No Previous Experience by Elspeth Cameron
Elspeth Cameron | No Previous Experience | ‘No Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and Change is a candid and poignant memoir by Canadian literary biographer Elspeth Cameron. In it, she writ
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All We Know by Lisa Cohen
Lisa Cohen | All We Know | Esther Murphy was a brilliant New York intellectual who dazzled friends and strangers with an unstoppable flow of conversation. But she never finished
Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch
Jane Lynch | Happy Accidents | Part humor, part inspiration, the star of TV’s hottest show Glee and former real-life Sue Sylvester shares how she was finally able to embrace her sex
Undiscovered Country by Kathryn C. Hulme
Kathryn C. Hulme | Undiscovered Country | This is a classic account of a group of women who put their careers on hold to study privately with the spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. Known as
For Sylvia by Valentine Ackland
Valentine Ackland | For Sylvia | In this soul-searching ‘record of blundering from shame to shame,’ Ackland (19061969), a shy, sensitive English poet and dealer in antiques, writes of
Saving Alex by Alex Cooper
Alex Cooper | Saving Alex | When Alex Cooper was fifteen years old, life was pretty ordinary in her sleepy suburban town and nice Mormon family. At church and at home, Alex was t
Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs by Cheryl Peck
Cheryl Peck | Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs | A gay Erma Bombeck meets A Girl Named Zippy in this delightful debut about the misadventures of a woman of size. Cheryl Peck has stories to tell-about
k. d. lang by Rose Collis
Rose Collis | k. d. lang | ‘Rose Collis’s book on singer kd lang was the first in a new series called ‘Outlines’ published by Absolute Press. The series aims to explore the way
Just Take Your Frock Off by Barbara Bell
Barbara Bell | Just Take Your Frock Off | The daughter of a mill worker in Lancashire, Barbara Bell had her lesbian ‘initiation’ the year after Radclyffe Hall’s The Well Of Loneliness (1928).
For Sylvia by Valentine Ackland
Valentine Ackland | For Sylvia | Valentine Ackland, writer and poet, was for 40 years the closest companion of Sylvia Townsend Warner, for whom she wrote this autobiographical essay.