Lesbian Fiction

Lesbian Fiction (LF)
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	Sister Gin	Aging, alcoholism, and lesbian consciousness are among the themes of this extraordinary novel. Innovative in style, it also stands squarely in the southern literary tradition, depicting with memorable hilarity a group of elderly female vigilantes who take local rape deterrence into their own hands.
	June Arnold
	1975
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF001
	Gaining Ground	Gaining Ground is the story of Abra, a woman who leaves her husband, children and suburban security to live as a hermit. She buys an isolated cabin and a piece of land and settles to a life without mirrors, clocks or human The first winter is tremendously hard but her senses sharpen and her muscles harden, and as her socialised masks drop away her rhythms gradually match the seasonal changes dictated by nature, giving her an inner peace and strength which had increasingly eluded her in the world of city and family life. Nine years after Abra chooses solitude and self-sufficiency, her peace is broken by her daughter, now a young woman full of questions as to how and why Abra had 'run out on her' for a life so lacking in conventional comforts. Gaining Ground is beautifully written and within a compelling story raises important and pertinent questions about the right of a woman to self-defined autonomy and solitude when her role is still seen primarily as one of caretaker and nurturer. Jo...
	Joan Barfoot
	1978
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF002
	Bittersweet	Award-winning author Nevada Barr reveals another side to her remarkable storytelling prowess with this heart-wrenching yet tender tale of two women whose boundless devotion to each other is continually challenged in nineteenth century America. When Imogene Grelznick tries to help her young friend and student break away from a loveless and abusive marriage, a scandal from the past resurfaces to threaten the life she has carefully constructed in a small Washington state community.
	Nevada Barr
	1999
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF003
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
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	The Woman Destroyed	First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability - in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one. THE WOMAN DESTROYED is a collection of three stories, each an exquisite and passionate study of a woman trapped by circumstances, trying to rebuild her life. In the first story, 'The Age of Discretion', a successful scholar fast approaching middle age faces a double shock - her son's abandonment of the career she has chosen for him and the harsh critical rejection of her latest academic work. 'The Monologue' is an extraordinary New Year's Eve outpouring of invective from a woman consumed with bitterness and loneliness after her son and her husband have left home. Finally, in 'The Woman Destroyed', Simone de Beauvoir tells the story of Monique, trying desperately to resurrect her life after her husband confesses to an affair with a younger woman. Comp...
	Simone de Beauvoir
	2006
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF004
	Date Night Club	What happens when five friends form a dating club designed to find each woman's perfect partner? With the help of an uber-smart dog, their quest leads them to lesbian book clubs, gay pride picnics, and a gala ballroom dance.Can each of these women find love and lust in all the right places and discover what it takes to live happily ever after?
	Saxon Bennett
	2007
	Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Lesbian
	Book#: LF005
	What Comes Naturally	What Comes Naturally describes, often hilariously, the predicament of growing up homosexual in a heterosexual world. Set in Oslo in the 1960s, it is packed with the kind of intrigues and adventure stories usually left in the cupboard. How the heroine and her lover find themselves locked out of their flat, stark naked, with the temperature at ten degrees above freezing... The story of the desperate attempt to erect a camp bed to fool the landlady who pays them an impromptu visit in the middle of the night...
	Gerd Brantenberg
	1987
	Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Lesbian
	Book#: LF006
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
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	Rubyfruit Jungle	A landmark coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of this country¬s most distinctive voices, Rubyfruit Jungle remains a transformative work more than forty years after its original publication. In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in America. With her startling beauty and crackling wit, Molly finds that women are drawn to her wherever she goes-and she refuses to apologize for loving them back. This literary milestone continues to resonate with its message about being true to yourself and, against the odds, living happily ever after.
	Rita Mae Brown
	1973
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF007
	Southern Discomfort	Only Rita Mae Brown, author of Rubyfruit Jungle, could have written a novel as passionately delightful as Southern Discomfort. Here is a witty, warm and pentrating tale of two decades in Montgomery Alabama--a world where all is not what it seems. Meet Hortensia Reedmuller Banastre, a beautiful woman entrenched on old money, white magnolia and a loveless marriage--until she meets an utterly gorgeous young prizefighter. Amid such memorable characters as Banana Mae Parker and Blue Rhonda Latrec (two first-class whores) and Reverend Linton Ray (who wears his clerical collar too tightly for anyone's good), Hortensia struggles to survive the hurricane of emotions caused by her scandalous love. How she ultimately triumphs is a touching and beautiful human drama--an intense and exuberant affair of the heart.
