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English Lesbian and Queer Fiction
40th anniversary reprinting of a beloved fable-manifesto from the 1970s queer counterculture."The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions", written by Larry Mitchell with illustrations by Ned Asta, takes place in a brutal empire in decline, where the faggots and their friends are surviving the ways and the world of men. Beloved by ....
Autor_innen: Mitchell, Larry; Asta, Ned
Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story?In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant, in which a cockney butcher, recently returned from Australia, lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy, with his former ....
Autor_innen: Smith, Zadie
Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be - or an imposter.Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her novelist cousin and his wives, this life ....
Autor_innen: Smith, Zadie
Like most public defenders, Rachel Stein is an adrenaline junkie. Inspired by the case of a battered woman who stabbed her husband to death, she devotes herself tireless to the woman's defense, eager to finally create case law that can make a difference in these cases. She isn't prepared to lose. When she does, she loses her grip on ....
Autor_innen: Winer, Jeanne
In a city graveyard, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet between two graves. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby appears quite suddenly after midnight, in a crib of litter. In a snowy valley a father writes to his five-year-old daughter about the number of people that attended her funeral. Told with a whisper, with a shout, with ....
Autor_innen: Roy, Arundhati
Adventures in Lesbian Reading
A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless. Includes Adele Bertei, Holly Hughes, Sapphire, Laurie Weeks, and many more.Borrowing its name from the notorious '60s Ed Sanders magazine, Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, the editors have figured a way to rehone its ....
Autor_innen: Myles, Eileen; Kotz, Liz (Hg.)
Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952 and touted as "the novel of a love that society forbids," the book soon became a cult classic. Based on a true story plucked from Highsmith's own life, The Price of ....
Autor_innen: Highsmith, Patricia
For Camila, it is a refuge, and the travesti who gather there are like family. At night they head out to Sarmiento Park to earn money. They stand together in the cold, sharing stories and a hip flask of whiskey, waiting for a car to slow down. Until, one freezing evening, Auntie Encarna hears crying in the bushes and wades in to ....
Autor_innen: Sosa Villada, Camilla
It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother's country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel's doorstep - as a guest, there to stay for ....
Autor_innen: Van der Wouden, Yael
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. As his grandmother’s sole caretaker, he spends his days cooped up in their apartment, avoiding his neighborhood masjid, his estranged sister, and even his best friend (who also happens ....
Autor_innen: Joukhadar, Zeyn
The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short - and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to women. Charting her romantic and professional adventures during the First World War and beyond, the novel provoked a furore on first publication in 1928 for its ....
Autor_innen: Hall, Radclyffe
An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
This Arab is queer, proud, profound, curious, content, angry - a force for change. This Arab cannot be put in a box, closet or kept out by damaging stereotypes, regimes or orthodoxy. Elevating 18 writers from around the world, this ground-breaking anthology of short memoirs and essays is for anyone who finds reductionist identity politics ....
Autor_innen: Jahshan, Elias (Ed.)
