Category: Fiction

Hugh Patrick Mcgraw | The Man in Control | Mild lesbian theme. The publisher, Arthur Barker, was cleared of obscene libel charges at the Old Bailey in 1954.

Leslie Feinberg | Drag King Dreams | From Publishers Weekly

After a harrowing encounter with a bigot on the PATH train, Max Rabinowitz, drag king and bouncer, quarrels with cross-dres

Helen Zahavi | Dirty Weekend | Bella lives alone in a basement flat. A man threatens rape and mutilation. Trapped and afraid, she finds a way out by adopting a hard and ancient logi

Ellen Hawley | Trip Sheets | The publisher’s description of Trip Sheets as ‘funny’ does a disservice to a thoughtful, realistic novel about desire and uncertainty. When Cat

Amanda Boulter | Around the Houses | Anna is an ordinary woman in an extraordinary situation. She’s having a baby, the father’s gay, her lover’s a woman and she still hasn’t told her pare

Ilham Mansour | I Am You | A groundbreaking work which was first published in Beirut in the year 2000 by Riad el-Rayyes, I Am You (Ana Hiya Anti) is the only novel in Arabic whi

Dani O’Connor | Eyes of Gray | Grayson Thomas was the typical college senior with typical friends, a typical job and typical insecurities about her future. One Sunday morning, Gray’

Naomi Holoch | Offseason | Miriam, a translator of French fiction and a former academic, has been in love with her mysterious and apparently heterosexual (as in married to a man

Carol Anshaw | Aquamarine | Olympic swimmer Jesse Austin is seduced and consequently edged out for a gold medal by her Australian rival. From there, Anshaw intricately traces thr

Fiona Cooper | Heartbreak on the High Sierra | ‘`I heard there was a place a woman could hang her hat up without any trash bothering her.’ This is the wary hope of the enigmatic, world-weary report