One of the most important books about gay culture in recent times

Fascinating and entertaining...as incisive about gay culture as Caitlin Moran's books are about feminism

One of civilisation’s great pop-cultural writers…tells the story of some of the most amazing decades in British history

Lively, timely and lovingly researched: thoroughly gay, in both the old and the new senses of the word

Insightful and engaging look at the past 30 years of gay social history in Britain

Important and insightful

Wonderful book...sensitively written and well researched. I'm honoured to be included

An essential testament that needs to be read by anyone who came of age during the last three decades: gay, straight, parent, child, sister, brother, politician, policy maker, celebrity, commentator - all of us who are trying to make sense of where we came from and where we are now

Whether it's the bittersweet recollections of a former London Lighthouse AIDS nurse, the unexpected moral fortitude of a former tabloid editor, or the Grindr confessions of a pop idol, Flynn finds the heroism in the everyday and the exceptional...an ambitious and inspiring work

As fascinating as it is laugh out loud funny, and proves, quite brilliantly, that there's nowt so queer as folk

The Stopping Places is a beautiful book about belonging: both a map of a secret landscape and a rich, thoughtful memoir of a divided life. Damian Le Bas is the perfect guide to this often-overlooked geography. He is a scholar-Gypsy whose writing is lyrical, informed, and deeply humane

Lyrical and keenly researched

This book moves at the pace of a horse pulling a Gypsy wagon. It’s wonderful. Slow down and relax as Damian takes you on his year-long journey seeking out the places in the UK – the atchin tans - where his people, the Romany Gypsies, have stopped, worked, lived, loved and fought since time immemorial. It’s a delicate balance between romance and history, information and folklore, language, history, keen observations of people, deep love of nature , the minutiae of daily routine and glimpses into his own personal life, all in easy prose that frequently slips into poetry. A breath of very fresh air

[An] enthralling and eye-opening memoir

In The Stopping Places, Damian Le Bas takes us on a fascinating journey through Gypsy Britain. Full of spark, tenderness and lyricism, this beautiful book reveals to us a world still largely secret, complex with enchantment and unease, rich language and blood ties, rough weather and shining poetry. Le Bas is a wonderful guide, open-hearted and curious, always respectful, as he ventures into the past and present of his own community, seeking what it means to roam and to belong

Fascinating

The book is consistently both enjoyable and eye-opening – a real achievement

This enthralling, eye-opening and beautifully written book takes the form of an odyssey through Gypsy Britain and its history

The book resulting from Le Bas’s decision to know this roots better is a remarkable, deeply humane, utterly engaging and elegiac one

a fascinating biography

Hemming tells a story of great interest, bringing to light the exploits of an eccentric and magnetic personality, a man able to keep his professional and private lives rigorously separate and who fully justifies his posthumous reputation

Hemming gives an engrossing account of the remarkable life of a great eccentric

Lauren Elkin is one of our most valuable critical thinkers – the Susan Sontag of her generation

The acclaimed historian of Russia sweeps the brittle high society of pre-Revolutionary St Petersburg, the terror-chilled jails of Stalin's purges and the secrets of 1990s Moscow archives into a tragic panorama.'

A seamlessly written and moving portrait of the soviet Union in miniature from the Revolution to the age of Yeltsin.

What is striking is how he has thrown himself heart and soul into the romance and emotion of his drama. The novel throbs with sex, maternal feeling, revolutionary fervour and terror ... Terrific stuff