Ellen DeGeneres | My Point…And I Do Have One | From stand-up comedy veteran and star of the top-ten-rated TV hit Ellen comes an utterly original book of simple yet brilliant observations, outrage o
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Zoe Progl | Woman of the Underworld | Autobiography of Zoe Progl, self-proclaimed ‘Queen of the Underworld’, who was the first woman to escape from Holloway Prison.
Jeanette Winterson | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? | Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love.’–Vogue
‘Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous. It hums with a dark ref
Troy D. Perry; Thomas L.P. Swicegood | Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage | Biographies of 8 frontline gays in the battle against bigotry among politicians, the police and military, and religious organizations.
Shen Fu | Six Records of a Floating Life (Penguin Classics) | Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as
Joanne Passet | Indomitable | “Whatever else will be said about her–and you can bet there will be plenty, because Barbara was no stranger to controversy–the one thing that is tru
Chris Albertson | Bessie | A biography of Bessie Smith, the great singer known as the ‘Empress of the Blues’. Considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of all time, Bes
Elula Perrin | Les Femmes Preferent Les Femmes | ‘I love woman, women, passionately, profoundly, exclusively.’ As owner of the elegantly notorious club Katmandou of Paris, Elula Perrin reigns over th
Violette Leduc; Derek Coltman | Mad In Pursuit | In the second remarkable volume of her life story, Mad In Pursuit, the war is finally over. A new generation of writers has appeared in Paris, among t