How Queer Bookshops Changed the World

About the author

Andrew West is an award-winning journalist and was the first openly gay BBC television newsreader in Northern Ireland. He is a former director of a national UK queer charity. His last novel The Betrayal of Thomas True was a No.2 Sunday Times bestseller. He has written extensively about queer issues for Gay Times, Attitude, the Independent, Daily Mail, Sun, Telegraph. He regularly appears on network television and radio as a panellist on current affairs programmes, often discussing queer topics.

Product details

• Authors: A. J. West, A.J. West, Andrew West
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 19.03.2026
• EAN: 9781836431695
• ISBN: 978-1-83643-169-5
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Social discrimination & inequality, Social and cultural history, Gay & Lesbian studies, Civil rights & citizenship, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Human rights, civil rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Relating to Trans / Transgender people or gender minorities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies, Social discrimination and social justice, HISTORY / LGBTQ+, Gender studies: transgender & intersex, Relating to LGBTQIA+ people, LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics