Ann Bannon | I Am a Woman | She looked round the Cellar with Laura following her gaze. ‘I know most of the girls here…I’ve probably slept with half of them. I’ve lived with hal
Lucie Marchal | The Mesh | ”I hated her when I first saw her. She was so passive, so voluptuous, so unlike me. Then something changed me. Alone with her I was filled with a joy
Jackie Kay | Trumpet | Jackie Kay’s mesmerizing and powerfully moving first novel is about the extraordinary life and seeming dissolution of a family — about the boundaries
Elizabeth Jolley | Miss Peabody’s Inheritance | ‘In this powerful tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne, a cu
Joan Ellis | The Third Street | ‘Gay Street. This was where they came … the lonely and love-starved, the lovely and promiscuous, seeking new thrills, searching for a partner … a
Pamela Frankau | Over the Mountains | Third title in Frankau’s ‘Clothes of a King’s Son’ trilogy (preceded by Sing for Your Supper (1963) and Slaves of the Lamp (1965)). Set during World W
Patricia Highsmith | Carol | At the age of 19, aspiring stage designer Therese Belivet wonders how fate brought her to this soul-sucking job, working at Frankenberg’s department s
