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Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians by Michael Bloch
$55.00 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
In Closet Queens, masterful biographer Michael Bloch turns his attention to the men of British politics who were forced to lead double lives. Outwardly conforming to the requirements of heterosexual middle class society, many twentieth-century British politicians had illicit, clandestine and often thril ...Show more
Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians by Michael Bloch
$26.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in Edwardian times to Michael Portillo and Peter Mandelson in our own era. As all homosexual activity was illegal until 1967, and exposure meant ruin and disgrace, such men were ...Show more
James Lees-Milne by Michael Bloch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
James Lees-Milne (1908--97) -- known to friends as Jim -- is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and entertaining diaries which have earned him a reputation as 'the twentieth-century Pepys'. In this long-awaited b ...Show more
Jeremy Thorpe by Michael Bloch
$28.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
The story of Jeremy Thorpe's rapid rise and spectacular fall from grace is one of the most remarkable in British politics. When he became leader of the Liberal Party in 1967 at the age of just thirty-seven, he seemed destined for truly great things. But as his star steadily rose so his nemesis drew ever ...Show more
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