The Naked Tuck Shop
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The Naked Tuck Shop
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Author : Tim Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Paragon Publishing
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The Naked Tuck Shop written by Tim Hughes and has been published by Paragon Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Naked Tuck Shop is a unique record of a period long before ‘gaiety’ was legal in any form in the United Kingdom. This memoir of a 1950s grammar-school boy’s navigation through his emerging gayness, lifts the lid on his discovery of a vast clandestine world – that stretched from members of parliament to long distance lorry drivers. A chance meeting with two local artists while ‘cottaging’ provided the springboard to a Soho demimonde that featured Muriel Belcher’s Colony Room and a cast of characters that included Francis Bacon, Angus Wilson and Tom Driberg. While his friendship with Dudley, Bishop of Colchester, led to encounters with dodgy clerics and Margery Allingham, the crime writer queen. The author suggests that the ‘cottage’, long before later legal venues like gay pubs and discos arrived, was the only game in town for an underage provincial teenager. In a contemporary Britain starved of ‘public conveniences’ it is easy to forget their ubiquity in those times. The late Victorian ‘spend a penny’ brigade had decreed the building of these municipal marvels throughout the land, and fortunately for him the local worthy burghers had seen to it that Colchester was well endowed. Alongside his early adventures in ‘queer society’ Tim Hughes remembers with affection a group of talented school friends, and how some of them who were also friends of Dorothy, had their lives cut short by the arrival of the gay plague.
The Naked Drinking Club
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Author : Rhona Cameron
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-09-15
The Naked Drinking Club written by Rhona Cameron and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-15 with Fiction categories.
'It was dark when I came to. What woke me was the cold and the water on my legs. I was doing spoons with Scotty, me behind him. We were on a beach. We didn't speak for the first minute, we were so disorientated. I had to genuinely think very hard about where I was. Then I remembered I was in Australia.' It's the late eighties and 24-year-old Kerry has been drifting aimlessly through life in Edinburgh. Rarely having plans of any kind, she gets drunk and things happen: sex, drugs, parties, relationships, and, when she's really pushed, work. Setting off on a hastily arranged visit to Australia, Kerry packs only three items of clothing, a pair of flip-flops, two hundred pounds and her young persons' work visa. Soon broke, hungry and homeless, she joins ART, a likeable but mismatched band of travellers who sell dodgy oil paintings door-to-door in the suburbs. Young, beautiful and free, they drink wildly and live for the moment. Embarking on a riotous road trip together, their lives become deeply entangled, and the drinking spirals out of control. Eventually, Kerry is forced to admit that her journey to Australia isn't quite what it seems ...
Glitter And Be Gay
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Author : Tim Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Paragon Publishing
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Glitter And Be Gay written by Tim Hughes and has been published by Paragon Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Biography & Autobiography categories.
TIM HUGHES shares a selection of his writing from the past six decades – from Sixth Form juvenilia, with their early hints of campery, to his many articles in the gay press on both sides of the Atlantic. In London in the late 1960s he was an associate editor of JEREMY – the world’s first glossy gay magazine – scoring early interviews with David Bowie, Ian Mckellan and Quentin Crisp, before they reached iconic fame. In New York we move from the 70s’ post-Stonewall gained gay freedom with its attendant wild and sleazy nightlife venues like the notorious MINESHAFT sex club to the horrors and sadness of the gay plague in the early 1980s – the pandemic that was HIV/AIDS. In a moving penultimate coda prior to his work for ATTITUDE magazine we learn of his grief at the loss of friends, his patients – Tim Hughes re-trained as an HIV counsellor – and lover, Enrique Luna.
Naked I Stand
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Author : Chris Wren James
language : en
Publisher: Onwards and Upwards
Release Date : 2016-12-01
Naked I Stand written by Chris Wren James and has been published by Onwards and Upwards this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-01 with Religion categories.
A guide towards emotional healing, from a seasoned Christian counsellor.
Kes And Tell The Untold Truth About King Edward Vii School
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Author : Derek Hewitt, Tim Haynes, Donald Macdonald, Michael Rakusin
language : en
Publisher: ALH Projects Inc.
Release Date : 2020-12-30
Kes And Tell The Untold Truth About King Edward Vii School written by Derek Hewitt, Tim Haynes, Donald Macdonald, Michael Rakusin and has been published by ALH Projects Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-30 with History categories.
