LESBIAN NOVELS

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	AUTHOR	TITLE	PUBLISHER	PRICE
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	ABBOTT.	TO THE EDGE.	Alice Street	£4.75
	Cameron,	Coming-of-age Romance and legal Thriller (Mystery). When Anne Henderson falls under the spell of the alluring Rae Sheldon, she is a college student half in love with her straight friend Gallagher. The following of Anne's lesbian sexuality leads her into a world of love, passion, and betrayal. Eighteen years later, Anne is a lawyer embriled in the most high-profile-and sinister-lawsuit of her career. With Rae and Gallagher both back in her life, Anne must decide what each of these women is offering her - and if she dares to take it! This compulsively readable, erotically charged novel offers a page-turning plot, vivid characters, and some of the most sizzling sex scenes in lesbian literature.	Good / V Good 2001 RRP £10.99   ISBN: 1-56023-223-4
	ACKER.	BEWARE THE KISS.	Women's work	£5.50
	J. Alex,	Lesbian Gothic. Raven Delaire has sworn vengence on the woman who betrayed her. Tayler Windquest is the only woman with the power to save them all. She just doesn't know that... yet. Tayler Windquest is practical. As a journalist, she has little use for anything not written in black and white. Until the night someone tries to kill her. Saved from the asailant by her mysterious and beautiful neighbour, Erica Kirsten-Laird, Tayler realizes she's fadscinated by the intensely private woman... and not just as a journalist. As the twisted plot unfurls, Tayler finds herself deeply immersed in an ancient and formidable curse. When the danger increases, Tayler must find a way to destroy Raven... or be destroyed herself. And when she needs her strength the most, Tayler finds she's hopelessly in love, but to make love to Erica would kill them both. Tayler must trust her instincts and newfound powers to destroy the evil Raven created, and to save the woman she loves. SOLD OUT - SORRY!!!	Good / V Good 2001   RRP £10.99   ISBN: 1-930874-02-2
	ADAMS.	NIGHT VISION.	Naiad	£4.95
	Laura,	Julia Madison is having nightmares. Every night. All night. Both painful and perplexing, the nightmares are always the same - a woman calling out for help, only onlt to die horribly as Julia struggles to reach her. As the nightnares become more and more vivid, Julia seeks professional help. Doctors prescribe pills; therapists theorize about past lives and post-traumatic stress. But to no avail. In fact, the nightmares just increase with such intensity that Julia finds herself slipping into the dream state during the day. In desperation she turns to the internet, where she locates a support group for women with sleep disorders. To her amazement she soon learns that the other lesbians in the group - and only the lesbians - are having the same nightmares. No longer believing that these mysterious night visions are in their heads the women band together to discover what is really going on. The first breakthrough comes when Julia realizes that their visions all began on the same night. A night unlike any other...	Good / V Good 1997       ISBN: 1-56280-182-1
	ADAMS.	CHRISTABEL.	Naiad	£4.95
	Laura,	Dina Rawland knows she doesn't have to like her clients - her job is to make them rich. Her superiors at the investment firm have made it clear that her success with the finances of the internationally famous designer Leo Goranson will make a break in her career. So she ignores her famous client's debauched lifestyle and crude overtures, and concentrates all her attention on the business at hand. Until she meets Leo's exquisite new model... Christabel. While the uncaring fasion world focuses only on Christabel's breathtaking beauty, Dina is inexplicably drawn by her strange vunerability... her sad eyes full of unanswered questions. Because all the women in her family have suffered through short unhappy lives, Christabel expects no more for herself. Resigned to a brief existence of pain and cruelty, her only desire is to leave a mark on the world before she leaves it. Intrigued and fascinated, Dina extends a friendlt hand to the mysterious young woman - never suspecting that Christabel's touch will rock the foundations of her carefully planned life... and leave her wanting more. OUT OF STOCK - AT PRESENT!!!	Good 1998     ISBN:
