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Our latest Classic, Rand Shilts' And the Band Played On, international bestseller and winner of the Stonewall Book Award, which inspired an award-winning film, is out now. If you loved It's a Sin and want more background on the devastating AIDS epidemic, this is the book for you. 'A heroic work of journalism on what must rank as one of the foremost catastrophes of modern history.' The New York Times Randy Shilts was the first openly gay journalist dealing with gay issues for the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1981, the year when AIDS came to international attention, he quickly devoted himself to reporting on the developing epidemic, one which devastated his community and eventually took his life as well. Shilts interviewed over 1,000 people, weaving together extensive research in the form of personal stories and political reportage. He was perfectly placed to understand the cultural, medical and political impact of the disease on the gay community and United States society as a whole. And the Band Played On exposes why AIDS was allowed to spread while the medical and political authorities ignored and even denied the threat. This book remains one of the great works of contemporary journalism and provides the foundation for continuing debates over governmental failure in handling lethal epidemics. #randyshilts #andthebandplayedon #itsasin #journalism #stclassics #bookstagram
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Intrigued by this irresistible and uniquely trans take on love and motherhood, which has been longlisted for the @womensprize?    Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters is also available in audio! #DetransitionBaby @torreyadora #TorreyPeters #WomensPrize #lgbtq #audiobook #audio
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How’s this for #MondayMotivation?Bookshops in England and Wales reopen today! Get out your TBR lists, folks, it's time to spend what we saved in lockdown... How about buying your next read from a queer bookshop? Visit the link in our profile to see a handy list we've put together - see if there's one near you. #ChooseBookshops @booksaremybag @indies_alliance #bookshops #bookshopping #tbr #bookstagram #bookworm
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Thank you, everyone, for all your support for this incredible book and its immensely talented author. We know which cover design we prefer 🏅🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Read our full message by following the link in our bio. @torreyadora @womensprize #detransitionbaby #torreypeters #womensprize #lgbtq #bookstagram
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Are you ready to take the ferry to the gynotopia? A storm, a disappearance, a band of women and a remote island where anything is possible... On an unnamed archipelago off the east coast of Britain, the impossible has come to pass. Women control the civic institutions. Decide how the islands' money is spent. Run the businesses. Tend to their families. Teach the children hope for a better world. They say that this gynotopia is Eva Levi's life's work, and that now she has disappeared, it will be destroyed. But they don't know about Cwen. Cwen has been here longer than the civilisation she has returned to haunt. The clouds are her children, and the waves. Her name has ancient roots, reaching down into the earth and halfway around the world. The islands she inhabits have always belonged to women. And she will do anything she can to protect them. This remarkable novel is a portrait of female power and female potential, both to shelter and to harm. What are we? Islanders or mainlanders, migrants or landowners, men or women, past or future? Or a mixture of them all? And how do we make sense of these islands we call home? ‘Fantastic - a wonderful book. With intelligence, wit and zest, Cwen's matriarchal dream ... offers a bold vision of an alternative future, teases at our deep past and subtly weaves together our environment and gender' Lily Cole Out in June! #Cwen #AliceAlbinia #gynotopia #bookstagram #igreads
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