Huge thanks to everyone who's preordered a signed edition of We Can Be Heroes from the Hastings Bookshop. I'm so grateful for all your...

I loved this book, though it took me a while to read it. I began, appropriately enough, on a sunny beach in Tenerife - and finished it...

Novels in which the main character is a novelist can tend towards self-indulgence. And I say that as someone who’s published one (The...

Part memoir, part meditation on what it means to be othered as a working class gay man, this book is beautifully written, brave,...

Bette Bourne & Neil Bartlett in A Vision of Love Revealed In Sleep, 1989 Welcome to the latest episode of We Can Be Heroes podcast with...

There’s been a lot of talk lately about diversity in publishing. Speaking as someone who published his first book way back in 1995, I’ve...

There aren’t many sassy, sexually-ambiguous, ten year-old, Irish first-person narrators in fiction. So thank heavens for Mickey Donnelly....

In the ’60s, her name was synonymous with all things hip and swinging. Her fashion sense was imitated by millions. And on the day...

When Tennessee Williams’s memoirs were first published in 1975, one reviewer wrote: ‘If he has not exactly opened his heart, he has...

These are queer times for superheroes. Last October, Batwoman came out as the first crime-fighting lesbian to front her own TV show....

As an isolated gay teenager growing up in South Wales, my introductions to gay literature came largely via the medium of queer pop. I...

When a book comes lavished with praise from Elton John, Tori Spelling and Vanessa Williams, you know you’re in celebrity love-in...

Subtitled ‘A Present for Mr Oscar Wilde’, Neil Bartlett’s first book is both a testament to the legacy of Wilde and an insight into the...

As the title suggests, this isn’t a run-of-the-mill biography of Garland but a personal meditation on how the star shaped the author’s...

In 1989 I was entrusted with the role of ‘media liaison officer’ for ACT-UP London and enjoying a media liaison with a young Canadian TV...