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Queen James
£25.00‘Books like this don’t come along very often. Told with Gareth Russell’s characteristic verve and exquisite eye for detail, it is a story so compelling and surprising that it feels as if it has been hiding in plain sight for 400 years’ TRACY BORMAN
‘A warts and all story told with compassion’ PHILIPPA GREGORY
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Who’s afraid of gender?
£10.99Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing movements today. Global networks have formed ‘anti-gender ideology movements’ dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous threat to families, local cultures, civilization – and even ‘man’ himself. Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, this movement has sought to abolish reproductive justice, undermine protections against violence, and strip trans and queer people of their rights. But what, exactly, is so disturbing about gender? In this vital, courageous book, Butler carefully examines how ‘gender’ has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations and transexclusionary feminists, and the concrete ways in which this phantasm works.
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A bookshop of one’s own
£10.99A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024
An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024
The captivating true story of an underdog business – a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher’s Britain – from a woman at the heart of the women’s liberation movement.
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Cher Part one
£25.00The Collector’s Edition: The first hardback print run will feature an exclusive foiled board design. Pre-order now to avoid missing out!
‘A rock ‘n’ roll memoir like no other’ Daily Mail
THERE IS ONLY ONE CHER ?
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Christopher Isherwood inside out
£35.00Here is an engrossing biography of the man whose writings about 1930s Berlin made him famous. Christopher Isherwood rejected the life he was born to and set out to make a different one. Heir to an English estate, he flunked out of university, moved to Berlin, was driven through Europe by the Nazis, and circled the globe before finally settling in Hollywood. There he adopted a new religion and continued to form the friendships – including an astounding number of romantic and sexual ones, often with other celebrated artists – through which he discovered himself. Isherwood repeatedly fictionalised his friends and himself – from the detached ‘Christopher Isherwood’ of Goodbye to Berlin to George, the unapologetic middle-aged lover of men, in ‘A Single Man’, and the boldly out narrator of ‘Christopher and His Kind’.
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Out in the world
£20.00Out in the World is THE indispensable guide to LGBTQ+ travel from The Nomadic Boys – full of tips, advice and resources on the best and safest places to visit around the world.
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The feminist killjoy handbook
£20.00Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism? Do you refuse to laugh at jokes that aren’t funny? Have you been called divisive for pointing out a division? Then you are a feminist killjoy, and this handbook is for you. The term killjoy has been used to dismiss feminism by claiming that it causes misery. But by naming ourselves feminist killjoys, we recover a feminist history, turning it into a source of strength as well as an inspiration. Drawing on her own stories and those of others, especially Black and brown feminists and queer thinkers, Sara Ahmed combines depth of thought with honesty and intimacy. ‘The Feminist Killjoy Handbook’ unpicks the lies our culture tells us and provides a form of solidarity and companionship that can be returned to over a lifetime.
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Young Bloomsbury
£10.99Surprisingly little has been written about second-generation Bloomsbury who tantalised the original ‘Bloomsburies’ at Gordon Square parties with their captivating looks and provocative ideas. ‘Young Bloomsbury’ introduces us to an extraordinarily colourful cast of characters, including novelist and music critic Eddy Sackville-West, ‘who wore elaborate make-up and dressed in satin and black velvet’; sculptor Stephen Tomlin; and writer Julia Strachey. Talented and productive, these larger-than-life figures had high-achieving professional lives and extremely complicated emotional lives.
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Infamous
£8.9922-year-old aspiring writer Edith ‘Eddie’ Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everything together – climbing trees, throwing grapes at boys, sneaking bottles of wine, practicing kissing. Now that they’re out in society, Rose is suddenly talking about marriage, and Eddie is horrified. When Eddie meets charming, renowned poet – and rival to Lord Byron – Nash Nicholson, he invites her to his crumbling Gothic estate in the countryside. The entourage of eccentric artists indulging in pure hedonism is exactly what Eddie needs in order to finish her novel and make a name for herself. But Eddie might discover that trying to keep up with the literati isn’t all poems and pleasure.
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Young Bloomsbury
£25.00Surprisingly little has been written about second-generation Bloomsbury who tantalised the original ‘Bloomsburies’ at Gordon Square parties with their captivating looks and provocative ideas. ‘Young Bloomsbury’ introduces us to an extraordinarily colourful cast of characters, including novelist and music critic Eddy Sackville-West, ‘who wore elaborate make-up and dressed in satin and black velvet’; sculptor Stephen Tomlin; and writer Julia Strachey. Talented and productive, these larger-than-life figures had high-achieving professional lives and extremely complicated emotional lives.
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Oh, what a lovely century
£20.00Born in 1921, Fenwick Owen had an extraordinary life, which careered between some of the biggest moments in history and took him to the ends of the earth, meeting (and even living with) some of the 20th century’s most well-known people along the way, including Eisenhower, Jackson Pollock, and Marlene Dietrich. After eye-opening schoolboy exploits with his classmates Christopher Lee and Queen Elizabeth II’s cousin (whilst his father ran away with the family’s nanny), Roderic spent the 1930s trying to fit in at Eton and Oxford and getting into various mischief all the while. In the summer of 1939, he witnessed Nazi Germany when he went to stay with a friend, and only managed to get home the day before war broke out. He served first in the ambulance service in the north of England and then in air raid shelters during the Blitz, before joining the RAF and being stationed in Italy.