	Rita Mae Brown
	1982
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF008
	In Her Day	For years a "lost" collector's item, here is the second novel from a brilliant young author testing her literary muscle, and it's bursting at the seams with Rita Mae Brown's trademark cast of characters and crackling quips. Written immediately after her classic Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day takes a loving swipe at the charged political atmosphere of Greenwich Village in the early seventies. Elegant art history professor Carole Hanratty insists brains transcend lust—until she crashes into Ilse, a revolutionary feminist flush with the arrogance of youth. Blazing with rhetoric, their romance is a sexual and ideological inferno. Ilse campaigns to get Carole to join The Movement, but forty-four-year-old Carole and her zany peers have twenty years of fight behind them and are wary of causes bogged down in talk. After all, says Carole's best friend, the real reason for a revolution is so the good things in life circulate. Her idea of subversion is hiring a Rolls-Royce to go...
	Rita Mae Brown
	1988
	Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Lesbian
	Book#: LF009
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
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	Sudden Death	Carmen Semana loves three things passionately: tennis, money and professor Harriet Rawls. Just twenty-four, Carmen is at her peak as one of the world's top-seeded tennis champions, determined to win the coveted Grand Slam. She is protected from everything but the grueling demands of her sport by an avaricious agent and her devoted and gutsy Harriet. All the odds are in her favour. But there are weeds growing in her paradise patch. Carmen's very Latin brother, Miguel, parlays her success into a financial house of cards with deals that include smuggling, forgery and fraud. Susan Reilly, Carmen's archrival and former lover, leaks word of Carmen's relationship with Harriet to the press - and tennis's best-kept secret is blown into a front-page scandal. From the French Open to Wimbledon, jealousies, ambitions and passions are set to explode.
	Rita Mae Brown
	1984
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF010
	Six of One	Whether careening through town propelling cars like long-range missiles, or laying waste to a costumed July Fourth parade, Wheezie and Juts Hunsenmeir are Runnymede's most irrepressible, mule-headed sister scat. together these unrivaled Southern siblings cheerfully raise hell-and a hell of a family-among some of the most colorful townsfolk you're ever likely to meet. Chief among them is elegant Celeste Chalfonte. As exquisite as she is fearless, Celeste kills a man and marries a woman, sloe-eyed Ramelle Bowman. And when Ramelle has Curtis Chalfronte's child, no one bats an eye-even though Ramelle has no intention of leaving her beloved Celeste. Then there's Fannie Jump Creighton who runs a speakeasy in her mansion. And activist Fairy Thatcher, who disappears into Hitler's Germany. Through it all run Wheezie and Juts, heading pell-mell into the future with their hands firmly gripped around each other's throats. spanning more than fifty years of the tumultuous twentieth century, Six of O...
	Rita Mae Brown
	1978
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF011
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
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	Pages for You	Haunted by an unspoken passion, a narrator decides to write some pages, pages comprising the story of the beginning, the blossoming, and finally the ending of a young woman's most intense love affair. ‘Each day a page, to show you that I am finding a story, the story of how we might have been together, once. Of how we could be.’ An unformed, innocent student in her first semester at university, Flannery Jansen initially encounters her lover in a local diner. But her tentative overtures – a look, a blush – are dismissed and Flannery retreats, humiliated. Future chance meetings on campus discourage Flannery even more, for Anne Arden is sophisticated and poised; in Flannery’s eyes almost impossibly beautiful. Until she realizes that Anne feels the same way about her.
	Sylvia Brownrigg
	2001
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF012
	Girls With Hammers	Lily Cameron is badly affected when her best friend Cat Hood leaves for Scotland. Then dramatic events slam her one after the other: her father dies, she inherits the family construction business, and then her girlfriend, Hannah, leaves for Amsterdam. Now Lily has to sort out her emotions, but can she do it alone?
