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
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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
Fisherpeople by Red Jordan Arobateau
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
Not Telling Mother: Stories from a Life by Diane Salvatore
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
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue | Slammerkin |
Born to rough cloth in working-class London in 1748, Mary Saunders hungers for linen and lace. Her lust for a shiny red ribbon leads her to a lif