Truly Wilde by Joan Schenkar
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,
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Play Things by Peter Prince
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
Olivia by Dorothy Strachey
Dorothy Strachey | Olivia |
Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949 classic returns to print in a Cleis Press edit
Shy Girl by Elizabeth Stark
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
The Friendly Young Ladies by Mary Renault
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
A Woman Like That by Joan Larkin
Joan Larkin | A Woman Like That |
The act of ‘coming out’ has the power to transform every aspect of a woman’s life: family, friendships, career, sexuality, spirituality. An essenti
The Homo Handbook by Judy Carter
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
Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
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
Miss Peabody’s inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley
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
Burning Ground by Pearl Luke
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