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MAJOR NEW TITLES DIEUX DU STADE (15th Anniversary) WHAT BELONGS TO YOU Limited Signed Copies Available Photography by Fred Goudon By Garth Greenwell RECKONING This stunning volume Greenwell’s debut novel By Magda Szubanski celebrates the 15th tells the story of an un - Over the decades Magda anniversary of the named American college Szubanski established famous Dieux du Stade professor, living and herself as one of the great calendar, with tantalis - teaching in Bulgaria, who figures of Australian ing images that feature develops a sexual rela - comedy, but n ow she has players of the famous tionship with Mitko, a no - written a memoir that will international rugby madic male prostitute. dazzle every kind of reader club, the Stade Français They meet initially in the because it is a driven, Paris and other French toilet stalls at the National utterly serious book , clubs. Also featured Palace of Culture in Sofia; acclaimed by reviewers. are guest athletes from then continue to liaise at “ ‘Reckoning’ is a riveting, other disciplines such the professor’s apartment. But Mitko’s violent side overwhelmingly poignant autobiography by a as football, handball, judo, and swimming, in all leaves the professor afraid for his own safety. The woman of genius... It is a story of love and death their unclothed glory. This luxurious large format two part ways and years pass before Mitko, rav - and redemption and a daughter’s love for her fa - coffee table book features photography by Fred aged by time and homelessness, re-enters the pro - ther. It is an extraordinary hymn to the tragic hero - Goudon, whose work on the nude male form is fessor’s life. This is a brave and articulate ism at the heart of ordinary life and the soaring justifiably renowned. psychological exploration of lust and desire, with a moral scrutiny of womankind.” $120 hardcover 144pp Note: due mid-February striking evocation of carnal pain. $49.99 hardcover 374pp $34.99 hardcover 208pp Note: due late January HOLDING THE MAN CAROL (film tie-in) DVD GAY SYDNEY: A History By Patricia Highsmith This is the acclaimed film By Gary Wotherspoon Soon to be a major adaptation by Neil Arm - This is a revised and updated feature film from Todd field (director) and version of Garry Haynes starring Cate Tommy Murphy Wotherspoon’s 1991 classic, Blanchett and Rooney (screenwriter) of Tim Con - ‘City of the Plain’, written in Mara, this new edition igrave’s beloved memoir the midst of the AIDS crisis. includes a foreword by about his relationship Wotherspoon traces the Val McDermid. Therese with John Caleo. ‘Holding shifts that have occurred works in a New York the Man’ is a romantic since then, including department store when a tragedy that is unequivo - majority support for beautiful, alluring woman cal about the sexual de - marriage equality and in her thirties walks up to sire and medical struggles anti-discrimination legislation. He also ponders the her counter. Therese is an of Tim and John – the sex and the suffering parallel evaporation of a distinctly gay sensibility awkward 19-year-old with a boyfriend she doesn’t are both frankly depicted. Ryan Corr as Tim and and the disappearance of once-packed gay bars. love; Carol is a sophisticated housewife in the Craig Stott as John give memorable performances, This book also tells the story of gay Sydney across a throes of a divorce. As Therese becomes irresistibly both tender and strong, and also demonstrate a century, looking at secret, underground gay life drawn into Carol’s world, she soon realises how very palpable chemistry. and the role of social movements in the 1960 s and much they both stand to lose. $39.99 MA15+ 127 minutes ’70s in affecting social change. Wotherspoon also $19.99 paper 352pp Note: due early November Note: due mid-January writes about his own experiences and the changes he has observed in Sydney’s gay life, as a long-time THE DANISH GIRL (film tie -in) HOLDING THE MAN (film tie-in edition) resident of Oxford Street. By David Ebershoff By Tim Conigrave $39.99 paper 2 88 pp Note: due mid-February What do you do when With honesty and the person you love has insight, ‘Holding the MANSCAPES CALENDAR 2016 to change? Loosely Man’ explores the highs Photography by inspired by a true story, and lows of a loving rela - John Bortolin this novel tells the tionship that began at The ‘Manscapes’ remarkable story of Lili high school, and the photography book Elbe, a pioneer in strength of heart both was our bestseller