Fascinating tale of jazz's greatest cross- dresser, Billy Tipton. "Should be the paradigmatic biography of our time." "Times". ...

Derek Jarman's own record of how he created a strange and eerily beautiful garden on the bleak shingle banks in the shadow of Dungeness power station. The illustrations are highly atmospheric photographs by Howard Sooley, Jarman's photographer, and show the garden from all angles and during every season of the year, revealing its intricate geometric plan. 100 colour, 70 b/w photos. ...

This is Derek Jarman's meditation on the colour spectrum. He explains the use of colours in art, and their meanings in literature, science, philosophy, psychology, religion and alchemy - and mixes in his own memories and insight. A highly personal book from the recently deceased artist, film-maker and author. Vintage. ...

A self-help book for parents and about-to- come-out teenagers by the most famous lesbian daughter of them all; the daughter of Sonny and Cher. Outed by the tabloids at the age of 20, Chastity tells her own story as well as offering practical advice on how to see yourself as normal, and bridge building within the family. Published during Gay Pride Week. ...

Paperback edition of acclaimed biography of Virginia Woolf. Alongside the details of Woolf's life-story, Lee explores the crucial questions of her childhood, sanity, suicide, marriage, prejudices and feelings for women. "This biography should be admired for it scrupulousness, its seriousness, its effort and its honesty" Jeanette Winterson, )The Times(.
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Andrew Hodge's biography of Alan Turing, the brilliant Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma code and indeed was the father of the modern computer, was regarded as "the paperback buy of the season" (Sunday Times) when it was first published. It is now reissued in Vintage with a new preface. ...

Set in 17th-century England this is a novel of magical fantasy that celebrates the power of imagination as it juggles the readers perception of history and reality. A novel about love and sex; lies and truths; and 12 dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.
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Gore Vidal's reputation as "America's finest essayist" is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states. State of the art covers literature, including novelists and critics, bestsellers, pieces on Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Suetonius, Nabakov and Montaigne (a previosly ...

Haunting debut novel from one of Canada's most admired playwrights and actresses. It traces a family from Cape Breton island, Nova Scotia, through the First World War into the emerging Jazz scene of New York. Four sister cope very differently with growing up in a troubled family. ")Fall on Your Knees( is a wonderful story, a depressing, bleak, magical tale, a curious testament to both the power of love and the inability of humans to live fully ...

Gay punk vampires on drugs and booze create mayhem across the American south - and help bring two young rock musicians to an awareness of their homosexual love for each other. ...