BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life

    (By Hugo Greenhalgh)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 20 MB (20,079 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 570 times
    Last checked 7 Hour ago!
    Author Hugo Greenhalgh
    “Book Descriptions: FOR NEARLY 60 YEARS Mr George Lucas led a double life. A mild-mannered civil servant by day, by night he was a fixture of London's colourful underground gay scene - a twilight world of petty crime, louche pubs and public toilets. He was also an obsessive diary writer.

    Beginning in the early 1960s, Mr Lucas had a passionate and fraught affair with a rent boy associate of the Kray twins known as Irish Peter, one of many men Mr Lucas paid for sex. Together, Irish Peter and Mr Lucas represent the spectrum of gay criminality prior to the partial decriminalisation of gay sex in 1967.

    When Mr Lucas died in 2014, he left his diaries to the journalist Hugo Greenhalgh. The Diaries of Mr Lucas combines Mr Lucas's deliciously indiscreet recollections of a life spent sometimes literally in the shadows with Greenhalgh's commentary - this is gay London like it's never been seen before.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Our Evenings

    ★★★★★

    Alan Hollinghurst

    Book 1

    Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1945–1959

    ★★★★★

    Peter Parker

    Book 1

    Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

    ★★★★★

    Armistead Maupin

    Book 1

    Caledonian Road

    ★★★★★

    Andrew O'Hagan

    Book 1

    Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

    ★★★★★

    Daniel Finkelstein

    Book 1

    Evenings and Weekends

    ★★★★★

    Oisín McKenna

    Book 1

    What Belongs to You

    ★★★★★

    Garth Greenwell

    Book 1

    One Love

    ★★★★★

    Matt Cain

    Book 1

    Precipice

    ★★★★★

    Robert Harris

    Book 1

    The New Life

    ★★★★★

    Tom Crewe

    Book 1

    Rainbow Milk

    ★★★★★

    Paul Mendez

    Book 1

    Mother's Boy

    ★★★★★

    Patrick Gale

    Book 1

    In Memoriam

    ★★★★★

    Alice Winn

    Book 1

    Dancer from the Dance

    ★★★★★

    Andrew Holleran

    Book 1

    The Drowned (Quirke, #10 and St. John Strafford, #5)

    ★★★★★

    John Banville