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Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing about art and culture, examining its role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O’Keefe, interviews Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith, writes love letters to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and explores loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body.

In 2001 Will Young shot to fame as the first winner of Pop Idol. It was clear from the start that he would never be a typical pop star - and more than 10 years later he has become one of our best-loved and most intriguing artists. From his dramatic experiences on Pop Idol; to coming out in the glare of the media spotlight; to his valiant struggles against depression; to the crazy reality of being famous, Will is open about both the highs and lows of his life.

Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography tells the life story of a gifted performer whose gleeful irreverence, sharp wit, and generous spirit inspired millions. Richard Hunt was one of the original main five performers in the Muppet troupe. He brought to life an impressive range of characters on The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, and various Muppet movies, everyone from eager gofer Scooter to elderly heckler Statler, groovy girl Janice to freaked-out lab helper Beaker, even early versions of Miss Piggy and Elmo.

Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 best selling My Point...and I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. That book is this audiobook.

The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author - a woman very much ahead of her time - including her time spent on the glorious island of Skiathos. Nancy Spain was one of the most celebrated - and notorious - writers and broadcasters of the '40s, '50s and '60s. Hilarious, controversial and brilliant, she lived openly as a lesbian (sharing a household with her two lovers and their various children) and was frequently litigated against for her newspaper columns - Evelyn Waugh successfully sued her for libel...twice.

Comedian Stephen K Amos is one of eight children, whose parents came to London from Nigeria in the 60s. In these three series, co-written with multi-award-winning British playwright Jonathan Harvey, he takes us back in time to the 1980s, as he reminisces about his dysfunctional childhood and formative experiences, and shares the dramas and traumas of his teenage years.

Stuck in a dead-end job, broken-hearted, broke and estranged from her best friend, Violet's life is nothing like she thought it would be. She wants more - better friends, better sex, a better job - and she wants it now. So, when Lottie - who looks like the woman Violet wants to be when she grows up - offers Violet the chance to join her exciting start-up, she bites. Only it soon becomes clear that Lottie and her husband, Simon, are not only inviting Violet into their company, they are also inviting her into their lives.

Today’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes, both fictional and real, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead, she had to search for queerness in the (largely straight) teen cultural phenomena the aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohan’s fall from grace, Gossip Girl, Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl”, country-era Taylor Swift, and Seth Cohen jumping on a coffee cart. And, for better or worse, these touch points shaped her adult identity. She came out on the other side like many millennials did: in her words, gay as hell.

Joe is a campaign manager who just helped elect the first Latino Mayor of Nashville. He was riding victory’s high when a call came from the state party chair inviting him to join a gubernatorial race, his first statewide campaign. This was his chance to step into the big leagues, and he couldn’t wait.

Patrick Hinds has failed. A lot. In fact, he’s kind of an expert at it—which is why he’s uniquely qualified to say that failure is a good thing.

Andrew Sean Greer can’t wait to get home to San Francisco after a writer’s residency in Kansas. But when his mother, Sandra, decides to come along for the ride, he has a new goal: get her to crack a smile at every stop, whether breathtaking or breathtakingly kitschy. He’s always known his mother to be as efficient and serious as a chemist (which she happens to be), always in gray, eyebrow cocked, and handling challenges with grace. To mix things up, Andrew develops an elaborate itinerary of planned chaos.

"ch werde nicht zulassen, dass mir wieder jemand genommen wird, den ich liebe." Vor gut einem Jahr reißt ein traumatisches Ereignis nicht nur eine Lücke in Supervisory Special Agent Valentin Ledeckys Leben, es hinterlässt ebenso ein klaffendes Loch in seinem Herzen. Trotz allem darf er nicht aufgeben, denn seine Kinder brauchen ihren Vater. Die Ledeckys in allen Lebenslagen zu unterstützen, ist für Special Agent Edward Davenport eine Selbstverständlichkeit, auch wenn es ihm schwerfällt, seine tiefen Gefühle für Valentin unter Verschluss zu halten.

Ich bin mir sicher, es wäre die beste Nacht meines Lebens geworden, hätte nicht sein verfluchtes Handy geklingelt. Danach ging alles den Bach runter.– Sullivan –. Um Dampf abzulassen, kehrt Special Agent James Filby in seinem Lieblingsclub ein und lernt einen Mann kennen, der ihm im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes die Sprache verschlägt. Doch ihm wird schnell klar, dass er sich nicht auf jemanden wie Sullivan Hartley einlassen kann – auf niemanden. Denn er gab ein Versprechen, das er niemals brechen würde. Auch nicht für einen heißen Feuerwehrmann.

"Wir haben Spaß zusammen und verbringen vielleicht ein bisschen Zeit miteinander. Aber nein, Mister Ich-weiß-dass-du-mich-Liebst versaut alles, was wir hatten, mit diesem Liebesgesäusel." Das Beste, was FBI-Agent Elliot Anderson in den vergangenen Jahren passiert ist, war, in das Team von Supervisory Special Agent Valentine Ledecky versetzt zu werden. Wenn es da nur nicht diesen winzigen Haken gäbe, auch genannt: Special Agent Shaun Serkis – der Kerl, der Elliot abserviert hat. Doch Elliot und Shaun sind Profis und als solche können sie private Differenzen ausblenden – sollte man meinen.

FBI-Agent Robert Flinn verließ San Francisco und kam nach Los Angeles, um mit seiner Vergangenheit abzuschließen. Das fällt ihm schwerer als erhofft. Robert stellt keine hohen Ansprüche an das Leben. Er geht seinem Job nach und genießt ruhige Abende bei sich zu Hause mit leckerem Essen und kitschigen Fernsehserien. Es könnte alles so schön sein, gäbe es da nicht sein Team und im Speziellen seinen Partner, der es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht hat, ihn aus seinem Schneckenhaus zu locken.

Randy Straight, a boring hetero, is continually mistaken for Gayman. This mistake begins to snowball, with the media believing that Gayman has hit the town well before the scheduled event to perhaps scout out restaurants, tour, shop, or all of the above. Straight then sees his life go from "straight and boring" to "gay and fab-you-luss" overnight. He begins to receive VIP treatment in the form of restaurant, hotel, and clothing comps. Not to mention the occasional hetero woman willing to turn Gayman straight.