	ALGUIRE.	ICED	New Victoria	£5.50
	Judith,		Fair / Good   ISBN:
	ALLARD.	LEGENDE.	Alyson	£3.95
	Jeannine,	The story of Philippa and Aurelie. Sometime in the last century, two women living on the coast of France, in Brittany, loved each other. They had no other models of such a thing, so they chose this solution: one of them posed as a man for most of their life together; they were married, adopted a child, and were very happy together. The one who posed as a man was lost at sea, ad a statue was erected to her, symbolising all the collective losses suffered by their small town. Many years later, when it was known that she had in fact been a woman, the statue was destroyed by angry and frightened people. This legend is still told in Brittany.	Fair / Good 1984
	ALLEN.	THE WOMAN WHO OWNED THE SHADOWS.	Spinsters / Aunt Lute	£4.25
	Paula Gunn,	The woman who own the shadows is the first novel written by an American Indian woman about and Indian woman pubished in the last 50 years. The book starts where the rest of the world leaves Indians off: at the brink of death. Ephanie Atencio is in the midst of a breakdown from which she can barely move. She has been left by her husband and is unable to take care of her children. To heal, Ephanie must seek, however gropingly, her own future. She leaves New Mexico for San Francisco, where she begins the again the process of remembering, opf trying to sort out the parts of her. She marries a Nisei man, Thomas Yoshuri, feeling that if he needs her, she has a structure she needs. She knows him, but she doesn't. And she can't know herself through him. She begins to spend more time with a white woman friend, Teresa, but realizes she can only talk so far with her too. And then, she spends a summer alone, and it is there she comes to her final remembering, and the way to her future. No longer seeking herself through men, she discovers her primary connections are to the spirit women of her people and to the women of her own world.	Fair / Good 1983     ISBN:
	ALLENDE.	THE HOUSE OF SPIRITS.	Black Swan	£3.50
	Isabel,	Family Saga spanning 4 generations (Lesbian Content) TV/Film. Family saga populated by a memorable, often eccentric cast of characters. Together, men and women, spirits, the forces of nature, and of history, converge in an unforgettable, wholly absorbing and briliantly realised novel that is as richly entertaining as it is a masterpiece of modern literature.	Good / VGood 1994   ISBN:
	ALLISON.	TRASH.	Flamingo	£3.75
	Dorothy,	From the tale of Shannon Pearl, the crazy, brooding albino child who, 'had she been stronger or smarter would have been dangerous' to the tragedy of Aunt Cora, who 'packed up biscuits, cold chicken and Coca Cola' and left home with her 4 gorls, Dorothy Allison casts an unblinking eye over the poor 'white trash' people of the American South. Drawing on her own background, the stories and poems in Trash also form a remarkable confessional portrait of Allison herself, a lesbian, whose flight from her own violent, abusive family upbrining brought a hard-won but exhilarating emotional and sexual freedom. Raw, chillingly honest and inspiring, she writes with unforgettable force and vision.	Fair / Good 1995   ISBN:
	ALLISON.	BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA.	Flamingo	£3.50
	Dorothy,	The story of a `white-trash' family of hard drinking men and indomitable women. Proudest of them all is Ruth Anne, known as Bone. With little hope of employment beyond the textile mills and roadside diners, Bone dreams of a life not only away from Greenville, but also far away from Daddy Glen, her step father, whose sly coldness and dangerous fury will test the love of them all	Good / V Good 1993 ISBN:
	ALTHER.	FIVE MINUTES IN HEAVEN.	Viking	£7.50
