Peter Parker has just published Some Men in London, a two-volume anthology about queer life in the capital from 1945 to 1967.

 

He is also the author of two books about the First World War,  The Old Lie  and The Last Veteran; biographies of J.R. Ackerley and Christopher Isherwood; Housman Country; and  A Little Book of Latin for Gardeners.  

 

He edited (and wrote much of)  A Reader’s Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel (1995) and A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers (1996), and is an advisory editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He has written about people, books, art, architecture and gardening for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, and lives in London’s East End.