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''A kaleidoscopic portrait of post-war queer life'' Guardian
''Fascinating'' The Times
''Absorbing, illuminating, highly entertaining and often very funny'' Spectator
''Fascinating, bitchy, humorous and shocking'' Time Out

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 Luc

The Diaries of Mr Lucas

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''A kaleidoscopic portrait of post-war queer life'' Guardian''Fascinating'' The Times''Absorbing, illuminating, highly entertaining and often very funny'' Spectator''Fascinating, bitchy, humorous... Read more

    Publisher: Atlantic Books
    Publication Date: 5/2/2024
    ISBN13: 9781838958121, 978-1838958121
    ISBN10: 1838958126

    Non Fiction , Biography

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    ''A kaleidoscopic portrait of post-war queer life'' Guardian
    ''Fascinating'' The Times
    ''Absorbing, illuminating, highly entertaining and often very funny'' Spectator
    ''Fascinating, bitchy, humorous and shocking'' Time Out

    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 Luc

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