Crocodile Soup: A Novel | Julia Darling | Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother, Jean. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has foun
Report for Murder | Val McDermid | Fiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Lindsay Gordon, self-proclaimed cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist is less than overjoyed at the prospect
Union Street & Blow Your House Down | Pat Barker | Union Street, Pat Barker’s first novel, concerns seven neighboring women near a factory in northeast England. Life for these women is trying: some of
Blow Your House Down | Pat Barker | ‘Blow Your House Down is swift, spare and utterly absorbing – you’ll probably read it, as I did, in one tense sitting’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘A courageous an
Blow Your House Down | Pat Barker | ‘Blow Your House Down is swift, spare and utterly absorbing – you’ll probably read it, as I did, in one tense sitting’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘A courageous an
Regiment of Women (Modern Library Torchbearers) | Dane Clemence | Obsessive friendships lead to tragedy in this early-twentieth-century novel about a charismatic schoolmistress, a nave new teacher, and an impression
