Fiction

Stefani Deoul | The Carousel | Review

Can a rag-tag bunch of citizens who are hardly in touch with themselves, let alone with each other, ever come together? As this tale begins

John Roc | Winter Blood | Two landlords – a black man and a white man – set out to evict the tenants from a run-down building in Harlem. But unexpectedly, the partners are draw

Eda Zahl | Fluffy Butch | A humorous novel of sexual confusion. Mary learns how to love men by shaving her head, moving to Los Angeles and dating women. She begins to see the w

Lisa Alther | Kinflicks | The story of Ginny Babcock, a woman of the 1960s, flower child, cheerleader, dutiful daughter and wayward wife, which explores the limited roles offer

Lee Lynch | Beggar of Love | Jefferson is the lover every woman wants to be-or to have.

Magnetically attractive, athletic, alcoholic, Jefferson is an anchorless innocent

Lee Maxwell | Emerald Budgies |

Ruth is in a state. The kind of state where you might put a hedgehog under the wheel before reversing, or pull on rubber underwear before running d

Helen Hodgman | Waiting for Matindi | Recovering from an operation in the Australian countryside and Bondi Beach, the wry, ever-observant narrator of Helen Hodgman’s beautifully written ne

Richard Powell | Daily and Sunday | ‘Sex, power and the newspaper business.’