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Quite simply, this book is a work of genius -- Matthew Parris * Spectator *

Quite simply, this book is a work of genius -- Matthew Parris * The Spectator * These beautifully written letters, diary entries and extracts from novels, skilfully edited by Peter Parker, add up to an essential study of postwar gay London life… Some Men in London's second volume, which takes us up to 1967, will be published in September. I'll be counting the days - this is one of the best anthologies I have ever read -- John Self * The Observer * With it’s wide-ranging selection, generous biographical notes and provocative bibliography, Some Men in London is a serious and important contribution to our understanding of Britain up to today -- Fiona Sampson * The Tablet * An intriguing collage of the era’s mood -- Robbie Millen * The Times *

Quite simply, this book is a work of genius -- Matthew Parris * The Spectator * Quite simply, this book is a work of genius -- Matthew Parris * Spectator *

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Peter Parker is the author of biographies of J. R. Ackerley and Christopher Isherwood, The Old Lie, The Last Veteran, Housman Country and A Little Book of Latin for Gardeners. He edited A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel and Twentieth-Century Writers, is an advisory editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and contributed essays to Britten's Century and Fifty Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read. He has written about people, books, art, architecture and gardening for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, and lives in London's East End.

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