Category: Fiction

Jeanette Winterson | Written on the Body | Written on The Body is a tender dissection of erotic love. The prose is like a poem, lush with wit and imagery, but behind the luxuriant relish of the

Louise A. Blum | Amnesty | When her father dies, Maura Jaegar emerges from seclusion in rural Pennsylvania and returns to her small hometown, where she must come to terms with h

Mary Saracino | The Singing of Swans | 19th Annual Lambda Literary Awards finalist in the Spirituality Category. Madalene Ross’s complacent life is about to be turned upsde down. Never one

Joan Lindau | Letting in the Night | From Publishers Weekly

The use of a journal as framework for narrative is a faulty strategy in this novel about two women confronting their ambiva

Julia Darling | Crocodile Soup | Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has found ‘the

C.M. Harris | Enter Oblivion | Meet Vince, a young, moody boxer from Brooklyn with an oozing bullet wound and a spot awaiting him in the Narducci crime family. When Vince returns tr

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,

J.E. Knowles | Trees In The Field | Dr. Tomas Jefferson stays aloof from life and love, but is strangely drawn to a war-ravaged Marine at a Chicago street clinic where she volunteers. Wh

Sarah Waters | Affinity (A Virago V) | Set in and around the women’s prison at Milbank in the 1870’s, AFFINITY is an eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing liter

May Sarton | Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing | Hilary Stevens is an aging writer asked to recount her poetic inspirations, and we are taken along on this journey of rediscovery. Both subtle and int