The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue | The Pull of the Stars | From the international bestselling author of Room. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita
Historical Fiction
Her Lady’s Honor by Renée Dahlia
Renée Dahlia | Her Lady’s Honor | The war might be over, but the battle for love has just begun.
When Lady Eleanor “Nell” St. George arrives in Wales after serving as a veteri
Poor White by Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson | Poor White | Nothing quite like it has ever been done in America. . . . It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is li
Lovers At the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
Francine Prose | Lovers At the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 | Paris in the 1920s. It is a city of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, and discontent, where louche jazz venues like the Chameleon Club draw expats,
Alcestis by Katharine Beutner
Katharine Beutner | Alcestis | ‘A novel that is as intoxicating and hypnotic as the sacred smoke inhaled by the oracles.’– Elizabeth Knox , author of The Vintner’s Luck and The Dre
Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall
Radclyffe Hall | Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself | A lesbian finds her true destiny after a lifetime of serving her country. Overtones of science fiction.
Collects five short works by the auth
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | ‘We were all more or less thieves at Lant Street. But we were that kind of thief that rather eased the dodgy deed along, than did it We could pass a
The Ladies by Doris Grumbach
Doris Grumbach | The Ladies | The Ladies is a touching, imaginative retelling of the story of two of history’s most interesting characters: Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, well
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a ‘baby farmer,’ who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her o
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi
Négar Djavadi | Disoriental | Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future sh