transgender history, and men have to find when in 2015 – and now a woman torn between they test positive for HIV. here is the calen - loyalty to her marriage This is a book as refresh - dar! You can enjoy and her own ambitions ing and uplifting as it is 12 of the Northern and desires. This award- moving; a funny, sad and River’s fittest young winning novel has been adapted into a film which celebratory account of men, photographed promises to be one of the major art house releases growing up gay and a fully nude in the beautiful Byron Shire and its sur - of the summer. It stars Academy Award-winner true Australian classic! This film tie-in edition fea - rounding areas. It’s been years since there was a Eddie Redmayne as Lili and is directed by Academy tures a foreword by leading journalist and author high quality Australian calendar produced – this is Award-winner Tom Hooper. David Marr. something that your friends overseas are going to $19.99 paper 328pp Note: due early December $22.99 paper 304pp love too! $19.99 Note: due mid-November MAJOR NEW TITLES GAYBY BABY DVD WILLIAM YANG: Stories of Love and Death RECOMMENDED by Noel SP By Helena Grehan and Edward Scheer This heartfelt documentary is ECIAL Acclaimed photographer William CUT SNAKE DVD an observational piece shaped OFFER Yang has captured the zeitgeist The Sydney Morning Herald de - around the dynamics of four like no-one else, providing a very clared that ‘Tony Ayres cements his households – and four dy - personal insight into the evolution reputation as one of Australia’s namic kids. All four families of Mardi Gras, the spectre of AIDS, finest directors with a crime thriller are dealing with circum - Sydney’s theatrical and social that takes some unexpected turns’! stances dictated by the fact scenes, and changing notions of The unexpected turn the film takes that the parenting is being ‘belonging’ in multicultural Aus - is actually into a gay love story and done either by two mothers or two fathers. There tralia. Featuring 100 images from it’s a particularly juicy one. Pom - is no voice-over narration. The kids do the talking Yang’s personal archive, this mie (Sullivan Stapleton) is released and prove to have a mature thoughtfulness that book explores William Yang’s constantly evolving from jail and goes looking for his old cellmate, Sparra. makes them instantly endearing. Each is facing a self-portraiture across three mediums – photogra - When he finally tracks him down, he is shocked to dis - test of some kind. The film’s director, Maya Newell, phy, performance and documentary. cover Sparra is about to marry his girlfriend Paula. is herself the daughter of lesbian mothers. Learning that Sparra is in love with a woman provokes $49.99 paper 192pp Note: due mid-February Was $29.99 Our Price $24.99 Pommie’s rage… PG 82 minutes Note: due mid-January THE FAMILY LAW (TV tie-in edition) $29.99 MA15+ 93 minutes Note: due early February By Benjamin Law RECOMMENDED by Graeme PLEASE LIKE ME Series 3 DVD Meet the Law family – eccentric, TOM HOUGHTON This new season focuses more on endearing and hard to resist. Your By Todd Alexander Josh’s romantic life and also his guide: Benjamin, the third of five This new novel explores the titular relationship with his father. children and a born comic. Join him character at two different ages, al - Meanwhile his mum (Debra as he tries to answer some puzzling though there is more focus on Lawrance) and Hannah (Hannah questions: why won’t his Chinese Tom as a 12-year-old misfit Gadsby) move beyond the friendship dad wear made-in-China under - schoolboy, who is obsessed with formed in the psychiatric clinic and on pants? Why was most of his Hollywood films and film stars. to sharing a house. This hard-to-clas - extended family deported in the 1980s? Will his The 40-year-old Tom is an actor sify comedy show offers a deft coun - childhood dreams of ‘Home and Away’ stardom who turns vicious and self-destructive when he terpoint between the simple pleasures of life and its come to nothing? What are his chances of finding drinks too much – which is often! Young Tom’s tougher and more complex challenges such as love? This is a hilarious and moving linked series of favourite actress is Katherine Hepburn, but when dealing with death, depression and marital breakdown. tales. he discovers that she had a brother called Tom $39.99 M 166 minutes Note: due mid-January $19.99 paper 240pp Note: due early January Houghton Hepburn (who killed himself as a teenager) his admiration becomes an