Joan Schenkar | Truly Wilde | Born a scant three months after her uncle Oscar’s notorious arrest, raised in the shadow of the greatest scandal of the turn of the twentieth century,
Peter Prince | Play Things | The 27-year-old hero of Play Things recently graduated and landed a job at a top architectural firm, but, he says, “I got tired.” Now he’s dropped out
Elizabeth Stark | Shy Girl | ‘Alta Corral is a distinctive character in contemporary fiction … a young woman confident, even nonchalant, about her sexual conquests of other wome
Mary Renault | The Friendly Young Ladies | Set in 1937, The Friendly Young Ladies is a romantic comedy of off-Bloomsbury bohemia. Sheltered, naïve, and just eighteen, Elsie leaves the st
Judy Carter | The Homo Handbook | Stand-up comic Judy Carter speaks out–way out–in this entertaining and helpful guide to ‘being a homo’. For gays and lesbians thinking about coming
Dorothy Allison | Cavedweller | From the author of Bastard Out of Carolina comes another compelling novel about four women whose lives converge unexpectedly and force all of them to
Elizabeth Jolley | Miss Peabody’s inheritance | ‘In this powerful tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne, a cu
Pearl Luke | Burning Ground | Working in a fire tower in the Canadian woods, Percy Turner’s emotional state is hanging on by a thread. Fires smolder within her–the lifelong passio
