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
Historical Fiction
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
The Last Nude by Ellis Avery
Ellis Avery | The Last Nude | A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the world wars. Paris, 1
Tahoma by M. Broughton Boone
M. Broughton Boone | Tahoma | All she wanted was the house her father had promised her, a house whose shell sat as empty as her heart …
The year is 1883, the plac