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Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend
Author: Dan Jones
Format: Online
Author Dan Jones
Narrator The Author
Duration 4h 32m
Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate. Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles (ex...
View BookQueer Villains of Myth and Legend
Author: Dan Jones
Format: Online
Author Dan Jones
Narrator
Duration 4h 53m
Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate. Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles (ex...
View BookAuthor: Nino Strachey
Format: Online
Author Nino Strachey
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 48m
Surprisingly little has been written about second-generation Bloomsbury who tantalised the original 'Bloomsburies' at Gordon Square parties with their captivating looks and provocative ideas. Young Bloomsbury introduces us to an extraordinarily colourful cast of characters, including novelist and music critic Eddy Sackville-West, 'who wore elaborat...
View BookAuthor: Will Tosh
Format: Online
Author Will Tosh
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 51m
Was Shakespeare gay? The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might think . . . Shakespeare's work was profoundly influenced by the queer culture of his time - much of it totally integrated into mainstream society. From a relentless schooling in Latin and Greek homoeroticism, to a less formal education on the streets and in smoky tavern...
View BookAuthor: Elon Green
Format: Online
Author Elon Green
Narrator David Pittu
Duration 9h 46m
"This true-crime gem—Green's first full-length work, sensitively and incisively narrated by Pittu—is an illuminating and deeply humanizing testament to victims overlooked by the media and forgotten in cultural memory...An insightful and essential conversation among author, narrator, and producer concludes this highly recommended recordi...
View BookAuthor: Tom Rasmussen
Format: Online
Author Tom Rasmussen
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 17m
'Bitingly funny, infectiously inquisitive and ferociously sharp. Adored!' ATTITUDE 'A fascinating interrogation' GRAZIA 'An incisive, witty and moving look at marriage - as an achievement, a compromise, a selling-out, a practical solution' REFINERY29 It was one thing to get married when your parents, your neighbours, your community insisted on it,...
View BookAuthor: Holden Sheppard
Format: Online
Author Holden Sheppard
Narrator Nic English
Duration 9h 49m
A Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book Winner - Western Australian Premier's Book Award Winner - Kathleen Mitchell Award Winner - City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award Winner - Ray Koppe Residency Award Shortlisted - Victorian Premier's Literary Award Shortlisted - Readings Young Adult Book Prize Longlisted - Indie Book of the Year...
View BookAuthor: C. Riley Snorton
Format: Online
Author C. Riley Snorton
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 51m
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives. Their erasure from trans history masks the ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on Both...
View BookAuthor: Alok Vaid-Menon
Format: Online
Author Alok Vaid-Menon
Narrator The Author
Duration 1h 7m
Winner of the 2021 In The Margins Award "When reading this book, all I feel is kindness."— Sam Smith, Grammy and Oscar award-winning singer and songwriter "Thank God we have Alok. And I'm learning a thing or two myself."—Billy Porter, Emmy award-winning actor, singer, and Broadway theater performer"Beyond the Gender Binary wi...
View BookAuthor: Brad Fraser
Format: Online
Author Brad Fraser
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 41m
A Canadian playwright's rise to fame amid the terrors of the AIDS era.Brad Fraser suffered an impoverished and abusive childhood, living with his teenage parents in motel rooms and shacks on the side of the highway in Alberta and Northern British Columbia. He grew to be one of the most celebrated, and controversial, Canadian playwrights, his work p...
View BookAuthor: George M. Johnson
Format: Online
Author George M. Johnson
Narrator George M. Johnson
Duration 5h 12m
This powerful YA memoir-manifesto follows journalist and LGBTQ+ activist George M. Johnson as they explore their childhood, adolescence, and college years, growing up under the duality of being black and queer. From memories of getting their teeth kicked out by bullies at age five to their loving relationship with their grandmother, to their first...
View BookAuthor: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Format: Online
Author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 8m
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Car...
View BookAuthor: Truman Capote
Format: Online
Author Truman Capote
Narrator William Hope
Duration 14h 32m
Controversial and compelling, this audiobook reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amo...
View BookThe Private World of Kenneth Williams
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator David Benson
Duration 2h 5m
In this documentary portrait of Kenneth Williams, who died in 1988, the much-loved comedy actor's diaries are drawn upon to illustrate his life and career. David Benson, who won acclaim for his one-man show in which he portrayed Kenneth Williams, reads extracts from the diaries, whilst archive clips from such programmes as Round the Horne and Beyon...
View BookRemembering...kenneth Williams
Author: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Kenneth Williams
Duration 2h 9m
Wonderful highlights of Kenneth Williams' career in this classic compilation. For more than 30 years, Kenneth Williams kept the nation in stitches with his outrageous gallery of comic creations and an effortlessly brilliant barrage of repartee and innuendo on radio and television. In Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne, Kenneth Williams brought us t...
View BookAuthor: BBC Archive Voices
Format: Online
Author BBC Archive Voices
Narrator Kenneth Williams
Duration 1h 15m
This fascinating collection of archive interviews with the much-loved comedy actor and diarist begins in 1961, with an appearance on the BBC TV Tonight programme, and culminates in 1987 when Kenneth Williams is a guest on Desert Island Discs. Along the way are several interviews on Parkinson, conversation from The John Dunn Show, and a number of ra...
View BookAuthor: Stephen Fry
Format: Online
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 9h 49m
Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me. 'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing down on me and me denying everything until my pockets are emptied. Oh the shame' In his early thirties, Stephen Fr...
View BookLet's Explore Diabetes With Owls
Author: David Sedaris
Format: Online
Author David Sedaris
Narrator David Sedaris
Duration 6h 25m
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his listeners on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and...
View BookAuthor: Ellen Degeneres
Format: Online
Author Ellen Degeneres
Narrator Ellen Degeneres
Duration 3h 11m
Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point...and I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. That book is this audiobook. After years of painstaking, round-the-clock research, surviving on...
View BookAuthor: Stephen Fry
Format: Online
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 11h 33m
a) A fatuous, wasted, degenerate and wholly useless existence captured in delicate, lyrical and exquisitely realised prose. b) Lightly amusing anecdotes and tender reminiscences of the great men and women encountered during a rich, varied and rewarding lifetime, fondly remembered in the tranquil evening of a career of public service. c) The autobio...
View BookAuthor: Carr Alan
Format: Online
Author Carr Alan
Narrator Carr Alan
Duration 8h 23m
It must seem strange to you that I've called a book Alanatomy. For anyone who has taken the time to see my stand-up performances or watched my chat show, 'Chattyman', knows that my body has hardly been kind to me - in fact there've been times when we've actually stopped talking to each other. Balding, myopic, often flaky with psoriasis, back fat th...
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