obsession. THE CAPTIVE PRINCE TRILOGY He and Tom not only share the same name, but WOMEN HE’S UNDRESSED DVD S By C.S. Pacat PECIAL also a birthday – and he becomes convinced of a This documentary from OFFE special connection between the two of them. renowned film-maker Gillian R KINGS RISING (Book Three) Was $32.99 paper 323pp Armstrong explores the life Our Price $27.99 With his identity now revealed, of Australia’s most prolific Damen must face his master Prince costume designer who SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE Laurent as Damianos of Akielos, worked on an astonishing A LIFE OF UNLEARNING: A Preacher’s the man Laurent has sworn to kill. 282 films. He designed for Struggle with his Homosexuality, Church Forced into an uneasy alliance the stars like Marilyn Monroe, and Faith (Updated and Revised) two princes journey deep into Bette Davis, Rosalind Rus - By Anthony Venn-Brown Akielos, where they face their most sell, and won three Academy Anthony Venn-Brown was a SPEC dangerous opposition yet. But even if the fragile IAL Awards. Until now Orry-Kelly was unacknowledged in popular, high-profile preacher OF trust they have built survives the revelation of FER his country of birth and largely forgotten in America, in Australia’s growing mega- Damen’s identity – can it stand against the Regent’s but this film re-introduces him and reveals his genius churches, such as Hillsong, and final, deadly play for the throne? The final book in in a dazzling series of clips from films made in Holly - a married father-of-two. But this acclaimed trilogy is a powerful blend of intense wood’s golden age. beneath the surface, a secret erotica and political fantasy! Was $39.99 PG 96 minutes lurked. After 22 years of strug - $22.99 paper 384pp Note: due early February Our Price $32.99 Note: due late December gle and torment, a chance meeting forced Anthony to CAPTIVE PRINCE (Book One) make the toughest decision of his life and he $19.99 paper 304pp WOMEN I’VE UNDRESSED By Orry-Kelly came out as gay. 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This book asks why homosexuality has be - $19.99 paper 480pp so much more at our website. come so vexed an issue between and within nations, and how we can best advocate for http://www.thebookshop.com.au change. $28.95 paper 120pp Note: due late February 2 MAJOR NEW TITLES MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2015 CITY ON FIRE BOULEVARD DVD A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS By Garth Risk Hallberg In his final film, Robin Williams By Marlon James This epic, well-written, and highly plays a 60-year-old bank clerk This epic work tells the story entertaining first novel is set in and husband leading a stifled of the 1976 assassination New York City from around life. He and his wife (Kathy attempt on the singer Christmas 1976 to the blackout of Baker) sleep in separate bed - Bob Marley through the July 1977. William emerges from rooms and he does most of the disparate voices of many the 1960s with a heroin habit and cooking – they are more like characters − teenage alienated from his entire family. companions than lovers. One gunmen, gangland enforcers, He’s also pursuing a relationship night, he picks up a young hus - ghetto ‘dons’, politicians, with Mercer Goodman, an intelligent young black tler (Roberto Aguire) and forms groupies, music journalists, man from Georgia. Meanwhile, remnants of the a naïve, tentative but sexless relationship with him. CIA men and even the ghost band William once belonged to have holed up on This new intimacy forces him to confront the true of a murdered politician. Marlon James is gay, black, Manhattan’s Lower East Side and are plotting some feelings he has been suppressing and hiding for and originally from Jamaica and his sexuality is re - kind of a revolution, possibly violent. Various lost decades.... flected through several characters in the book. John- souls are attracted to the band but it is on the wild, $39.99 88 minutes Note: due late January John K is a gay hit man from Chicago, who helps riotous night of the blackout that everything comes Weeper (a gay gangster) to affirm a kind of peace to a head. PETER ALLEN: Not the Boy Next with his sexuality. The novel is soon to be an HBO TV $32.99 paper 944pp Door DVD series with Marlon James writing the pilot. This Australian television movie $22.99 paper 704pp THE GILDED RAZOR SP tells the life story of the iconic and By Sam Lansky ECIAL RECOMMENDED by Graeme OF flamboyant Australian entertainer During the day, Lansky at - FER Peter Allen (Joel Jackson) who went MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST 2015 tended an elite New York from being a child performer in A LITTLE LIFE City prep school and aspired country NSW to becoming the By Hanya Yanagihara SPEC to enrol at Princeton, but at toast of Broadway. 