Category: Fiction

Pati Hill | The Nine Mile Circle | Dreamy story of two teenage girls and an idyllic summer during which they constantly pretend to be man and wife, on a girlish, unerotic level.

Ronald Firbank | The Flower Beneath The Foot | Set on the eve of a royal wedding at the fantastical court of King Willie and Her Dreaminess the Queen of Pisuerga, this is an absurd and often melanc

May Sarton | Journal Of A Solitude | In this, her bestselling journal, May Sarton writes with keen observation and emotional courage of both inner and outer worlds: a garden, the seasons,

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

Eleazar Lipsky | The Scientists | Its closest comparison is with Mitchell Wilson’s Live With Lightning which appeared some years ago, and again science, no longer an abstraction, come

Françoise Mallet-Joris | The Red Room | The sequel to this Flemish writer’s earlier The Illusions (sp) (1952) continues the conflict between young Helene and Tamara, now her step-mother for

Amanda Boyden | Pretty Little Dirty | Lisa sees the life of her gorgeous best friend Celeste as just about perfect: she has a gigantic house, two older sisters to coach her through the haz

Mary Jackson King | The Vine Of Glory | A repressed, inhibited, small-town girl, Lavinia, at the mercy of elderly tyrannical relatives, forms a close friendship with an African American man

Jane Rule | Contract With The World | Six characters use Art to try and make sense of their lives and establish a relationship with the outside world. For some there is success, for other

Emma Pérez | Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory | This literary adventure takes place in nineteenth-century Texas and follows the story of a Tejana lesbian cowgirl after the fall of the Alamo. Micaela