This post was written by Friday guest blogger Annie Reid.

Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City was named Britain’s favorite (okay, okay — favourite) gay or lesbian novel, the winner of the Big Gay Read. He edges out Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet and Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit.

 

The BBC adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker-winning novel, The Line of Beauty, debuts next week and is, apparently, fabulous.

 

Mary Cheney, Dick Cheney’s daughter, has a memoir out, and shares plans for an upcoming (shudder) political thriller. Look for it on the shelf next to mom’s lesbian pulp novel.

 

2006 Stonewall Book Award winners announced.