Only fifty years ago sex between men was a crime The 1967 Sexual Offences Act changed that in part but it was only the beginning of the long fight for equality in the eyes of the law in society & in millions of private lives This vital new oral history
- to accompany a Channel 4 documentary of the same title
- tells that story through the lives of gay men who lived through those years Built around the intimate testimonies of some exceptional but largely unknown characters it tells previously untold stories of denial deceit & subterfuge public pain & secret pleasure through the ten tumultuous decades before & since that watershed Act The human variety of gay experience is all here lives lived in joyous defiance of the law & a repressive society; others always in fear of a prurient tabloid press Those committed to love & others to licence lifelong affairs alongside casual sex Young gay men may now take for granted the equal treatment denied those who went before This anniversary year is a good time to record the past celebrate achievements & remember that hard-won freedoms can so easily be eroded in uncertain times

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The sensational debut YA of 2016 that everyone will be talking about Parker Grant doesn't need perfect vision to see right through you That's why she created the Rules Don't treat her any differently just because she's blind & never take advantage There will be no second chances When Scott Kilpatrick the boy who broke her heart suddenly reappears at school Parker knows there's only one way to react
- shun him so hard it hurts She has enough to deal with already like trying out for the track team handing out tough-love advice to her painfully naive classmates & giving herself gold stars for every day she hasn't cried since her dad's death But avoiding her past quickly proves impossible & the more Parker learns about what really happened
- both with Scott & her dad
- the more she starts to question if things are always as they seem Exhilarating & real Not if I See You First' will change the way you see things forever


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Despite predictions of continuing secularisation the twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of religious extremism & violence in the name of God In this powerful & timely book Jonathan Sacks explores the roots of violence & its relationship to religion focusing on the historic tensions between the three Abrahamic faiths Judaism Christianity & Islam Drawing on arguments from evolutionary psychology game theory history philosophy ethics & theology Sacks shows how a tendency to violence can subvert even the most compassionate of religions Through a close reading of key biblical texts at the heart of the Abrahamic faiths Sacks then challenges those who claim that religion is intrinsically a cause of violence & argues that theology must become part of the solution if it is not to remain at the heart of the problem This book is a rebuke to all those who kill in the name of the God of life wage war in the name of the God of peace hate in the name of the God of love & practise cruelty in the name of the God of compassion For the sake of humanity & the free world the time has come for people of all faiths & none to stand together & declare Not In God's Name ...

Professor Robert Plomin the world's leading geneticist said in 2014 of his search for genes that explain differences in our psychology I have been looking for these genes for fifteen years I don't have any' Using a mixture of famous & ordinary people Oliver James drills deep down into the childhood causes of our individuality revealing why our upbringing not our genes plays such an important role in our wellbeing & success The implications are huge as adults we can change we can clutch our fates from predetermined destiny as parents we can radically alter the trajectory of our childrens' lives & as a society we could largely eradicate criminality & poverty Not in Your Genes will not only change the way you think about yourself & the people around you but give you the fuel to change your personality & your life for the better ...

Professor Robert Plomin the world's leading geneticist said in 2014 of his search for genes that explain differences in our psychology I have been looking for these genes for fifteen years I don't have any' Using a mixture of famous & ordinary people Oliver James drills deep down into the childhood causes of our individuality revealing why our upbringing not our genes plays such an important role in our wellbeing & success The implications are huge as adults we can change we can clutch our fates from predetermined destiny as parents we can radically alter the trajectory of our childrens' lives & as a society we could largely eradicate criminality & poverty Not in Your Genes will not only change the way you think about yourself & the people around you but give you the fuel to change your personality & your life for the better ...

Examining the conditions of immigrants Native Americans & African Americans between 1890 & 1924 the heyday of immigration & a time of supposed progress for American minorities Mr Daniels finds that these groups experienced as much repression as advance 192 pages Daniels Roger ...

Stanley Hooker joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1949 & tugged a rather reluctant company into the jet age determined to give real competition to Rolls-Royce So successful was he that in 1966 Rolls-Royce decided the best thing to do was to spend 636 million pounds & buy its rival By this time there was scarcely a single modern British aero-engine for which Hooker had not been responsible ...

From the artist of The Li'l Depressed Boy & Amber Benson's Among the Ghosts comes a haunting retail hell story like you've never encountered before! A young artist takes a job at a department store in order to make ends meet little does he know that he may meet his end! In this gothic story for fans of Black Swan Blankets & The Devil Wears Prada can the artist withstand competitive pressure treachery & high fashion while still keeping his soul? What do you get when you put an artist in a department store selling nice clothes all the while wondering why being so clearly in retail hell doesn't stop him from having a modicum of ambition to move up the fashion food chain? Grace (The L'il Depressed Boy) draws upon his experience in retail to craft a graphic novel that gives us a window into the life of an artist who is forced to take a job he doesn't really want in order to pay the bills What make the story so moving are both the celebration of fashion Grace's character gives us & the introspection of the artist as he looks back on the relationships that have served to define him While making connections to The Devil Wears Prada is natural the protagonist's reliance on his partner's understanding & support gets him through the retail ordeal Grace's attention to form & his skill with visual hyperbole (as in for example the saleswoman he depicts as a Skrull) are perfectly suited to the narrative A sophisticated graphic novel that amply displays Grace's talent for visual storytelling (Oct) ...

' One of the most memorable heart-stopping autobiographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRYWINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2015THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERATTITUDE MAGAZINE'S BOOK OF THE YEARA beloved star of stage & screen Alan Cumming's life & career have been shaped by a complex & dark family past
- full of troubled memories kept buried away But then an unexpected phone call from his long-estranged father brought the pain of the past hurtling back into the present & unravelled everything he thought he knew about himself Not My Father's Son is the story of his journey of discovery both a memoir of his childhood in Scotland & an investigation into his family history which would change him forever' Equal parts memoir whodunnit & manual for living beautifully written honest I was completely sucked in' NEIL GAIMAN
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on Ray Cooney s record-breaking stage farce Not Now Darling follows the misadventures of insatiable womaniser Gilbert Bodley (Leslie Phillips) the boss of an exclusive West End fur salon In order to give his mistress Janie (Julie Ege Up Pompeii!) an expensive mink coat without upsetting her jealous husband Gilbert agrees to sell it to her cheap However things don t go to plan & the tricky transaction creates a hilarious & chaotic chain of events Co-directed by David Croft (Are You Being Served?) this quick-witted British comedy also features rib-tickling performances from Carry On stars Barbara Windsor Joan Sims & Peter Butterworth ...