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<p> <strong>A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: <em>THE OBSERVER</em>, <em>INDEPENDENT</em>, <em>SUNDAY TIMES</em> AND <em>BOOKSELLER</em></strong> </p> <p> <strong>'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all'</strong> </p> <p>Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female characters in literature had such troubled relationships with real women?</p> <p>In this highly innovative book, acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne re-examines Hardy's life through the eyes of the women who made him - mother, sisters, girlfriends, wives, muses. The story veers from shocking scenes such as his obsession with the sight of a woman hanged, to poignant vignettes of unfulfilled passion, to fascinating details of working women's lives in the nineteenth century.</p> <p><em>Hardy Women</em> is the story of how the magnificent fictional women he invented would not have been possible without the hardship and hardiness of the real ones who shaped his passions and his imagination. It is only through understanding and witnessing these hardy women that we can truly enter the heart of this great novelist and poet.</p>

<p>THE <em>SUNDAY TIMES</em> BESTSELLER</p> <p><strong>From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing to date</strong>-<strong>a brutally honest and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance and self-acceptance.</strong></p> <p> <strong>A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, <em>The House of Hidden Meanings</em> is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag.</strong> </p> <p>Central to RuPaul's success has been his chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world's largest television franchises, RuPaul's ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and super mogul.</p> <p>Yet that adaptability has made him enigmatic to the public. In this memoir, his most intimate and detailed book yet, RuPaul makes himself truly known.</p> <p>Stripping away all artifice, RuPaul recounts the story of his life with breath taking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography. From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental mother, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, to finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history.</p> <p>Here in RuPaul's singular and extraordinary story is a manual for living-a personal philosophy that testifies to the value of chosen family, the importance of harnessing what makes you different, and the transformational power of facing yourself fearlessly.</p> <p>If we're all born naked and the rest is drag, then this is RuPaul totally out of drag. This is RuPaul stripped bare.</p>

<p>From Texas sugar cane fields, Ivy League halls to her homeland of South Korea and back again this memoir is a journey through identity crises, mental health struggles, and the quest for selfhood.</p> <p>Born to Korean immigrant parents, Hyeseung spends her early years in the sugar cane fields of Texas, caught between her father's "get rich quick schemes" and her beautiful, domineering mother who is skeptical of Western idealism.</p> <p>With her parents constantly at odds, Hyeseung learns more Korean words for hatred than for love. When the family's fake Gucci business lands them in bankruptcy, Hyeseung starts at a new school where she's immediately singled out with the question, "Can you speak English?"</p> <p>Growing up, Hyeseung internalizes Western expectations of the "model" Asian-American, striving for approval and getting into an Ivy League school. Yet, she resents the other high-achieving Asian students she meets and clings to her "token" status among her white peers.</p> <p>In an attempt to reconcile her identity, she takes a trip to Korea, facing an even greater crisis of self, and after a series of shocking events, she is admitted to a psychiatric hospital and ultimately attempts suicide. Marriage to a doting white physicist and a new career as a painter seem to offer refuge-until they don't.</p> <p>Unflinching and lyrical, <strong><em>Docile</em></strong> is one woman's story of subverting the model minority myth, contending with mental illness, and finding her self-worth by looking within.</p>

Den Of Spies [Bok / Häftad]

<p> <strong>'A roadmap for a new generation' </strong> <em>VOGUE</em> </p> <p><strong>'Radical, funny and fearless' </strong>VANITY FAIR</p> <p> <strong>'Gripping' </strong> <em>NYLON</em> </p> An electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre <p>Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the 1980s, '90s, and beyond. Her band, Bikini Kill, embodies this iconic time, and today their gutsy, radical lyrics of anthems like 'Rebel Girl' and 'Double Dare Ya' are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from?</p> <p>In <em>Rebel Girl</em>, Hanna's raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumultuous childhood home, to her formative college years in Olympia, Washington, and on to her first years on tour, fighting hard for gigs and for her band. As Hanna makes blindingly clear, being in a 'girl band', especially a punk girl band, in those years was not a simple or a safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a band took limitless amounts of grit and bravery.</p> <p>But the relationships she developed during those years buoyed her - including with her bandmates Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and Billy Karren; her friendship with Kurt Cobain; and her introduction to Joan Jett - and they were a testament to how the true punk world nurtured and cared for its own.</p> <p>Hanna opens up about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and her debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she brings us behind the scenes of her later bands, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin. She also writes candidly about the Riot Grrrl movement and its decline, documenting with love its grassroots origins but critiquing its later exclusivity.</p> <p>In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the darkest, hardest times along with the most joyful - and how it all fuelled her revolutionary art, from the 1980s to today.</p>

Never Had A Dad [Bok / Häftad]

The Old Gays' Guide To The Good Life [Bok / Häftad]