The Inalienable Right
A Tommy Wildeblood novel
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Eye Books
Published:13th Mar '25
Should be back in stock very soon

In the age of AIDS and Section 28: a secret that could change political history
It is 1987, and Tommy Wildeblood has put his days as a Piccadilly Circus rent boy long behind him. Slightly to his own surprise, he is now a rookie teacher at a South London comprehensive.
But when Margaret Thatcher’s government launches a chilling attack on the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in a new law known as Section 28, Tommy can’t stay silent – especially when he realises he may have information about one of Thatcher’s key lieutenants that could change the political situation completely.
Forming an uneasy alliance with a sharp-elbowed tabloid journalist, and delving deep into his past on the ‘Dilly’, he puts everything on the line – both for himself and his old friends – in a desperate bid to expose the truth.
With his trademark blend of historical research and ‘what if’ fiction, Adam Macqueen captures the spirit of a frightening age in another spellbinding case that lifts the lid on the Eighties political establishment’s murkiest secrets.
‘Adam Macqueen confidently combines a might-have-been version of history in which Section 28 brings down Thatcher, rather than the later poll tax, with an It’s a Sin-style evocation of the era’
‘The third in Adam Macqueen’s highly readable series of Tommy Wildeblood novels succeeds as a study of gay life in the 80s and as a page-turning thriller. The Inalienable Right starts slowly, but builds to a memorably stirring finale’ -- The Observer
‘The author of the impressive Tommy Wildeblood novels takes his protagonist to 1987 and Section 28. A good read’ -- The Critic
‘The protagonist of the series is a former rent boy, and Adam Macqueen’s research is peerless, so these books are an intriguing combination of horny and historically accurate’ -- Helen Lewis, The Bluestocking
‘The kind of book I wish I’d written’ -- Jonathan Harvey
‘Wildeblood is a thoroughly likeable hero’
* Mail on Sunday *‘A riveting thriller about hypocrisy, politics and child sex abuse. I love the mosaic of fiction and fact’
-- Katharine QuaISBN: 9781785634055
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 25mm
Weight: 335g
418 pages