Fiction

Carol Guess | Switch | Carol Guess’s lyrical and accomplished second novel, set in small-town Indiana, is poised on the tension between the surface cheeriness of the waitres

Diane Ayres | Other Girls | OTHER GIRLS BY DIANE AYRES (KENSINGTON, MAY 2002, ISBN: 0758201117) What really goes on behind the ivy-covered walls of a women’s college? Welcome to

Pat Cronin | Better Together | Mac Bradenton has never been south of the Mason Dixon Line or across a body of water wider than the Ohio River. But her best friend, Kristy, is sick a

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.

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