Aoibheann Sweeney | Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking | Critically acclaimed by reviewers across the country, Aoibheann Sweeneys beautifully written debut novel is a story of the profound human need for int
Sarah Schulman | Shimmer | Shimmer is the fifth (and, to date, best) novel from Sarah Schulman, the lesbian bard of contemporary urban fiction. Set in Manhattan during th
Patricia Nell Warren | The Beauty Queen | Ex-beauty queen Jeannie Colter is a born-again politician who hates homosexuals, and wants to crush them. William Laird is her devoted father – a weal
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
David Leavitt | Equal Affections | Plot summary
Louise, an aging woman, is coming down with cancer. Her husband Nat is having an affair with another woman. Meanwhile, Walter, partne
Olivia | Olivia | When Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under
Lee Lynch | Toothpick House | Annie Heaphy, cab driving baby butch, lives a life of freedom in a shack on the Connecticut coast. Her dislike of “Yalies” and all they represent exte
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Lesley-Anne Bourne | The Bubble Star | The characters, setting and atmosphere of The Bubble Star are both rural (northern Ontario) and urban (Toronto). The novel focuses primarily on women
Haruki Murakami | Sputnik Sweetheart | Haruki Murakami, the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, plunges us into an urbane Japa