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Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls - nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood. Her life now is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it's a different woman every night, but that's just fine with he...

Traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving across the desert. Her mother is French, her father Algerian; when racial tensions begin to surface in their neighbourhood, her mother suffers an unsp...

'She's Not the Man I Married' is an extraordinary examination of relationships, not just those of cross-dressers with their partners, but also of those who question and bend gender roles.

Made famous by the great success of her psychological thrillers, 'The Talented Mr Ripley' and 'Strangers on a Train', Patricia Highsmith is lauded as one of the great modern writers. The triangular relationship between Highsmith's lesbianism, her fraught personality - by parts self-destructive an...

Clark Gable was perceived as the archetypal Hollywood supermensch, the kind of man women lusted after & their husbands envied. However, as David Bret reveals in this biography, in the early days of his career Gable was more of a man's man than a ladies man, displaying strong bisexual tendences.

Meet Jen Brister, stand-up comedian, middle-aged adolescent and, more recently, a mum. But not that mum - she's the other one. Confused? Let's back up a bit. Two years ago, Jen's partner (a woman - they're not solicitors) gave birth to twin boys. Like every new parent, Jen has absolutely no clue ...

When the Superflu wipes out most of the population, Jamie finds himself completely alone in a cabin in the woods - until an injured stranger crosses his path. Life is dangerous now and, armed with a gun, Jamie goes to pull the trigger. But there's something about Andrew - something that stops Jam...

Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from Atlanta to the more conservative Rome, Georgia, he asks Jo to do the impossible: to lie low for the rest of her senior year. And Jo reluctantly agrees....

We like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one part of the story that has never been told. It features a group of MPs who repeatedly spoke out against their party and their government's policy of appeasing Hitler and Mussolini. Remarkably, nea...

They had nothing to expect from the mercy of the crown; their doom was sealed; no plea could be urged in extenuation of their crime, and they well knew that for them there was no hope in this world. When Charles Dickens wrote these tragic lines he was penning fact, not fiction. He had visited the...