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Although she regrets not Elska is a new bi-monthly maga - the motivation to carry the having had ‘more sex’ and con - zine which is part quasi-intellec - struggle forward. Faderman fesses to a ‘lack of passion’, tual male pin-up mag; part sexy depicts the struggle as a conflict between ‘suits and Reynolds does reveal some of her aristocratic admir - anthropology journal; part inter - streets’, offering balanced coverage of both the ers (the 28-year-old King Baudouin of Belgium, national street style zine. It is ded - meticulous anti-gay lobbying and the rapid changes Prince Philip, and the Shah of Iran). Debbie has a icated to photographs of real men, wrought by historical radicalisations such as the kind word for almost everyone, even Elizabeth Taylor, both nude and clothed, and inter - Stonewall riots, the Harvey Milk riots, and the ag - with whom she had ‘a very unusual friendship’. views with the subjects. Each issue is shot in a differ - gressive activism of ACT UP. First-person accounts $29.99 paper 272pp Note: due early December ent city with local boys, and the first issue was shot from over 100 interviews conducted as original re - in Lviv, Ukraine, with men as stunning as the archi - search for the book punctuate this extraordinary A LIFE OF BARBARA STANWYCK: Steel-True, tecture. story. 1907-1940 $25 paper 132 pages Was $49.99 Our Price $42 hardcover 816pp By Victoria Wilson Fifteen years in the making and HELLO MR Issue #6 COOKING AS FAST AS I CAN: A Chef’s Story of this is only the first volume of The latest issue of this thought - Family, Food, and Forgiveness this mammoth biography. Wil - ful, witty and charming magazine By Cat Cora son explores Stanwyck’s years ‘about men who date men’ was From the acclaimed first female in New York as a dancer and published in September 2015. Iron Chef, this is a heartfelt memoir Broadway star, her fraught mar - Most back issues are also available and priced at $25 of a loving family, a passion for riage to Frank Fay, her partner - each. food, the challenges of career and ship with the ‘unfunny’ Marx $25 personal life, and coming out as les - brother, Zeppo, her fairytale ro - bian in the conservative South of mance and marriage to the PLAYGIRL PLATINUM the U.S. Driven and ambitious, she younger Robert Taylor, and her This is the 164 page collector’s went from culinary school to ap - work with many of Hollywood’s most important di - edition featuring the most popu - prenticeships at Michelin-starred restaurants in rectors. Wilson had full access to Stanwyck’s family, lar of their current and recent France and from positions in increasingly presti - friends, colleagues, and also never-before-seen let - naked male models. gious restaurants to a Food Network regular. But ters, journals and photographs $29.99 along with her success came some heartache, until $25.99 paper 1056pp Note: due late December she found a balance with her spouse and their four sons. OUT AT THE MOVIES: A History of Gay Cinema THE GAY MAN’S KAMA $35 hardcover 256pp By Stephen Paul Davies SUTRA Over the decades, gay cinema By Terry Sanderson DUSTY: An Intimate Portrait has reflected the community’s This gay interpretation of the of a Musical Legend journey from persecution to ‘Kama Sutra’ features a tasteful il - emancipation to acceptance. By Karen Bartlett lustrated journey through all the Films like ‘Victim’, ‘The Naked This compelling biography suggests different sexual positions, and Civil Servant’, and the AIDS cin - that the root of Dusty’s depression covers everything from meeting a partner, courtship ema of the 1980s have given way was her sexuality. Early in adoles - and kissing, to games and massage. in recent years to films which cence, she realised she was drawn $24.99 paper 144pp celebrate a vast array of gay to women rather than men. But she lifestyles. The 2005 Academy Awards were dubbed couldn’t square her natural inclina - THE LESBIAN KAMA SUTRA ‘the Gay Oscars’ thanks to ‘Brokeback Mountain’, tions with the stereotypical picture By Kat Harding ‘Capote’ and ‘Transamerica’. This book also includes she had in her head of lesbians as Using clear, empowering text to cel - information on gay filmmakers and actors and their ‘butch’ and unattractive. She also ebrate the love between women, influence within the industry. Interspersed through - inherited her mother’s tendency towards dark ‘The Lesbian Kama Sutra’ encour - out the book are some of the most iconic scenes moods. As her career started to slide in the 1970s, ages love and sex, pleasure and from gay cinema and the most memorable dialogue Dusty found refuge in hard liquor, once declaring sensuality, uninhibited erotic indul - from key films. her favourite colour was ‘vodka’. gence, and play. $39.99 paper 224pp Note: due mid-February $19.99 paper 388pp $24.99 paper 144pp