King Edward VII School, 1965 - 1970, in Apartheid Johannesburg was a stick-wielding, traditional boys school of its times. But the Establishment did not count on a cohort that displayed an over-developed spirit of rebellion. In this unofficial, unauthorized and somewhat scandalous account, over 70 schoolmates used the Covid-19 lockdown to describe their complicated relationship with the institution that helped shape their lives over the last 50 years. Anyone who has ever reflected on their own schooldays will enjoy the humour and escapades of a group determined to resist the rules and constraints of a very rigid society.
Life On A Lake District Smallholding
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Author : F. Nigel Hepper
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011
Life On A Lake District Smallholding written by F. Nigel Hepper and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Farm life categories.
F. Nigel Hepper's memoir of living at Tarn Cottage near Bootle in the Lake District during the Second World War.
Black Heart
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Author : Josef Peeters
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-11-02
Black Heart written by Josef Peeters and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-02 with categories.
When a gruesome murder shocks the small cane farming community of Ingham, Queensland, Detective Arnold Ryan feels it more keenly than most, since the victim is an old friend. Ryan's vow to apprehend the culprit intensifies when a second incident, bearing all the trademarks of the first, leaves another friend dead. Realising his prime suspect has cause to hate him and his friends, Ryan must act quickly to prevent further bloodshed. Moreover, an escalation by the serial killer may uncover a dark secret that the township--and Ryan--would rather leave buried.
The Craniology Of Pygmies
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Author : Louis Abey-Koch
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2006-06-11
The Craniology Of Pygmies written by Louis Abey-Koch and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-11 with categories.
An innocent boy from rural and remote Australia is sent away at nine for his education at the hands of the Jesuits. The memoir is set in 60s in Melbourne and describes his progressive ruination at their hands. This is an unusual 'autobiography' in that the subject dies.
The Amazingly Astonishing Story
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Author : Lucy Gannon
language : en
Publisher: Seren
Release Date : 2020-10-07
The Amazingly Astonishing Story written by Lucy Gannon and has been published by Seren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
By turns laugh out loud funny and deeply sad, 'The Amazingly Astonishing Story' is Lucy Gannon's childhood memoir, a frank and surprising look into a child's tumultuous mind. A soldier's daughter, Lucy lived in many places but after the death of her mother when Lucy was six, she was lodged with relatives in Lancashire, taken in only because the Army paid an allowance for her care. Escape beckoned when her father remarried but Lucy and her brothers soon found they had swapped one difficult situation for another. The boys fled into the armed forces leaving Lucy behind, a loathed gooseberry in her father's second and passionate marriage. Lucy's escape was her convent school where, though abysmal at maths, she discovered a flair for writing and in the nuns she found warmth and understanding. Forced to leave home at sixteen, she joined the Women's Royal Army Corps ('the only organisation desperate enough to take me on'). Vividly told, 'The Amazingly Astonishing Story' is a classic story of a working-class girl growing up in the fifties and sixties, where dreams and reality seem irreconcilable. Her Catholic upbringing, a father torn between his daughter and his new wife, her irreverent imagination and stubborn determination to enjoy life , all mean that Lucy Gannon really does have an amazing story (including meeting the Beatles in her school grounds) as she finds her place in the world. "This is a fantastic book. Lucy Gannon offers her giant heart in this story of herself growing up and trying so hard to matter. It's the saddest happiest funniest book I've read for ages, and it contains the most excellent swearing." – Dawn French "In her own real-life drama, she excels herself... she'll have you in tears, barking in anger, and laughing out loud in the space of one beautifully crafted sentence." – Kevin Whateley After leaving the army Gannon became a social worker and then a nurse before turning to writing. She is the author of 8 plays and 18 tv dramas or series, including The Best of Men, Soldier Soldier, Peak Practice, Bramwell, and Dad,. She won the Richard Burton Award for New Playwrights and has been writer in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Gannon is currently developing scripts and mentoring writers for BBC Wales and contemplating two further volumes of memoir. She lives on the coast, in the far west of Ceredigion.
Yesteryears Of Henry M King
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Author : Philip L Carroll
language : en
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Release Date : 2012-08-01
Yesteryears Of Henry M King written by Philip L Carroll and has been published by Strategic Book Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Philip L. Carroll brings to life the recollections, memories and poems of his late uncle Henry M. King in this unique and fascinating collection. Henry M. King was born in India in 1911 in the Garrison town of Allahabad. At that time, in the British Military Zone, the British Raj was strong and the Indians with whom Henry came in contact were a source and inspiration for many stories and writings. With rich and colorful vitality and detail, Henry also recounted his days as a boarder at Lawrence College in Ghora Gali. During his intriguing life, his keen and insightful interest in his surroundings is evident in his memoirs. Henry M. King remained in India until November, 1947. This book is dedicated in loving memory of Margaret Alice King Carroll McGuire.