Tag: Great

Ann Bannon | Women in the Shadows | Cover copy reads: ‘Their dark and troubled loves could flourish only in secret.’

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A guarded look across the room. That was all sh

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

Nicola Griffith | Always | Aud Torvingen is back-contemporary fiction’s toughest, most emotionally complicated noir hero returns to teach a new round of lessons in hard-hitting

Gale Wilhelm | We Too Are Drifting | The story of woodcut artist Jan Morale’s struggle to extricate herself from a destructive sexual attachment to bisexual Madeline and of her delicately

June Arnold | Sister Gin | Aging, lesbian consciousness, the difficulty of escaping from alcoholism — these are the themes of June Arnold’s extraordinary novel, first published

Maude Hutchins | A Diary of Love | The sexual awakening of a teen-age girl !

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Weird stuff, written with a detachment and delicacy reminiscent of the Colette novels. A teen-age

Madeline Moore | As You Desire | This winner of Spinsters’ Lesbian Fiction Contest is set in Paris during the late 60s.

A story of personal healing set in Paris during the st

Pat Parker | Woman Slaughter | Parker’s elder sister was murdered by her husband, and the autobiographical poem, Womanslaughter (1978) is based on this event.

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A ’70’

Diana Cage | The Lesbian Sex Bible | ‘Modern sex instruction for the contemporary lesbian, bisexual, bicurious, and transfemale is here. Lesbian Sex Bible is a fresh, inclusive and inform

Françoise Mallet | The Loving and the Daring (The Illusionist) | ‘A compelling novel of secret love.’

‘FIRST LOVE AFFAIR. ‘Francoise Mallet, here tells the story of the first love affair of a girl of 15 in