Elizabeth Bowen | The Hotel | A shy young girl sent to catch a husband at a fashionable hotel is, instead, captivated by a sophisticated woman. When the young Miss Sydney falls und
Ann-Marie Macdonald | Fall on Your Knees | Fall on Your Knees, award-winning actor and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald’s sprawling and powerful first novel, reads like a literary soap ope
Honore de Balzac | Cousin Bette | Cousin Bette (1847) vividly brings to life the rift between the old world and the new and is, among other things, a serious study of the Paris demimon
Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies | Queer Ideas | This volume brings together ten core thinkers in the field of lesbian and gay studies. Participants in the outstanding Kessler series, hosted by CLAGS
Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she
Gary Corbin | Ringside Tarts | ‘Rugged middleweight contender Danny Murphy was a terror in the ring but a sucker for hot sex pitch… especially when thrown by a gorgeous blondle gr
May Sarton | The Small Room | This is a perceptive, deeply questioning novel of a New England college, its students and it’s faculty. It is a novel about women and the unique relat