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Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade by Patrick Dennis
$24.95 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When shy young heir Patrick is orphaned at the age of ten, the only family he has is his wealthy and eccentric aunt, a New York socialite named Mame. Prone to dramatic costumes, flights of fancy and expensive whims, Mame will raise Patrick the only way she knows how - with humour, mishaps, unforgettable ...Show more
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A young woman anxiously waits for her date on a street corner in New York City; he sits in a pizza parlour across the street, watching her discomfort. A middle-aged woman returns to a New York that is haunted by the passion and intensity of her former relationship with her estranged best friend. A secre ...Show more
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the twentieth Anniversary Edition - with a new introduction by the author. "About as close to flawless as any reader could ask for". ("The New York Times Book Review"). Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth Anna Boatwright - lives a happy life, in and out of her aunt's houses, playin ...Show more
Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in the late 1990s and a bestseller at the time, this incisive collection of short stories explores connection and disconnection in families, between ex-lovers and friends. From a father reflecting on the daughter whose lesbianism he cannot accept, to two people who were once young togeth ...Show more
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is an unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grac ...Show more
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul' William S. Burroughs 'Kathy Acker's writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can tame. Acker is a landmark writer' Jeanette Winterson. This is the story of Janey, who lived in a l ...Show more
Caravaggio by Leo Bersani; Ulysse Dutoit
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Category: Popular Culture | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very different lovers- Ranuccio, played by Sean Bean, and Lena, played by Tilda Swinton. It is probably the closest De ...Show more
Careful, He Might Hear You: Text Classics by Sumner Locke Elliot
$12.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Based on the childhood of Sumner Locke Elliot, this novel is set in the Great Depression. PB, an orphan, lives a secure working-class life in Sydney. That's all about to change, however, when his Aunt Vanessa arrives from London and scoops him up to raise him as her own child."
Cinderella Goes to the Morgue by Nancy Spain
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Crime / Romance | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Her detective novels are hilarious - less about detecting than delighting, with absurd farce and a wonderful turn of phrase . . . Nancy Spain was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal' Sandi ToksvigWhen Prince Charming is murdered and the principal dancer hits the b ...Show more
Claudine and Annie by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
$21.90 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this final novel in Colette's famous series it is Claudine's friend Annie who tells the story in the form of a private diary. Claudine is happily settled with her adored husband Renaud, spending her time giving wide and worldly advice to despairing Annie whose life with the boring and dominating Alai ...Show more
Claudine at School (Claudine #1) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the lanky Anais, the cheerful Marie and the prim Joubert twins Claudine wreaks havoc on her small school. Always clever, witty and charming Claudine is more than a match for her formidable headmistress as they ...Show more
Closer by Dennis Cooper
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
The brutally frank and daring gay classic from countercultural icon Dennis Cooper