	Cynn Chadwick
	2004
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF013
	Cat Rising	Things are changing for Cat Hood, a small-town carpenter living in the mountains. Her first book has been published, her agent's making big plans, and the whole town thinks she's a celebrity. She's also got a long-lost brother who turns up out of nowhere with a wife who's pregnant with twins, a '59 Harley Duo Glide that makes a funny noise, a busted-up hand that puts her out of commission, and a German Shepherd named Mike who won't get off the couch. Enter Melissa McHeaney - doctor, painter, green-eyed Irish lass. The one. And when the pair finally connect, it clicks so loud everybody close to Cat hears it. But Cat is dragging her feet, driving her friends - and herself - crazy. Is she scared off by a good thing? Or does the problem run deeper than that? There's a ghost in Cat's head and heart and a story waiting to be told - the story of her grandmother Kate, who raised Cat and her brother after the death of their parents. The Hoods had emigrated from Scotland in the late 30s, leaving...
	Cynn Chadwick
	2003
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF014
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
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	Mother, Sister, Daughter, Lover	Mother, Sister, Lover, Daughter is a collection of nine stories by the feminist poet and novelist Jan Clausen. Each one is a gem, each one an invitation into a woman-identified world which is radical in lifestyle, ideology and language, but also warm, funny, self-mocking and loving.
	Jan Clausen
	1981
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF015
	Crocodile Soup	Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has found "the One" -- the enigmatic Eva, who serves coffee at the cafeteria in the museum where Gert works as a curator cataloging Egyptian artifacts. As Gert embarks on her hilarious and poignant pursuit of Eva, she looks back on her eccentric, childhood through a series of vivid and surreal flashbacks: her obsessive twin, Frank, with whom she communicates telepathically; her father, George, who vanished to Africa to salvage the family crocodile farm; her vain, neglectful mother, Jean; and the family ghost -- a Victorian poet who haunts the attic.
	Julia Darling
	1998
	Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Lesbian
	Book#: LF016
	Landing	A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships—the kind millions of us now maintain mostly by plane, phone, and Internet. Síle is a stylish citizen of the new Dublin, a veteran flight attendant who’s traveled the world. Jude is a twenty-five-year-old archivist, stubbornly attached to the tiny town of Ireland, Ontario, in which she was born and raised. On her first plane trip, Jude’s and Síle’s worlds touch and snag at Heathrow Airport. In the course of the next year, their lives, and those of their friends and families, will be drawn into a new, shaky orbit. This sparkling, lively story explores age-old questions: Does where you live matter more than who you live with? What would you give up for love, and would you be a fool to do so?
	Emma Donoghue
	2007
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF017
	Stir Fry	Maria (to rhyme with Pariah) has come to university in Dublin from the country bearing with her a blend of naivety and sharpness. Having found herself a room in a flat with Ruth and Jael, two mature students, she settles down to the business of student life. Making new friends with her contemporaries, Maria is drawn further into the life of her flatmates. But Ruth and Jael have a more complex and intimate relationship than Maria could have imagined, and the more she learns, the more she is made to grow up...
	Emma Donoghue
	1994
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF018
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
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	Aimee and Jaguar	In the Berlin of 1942, Lilly Wust was married to a soldier and was the mother of four children. Her quiet domestic life was forever changed when she met and fell in love with Jewish Felice Schragenheim. Aimee and Jaguar, as the two called one another, embarked on an ecstatic affair, exchanging letters and poems and even signing a marriage contract. After only a year, their happiness was destroyed by the Gestapo: Felice was taken away to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Lilly received a last letter from Felice in 1945. Erica Fisher has documented this extraordinary story after spending countless hours talking to 80-year-old Lilly, and to friends and acquaintances of the two women. Her account, together with a collection of photographs, is a witness to an unusual love in a time of extremes.
	Erica Fischer
	1995
	Fiction, History, Lesbian
	Book#: LF019
	The Fires of Bride	On a far-away island off Scotland - an island so remote it only emerges from the mist every hundred years or so - lives Maria, a fugitive artist. What on earth compels her to stay? Could it be her love affair with Catriona, clan chieftain, GP and witch? Or Ina Isbister's cloudberry jam? Or perhaps it is her strange affinity with the Sisters of Bride?
	Ellen Galford
	1986
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF020
	Between Friends	The four women in this book represent different outlooks, yet are tied together by the bonds of friendship. Through their experiences, Hanscombe shows the close relationship between politics and everyday lives.
