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ATLANTABOY
: An Insiders Guide to Gay Atlanta
[Jordan Mcauley & Matt Burkhalter]
Whether you are visiting, moving to, or already live in Atlanta, this book will show you the most interesting and exciting spots to visit for an amazing time. Just look inside! Along with detailed descriptions of Atlanta's hottest gay destinations, "ATLANTAboy" also includes exclusive "Insider Tips" you won't find anywhere else! The guide features: Bars, dance clubs, & lounges; Restaurants, 24-hour diners, & coffee shops; Boutiques, stores, & shopping districts; Gyms, spas, & salons; Art galleries, museums, & theatres; Neighbourhoods, sports teams, & places of worship; Tours, attractions, & historical destinations; Social clubs, charities, & useful resources Plus much, much more! Rich with history and loaded with humour, "ATLANTAboy" is the only travel guide you will ever need for this vibrant city.
{
162pp,
115x165mm,
July 2005;
PB,
£6.99,
0970709560:9780970709561
, AtlasBooks (Mega Niche Media)
} |
 |
BACKWARD TO FORWARD
: Prose Pieces
[Maurice Kenny]
American Book Award winner Maurice Kenny has long been a major voice in Native American literature. In this collection, he writes of such little-known and controversial issues as the gay tradition in Native American history and looks at how his Mohawk background has impacted on his own writing.
{
170pp,
155x230mm,
July 2002;
PB,
£9.50,
1877727695:9781877727696
, White Pine Press
} |
 |
BREAKING OUT
: The Complete Guide to a Positive Gay Identity
[Kevin Alderson]
Although society is becoming more tolerant of gay people, psychological damage caused by growing up in largely homophobic societies is still common. Written in a controversial, upbeat tone, this book is the complete and systematic self-help book to assist gay men and lesbian women to build and enhance positive gay identities. Whether you are a young gay person looking for help, or a mental health professional looking for recommended reading, this book belongs on your shelf.
{
160pp,
155x230mm,
September 2002;
PB,
£8.99,
1894663314:9781894663311
, Insomniac Press
} |
 |
BROTHERHOOD TAROT
Draws inspiration from Gay history and mythology to create the ultimate masculine fantasy Tarot Deck. 78 colourful cards that draw from the traditional structure of the Tarot while reinventing the look with bold, colourful Radical Faerie imagery. Limited edition of 2500 sets.
{
80x120mm,
December 2004;
TC,
£6.99,
0976269503:9780976269502
, Oak Grove Oracle
} |
 |
GAY AGENDA
: Talking Back to the Fundamentalists
[Jack Nichols]
Many conservative religious groups insist that homosexuality is a plague on society, that AIDS is the result of unnatural behaviour, and that organised homosexual movements have some grand scheme to spread ungodly ways throughout all areas of society, thus subverting moral values and the family. In this book, columnist Jack Nichols sets fundamentalists on the run, exposing their lies, threats, and the misunderstandings fostered and multiplied by the hosts of the religious right.
{
228pp,
155x230mm,
October 1996;
HB,
£22.99,
1573921033:9781573921039
, Prometheus Books
} |
 |
GAY WARRIOR
: Transforming Betrayal into Wisdom
[F Jim Fickey PhD & Gary S Grimm MA]
What makes a gay boy a gay man? This important book provides us with a map and valuable roadside assistance as we seek to make our journeys into male maturity. It helps us better identify and articulate the dead end detours many of us are taking, and challenges us to take responsibility for who and what we are.
{
185pp,
155x230mm,
January 2002;
PB,
£11.99,
1879194376:9781879194373
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
GUILTY AS CHARGED
: The True Story of a Gay Beret
[Jay Hatheway]
The true story of the psychological trauma experienced by the first Green Beret soldier when he was court-martialled by the Army in the 1970s. It details the first constitutional challenge to the prohibition against homosexuality in the armed forces.
{
185pp,
155x230mm,
January 2001;
PB,
£11.50,
187919483X:9781879194830
, GLB Publishers
} |
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HOMOAFFECTIONALISM
: Male Bonding from Gilgamesh to the Present
[Paul D Hardman]
Paul Hardman's provocative but always critical study is the first major treatment of homoaffectionalism in any language. A worthy successor to Hans Blüher's classic work on the role of homoeroticism in male society, it concludes with a probing analysis of the current dispute over the right of lovers of their own sex to serve in America's armed forces.
{
253pp,
155x230mm,
January 1993;
PB,
£8.99,
1879194112:9781879194113
, GLB Publishers
} |
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HOMOPHILE STUDIES IN THEORY & PRACTICE
[Dorr W Legg (ed)]
Generations before there were many gays and lesbians (but closets were cluttered with homosexuals), Dorr Legg and ONE Incorporated were proud and out. This unique documentary chronicles the educational, scholarly and political base of this evolution, no, revolution, in American homophilia.
