Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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
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Equal Affections by David Leavitt
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 by Olivia
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
Toothpick House by Lee Lynch
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
Rose of No Man’s Land by Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea | Rose of No Man’s Land |
Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll is a gender-blurring, self-described loner whose family expects nothing of her. While her mother lies on the co
The Bubble Star by Lesley-Anne Bourne
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
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
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
Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932 by Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein | Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932 | The first in a two-volume set of works combines fiction with the author’s personal experiences in Paris and includes the play Four Saints in Three Act
Challenge by Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West | Challenge | CHALLENGE was Vita Sackville-West’s second novel. It was ready to go to print in 1920, but the author suddenly changed her mind. This was not because
Blood Sisters by Valerie Miner
Valerie Miner | Blood Sisters | At the heart of Blood Sisters are two cousins, one Irish, one American, who grew up steeped in their mothers’ ideals of the 1916 Uprising. The two you