	Lisa,	A Love Story in four acts. Set in the Tennessee mountains in the 1950s, New York City of the 1960s and finally in Paris, the novel weaves together the strands of thirty years in the life of a woman named Jude. The early loss of her mother; her erotically charged relationship with a childhood girlfriend; the blossoming of intimacy with a young gay man who is murdered in the brutal aftermath of the Stonewall riots; the evolution of a tempestuous liason with a married woman; Jude's apprenticeship in the arts of seduction in Paris. OUT OF STOCK - AT PRESENT!!!	Good / V Good 1995 Hardback Large £3 P&P (UK) ISBN:
	ALTHER.	KINFLICKS	Penguin	£2.50
	Lisa,	Teenage sex-freaks, serious sophomores, lesbian hippies, thwated suburban mothers - America is full of 'em, but none quite like our heroine who is all of these and more. The Comical "Coming Out" Story of Ginny Babcock...	Good / V Good 1985
	ALTHER.	ORIGINAL SINS.	Penguin	£2.50
	Lisa,	American life from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. These were years of upheaval and change for the whole Western world. Morals, codes, taboos were tossed into the air, examined in mid flight, and seen to land in the most surprising places. Lisa Alther brings those years to life through the eyes of five 'heroes' (Sally, Emily, Raymond, Jed and Donny). We meet them first in childhood when their lives are as tightly entangled as the roots of the giant tree which is at the heart of their play and of their fantasies. With tremendous skill, and brilliantly sustained nerve, Lisa Alther shifts us into the lived realities of five Americans, into the worlds of South and North, poor and rich, black and white, male and female, weaving together vastly different threads which make up the rich complex called America. OUT OF STOCK - SORRY!!!	Fair / Good 1981   ISBN:
	ALTHER.	ORIGINAL SINS.	Women's Press	£4.95
	Lisa,	American life from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. These were years of upheaval and change for the whole Western world. Morals, codes, taboos were tossed into the air, examined in mid flight, and seen to land in the most surprising places. Lisa Alther brings those years to life through the eyes of five 'heroes' (Sally, Emily, Raymond, Jed and Donny). We meet them first in childhood when their lives are as tightly entangled as the roots of the giant tree which is at the heart of their play and of their fantasies. With tremendous skill, and brilliantly sustained nerve, Lisa Alther shifts us into the lived realities of five Americans, into the worlds of South and North, poor and rich, black and white, male and female, weaving together vastly different threads which make up the rich complex called America.	Fair / Good 1981   Hardback £2.50 P&P (UK)
	ALTHER.	OTHER WOMEN	Penguin	£2.95
	Lisa,	The story of Caroline Kelly, who after a string of unsuccessful relationships enlists for therapy.	Fair / Good 1985
	ALTHER.	OTHER WOMEN	Penguin	£3.75
	Lisa,	The story of Caroline Kelly, who after a string of unsuccessful relationships enlists for therapy. Large - Hardback	Fair / Good 1985 £2.95 P&P (UK)
	ALTHER.	BEDROCK	Penguin	£3.75
	Lisa,	Clea - sophisticated, passionately urban, successful photographer of beautiful facades - has fallen in love with the simpole life. The small Vermont town of Roches Ridge will be her rural idyll, the detox tank where she will learn the serenity of slower rhythms and cure her compulsion to complication. But as Roches Ridge draws Clea into its rhythms, it reveals a morass of increasingly bizarre imperfections beneath its picture-perfect surface: less rural idyll than 'Cold Comfort Farm'. And gradually, Clea is forced to examine the reality behind her own illusions...	Fair/ Good 1990   ISBN:
	ALTHER.	BEDROCK	Penguin	£4.25
	Lisa,	As Above.	Hardback  1989
	AMBERLAKE.	THE DOMINO TATTOO.	Nexus	£3.00
	Cyrian,	Adult / Sexual.	Fair / Good
	ANSHAW.	AQUAMARINE.	Virago	£3.25
	Carol,	With striking ingenuity, Aquamarine explores the intricate ways early choices, made impulsively or agonisingly, reverberates throughout a life. On the verge of turning forty in 1990, Jesse Austin's three equally plausible lives are shown in triptych: married, pregnant, living in her home town of New Jerusalem, Missouri and having an illicit affair with a maverick skywriter almost half her age; lesbian English professor in New York bringing her lover back to Missouri on a visit; divorced mother of two, running a down-and-out swimming academy in Venus Beach, Florida. Each is haunted by the moment she can't get back to, the moment hidden behind the aquamarine, when she lost the gold medal for the hundred-metre freestyle at the 1968 Olympics to a fatally seductive Australian swimmer named Marty Finch.	Good / V Good 1993   ISBN:
