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We must stop and listen to these inspiring young people from around the globe. \u003cb\u003eExtraordinarily moving, wild and engaging - the book of the moment\u003c\/b\u003e' -- Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and author of Climate Justice\u003cbr\u003e'A passionate call for change. \u003cb\u003eHope-filled and fascinating\u003c\/b\u003e, this book has inspired me to do more' -- Dave Goulson, author of the Sunday Times bestselling The Garden Jungle and A Sting in the Tale\u003cbr\u003e'A r\u003cb\u003eemarkably lucid and insightful \u003c\/b\u003eaccount of the problem with our relationship with the natural world, and how we can save it and ourselves' -- Liz Bonnin, natural history and environmental broadcaster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eProfound wisdom from a brilliant young mind\u003c\/b\u003e - Bella's view of our troubled planet is \u003cb\u003eenthralling and shocking, inspiring, and enchanting\u003c\/b\u003e. 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From the lesbian London of the suffragettes to James Baldwin''s home in Provence, to Jack Smith''s New York, Kevin Killian''s San Francisco and the Dungeness cottage of Derek Jarman, this is a thrilling new history and a celebration of freedom, survival and the hidden places of the imagination.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNothing Ever Just Disappears \u003c\/i\u003eis about what happens to a house or a room, or a whole town or city, when it is transformed by a powerful sensibility. With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mystery and a kind of magic -- Colm Toibin\u003cbr\u003eFascinating journeys into LGBTQ+ courage… Hester is attentive to atmosphere, as influenced by both culture and community, and how it acts on individual lives, sometimes expanding horizons and sometimes restricting them… Throughout, \u003ci\u003eNothing Ever Just Disappears\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the courage it took for these queer people merely to exist, and exist honestly, in a hostile world -- Sarah Watling * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable and expansive… Intrinsic to the power and beauty of this book are Hester’s own voice, story and powers of imagination… tremendously absorbing… The great gift of this book is to offer access to optimism, in these late and shadowed days. 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An exploration, celebration and reclamation of queer lives within their spaces and landscapes, it roams from the cloisters and locked gates of Cambridge to the hilly streets of San Francisco, the apartments of New York City and the nuclear desert of Dungeness's shingle-shore, where Derek Jarman created a world on the margins and of the margins. Hester is a fizzingly brilliant writer, and with its fusion of personal testimony, reportage, cultural history and literary criticism, this book will surely find a wide readership -- Robert Macfarlane\u003cbr\u003eA moving, erudite book. Writing against the tide of erasure, Hester takes us on a journey through time, over land and sea, and casts an empathetic and sharply humorous eye on this pantheon of queer figures. 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