	Gillian E Hanscombe
	1983
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF021
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
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	Lover	A landmark work of lesbian literature, Lover was first published in 1972 by the now-defunct feminist press, Daughters, to tremendous critical acclaim. Emerging out of the women's and gay liberation movement alongside the early work of such writers as Rita Mae Brown and Jill Johnston, the novel features fictional and historical characters who run the gamut from saint to poor white trash, and who are by turn vulnerable and strong. One of the finest examples of early post-Stonewall lesbian fiction, Lover is poised to entice a new generation of readers. In this new edition, Harris reintroduces her work, providing engaging background on the cultural and personal milieu in which it was produced and painting a scathing and witty picture of the book's original publisher. Revealing the real-life personalities behind some of the novel's characters, the introduction is an amusing retrospective sure to entertain those who remember the heady post-Stonewall days, and to enlighten younger readers...
	Bertha Harris
	1976
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF022
	The Sea of Light	The Sea of Light is a wise, beautiful, and very American story of three women and their desire to excel and win - and heal one another - in the highly charged world of athletic competition. Angelita is the hurricane that brings down a plane carrying a team of star-quality swimmers, groomed from childhood to compete at the international level. Babe Delgado is a young Cuban-American woman, presumed dead, who is rescued from the crash. Fifty-one hours in the Atlantic have left her scarred in body and spirit, afraid to compete again. Brenna Allen is a tough, driven swim coach at a small university, grieving for a lover lost to cancer. She finds solace in building her own winning team, driving her overworked captain, Ellie Marks, ever harder. Ellie is a child of holocaust survivors, struggling to own herself and her sexuality as hard as she's working to win. Brenna recruits Babe, promising to help her rebuild her damaged body, strength, and will. The Sea of Light is a story of wins, losses,...
	Jenifer Levin
	1994
	Fiction, Lesbian, Sports
	Book#: LF023
	The Flying Hart	A collection of gothic romance stories about the search for love and purpose. Macquet's women endeavour, wryly, despairingly and with humour, to find wholeness through relationships, but often, the process of searching offers them more than their lovers do.
	Claire Macquet
	1991
	Fiction, Lesbian, Romance
	Book#: LF024
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
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	Virgin Territory	The rape of a nun in a South American mission house causes more disturbance among the unharmed sisters than in the victim herself. She comes to London to work through her emotional reaction and to examine her vow of chastity. Is virginity positive or negative?
	Sara Maitland
	1984
	Fiction, Lesbian, Religion
	Book#: LF025
	The Chinese Garden	At the Bampford School for Girls, conditions are Spartan, discipline is fierce, and love between students is the ultimate crime. Here, 16-year-old Rachel becomes trapped in a tangle of passions she does not fully understand, caught between a formidable headmistress and a passionate and defiant classmate.
	Rosemary Manning
	1984
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF026
	The Hide and Seek Files	Moss and her partner Biff are the mainstays of their northern mining community. A devoted couple who run the local grocer's shop and who are always there when needed. Practical Moss with her dark eyes. Biff with his gentle ways and passion for history. But are they quite what they seem? Only one young woman guesses at the truth concealed for many years - recognising at last the extraordinary personal history of two seemingly ordinary lives...
	Caeia March
	1988
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF027
	Three Ply Yarn	Past, present and future are woven together in this passionate story of love and friendship, anger and lies, dreams and harsh reality. While Esther and Lotte are growing up in a Yorkshire coalmining community, Deanne is raising her lover's Black daughter in an all-white seaside town. How do the women's lives become intertwined? And what part does Nell Winters have to play in the twists and turns of the strands of yarn?
	Caeia March
	1991
	BEM, Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF028
	Reflections	Returning home after many months, Vonn Smedley dreams of the legendary romance of Tristan and Iseult. Forces by her father, the King, to make a marriage of political expedience, Iseult falls irrevocably in love with her husband-to-be's envoy. But dreams are no respecter of gender, and Tristan appears to Vonn as Tristanne - a beautiful worrior woman. Then Vonn meets Rachel and, as the two women are drawn instantly together, myth and reality collide and coalesce...
	Caeia March
	1995
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF029
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
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	Between the Worlds	A woman returning to Penzance meets up again with teenage friends, and becomes involved in the fight to save an experimental women-only community, and in a passionate new relationship.