	ANSHAW.	SEVEN MOVES.	Virago	£3.75
	Carol,	Chris, a psychologist, and her girlfriend Taylor, a travel photographer, enjoy their life of urban domesticity - the two women share a house, a dog and a life until one day, out of the blue, Taylor vanishes. As her anger turns to alarm, Chris is left desperately following clues through friends. A random discovery sees her visions of kidnap and abduction re-shape themselves into more familiar fears as she findes herself confronting a side to taylor she never knew was there. Following a trail that leads to morocco and home again, Seven Moves powerfully tracks Chris's gradual recognition that no one can ever truly know another person's soul.	Good / V Good 1998 ISBN:
	ANSHAW.	SEVEN MOVES.	Mariner	£4.25
	Carol,	Chris, a psychologist, and her girlfriend Taylor, a travel photographer, enjoy their life of urban domesticity - the two women share a house, a dog and a life until one day, out of the blue, Taylor vanishes. As her anger turns to alarm, Chris is left desperately following clues through friends. A random discovery sees her visions of kidnap and abduction re-shape themselves into more familiar fears as she findes herself confronting a side to taylor she never knew was there. Following a trail that leads to morocco and home again, Seven Moves powerfully tracks Chris's gradual recognition that no one can ever truly know another person's soul.	Good / V Good 1998 ISBN:
	ARNOLD.	SISTER GIN.	Women's Press	£3.50
	June,	The story of 2 old Gin drinking women and their life together. Tidy, successful Su, who has 'long ago surrendered to the loneliness of being right', confronts the wrongness of her life at the age of fifty. Her peace of mind is invaded by hot flushes, frustrated creativity, and a growing compulsion to leave her lover, Bettina. She is haunted by the insistent voice of 'Sister Gin', whose anarchic verbal vibrations materialise disturbingly in Su's locked desk drawer. But hope waits in the person of Mamie Carter, a wily 77-year-old grandmother, whose Tuesday afternoon bridge club doubles as an efficient vigilante gang dealing out suitable punishments to local rapists.	Poor / Fair 1975   ISBN:
	ARROWSMITH.	MANY ARE CALLED.	Only Women Press	£4.50
	Pat,		Fair / Good ISBN:
	ARROWSMITH.	SOMEWHERE LIKE THIS.	GMP	£3.95
	Pat,	"In Collingwood, butches were relatively scarce, hence sought after in a way they never were outside, even in the gay clubs. Lorry did not care whether the other prisoners desired her for herself because they were fem or because they were simply ordinary women looking for an ersatz man. It was enough for her that she was generally popular". This somewhere is Collingwood prison - a thinly disguised Holloway in the late sixties. Butch young burglar Lorry knows its walls well by the time she meets fluffy first offender Mavis.	Fair / Good 1990 ISBN:
	AZOLAKOV.	CASS AND THE STONE BUTCH.	Banned Books	£3.95
	Antoinette,	Minutes later, clean and damp, I picked up the beer again and strolled naked into the bedroom to get into some clean, non-working clothes. I went through the door and stopped dead. On the bed were three alien laundry bags, stuffed full, and on my dresser, taking up nearly the whole top, was a huge portable radio-cassette player with dual speakers. Apparently Lester had moved in. Cass and the Stone Butch is a little bit love story, a little bit mystery, and mainly a book about lesbian friendship.	Fair / Good 1987 ISBN:
	AZOLAKOV.	THE CONTACTEES DIE YOUNG.	Banned Books	£3.95
	Antoinette,	Nightmare, UFO abduction - or murder? Introducing T.D. Renfro, lesbian therapist/detective in a passionate, dangerous mystery/adventure. Romantic, explicit love scenes, fascinating characters. Set in the pine forests of East Texas, Azolakov's third book is a blockbuster.	Good 1986
	AZPADU.	SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE PRIME OF LIFE.	Aunt Lute	£3.50
