Category: Fiction

Julie Walters | Maggie’s Tree | It was supposed to be ‘a lovely break’. As their mutual friend Helena is the toast of Broadway, stand-up comedian Cissie O’Brien, who is the nation’s

Rebecca Brown | The Haunted House | In one stifling moment near the beginning of this strong, evocative first novel, its genesis is laid bare: little Robin Dale’s father slides her into

Maureen Duffy | The Microcosm | The main characters are all women and The Microcosm deals with their relationships, as they grow and as they disintegrate. The pressures of society fo

Gertrude Stein | Three Lives (Penguin) | Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounde

Vita Sackville-West | Challenge | This was Vita Sackville-West’s second novel, the superbly romantic story of a young, Byronic Englishman and the woman he loves. Together they travel t

Fannie Flagg | Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe | As eighty-year old Mrs Cleo Threadgoode tells Evelyn Couch about her life, she escapes the Rose Terrace Nursing Home and returns in her mind to Whistl

Red Jordan Arobateau | Fisherpeople | Bitter-sweet story of Senior Alverez; Mexican migrant farmworker, grandfather, living out his old age alone in El Barrio with all his cats & Senor Poo

Diane Salvatore | Not Telling Mother: Stories from a Life | Stories from the lives of lesbian couple Renee and Celia, and the extended family that surrounds them.

Celia and Renee are on a Provincetown

Emma Donoghue | Slammerkin |