	Caeia March
	1996
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF030
	Take a Deep Breath	When Josie and Linda meet at a party, Josie falls madly in love. Ignoring the warnings of their mutual friend that Linda is straight, they begin an affair that seems doomed to end in tears. Trying to ignore the signs, Josie buries herself in her work. She is writing a book about lesbian mothers, a subject that seems to cause Linda unease. For Linda has a secret in her past that she is ashamed of. One that will continue to haunt her adult life and relationships until she faces up to it. A story of love, families, hope and laying the past to rest.
	Jenny Mckean-Tinker
	2000
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF031
	All That Matters	Life is going damned well for Blair Spencer. She s a very successful real estate agent, happily married to a man who encourages her to live the independent life she loves and they re actively working to have a baby. The wrench in the works is that Blair favors adoption, while her husband David desperately wants to have a biological child. The fates are against them, and they finally seek the help of a group of reproductive specialists. One of the doctors, a surgeon named Kylie Mackenzie, eventually becomes a good friend to Blair. And she needs all of the friends she can get when things start to go horribly wrong at home. As her marriage teeters on the brink of collapse, she relies more and more on Kylie s friendship. Kylie is happily gay; Blair is happily straight. But the way they structure their relationship leads friends and family to privately question whether the pair is setting themselves up for heartache. They eventually come to a crossroads, which could either destroy their f...
	Susan X Meagher
	2006
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF032
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
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	Blood Sisters	Blood Sisters is a gripping story created with themes of real substance and wide appeal. While this sizzling novel is considered a classic of 1970s feminist literary fiction, the story is all too timely today as we face violent debate about national and ethnic autonomy in Ireland and elsewhere. Journalists witness ground wars and terrorist responses in detailed news reports, but Valerie Miner has divined a passionate full-blooded story about the individuals and families behind those headlines. At the heart of Blood Sisters are two cousins, one Irish, one American, who grew up steeped in their mothers¬ ideals of the 1916 Uprising. The two young women try to understand each other¬s views, to cross the blurry lines between private and political life, but are divided by their separate histories and often despair at the possibility of comprehension, let alone reconciliation. Blood Sisters intricately combines important issues within the tense format of a thriller. Miner subtly explores the ...
	Valerie Miner
	1981
	Feminism, Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF033
	Dry Your Smile	Before she even turned fourteen, Julian Travis made enough money as a TV star to support her mother for life in an apartment in one of Manhattan’s best buildings. But now, Julian is in her midforties and things are not so glamorous or easy. Her mother is slowly dying of Parkinson’s, her marriage of twenty years is steadily disintegrating, and money is scarce. Though Julian is a famed feminist spokeswoman and published poet, when she looks into the mirror, she doesn’t recognize herself. That and the novel she is writing are giving her a terrible time. Dry Your Smile takes readers on a journey into Julian’s past—from the precarious circumstances surrounding her birth to the lies and stories her mother wove about her absent father to her childhood diary and dreams, and her subsequent escape into the arms of a revolutionary artist and a bohemian life. In the present, Julian delves into the emotional baggage imparted by her Jewish stage-mom as a means of taking off the many masks she has ...
	Robin Morgan
	1988
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF034
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
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	Staying Home	Molly Rubin and Alix Chase want a baby. Alix, a classical violinist, has embarked on a medical regimen to become pregnant. Molly, a fine-art restorer, supports Alix's decision ... Until Alix's efforts turn into the overriding issue of their lives. The more driven Alix becomes, the more anxiety Molly feels about the drastic changes that lesbian parenthood will bring. Alix and Molly's families exert their own pressures on the couple... Finally, Molly yearns only to have their former life back. And "baby" threatens to rip the fabric of their entire relationship... Staying Home takes you into the very heart of parenthood. Staying Home will evoke your own childhood and family life.
	Elisabeth Nonas
	1994
	Family, Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF035
	THE HIGH ROAD	Set in a Spanish seaside enclave this is a passionate account of lost love and the return to loving, where currents of regret and loneliness clash with a fiery instinct for survival.
	Edna O'Brien
	1989
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF036
	Women Without Men	Women without men, which has taken France by storm, is undoubtedly the most complete picture yet of Lesbian love. Mlle Querlin, with deep concern and a delicacy of taste that enlivens for the reader this subject that has for so long remained at the mercy of taboo, has written book that demands recognition. Women Without Men is truly memorable.
