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English Lesbian and Queer Fiction
At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. It was to be the start of almost twenty years of flirtation, friendship, and literary collaboration. ....
Autor_innen: Sackville-West, Vita ; Woolf, Virginia
Through playful poetic prose, sharp social commentary and self-deprecating gallows humor "Love the World or Get Killed Trying" dives into the mind of Alvina, a trans woman on the eve of turning 30. The reader is invited to follow her journey through the breathtaking wilderness of Iceland and busy city boulevards of Berlin and Paris as she ....
Autor_innen: Chamberland, Alvina
Written by a trans woman and sex worker, Margins and Murmurations puts transgender, sex work and femininity at the centre of its twisting, multi-layered narrative. In this sensitive exploration of exclusion, intimacy and control, Otter Lieffe calls us to renew our struggles against oppression and to proudly reclaim the margins that so ....
Autor_innen: Lieffe, Otter
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and her truly unique family secret, born on the slopes of Mount Olympus and passed on through three generations.Growing up in 70s Michigan, Calliope’s special inheritance will turn her into Cal, the narrator of this intersex, inter-generational epic of immigrant life in 20th ....
Autor_innen: Eugenides, Jeffrey
Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on ....
Autor_innen: Broder, Melissa
Kathy Acker holds a unique place among American novelists as a writer who consistently pushes at the frontiers of modern fiction, with each new work advancing further into unchartered territory. Based loosely on the relationship between Colette Peignot and Georges Bataille, My Mother: Demonology tells the powerful story of a woman ....
Autor_innen: Acker, Kathy
Maria, a trans woman in her thirties, is going nowhere. She spends her aimless days working in a New York bookstore, trying to remain true to a punk ethos while drinking herself into a stupor and having a variety of listless and confusing sexual encounters.After her girlfriend cheats on her, Maria steals her car and heads for the ....
Autor_innen: Binnie, Imogen
Everyone knows that Nick and Charlie are the perfect couple – that they're inseparable. But now Nick is leaving for university, and Charlie will be left behind at Sixth Form. As the time to say goodbye draws closer, both boys begin to question: is their love strong enough to survive being apart? After all, first loves rarely last forever...
Autor_innen: Oseman, Alice
Nightwood tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, seedy and beautiful. One of the earliest novels to explicitly portray homosexuality, the influence of Djuna Barnes' novel has been, and continues to be, exceptional. Nightwood is not only ....
Autor_innen: Barnes, Djuna
NW is Zadie Smith's masterful novel about London life. Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and ....
Autor_innen: Smith, Zadie
Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling.'A marvel' Marlon JamesThis is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a ....
Autor_innen: Vuong, Ocean
"On Earth We re Briefly Gorgeous" is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, ....
Autor_innen: Vuong, Ocean
