Tag: Great

Sylvia Stevenson | Surplus | Often the road to heaven on earth – which some call happiness, and some mirage – is a tangled pathway, broadening slowly as it winds along, till as la

Elise D’Haene | Licking Our Wounds | Timothy Leary extolled this first novel as ‘poignant and hilarious . . . rowdy sexual expression rarely seen in literary works by women.’ Maria finds

Peter Prince | Play Things | Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award

‘An agreeably readable first novel . . . light-hearted throughout, and altogether the book is a promisin

Isabel Miller | Patience and Sarah |

Winner of the 1971 American Library Assoc.’s first Gay Book Award, later called Stonewall Book Award

Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel M

Mary Renault | The Middle Mist | This is the story of two sisters: earnest, unwordly Elsie and boyish, independant Leo. Both sisters ran away from their nagging parents, Elsie some y

Chocolate Waters | Take Me Like a Photograph | We are unable to provide a description at this time.

Robert Phelps | Heroes And Orators | Debut novel. Phelps suffered from Parkinson’s disease for years, was prone to drinking at times, and agonized over his sexuality, which was one aspect

Radclyffe Hall | The Unlit Lamp | The Unlit Lamp, is the story of Joan Ogden, a young girl who dreams of setting up a flat in London with her friend Elizabeth (a so-called Boston marri

Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall’s own life, it was banned outrig

Tereska Torres | Women’s Barracks |

Originally published in 1950, this account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II sold four million cop