	Marise Querlin
	1965
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF037
	Life and Times of Daffodil Mulligan	Daffodil Mulligan's search for identity is a hilarious dodgem track round a sex obsessed mother, the catholic church, a would-be monk and numerous groping hands. When Bobby's socks finally drive her to London and the arms of Someone Else, she discovers that she isn't such a problem after all.
	Maggie Redding
	1984
	Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Lesbian, Religion
	Book#: LF038
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
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	The Middle Mist	Only the brilliant creator of The Persian Boy, Mary Renault, could have written this potent novel of deep and secret passions. Set mainly on a Thames houseboat, it is the story of two beautiful and complex women - lovers for five years - whose lives are shattered by the sudden arrival of a dangerously innocent young girl and a seductive young man.
	Mary Renault
	1972
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF039
	All That False Instruction	This extraordinary first novel examines the early years and young womanhood of Maureen Craig growing up in a dismal Australian home, dominated by a frustrated mother, seeking escape in study and, finally, arriving at university to discover for the first time a warmth and physical tenderness which had been so desperately lacking in her life. Intimacy with her own sex initially terrifies Maureen. She suffers the shame of hiding, and the loneliness of watching her relationships being destroyed by the pressures an outraged society inflicts. The intellectual Julia is forced to admit by her broadminded mother that she is just going through a "stage"; flirtatious Libby also eventually succumbs to the less broadminded wrath of an outraged parent; and even Cleo - sensual, quiet and understanding - with whom Maureen finds a measure of peace, finally gives way to the righteous indignation of those around her.
	Elizabeth Riley
	1975
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF040
	This Is Not for You	This Is Not For You, perhaps Jane Rule¬s most self-consciously literary and philosophical novel, tells the story of a young woman in the late 1950s and early 1960s as she negotiates her lesbian sexuality.
	Jane Rule
	1982
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF041
	The Touch Typist	A novel about sanity, secrets and cybersex. Joss has a nice lover, a nasty neighbour and a job on a pointless magazine. She has the kind of pals who go camping for the weekend and wind up lying in a field getting stoned. They don't know she has another life on-line, where she meets women for cyber fun. But one friend does know-one friend who would like nothing better than "a private chat" with Joss. And it's her best friend's girlfriend. A funny and involving story about 21st Century urban dykes.
	Helen Sandler
	2001
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF042
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
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	A Reckoning	The heart of the story is Laura's realization that for her the real connections have been with women: her brilliant and devastating mother, a difficult daughter, and most of all a woman she knew when she was young.
	May Sarton
	1984
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF043
	Girl Meets Boy	Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and political, Girl meets boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world.
	Ali Smith
	2007
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF044
	Hotel World	Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and most ambitious book to date, the brilliant young Scottish writer Ali Smith brings alive five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives. This is a short novel with big themes (time, chance, money, death) but an eye for tiny detail: the taste of dust, the weight of a few coins in the hand, the pleasurable pain of a stone in one's shoe . . .
	Ali Smith
	2002
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF045
	Martha Moody	Amanda Linger is a Western homesteader's wife given to copying Bible verses and to restless longings. Her closest emotional relationships are with Miss Alice, her cow, and Clara, her friend from the neighboring farm. Then she falls in love with general store proprietor Martha Moody. She rejoices in their hidden passion by secretly writing adventure stories casting Martha as a Paul Bunyonesque frontier heroine (sans ox) and Miss Alice as the bewinged Azreal. When her husband confronts her, she flees with her beloved bovine, living temporarily with Martha, then with Clara. Betrayal and harsh words send her back to her uninhabited farm, where, with the help of a wild-spirited neighbor girl, she assumes the challenge of survival, preparing to winter alone with only Miss Alice and her growing stack of writings for solace. Stinson's celebration of the love and friendship of women deserves a larger audience than one made up of only lesbian feminists.
