The Age of Dreaming by Nina Revoyr
Nina Revoyr | The Age of Dreaming |
‘The Age of Dreaming is a masterpiece of the sort that doesn’t just seduce the reader-it leaves you transformed. Nina Revoyr deserves to be
Fiction
Claudine at School by Colette
Colette | Claudine at School | ‘The famous French novel about an amoral young innocent’–Cover.
Claudine is a curious, precocious, and rather spoiled girl growing up in the
What We All Long for by Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand | What We All Long for | “They were born in the city from people born elsewhere.”
What We All Long For follows the overlapping stories of a close c
A Saturday Life by Radclyffe Hall
Radclyffe Hall | A Saturday Life | ‘A Saturday Life’ is a novel about a girl named Sardonia who hops from one obsession to another. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 188
Maggie’s Tree by Julie Walters
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
The Haunted House by Rebecca Brown
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
The Microcosm by Maureen Duffy
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
Three Lives (Penguin) by Gertrude Stein
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
Challenge by Vita Sackville-West
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
Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
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