An English Madam: The Life and Work of Cynthia Payne

BAILEY, Paul

Health, Fitness & Dieting

HarperCollins, Publishers

PETER SMART'S CONFESSIONS

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Fourth Estate

This is the story of Gabriel Harvey who was happy until the day his father inherited a lot of money and became a snob. Then his beloved mother, 35 years her husband's junior, vanishes. Gabriel feels that he'll see her again, but gradually understands that her "holiday" is a complete separation.

Gabriel's Lament (King Penguin)

Penguin??Books

Gabriel's Lament

Penguin Uk

Trespasses

Contemporary

Penguin Group Canada

Penguin Books, Ltd.

This is Paul Bailey's account of growing up as a working class and gay man in South London just after World War I. His father came back from war to find that he'd been abandoned by his wife, and in early middle age - working as a road sweeper - he married a young servant girl. Bailey was one of three children brought up in such poverty that up to the middle of his adolescence he slept in the same bed as his father because of a lack of space in the house. Nevertheless it was a happy, secure home which he portrays with great affection. The second strand of the book is his discovery at grammar school that he's homosexual - a discovery which didn't go down well in rigidly conventional Battersea.

An immaculate mistake: scenes from childhood and beyond

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin

Francis Bacon is one of the most important and influential artists of the latter part of this century. A fascinating, but very private figure, he was brought up in Ireland and until the war occupied himself with such jobs as butlering and running a gambling club with his ancient nanny. A legendary figure of 50s bohemia and homosexual society, his friendships included Lucian Freud, Sonia Orwell, Bill Burroughs, David Sylvester and Lord Gowrie.

Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Naomi Jacob, Fred Barnes, and Arthur Marshall

Leaders & Notable People

Penguin Global

<p>Physical description; x, 166p,[8]p of plates : ill., 1facsim.,ports. ; 23cm. Subject; Payne, Cynthia.</p>

An English madam: The life and work of Cynthia Payne

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

J. Cape

Gabriels Lament

RANDOM HOUSE UK

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