4 MAJOR NEW NON-FICTION TITLES FREDERICK THE GREAT: King Of Prussia EVERYTIME A FRIEND SUCEEDS SOMETHING I’LL NEVER WRITE MY MEMOIRS By Tim Blanning INSIDE ME DIES: Gore Vidal - A Life S By Grace Jones According to Blanning he was PECIAL By Jay Parini Raised in a strict Pentecostal almost certainly homosexual. OFFER Gore Vidal appointed Walter Clemons home, the constrictions of her Frederick lavished attention on as his official biographer, but when he upbringing created a sense of handsome young men, built a failed to complete the work, Vidal rebellion in Grace Jones that mock-temple celebrating male asked Parini (whom he had befriended would define her personality and lovers in classical antiquity, in the mid-1980s), to take over. Parini professional life. She struggled as and had nothing to do with his agreed, but would only publish the an aspiring actress, moved to New dynastically imposed wife (and book after Vidal was dead, as he was York to pursue modeling full-time, no children by her). His bully - sure it would cost them their friendship. Vidal gave and began to cultivate her signature image of ing and sadistic father, Frederick William I, de - Parini access to his diaries, letters and friends, and androgynous austerity. She recounts hopping from nounced Frederick for his ‘effeminacy’ and tried to they also spent a good deal of time in each other’s the US to Paris and back, shot by Helmut Newton, stamp out any interest in unmanly things such as po - company, right up until Vidal’s death in 2012. Parini dressed by Issey Miyake, rooming with Jessica etry and music. The teenaged Frederick tried to flee is respectful – at times reverential – of Vidal’s work Lange and Jerry Hall. She advises Michael Jackson to England; his father imprisoned him and forced him while being honest, often ruthless, about his per - on how to break away from his family, hangs to watch the execution of the young officer who had sonal flaws. Vain? Yes. Flawed? Often. But one thing around Studio 54, ‘a place of secrets and secre - helped him, and who may have been his lover. was consistent: whenever Gore Vidal sat down with tions, the in-crowd and inhalations’, and fre - Was $69.99 Our Price $59.99 hardcover a pen, he wrote with guts and style. quently takes off all her clothes. 480pp Note: due late December $55 hardcover 400pp $39.99 hardcover 388pp S STALIN’S ENGLISHMAN: GLAMOUR BOY: The Life and Times of Philip BINGE PECIAL The Lives of Guy Burgess Sassoon By Tyler Oakley OFFER By Andrew Lownie By Damian Collins For someone who made a Guy Burgess was the most com - A famed aesthete and patron, Philip career out of over-sharing plex and fascinating of ‘The Cam - Sassoon gathered a diverse social set on the internet, Tyler Oak - bridge Spies’, all brilliant young to himself that included Winston ley (who has more than 21 men recruited in the 1930s to be - Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, million followers across so - tray their country to the Soviet Charlie Chaplin, Noel Coward, cial media) has a shocking Union. Even his chaotic personal Lawrence of Arabia and Rex number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to life of drunken philandering did Whistler. But he also worked for Douglas Haig during reveal in his first book. He experienced a legiti - nothing to stop his penetration WWI and was close to King Edward VIII during the mate rage blackout in a Cheesecake Factory; he and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service. Even abdication crisis. Neither was he wholly ‘English’− his had a fashion stand-off with the White House se - when he was under suspicion, the fabled charm pre - family were wealthy Jewish traders from the souks of cret service; he crashed a car in front of his entire vented his exposure as a spy for many years. 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