G. Sheila Donisthorpe | Loveliest of Friends | From the back cover: ‘The World Condemned Their Love. When this book first appeared in England, it created a sensation and was favorably compared to
Sarah Aldridge | All True Lovers | This is a sensual, sensitive feast about two teenage women, growing up during the Great Depression and fighting their way out of the trials they inher
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
Margaret Long | Louisville Saturday | The frank novel of women on their own..in an Army town!
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‘This is the first novel by a woman to treat with full seriousness the effects of w
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
WomanShare Collective (Nelly, Dian, Carol, Billie Sue) | Country Lesbians | WomanShare is a lesbian separatist commune from the 1970s.