Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories Author : Diarmuid Hester ISBN-13 : 978-0241528457 Publisher : Allen Lane Guideline Price : £25 Midway through Nothing Ever Just Disappears, Diarmuid Hester’s remarkable and expansive survey of modern queer lives, we encounter the author aboard a ferry as it prepares to dock at Jersey. The politically conservative Channel Islands would on the face of it appear to have little to offer an historian of queer culture, but Hester is intent on illuminating the work and legacy of the surrealist writer, sculptor and self-portraitist Claude Cahun, who left France for Jersey in 1937...