Dolly Parton: Journey of a Seeker – her monumental story of overcoming obstables and ignoring naysayers

posted Sunday, August 24, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Dolly Parton has enjoyed seemingly effortless success as a singer, songwriter, movie and television actor, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist ever since she first hit the record charts in 1967. The sheer magnitude of her talent and charisma has created the impression that Parton merely fulfilled her destiny in becoming an entertainment icon.  But she had […]

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Nova Scotia House – a reflection of a deceased partner’s life stories, and honouring the joys and creativity of queer life

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Nova Scotia House begins with Johnny Grant, as he faces stark life decisions. Seeking answers, he looks back to his relationship with Jerry Field. When they met, nearly thirty years ago, Johnny was 19, Jerry was 45. They fell in love and made a life on their own terms in Jerry’s flat: 1, Nova Scotia […]

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The Blue House – Sky Gilbert’s new novel explores creativity, imagination, lust, and madness

posted Friday, August 15, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The Blue House attempts to answer the question – What happens when a person decides to live only in their imagination? What is the cause and drive of the impulse to create art? What happens to an individual who is gifted with talent, but finds himself thwarted? Does that creative spark become some kind of […]

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Before We Hit the Ground – portrait of one man’s search for belonging, a family’s attempt to love, and the choices that make a life

posted Wednesday, August 13, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Elom can’t make sense of love. It’s like a language he can’t speak, though he’s heard the words before. He wants to feel understood – by his well-meaning yet misapprehending family, his self-assured partner Ben, and his boisterous friends, but he never knows the right thing to say. How can you know yourself, in a […]

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I Got You Babe A Celebration of Cher

posted Wednesday, August 6, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

“I Got You Babe A Celebration of Cher” covers her life and sixty-year career from Sonny & Cher to show-stopping solo performer, award-winning actress, fashion icon, and beyond, this is a glorious retrospective of one of the world’s most enduring entertainers, Cher. Featuring a foreword by Cyndi Lauper! Commemorating six decades since her first #1 hit […]

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Cher: The Memoir – Part One

posted Sunday, August 3, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir. Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, […]

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Derek Jarman: The Authorised Biography

posted Wednesday, July 30, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

This authorised and unique biography covers Jarman’s story from the bleakness of post-war Britain and his RAF childhood, to student life at The Slade and his work as a designer, painter and filmmaker. It tells how energetic home filmmaking with dazzling friends led to distinctive feature films including Sebastiane, The Tempest, and Caravaggio. There were collaborations with the […]

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Winter – Campus Death Forces Gay Crime-Solving Couple to Confront More Than a Killer

posted Sunday, July 27, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Winter is the fourth murder mystery novel in this stand-alone series. On a quiet Saturday afternoon during Christmas vacation, University of California San Diego Professor Marcus George stops by his campus office to retrieve a student’s assignment. What he finds instead is the dead body of an outspoken, overbearing colleague who was disliked by many. […]

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Cosmic Thing – a definitive look at The B52s iconic 1989 album that was recorded after the tragic death of their guitarist

posted Thursday, July 24, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The B-52s were always queer, though not overtly, and this book dissects the coded queer messaging in their music, using their 1989 album Cosmic Thing as a focal point. Alongside the author’s own queer awakening, Crighton investigates the band’s history and recorded work to date, providing cultural context along the way, and proves what was obvious […]

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Pioneer Summer – banned queer Russian romance novel set in the 1980s

posted Tuesday, July 22, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Pioneer Summer takes place in the year is 1986, and Yurka Konev, 16, has been sent off for another summer at Pioneer Camp. Impulsive, forthright, and unfairly branded as a troublemaker, he anticipates the weeks ahead of him with boredom and dread. But when he’s pushed into working on the camp’s theatre production, he meets […]

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