Category: Historical Fiction

Isabel Miller | A Place For Us | It was popular enough to be reissued in hard cover by a mainstream publishing house in 1972 as Patience And Sarah. It is a very sweet little tale base

Sarah Waters | The Paying Guests | It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a gente

Helen MacPherson | And Those Who Trespass Against Us | Sister Katherine Flynn is an Irish nun sent to work in the remote Australian countryside of New South Wales. She is a prideful woman who joined her or

Lillian Smith | Strange Fruit | Review

It’s August, it’s hot, it’s revival time in Maxwell, Georgia. Tracy Deen, the rebel child who always disappoints his self-sacrificing mothe

Ellen Galford | Moll Cutpurse | Delightful lesbian romp. Novel based on the life of the ‘feminist Robin Hood’ in Elizabethan England.

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Sarah Waters | The Night Watch | A novel of relationships set in 1940s London that brims with vivid historical detail, thrilling coincidences, and psychological complexity, by the aut

William Klaber | The Rebellion Of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell | The memoir is fiction; the story is true.

One day in 1855 Lucy Lobdell cut her hair, changed clothes, and went off to live her life as a man. By t

Peggy Ullman Bell | Psappha | In this superb page-turner reminiscent of the great Mary renault, Peggy Ullman bell brings tolife one of the most exciting and fascinating figures of

Jae | Backwards to Oregon | ‘Luke’ Hamilton has always been sure that she’d never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguise

Maida Tilchen | Land Beyond Maps | Land Beyond Maps by Maida Tilchen won the 2000 Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Full-Length Lesbian/Gay Historical Fiction Competition. Maida Tilchen w