	Dodici,	I can't believe they're going to let one of us bury the other in peace. A fiftieth birthday toast by Neddie to her lover, Lindy. And as it turns out, they're not. After 26 years, balancing a carefully constructed, fragile world of their choosing, the two women face a new hurdle. Concetta, the proud and aging Sicilian-American mother of Neddie, is making motions of reconciliation after 30 years of rejecting her daughter and her lifestyle. Though primarily Neddie and Lindy's story, the context - the trap - is the male dominated Sicilian culture that affects the women who exist inside and outside it.	Fair 1983
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	BALLETBO- COLL.	COSTA BRAVA.	Naiad	£4.50
	Marta,	Set amidst the beauty of Barcelona and the breathtaking splendor of Spain's Mediterranean coast, Costa Brava chronicles the heartwarming, humorous love story of openly lesbian Anna, a Barcelonian tour guide and performance artist, and semi-closeted Montserrat, a Tel Aviv-born/Boston-bred seismic engineer. You'll delight in the adventures and misadventures that lead these two very different, sometimes difficult, women on a passionate journey to love and happiness. SORRY - OUT OF STOCK !!!!	Good 1997
	BANNON.	WOMEN IN THE SHADOWS.	Consul	£2.50
	Ann,	SORRY - OUT OF STOCK !!!!	Fair 1966
	BARNES	NIGHTWOOD.	A New Directions	£2.75
	Djuna,	Few novels in our time have recieved the extrordinary praise accorded Djuna Barnes' NIGHTWOOD. Originally published in 1936, it is recognised as one of the works that has changed the climate of the written word. It is the story of Robin Vote and those she destroys - her husband the "Baron," their child Guido, and the two women, Nora and Jenny, who love her; the whole illuminated by the fantastic monologues of the renegade doctor, Matthew O'Conner, one of the strangest characters in all fiction.	Fair / Good 1961 ISBN:
	BARR.	BITTERSWEET.	Perenial	£4.50
	Nevada,	Heart-wrenching yet tender tale of two women whose boundless devotion to each other is continually challenged in nineteenth century America. "Barr has drawn on women's diaries from the Old West to bring detail to this unusual romance. The result is an intriguing story, sensitive and aauthentic-sounding, and far different from what is usually considered a Western novel". - The Miami Herald.	Good / V Good. 2001 ISBN:
	BAUDEN.	NURTURING SOULS.	JHP	£5.50
	D S,		Good / V Good
	BAYLIS.	VILA	Brilliance	£3.50
	Sarah,	The story of Masha and Nina, 2 young women who fall into the enchanted river by their village... A rollicking adventure story with tree people, water witches, villians and a happy ending.	Fair / Good 1984
	BEERS.	TURNING THE PAGE.	Yellow Rose	£5.95
	Georgia,	Melanie Larson is an attractive, extremely succesful business executive who shocks herself by resigning from her job when her company merges with another and relocates. While trying to decide what to do with her life next and at the urging of her uncle, Melanie heads to Rochester, New York, to stay temporarily with her cousin Samantha. She hopes to use her business savvy in an attempt to help Sam sort out the financial woes of her small bookstore. During her stay, Melanie meets and becomes close to the family that owns the property on which Samantha lives, the charming Benjamin Rhodes, a distinguished, successful businessman, as well as his beautiful and intriguing daughter Taylor. Surprised by what and how she feels for each of them, Melanie is soon forced to face the facts and re-examine what's really important to her life, career and love.	Fair / Good 2001 RRP £12.50 Large £2 P&P (UK)   ISBN: 1-93092-851-3
	BENNETT.	A QUESTION OF LOVE.	Naiad	£5.50
	Saxon,		Good / V Good
	BLACKBRIDGE.	PROZAC HIGHWAY.	Marion Boyars	£4.75
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	BLUM.	AMNESTY.	Alyson	£4.25
	Louise A,	When Maura Jaeger's father dies, she must return to the small town where she grew up and from which her family exiled her for being a lesbian. Forced to reexamine the childhood she has fought so hard to forget, Maura must grant herself her own amnesty and begin to live life on her own terms.	Fair / Good 1996
	BOULTER.	AROUND THE HOUSES.	Serpents Tail	£3.95
