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Tales of my heart
Never forget who you are and where you came from
|| Hardcover || Letitcia Stoc || Brave New Books
When I was little I started writing stories about how I felt.
I wrote for hours sometimes days.
Sometimes I couldn't seem to find the words.
But after all, they came along.
I have been writing for a very long time.
So I decided to share a few stories online.
I decided I wanted to make a book,
with all the stories and poems I wrote.
I call them the tales of my heart because
everything that I write, comes directly from the heart.
Some are deep, some are not.
Some are serious and some funny.
Fo...
The legacy of Leigh Bowery
King of Queer
2023 || Hardcover || Bamber Delver || Brave New Books
In 1988 Dutch journalist Bamber Delver interviewed Leigh Bowery. By then, Leigh wasn’t world-famous yet but a well-known clubber in the underground-scene of London. Leigh’s fashion career was just as wild as it was short-lived: he died in 1994, 33 years old. Decades after his death, Leigh Bowery’s influence is omnipresent. From Alexander McQueen to Cirque du Soleil, from Lady Gaga to the drag queens of RuPaul. In this book 15 artists around the globe admire his guts, his looks and fashi...
Travels With My Nephew
2024 || Paperback || Guy Wilson || Brave New Books
Dorothy and her nephew have a special connection. When he finds a way of escaping the drudgery of the 1960s English Midlands, Auntie Dorothy, being the loving, caring and devoted Auntie that she is, tags along to take care of him, while he learns to dance, make dresses and fall in love. Many times. He helps her avoid arrest by the New York Police Department; she helps him quell a mutiny on the Caribbean. They march through the Gay Liberation movement in 70s London, witness the 'plague years' ...