Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959

Peter Parker is the author of biographies of J. R. Ackerley and Christopher Isherwood,

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Parker
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 05.02.2026
• EAN: 9780241370612
• ISBN: 978-0-241-37061-2
• No. of pages: 600
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; London, Greater London, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, HISTORY / Essays, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, c 1950 to c 1959, Literary essays, Gay & Lesbian studies, Anthologies: general, c 1940 to c 1949, Anthologies (non-poetry), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Of specific Gay interest, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Relating to gay people, C 1945 To C 1960, HISTORY / LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics