Elizabeth Jolley | Miss Peabody’s inheritance | ‘In this powerful tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne, a cu
Madeline Smith Moore | Mirror, Mirror, … |
Pat Harris is a thirty-something postgraduate, unmarried woman at loggerheads with her mother, Phyllis Harris. When Lew Harris, father and husband,
Lesléa Newman | Every Woman’s Dream | This much anticipated collection features 28 brand new short stories. Meet Dolly Grip, a movie star wanna-be; Claudia, a newly out dyke with all the s
Pearl Luke | Burning Ground | Working in a fire tower in the Canadian woods, Percy Turner’s emotional state is hanging on by a thread. Fires smolder within her–the lifelong passio
Sharon Bridgforth | The Bull-Jean Stories | A collection of short stories about the life and loves of a Black bulldagger set in the 1920s. ‘the bull-jean stories are a passionate tribute to a fi
Edith Konecky | A Place at the Table | Fiction … A sharp and tender portrait of a New York woman as she faces the end of love, the comoplexities of friend- ship, and her own mortality.
Jill Malone | Red Audrey and the Roping |
‘This is a literary gem . . . one of the best books I’ve read this year.’-Ellen Hart
Occasionally a debut novel comes along that rocks its re
Carson McCullers | Member of the Wedding (New Directions Paperbook) | Twelve-year-old Frankie cannot understand why everyone disapproves of her idea of going on her brother’s honeymoon.
Marnie Woodrow | Spelling Mississippi | From an acclaimed short-story writer, a blazingly intelligent and humorous debut novel that is set in New Orleans and tells the story of two strangers
Lisa Alther | Other Women | With two young sons, a failed marriage, a job as an emergency room nurse that leaves her feeling paralyzed and hopeless, and a relationship with a wom