Last Words From Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin
Qiu Miaojin | Last Words From Montmartre | ‘An NYRB Classics Original Last Words from Montmartre is a novel in letters that narrates the gradual dissolution of a relationship between two lov
Biographical Fiction
Venus In Scorpio by Murray Constantine; Margaret Goldsmith
Murray Constantine; Margaret Goldsmith | Venus In Scorpio | Heavily fictionalized biography, (erroneously listed elsewhere as a novel) of Marie Antoinette, suggesting lesbianism in her adolescence.
Chase Of The Wild Goose by Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon | Chase Of The Wild Goose | Curious true tale of two women who died in 1829 and 1831, after fifty years without so much as a day’s separation.
Sappho’s Leap by Erica Jong
Erica Jong | Sappho’s Leap | Fearless, exuberant, and passionate, Sappho is Erica Jong’s most unforgettable heroine.
Sappho’s Leap is a journey back 2,600 years to inhab
Zami by Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde | Zami | Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lord
Claudine Married by Colette
Colette | Claudine Married | The third book in Colette’s enchanting Claudine series.
Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris, Claudine’s marriage to Renaud has
The Laughter of Aphrodite by Peter Green
Peter Green | The Laughter of Aphrodite | Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work o
My Name is Sappho by Martha Rofheart
Martha Rofheart | My Name is Sappho | he passionate life and loves of Sappho, poet of Lesbos…
The turbulent, colourful society of Greece in the 6th century B.C. is the setting f
Claudine and Annie by Colette
Colette | Claudine and Annie | In this final novel in Colette’s famous series it is Claudine’s friend Annie who tells the story in the form of a private diary.
Claudine is
Lizzie by Evan Hunter
Evan Hunter | Lizzie | A fictional account of the 1892 double-murder case of Lizzie Borden, a prisoner of her appetites in conflict with her times.