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Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Toibin 9780330491389
RRP: £9.99£7.06In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodovar,... -
Fire Island: A Queer History by Jack Parlett 9781783787029
RRP: £10.99£7.32"A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia" - Olivia Laing "Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, Fire Island is a beaming beach read" - Jeremy Atherton Lin --- Fire Island: a slim strip of... -
The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899–2016 by Alison Garden
RRP: £29.99£28.65This book explores the literary afterlives of one of Ireland's most enigmatic, shape-shifting and controversial sons, Roger Casement. A seminal human rights activist, a key figure in the struggle for Irish independence, a traitor to British... -
In Dora's Case: Freud, Hysteria, Feminism by Charles Bernheimer 9780231072212
RRP: £32.00£24.27-- The Women's Review of BooksAbout the AuthorCharles Bernheimer is Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Figures of III Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century... -
Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History by Heather Love 9780674032392
RRP: £25.95£21.66Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that... -
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker
RRP: £16.99£12.07'Queer: A Graphic History Could Totally Change the Way You Think About Sex and Gender' ViceActivist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction... -
Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus
RRP: £22.00£16.99Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each... -
The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection by Oscar Wilde 9780674248670
RRP: £23.95£18.74An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era."I cannot think other than in stories," Oscar Wilde once confessed to his friend Andre Gide. In this new selection of his short fiction, Wilde's... -
F.M.R.L.: Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound by Daniela Cascella
RRP: £9.99£8.99Listening into writing, reading into writing take shape in F.M.R.L. through a collection of short texts, fragments and 'deranged essays', with attention to pacing and linguistic derives. An archive of books, notebooks, events and records prompts the... -
Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action by Kevin Guyan
RRP: £19.99£16.42Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the collection, analysis and application of data? This important book is the first to look at queer data - defined as... -
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram
RRP: £40.00£29.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Triangle Awards (Gay Nonfiction) 2013. Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Nonfiction) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780446563130Author Christopher BramFormat... -
Sticking It To The Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980 by Andrew Nette
RRP: £32.99£22.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635248Author Andrew NetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives by Andrew H. Miller
RRP: £16.95£13.54"To be someone-to be anyone-is about...not being someone else. Miller's amused and inspired book is utterly compelling."-Adam Phillips"A compendium of expressions of wonder over what might have been...Swept up in our real lives, we quickly forget about... -
The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £19.95£15.77"And I? May I say nothing, my lord?" With these words, Oscar Wilde's courtroom trials came to a close. The lord in question, High Court justice Sir Alfred Wills, sent Wilde to the cells, sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor for the crime of... -
To Write as if Already Dead by Kate Zambreno
RRP: £14.99£11.87To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Herve Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death,... -
Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
RRP: £28.99£24.86Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The contributors to this volume navigate new territory in literary theory with essays that implicitly challenge the "hermeneutic of suspicion" widespread in current... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 9780674057920
RRP: £45.95£35.63The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had-in the words of biographer Richard Ellmann-"a different look." Yet the... -
Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker by McKenzie Wark 9781478014683
RRP: £19.99£15.84It's time to recognize Kathy Acker as one of the great postwar American writers. Over the decades readers have found a punk Acker, a feminist Acker, a queer Acker, a kink Acker, and an avant-garde Acker. In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark adds a... -
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories by Elizabeth Freeman
RRP: £22.99£19.60Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory's recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily... -
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun 9780231195515
RRP: £30.00£22.82Winner, 2024 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of AmericaWinner, 2023 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science SocietyWinner, 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of... -
Michel Foucault by Sara Mills 9780415245692
RRP: £19.99£18.52It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, discourse and identity have influenced the widest possible range of theories and impacted upon... -
Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility by Alexis Lothian 9781479825851
RRP: £27.99£24.37Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film,... -
The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr by Jack Parlett
RRP: £22.99£19.60A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets The Poetics of Cruising explores the relationship between cruising, photography, and the visual in the work of leading poets, from Walt Whitman in the nineteenth century... -
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 9780231176293
RRP: £22.00£16.99First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual... -
Lecture by Mary Cappello
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492426Author Mary CappelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
How To Be Gay by David M. Halperin 9780674283992
RRP: £21.95£17.65No one raises an eyebrow if you suggest that a guy who arranges his furniture just so, rolls his eyes in exaggerated disbelief, likes techno music or show tunes, and knows all of Bette Davis's best lines by heart might, just possibly, be gay. But if you... -
Queer Callings: Untimely Notes on Names and Desires by Mark D. Jordan 9781531504533
RRP: £23.99£20.41FINALIST, THE RANDY SHILTS AWARD FOR GAY NONFICTION, THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARDS A passionate exhortation to expand the ways we talk about human sex, sexuality, and gender. Twenty-five years ago, Mark D. Jordan published his landmark book on the... -
Glitter by Dr. Nicole Seymour
RRP: £9.99£7.45Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Glitter reveals the complexity of an object often dismissed as frivolous. Nicole Seymour describes how glitter's consumption and status have... -
Is the Rectum a Grave?: And Other Essays by Leo Bersani 9780226043548
£28.66Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory - his famous meditation on how... -
Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho by Diana L. Burgin 9780814712214
RRP: £27.99£24.37The weather in Moscow is good, there's no cholera, there's also no lesbian love...Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nauseous as if I'd eaten a rotten sardine. Moscow doesn't have them--and that's marvellous." Anton Chekhov,... -
Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History by Kadji Amin
RRP: £23.99£20.41Jean Genet (1910-1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibilities attuned to a defiant non-normativity. Not only sexually queer, Genet was also a criminal and a social... -
Incurable: The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era's Dark Angel by Lionel Johnson
£18.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222627Author Lionel JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling by Philip Pullman 9780525562955
RRP: £18.95£12.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562955Author Philip PullmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality by Jay Prosser
RRP: £28.00£21.36Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is... -
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives by J. Jack Halberstam
RRP: £21.99£18.79The first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative... -
Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare by Madhavi Menon
RRP: £28.99£24.86Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard's plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many ways that... -
Why Bowie Matters by Will Brooker
RRP: £10.99£6.52A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life's work and journey, and why he will always... -
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace Elisabeth Lavery
RRP: £25.00£19.18Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismA leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern periodIn Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it... -
The Routledge Queer Studies Reader by Donald E. Hall
RRP: £54.99£50.97The Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field.The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key... -
Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition by Rebecca T. Alpert
RRP: £28.00£21.36This text explores what it is like to be part of both the lesbian and Jewish communities, suggesting ways in which lesbians can reconcile these seemingly discordant elements of their identity. It advocates the acceptance of lesbians into the Jewish...