- Published: 26 October 2024
- ISBN: 9780241683705
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 416
- RRP: $65.00
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967
- Published: 26 October 2024
- ISBN: 9780241683705
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 416
- RRP: $65.00
[A] comprehensive two-volume anthology [...] Peter Parker, distinguished author of several related biographies and historical studies, has assembled a remarkable range of materials covering all aspects of this phenomenon, spanning VE Day and the passing of the Sexual Offences Act in 1967 [...] Parker adds drily witty commentary throughout
Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph
- - Praise for Volume One
Extraordinary… fascinating
Alan Hollinghurst
Quite simply, this book is a work of genius
Matthew Parris, The Spectator
These beautifully written letters, diary entries and extracts from novels, skilfully edited by Peter Parker, add up to an essential study of postwar gay London life… Some Men in London's second volume, which takes us up to 1967, will be published in September. I'll be counting the days - this is one of the best anthologies I have ever read
John Self, The Observer
With it’s wide-ranging selection, generous biographical notes and provocative bibliography, Some Men in London is a serious and important contribution to our understanding of Britain up to today
Fiona Sampson, The Tablet
An intriguing collage of the era’s mood
Robbie Millen, The Times
An absolutely extraordinary book … a huge collage and anthology of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspaper reports, trial documents, all of this, about actually what life was like for homosexual men in London in the 1940s and the 1950s… It’s amazing, because the collage effect gives you a sense of the extreme complexity of this picture
Dominic Sandbrook
As lively as a novel... a truly vital thing in a world where so many stories have been erased or criminalised
Damien Barr
This is an anthology with an immense amount to tell us about its period, scrupulously sieved, and just as much about our lives now... Peter Parker has assembled a fascinating amount of written material about the existence of homosexual men from 1945 until 1967... A wonderful range of extracts from outrageous pulp fiction makes this substantial anthology unmissable
Philip Hensher, The Spectator
Peter Parker has done a bona job across his two volumes of Some Men in London in chronicling queer life... [he creates] a collage of the gay experience – sleazy, earnest and everything in between... this latest volume almost has a bounce of optimism, of the possibility of change... can we have another volume?
Robbie Millen, The Times