Emma Donoghue | The Pull of the Stars | In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in ‘Donoghue’s best nov
Nella Larsen | Passing | Generally regarded as Nella Larsen’s best work, Passing was first published in 1929 but has received a lot of renewed attention because of its close e
Colette | The Pure And the Impure | Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, ‘the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography.’ This guided tour of the
Virginia Woolf | Mrs. Dalloway | ‘Fear no more the heat of the sun.’ Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 192
Ivy Compton-Burnett | More Women Than Men | More Women Than Men takes place in a girls’ school, although the students are rather secondary (none of the girls say anything in the novel). It is th
Mark Alder | The Devil’s Blade | The story of Julie D’Aubigny is well known. Her tumultuous childhood, her powerful lovers, her celebrated voice. Connected to most of the nobility of
Astrid Ohletz; R.G. Emanuelle | Unwrap These Presents | Twenty-three authors of lesbian fiction contributed holiday stories that give you snow, presents, plenty of food, Holiday cheer and nicely wrapped cur
Nicole Dennis-Benn | Patsy | When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it’s the culmination of years of yearning to be reunited with Cicely, her oldest friend and secret l
Nicole Dennis-Benn | Patsy | ‘When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town
Kristen N. Arnett | Mostly Dead Things | ‘One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal ta
