This is an acceptable reading copy and there may be several of the reported problems above as associated with age and/or mishandling.
Poor ~ A book such as this is sent to auction for reasons such as the edition's rarity. This will probably not make an acceptable reading copy, and is more likely to have value in relation to its collectable status.
N.B. where a double grading is given, the latter refers to the dust-jacket, wrapper or cover
This grading guide is updated monthly to save you scrolling through archives.

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Gift Wrap Service

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Simply request the service when paying, indicating the recipient, recipient address and 'your message'.
Your book will then be gift-wrapped, placed in bubble-wrap and secured in a thick, corrugated card sleeve before being sent to the recipient address.
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Cassandra Eason's Resolution

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Cassandra Eason is a fitting choice for feature author in a Resolutions theme. A family accident was both the spark and the motivation to change her life and become an author.
When she and her son Jack were waiting for her husband to return home from working overnight, Jack announced suddenly, Daddy’s gone roly-poly off his motorbike.
At that precise moment, her husband had indeed spilled from his bike. He was fine, even though the bike was not. 'We synchronised the times because the clock on the motor bike stopped on impact,' says Eason, and the experience led her to write her first book, The Psychic Power of Children.
That was in 1991. And Cassandra Eason has written 50 books on similar subject material since.
Look out for the following Cassandra Eason books on sale: Cassandra Eason's Complete Guide to Psychic Development; Cassandra Eason's Complete Guide to Divination; Cassandra's Psychic Party Games.

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Rare Plant Power

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This rare book has many applications: for home or garden, for beauty or hygiene, for kitchen and bathroom, for relaxation or relief from sickness ... it seems more people than ever are turning to the world of plants. Barbara Griggs' The Green Witchwork captures this green revival, and offers practical advice for utilising plant power. Included are ecipes for aromatic mixtures and natural remedies, as well as sections on wild food and spices. How to get your home smelling sweet, enjoy fragrant herbal baths, learn the natural secrets of beautiful hair and skin and master herbal remedies for adults and children.
Barbara Griggs: The Green Witch. Published byVermilion, 1993

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View item on eBayMarley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan NEW pb

4:22 PM PST, 2/1/2008

View item on eBayMarley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan NEW pb

4:21 PM PST, 2/1/2008

View item on eBayMarley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan NEW pb

7:04 AM PST, 1/1/2008

View item on eBayThe Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (Paperback, 2005) NEW

6:59 AM PST, 1/1/2008

View item on eBayThe Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (Paperback, 2005) NEW

6:32 AM PST, 1/1/2008

View item on eBayThe Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (Paperback, 2005) NEW

6:30 AM PST, 1/1/2008

View item on eBayThe Fabulous Girl's Guide to Life by Ceri Marsh, Kim Izzo (Paperback, 2004) VEW

6:28 AM PST, 1/1/2008

View item on eBayThe Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (Paperback, 2005) NEW

6:22 AM PST, 1/1/2008

View item on eBayThe Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (Paperback, 2005) NEW

6:21 AM PST, 1/1/2008

View item on eBayThe Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (Paperback, 2005) NEW

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Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan NEW pb

View item on eBay

Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan NEW pb

View item on eBay

Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan NEW pb

View item on eBay

The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (Paperback, 2005) NEW

View item on eBay

The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (Paperback, 2005) NEW

View item on eBay

The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (Paperback, 2005) NEW

View item on eBay

The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Life by Ceri Marsh, Kim Izzo (Paperback, 2004) VEW

View item on eBay

The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (Paperback, 2005) NEW

View item on eBay

The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (Paperback, 2005) NEW

View item on eBay

The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (Paperback, 2005) NEW