	Susan Stinson
	1995
	Fiction, Lesbian, Religion
	Book#: LF046
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
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	A Third Story	Dr. Elizabeth McKay has a good life. Friends, lover, respect and a job she loves in the University's Psychology Department. All in her world is as perfect as it gets. Until Chuck Gardner is hired. The son of the University's most important - and rich - alumni, Gardner is inexperienced, abrasive and earning much more than Elizabeth. But when she starts a sex discrimination case she embarks on a course of action of which she cannot predict the outcome. Lisa Hunter at 21 is trying to find the meaning of life. In pain and trying to avoid naming it, her one solace is her weekly meeting with Dr. McKay. When Chuck Gardner decides Lisa is a lesbian and her "relationship" with Elizabeth is open to misunderstanding he thinks he has found the way to stop the court case against him. With the local press hot on the trail of scandal and her mentor Dr. Jeanette Harrison - with her own secrets to keep - berating her for bringing the University into disrepute Elizabeth has to fight hard to keep her i...
	Carole Taylor
	1986
	Coming Out, Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Lesbian
	Book#: LF047
	Faultline	Why is the refrigerator the best place to keep manuscripts? What is the difference between rabbits and rabbit? How can seismic disturbances change your perspective on life? How can old ladies approve of a decision to leave your husband who looks like William Holden to set up home with your six children, your lover, Alice, and a six-foot black gay tapdancer for childminder? The Feminist Threat to the Family finds new and surprising forms in this fast-paced, surreal and very funny novel set on the California faultline. The extravaganza includes three hundred rabbits, an ex-yoyo painter turned bookmaker, a midget magician, and an ex-stripper with a trailer park in Mexico.
	Sheila Ortiz Taylor
	1982
	BEM, Feminism, Fiction, Humour/Comedy, Lesbian
	Book#: LF048
	Still Crazy	Librarian Beatrice Hawksworth is contented with her life. True not much happens in the sleepy New Forest town where she lives with her mother, Maisie. Much-loved Maisie whose grip on reality is fading fast, but whose flashes of insight recall the woman she once was. Then into their lives comes Harriet, escaping London and her past, sure of who she is, safe in her sexuality. Slowly at first, then with increasing fear - and excitement - Beatrice is forced to take stock of her past in order to find the courage to start living her present in a way that is true to her deepest self.
	Jane Thompson
	1994
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF049
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
Cover	Details	Summary
	Flying Under Bridges	Inge Holbrook has lived the highlife ever since she left her sleepy Home Counties hometown of Edenford. Still fantastically fit at forty-plus, she has gone from Olympic gold medallist to becoming one of the 'faces' of the BBC. Blonde (since '87), tanned (since Christmas in the Caribbean) long legs (since for ever), she has an aura of success that never fails to be attractive. Eve Marshall hasn't. Catching her reflection in a tinfoil turkey display at her local supermarket, she sees someone old and fat, someone who looks like somebody's mother. Unlike her school friend Inge, Eve never left suburbia. Her contribution to the world wasn't to write or invent or win anything, but her two children, Tom and Shirley. Inge and Eve are part of the same generation, grew up in the same town, went to the same school together. But adult life has left them with nothing in common apart from their past - until the summer when their lives become entwined again, when one becomes a killer, and the other ap...
	Sandi Toksvig
	2001
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF050
	The Sopranos	As the choir from Our Lady of Perpetual Succor for Girls, in rural Scotland, is bussed into the big city to participate in the national singing finals, five of the teenage schoolgirls let loose for a night of pub crawling, shoplifting, and body piercing. And, since a nuclear submarine has just anchored in the bay, the local nightclub will be full of sailors on leave. After a bout of preparatory drinking, the girls are ready for their big night-and what a night it will become. An outrageous tale of adolescent debauchery, The Sopranos opens the lid on desire and excess in all its grim glory. A huge bestseller in England, it is a remarkable mix of near-violent energy and tender compassion, and confirms Warner, the writer "who defines the '90s as clearly as Ian McEwan defined the '70s and Jay MacInerney the '80s" (Time Out) as "the best of the new Scottish writing" (Salon).
	Alan Warner
	1998
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF051
	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.
	Jeanette Winterson
	1985
	Coming Out, Fiction, Lesbian, Religion
	Book#: LF052
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Lesbian Fiction (LF)
Cover	Details	Summary
	The Passion	Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize, this psychological fantasty is about two disillusioned young people who seek to revive their former passions. The book is concerned with gambling, madness and androgynous sexuality amidst the dark, deceptive canals of Venice. Jeanette Winterson's first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" won the 1985 Whitbread Award for the Best First Novel.
	Jeanette Winterson
	1987
	Fiction, Lesbian
	Book#: LF053
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