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Lockdown Bookclub – Valley of the Dolls

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Paul Burston - Author of "The Closer I Get" In the ’60s, her name was synonymous with all things hip and swinging. Her fashion sense was imitated by millions. And on...

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Lockdown Bookclub – Tennessee Williams, Memoirs

Lockdown Bookclub – Tennessee Williams, Memoirs

Paul Burston - Author of "The Closer I Get" When Tennessee Williams’s memoirs were first published in 1975, one reviewer wrote: ‘If he has not exactly opened his heart, he has...

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Lockdown Bookclub – Erotic Lives of the Superheroes

Lockdown Bookclub – Erotic Lives of the Superheroes

Paul Burston - Author of "The Closer I Get" These are queer times for superheroes. Last October, Batwoman came out as the first crime-fighting lesbian to front her own TV show....

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Lockdown Bookclub – A Place Called Winter

Lockdown Bookclub – A Place Called Winter

Paul Burston - Author of "The Closer I Get" My last post about EM Forster and Maurice got me thinking about another much-loved, more recent read. Published in 2015 and shortlisted...

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Lockdown Bookclub – Maurice

Lockdown Bookclub – Maurice

Paul Burston - Author of "The Closer I Get" As an isolated gay teenager growing up in South Wales, my introductions to gay literature came largely via the medium of queer...

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Lockdown Bookclub – Ziggyology

Lockdown Bookclub – Ziggyology

Paul Burston - Author of "The Closer I Get" ‘I never thought I’d need so many people’ - Five Years I’m writing this during the third week of lockdown and the...

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Lockdown Bookclub – Workin’ It!

Lockdown Bookclub – Workin’ It!

Paul Burston - Author of "The Closer I Get" When a book comes lavished with praise from Elton John, Tori Spelling and Vanessa Williams, you know you’re in celebrity love-in territory....

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