Brilliance Books was a small publisher of gay and lesbian books based in Clerkenwell, London, founded in 1982 with funding from the GLC. It 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

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by Gillian E. Hanscombe and its co-founder Andrew Lumsden. It also re-published earlier works of gay and lesbian literature, including

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The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book ''The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book'', first published in 1954, is one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time. Alice B. Toklas, writer Gertrude Stein's life partner, wrote the book to make up for her unwillingness at the time to write her memoirs ...

'', and a 1984 edition of ''The Chinese Garden'' by

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originally published in 1961. The publisher was run by Roy Trevelion and Tenebris Light. Author Jeanette Winterson worked as the women's editor there in 1983.{{Cite book, last=Onega, first=Susana, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1WO5DwAAQBAJ&q=jeanette+winterson+women%27s+editor+%22brilliance%22&pg=PT15, title=Jeanette Winterson, date=2013-07-19, publisher=Manchester University Press, isbn=978-1-84779-604-2, language=en

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