Category: Fiction

Butter Honey Pig Bread | Francesca Ekwuyasi | Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Keh

Endpapers | Jennifer Savran Kelly | An accessible, character-driven story set in 2003 New York City about a genderqueer book conservator who feels trapped by her gender presentation, her

Roses, In The Mouth Of A Lion | Bushra Rehman | In the vein of Dominicana and My Brilliant Friend, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Pakistani-American community Raz

Stone Dead | Linda Menzies | The story is set in a rural area of a fictionalised Angus, Scotland. Barleyknowe is a farmhouse with semi-derelict outbuildings and land. A wealthy wo

Dancing With Strings | Frances Cherry | ‘Embarrassed daughter of ‘Commie’ parents in 1950s Wellington, bride of a deceptively engaging Aussie in the 60s, suburban mum in the 70s … Katherin

Washing Up In Parrot Bay | Frances Cherry | A ‘provocative and engaging black tragicomedy’ about a ‘world of lust, betrayal and obsession’ in a community that might be anywhere in New Zealand.

The Magician’s Girl | Doris Grumbach | The Magician’s Girl tells the story of three New York women who meet at Barnard in the late 1930s and fulfill their separate destinies from the 1940s

New to Liberty | Demisty D. Bellinger | Three women, decades apart from each other, fight for love and agency in a rural Kansas community seemingly frozen in time:

1966: Sissily is

Violets | Kyung-Sook Shin | By Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin, ‘a moving delve into a lonely psyche’ that follows a neglected young woman’s search for human conn

Other People Manage | Ellen Hawley | It’s Minneapolis in the 1970s, and two women meet in the Women’s Coffeehouse. Marge is a bus driver, and Peg is training to be a psychotherapist.