Category: Fiction

Honore de Balzac | Cousin Bette (Oxford World’s Classics) | Cousin Bette (1847) vividly brings to life the rift between the old world and the new and is, among other things, a serious study of the Paris demimon

Carissa Halston | A Girl Named Charlie Lester | Kirkus Reviews: The razory hip Charlie sallies forth from a hateful adolescence to find sex, self-awareness and then, in its many guises, the t

Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she

Helen R. Hull | Landfall | In a brittle and sarcastic novel of a brittle and sarcastic woman, the heroine, a capable businesswoman, alternately repulses and warms toward her ado

Denise Neuhaus | The Love Of Women | THE LOVE OF WOMEN is a story of murder, female sexuality, and one woman’s discovery of what it means to be a feminist. Kristina has transformed

Sir Henry Rider Haggard | Allan’s Wife | The story of Quartermain’s early life, and his marriage to Stella, mother of his son Harry. Also includes short stories Hunter Quatermain’s Story, A T

Emma Donoghue | Touchy Subjects | How do you make conversation with a sperm donor? How do you say someone’s novel is drivel? Would you give a screaming baby brandy? In what words would

Heather Conrad | News | Sylvia and her cousin Linda have been close all their lives even as their life choices take them farther and farther apart. Linda, her husband, Steven

Sasha Gregory | Lucky Girls | A sexy lesbian comedy featuring Wendy and her fun-loving friends searching for love and the identity of a mysterious stranger.

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Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other | ‘Teeming with life and crackling with energy – a love song to modern Britain, to black womanhood. Follows the lives and struggles of twelve very diffe