Books by Paul Bailey

In his first collection of poetry after a career as a novelist spanning five decades, Paul Bailey offers in Inheritance an intimate reckoning. The poems mine memories of childhood, illness and lost loves with unflinching honesty, a generous humour born of self-knowledge, and great depth of feeling.

The story of a gentle, reserved widow who is exposed by bereavement to the alien world outside her home.

Ma Jianzhong, advisor to a main Qing government official, was the first Chinese to advocate the creation of a specialized and professional diplomatic corps. This translation of his essays aims to contribute to a wider understanding of the origins and circulation of reform ideas in the late Qing.

Examines the various kinds of censorship which have oppressed homosexual men and women. Discussing artists as diverse as Marcel Proust, Benjamin Britten, WH Auden and Terence Rattigan, Saki and Ronald Firbank, this book explores the true nature of "camp" and the rich tradition of subversive and comic art created by the censoring of the sexual.