Tales of the Suburbs
LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains
$31.99
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
23 June 2026
Summary
Throughout LGBTQ+ history, suburbia has been seen as somewhere to escape from: a place where heterosexuality rules; where difference will not be tolerated; where you’ll never find a soulmate. But for many, those streets of twitching curtains and pebble-dashed semis were - or still are - a place to call home.
From Addlestone to Wilmslow, Tales of the Suburbs explores the relatively untold twentieth century tale of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people in suburbia. Thr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571382866 |
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| ISBN-10: | 057138286X |
| Author: | John Grindrod |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 23 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 444g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 147mm x 224mm |
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John Grindrod
John Grindrod is a social historian of modern places. He’s the author of Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain (2022), Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt (shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, 2017) and Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain (2013). He hosts the podcast Monstrosities Mon Amour, about loving the places other people hate.
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