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posted Saturday, November 2, 2024
Bedsit land: The strange worlds of Soft Cell charts the bonkers journey of Soft Cell via 60+ interviews, from North West seaside weirdness through radical art school, the 80s New York underground, Soho sleaze, avant-garde goth madness, and more! Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best […]
posted Friday, October 25, 2024
The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts, by bestselling author Louis Bayard, brings Oscar Wilde’s wife Constance and two sons out from the shadows of history and creates a vivid and poignant story of secrets, loss, and love. In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his family have retreated to the idyllic Norfolk countryside for […]
posted Tuesday, October 22, 2024
In Roman Year, André Aciman (Call Me by Your Name) captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled from Egypt. It’s a deeply romantic memoir of his time in the ancient city while on the cusp of adulthood. Though Aciman’s family had […]
posted Thursday, October 17, 2024
A secret is a life sentence, a permanent gag order more effective than duct tape across the mouth. A young girl is abused by her Catholic priest. For years she tells no one, striving to meet her parents and teachers’ expectations that she be a Good Girl—passive, obedient, and devout. When she learns as an […]
posted Wednesday, October 16, 2024
It’s 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon—handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction—takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it’s the only place for a young gay man to go. As he begins to settle into the city’s punishing rhythm, he gets a job walking rich Manhattanites’ dogs. But it isn’t until he stumbles into […]
posted Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Giovanni Zappacosta-O’Hara suspects that there’s more to his family’s legacy than he’s been told. His parents recount the history in devastating, scandalous, and rollicking stories, while Gio and his boyfriend joke that there must be lies woven into the details. When his boyfriend is struck with cancer, the laughter stops. Gio can’t bear watching the […]
posted Tuesday, October 15, 2024
The unidentifiable remains of a body are discovered in a field in Shadow Heights, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. Ley, the youngest detective at her precinct, is assigned the case and quickly begins her investigation. Soon after, Ley receives a phone call saying that Carl, a friend struggling with a […]
posted Tuesday, October 15, 2024
When literary reprobate Foster James wakes up in a strange country house, he assumes he’s been consigned to rehab (yet again) by his dwindling band of friends and growing collection of ex-wives. But he soon realizes there’s something a bit different about this place after he gets punched in the face by Ernest Hemingway. Is […]
posted Sunday, October 13, 2024
The Last Dream is film legend Pedro Almodóvar’s debut novel, delivering a tantalizing glimpse into his world, formed by twelve stories carefully selected from his personal writings dating from the late ‘60s to the present. The iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve […]
posted Friday, October 11, 2024
How to Leave the House tells the story of twenty-four hours in the life of Natwest, and his small-town odyssey in pursuit of the missing package. It’s Natwest’s last day before he leaves for university, and there’s only one thing on his mind: the deeply embarrassing package he ordered to his house – which still […]