	Amanda,	Anna, is an ordinary woman in an extraordinary situation. She's having a baby, the father's gay, her lover's a woman and she still hasn't told her parents. Her best friend Ruby, is feckless, forty and fondling every man she can. Her neighbours are the OAP's from hell and across the road Greg is pining for Acorn, the eco-poet who abondoned them with their baby. Into all this walks Shirley. She's left her provincial home and desperatley needs a life: but Pearl, her mother, is coming too. In Around the Houses, Anna and her new family deal with the consequences of coming out; Ruby has to face up to a violent past: Shirley falls for Greg; and Pearl finds true self at the Cosmic Cafe.	Good 2002
	BOWLES.	TWO SERIOUS LADIES.	Virago	£1.95
	Jane,	The decline into Debauchery of 2 very different women. Christina, a wealthy spinster in pursuit of sainthood - who ends up as a high class call-girl; and Frieda, who abndons her stick of a husband for love of Pacifica, a Panamanian prostitute - and ends up more or less permanently under the influence.	Fair b 1979 Ex-Library
	BOWLES.	TWO SERIOUS LADIES.	Virago	£3.25
	Jane,	The decline into Debauchery of 2 very different women. Christina, a wealthy spinster in pursuit of sainthood - who ends up as a high class call-girl; and Frieda, who abndons her stick of a husband for love of Pacifica, a Panamanian prostitute - and ends up more or less permanently under the influence.	Fair / Good 1979
	BOWEN.	THE GIRLS.	Guild	£3.75
	John,	Janet and Susan live just outside a village in the agricultural Midlands, where they run a Gift Shop selling country crafts and home-produced comestibles. One day in the summer of 1974 a pig escapes in the village and runs loose in the shop. This is the first event in an odd, not to say bizarre, chain which encompasses birth, death and the joys and anxieties of parenthood; the contentment of country life and the whiff of the cess-it; the natural and supernatural in shocking and outrageous forms; sex in the back of a Transit van at an Inland Waterways Ralley; flying accusations at a Flower Show; a watcher in the woods; the decline and fall of the village policeman; and useful information on how to make cheese from goats' milk.	Fair / Good 1986 Hardback
	BOYD.	THE REVOLUTION OF LITTLE GIRLS.	Vintage	£3.95
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	BRADY.	FOLLY	Crossing Press	£3.75
	Maureen,	Set in a Carolina mill town, it is the story of a union strike by Women workers, who sew in the local factory and more importantly of the friendships between them. Limited and spurred by their economic realities, the women of Folly break the stereotype of women as victims as they expand their lives and personal visions through experiences that show them their common ground as well as their differences. When they triumph, they celebrate their strength. When they fall in love, the unexpected happens.	Fair / Good 1982
	BRANTENBERG.	THE DAUGHTER'S OF EGALIA.	Journeyman	£3.75
	Gerd,	"That's the way of nature, Christopher, my love. I give birth and you receive. After all, it is menwim who beget children!" Translated from Norwegian by Louis Mackay.	Good 1985 Large £2 P&P (UK)
	BRAVERMAN.	The JOURNALS of BETH JORDACHE:	Boxtree	£3.25
	Rachel,	Beth Jordache is a young woman with a past haunted by disturbing secrets and a future shrouded in uncertainty. The tightly-knit community of Brookside Close is a difficult place for someone who must keep her private life strictly private abd Beth, having been unable to shre her thoughts and feelings for so long, ours her heart out into this journal. For years she witnessed the vicious beatings of her mother, by her violent alcoholic father and was herself abused and brutilised by the man. Here Beth gives her own account of her father's grisly demise; she tells of the torment involved for her, her mother and her sister in concealing his disappearance. She describes the dilemma in which she finds herself when she risks losing her best friend, Margaret, by coveting her as a lover and she writes about the confusion and turmoil of struggling to come to terms with her own sexuality. Based on Channel Four's Top-rated Tv Show - Brookside. OUT OF STOCK - SORRY!	Good 1994