Category: Grier Rated

Mary Renault | The Friendly Young Ladies | Set in 1937, The Friendly Young Ladies is a romantic comedy of off-Bloomsbury bohemia. Sheltered, naïve, and just eighteen, Elsie leaves the st

Vin Packer | Spring Fire | Her silky black hair. Her low-cut gown. Her sparkling sorority pin. It’s autumn rush in the Tri Epsilon house, and the new pledge, Susan Mitchell-‘Mit

Jonathan Ned Katz | Gay American History | A collection of documents provides a continuous chronicle of homosexuality in America, from colonial times to the present, and of the persecution of g

Sloane Britain | Insatiable | This is the story of Sandy who gradually slipped into a life of depravity. Trapped by her insatiable desires she ended up with her back against the wa

Ann Bannon | Women in the Shadows | Cover copy reads: ‘Their dark and troubled loves could flourish only in secret.’

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A guarded look across the room. That was all sh

Valerie Taylor | Stranger on Lesbos | Frances has been married to Bill for many years. Their son, Bob, is in high school. Frances had been left alone too often. Bill’s occupation with busi

Pamela Frankau | Over the Mountains | Third title in Frankau’s ‘Clothes of a King’s Son’ trilogy (preceded by Sing for Your Supper (1963) and Slaves of the Lamp (1965)). Set during World W

Ann Bannon | Women in the Shadows | Cover copy reads: ‘Their dark and troubled loves could flourish only in secret.’

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A guarded look across the room. That was all sh

Chris Massie | The Incredible Truth | ‘A man and two women enter upon an exotic design for living.’

Gale Wilhelm | We Too Are Drifting | The story of woodcut artist Jan Morale’s struggle to extricate herself from a destructive sexual attachment to bisexual Madeline and of her delicately