Jen Silverman | Collective Rage: a Play in Five Betties | ‘Betty is rich; Betty is lonely; Betty’s busy working on her truck; Betty wants to talk about love, but Betty needs to hit something. Meanwhile, Betty
Kirsty Logan | The Gracekeepers | As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her
Christa Winsloe | The Child Manuela | Winsloe’s 1929 novel became the movie ‘Maedchen In Uniform.’ The story revolves around a young girl who is sent to a repressive Prussian boarding scho
Julie Anne Peters | Keeping You a Secret | With a steady boyfriend, the position of Student Council President, and a chance to go to an Ivy League college, high school life is just fine for Hol
Barbara Browning | The Gift | The Gift by Barbara Browning is a strange novel in a lot of ways. The overall feeling it inspires is one of quiet intimacywhich is fitting, given tha
Gay Wachman | Lesbian Empire | Gay Wachman provides a critical new reading of sexually radical fiction by British women in the years during and after the First World War. She contra
Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall’s own life, it was banned outrig
Ana Castillo | Black Dove | ‘In this collection of essays, Ana Castillo examines what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial pro
Chinelo Okparanta | Under The Udala Trees | Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to s
Zahra Patterson | Chronology | Taking as its starting point an ultimately failed attempt to translate a Sesotho short story into English, CHRONOLOGY explores the spaces language occ