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‘The invitations haven’t gone out yet. Have they?’ said Duchess of York

A new book, Convening Black Intimacy, explores the history of Christianity, gender and precolonial marriage and sex traditions in South Africa in the late 1800s and early 1900s. To conduct her study, historian Natasha Erlank drew on court records of cases of seduction, church records, anthropological texts, and many sources…

40 years after founding Scotland’s first LGBT+ bookshop, the team behind it have secured support The National Lottery Heritage Fund to continue to share important literature with the community.

London-based Rameena Publishing has released a new book by Syrian novelist Haytham Hussein.

‘They probably don’t want Harry and Meghan as their near neighbours,’ claims Jennie Bond

Tracey A. Showers, 55, was hit by a stray bullet last week and died from her wounds. Friends remember say she had a vivacious, charitable spirit.

The Newcastle Writers Festival has moved its opening night event.

During the time when Chalida Kunalai, a scent designer, was creating a mackerel odour for a set of 12 children's books titled Ni Than Lom Hai Jai (Scent Tales), a cat often roamed near the front door of her office, NOSEstory. Eventually she let the cat in the office, where…

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