Private company
Brilliance Books
Former gay and lesbian publishing company based in London
Brilliance Books was a small publisher of gay and lesbian books based in Clerkenwell, London, set up in 1982 with funding from the GLC. Brilliance Books published a range of fiction and non-fiction works including David Wurtzel's Thomas Lyster: a Cambridge Novel and Title Fight, the account of UK newspaper Gay News by Gillian E. Hanscombe and its co-founder Andrew Lumsden.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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Brilliance Books was a small publisher of gay and lesbian books based in Clerkenwell, London, set up in 1982 with funding from the GLC. Brilliance Books published a range of fiction and non-fiction works including David Wurtzel's Thomas Lyster: a Cambridge Novel and Title Fight, the account of UK newspaper Gay News by Gillian E. Hanscombe and its co-founder Andrew Lumsden. It also re-published earlier works of gay and lesbian literature, including Alice B. Toklas's The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, and a 1984 edition of The Chinese Garden by Rosemary Manning originally published in 1961.2
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