For Sylvia: An Honest Account by Valentine Ackland is an autobiographical essay written for her long-time companion, the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner. Ackland traces her desperately unhappy childhood, her emotionally turbulent adolescence, her lesbian relationships, a disastrous marriage, her return to the Catholic church, and her long battle with alcoholism. Above all it is the … Read more
Our History in New York by Linsey Abrams follows a single year in the lives of narrator Chloe, her long-time lover Helen, and their mostly lesbian and gay friends. The novel moves through pregnancy by insemination, a political campaign, AIDS, romance, and aging — the full texture of a community navigating life at the end … Read more
Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism by Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love is a two-part study of lesbianism written from the inside. The first part examines how lesbians navigate a society that disapproves of their existence — the techniques of passing, the costs of concealment, and the pressures of living at … Read more
Linsey Abrams‘ debut novel chronicles one girl’s coming of age from a 1950s childhood into the New York of the 1960s. A love affair with another woman sets off a profound reckoning with identity and self. Ms. Magazine compared it to Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, and The New York Times praised Abrams’ distinctive voice, calling her … Read more
Beebo Brinker follows a young, handsome butch woman who travels from rural Wisconsin to New York City, still wearing a dress, naive about the world she is about to enter. In Greenwich Village she discovers a community of women, falls hard for the femme Paula, and then becomes entangled with Venus Bogardus, a wealthy, secretly … Read more
An influencer’s filtered life clashes with a journalist’s search for the truth.
An actress and a burnt-out author navigate a secret holiday fling and the pressures of fame in this sizzling Sapphic romance.
A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens
What happens when a mysterious former spy meets a provocative expert in sexual fantasies?
