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
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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
For Nights Like This One by Becky Birtha
Becky Birtha | For Nights Like This One | By Sistahs on the Shelf ‘The Home for Readers of… (Florida, USA) – See all my reviews
If you’re not one for short story collections, FOR
No, John, No by Cressida Lindsay
Cressida Lindsay | No, John, No | This is a novel about what it is like to be poor, rootless, intense and lesbian, trapped in a desperate bohemian life.
A novel about being po