Buried Alive!

Jacqueline Wilson

"Tim's quiet holiday in Wales, with his parents and his best friend Biscuits, unexpectedly becomes truly terribly adventurous. An encounter with two local bully-boys threatens to disrupt Tim's and Biscuits' fun but their friendship is also threatened by the arrival of Tim's ebullient friend, Kelly. Tim ...

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

Peter Ackroyd

*** A Sunday Times Bestseller ***   In Roman Londinium the city was dotted with lupanaria ('wolf dens' or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels) and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops, monks and missionaries. And so began an endless loop of alternating perm...