{
464pp,
155x230mm,
January 1994;
PB,
£9.99,
1879194171:9781879194175
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
HOT! INTERNATIONAL -- GAY
[David Appel & Paul Balido (eds)]
Unlike traditional phrasebooks, Hot! International -- Gay can help you with lots of different social situations -- meeting, dating, relationships, steamy action in the bedroom, and more. Hot! International -- Gay could even be good for your health. A few key words can prevent mixed signals and keep you away from situations unsafe or undesirable. Awareness of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases can vary quite a bit from country to country and person to person. Your new friend might be willing to jump in the sack unprotected, but you shouldn't be -- and now you can say so clearly, in his own language.
{
318pp,
110x140mm,
November 1995;
PB,
£8.99,
1885948182:9781885948182
, Very Inc (Babelcom Inc)
} |
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LIKE MANGOES IN JULY
: The Work of Richard Fung
[Kerri Sakamoto & Helen Lee (eds)]
Richard Fung has long been a major voice navigating complex debates on sexuality, race and representation. As a video artist, critic and activist, he has made formative contributions to queer politics and critical race theory, while forging a new poetics of diasporic identity and narrative hybridity. This comprehensive volume includes commentary and in-depth analysis of seminal video works such as 'Chinese Characters' and 'My Mother's Place' and also of Fung's writing. An essential overview of Fung's pioneering work in contemporary film and video, this is the second in the Images Festival's monograph series placing Canadian contemporary media artists in an international critical context. Contributors include Cameron Bailey, Monika Kin Gagnon, Kyo Maclear, and commentaries by Lawrence Chua, Sara Diamond, John Greyson, Mike Hoolboom and Lisa Lowe.
{
144pp,
185x235mm,
December 2002;
PB,
£8.99,
1894663225:9781894663229
, Insomniac Press
} |
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LONG DRIVE HOME
[Stan Rogal]
Gay middle-aged hit men, a pathological interior designer, an idiot savant child and a gun-toting doughnut shop manager are some of the disparate characters that populate Stan Rogal's first novel. Beginning at vastly different points, geographically and emotionally, these seemingly unconnected people are woven together in the taut fabric of a story that follows the sweet sadness of the search for lost youth. The characters' paths move together gradually until they ultimately converge in an explosive showdown in a sleazy, road-side motel parking lot in Magog, Quebec. Peppered with beauty, absurdity and Rogal's typical rapid-fire dialogue, this novel makes for a wonderfully disturbing read.
{
208pp,
155x230mm,
January 1999;
PB,
£8.99,
1895837561:9781895837568
, Insomniac Press
} |
 |
LOOKING FOR BROTHERS
[Michael Rowe]
In this engaging collection of essays and articles, Michael Rowe presents a multifaceted perspective on 'the common threads that run through 'gay mens' lives. Ultimately, Rowe makes it clear that the gay man's story is the story of his extended family in the largest human community. In the book, fellow writer Michael Riordon helps Rowe to understand 'gay lifestyle' when he comments, "What does that mean? There is a desire to have a meaningful life, to love, to be loved. I experience the world differently from a heterosexual, but that doesn't mean that I necessarily want different things." Rowe's subjects range from those as celebrated as gay Olympian Mark Leduc to the less well known but no less interesting: the closing piece, 'Twenty-Five Yards from Shore', is both a striking glimpse of Rowe's own quest for fulfilment and a particularly fine example of his poetic facility with the essay. Academic and public libraries will want this for their gay/lesbian studies collections as well as for collections devoted to social history and to writing.
{
196pp,
155x230mm,
December 1999;
PB,
£12.99,
0889626715:9780889626713
, Mosaic Press
} |
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PLEASURES OF TIME
: Two Men, A Life
[Stephen Harold Riggins]
American-born Stephen Harold Riggins and French-born Paul Bouissac have been partners for over thirty years. This book is the story of their complex and fascinating relationship -- set in Paris, Toronto, Newfoundland and Indiana, with a cast of characters including celebrated critics Northrop Frye, Michel Foucault, Hélene Cixous and Claude Lévi-Strauss -- but it is also very much more. Spanning over most of the past century, this is an important work of cultural studies and intellectual history, tracing the growth of a committed gay relationship at the same time as it charts important cultural and intellectual trends. For example, Paul Bouissac, the subject of this loving memoir, is one of the world's foremost authorities on circus, as well as a member of the Nouveau Roman literary movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Author Stephen Harold Riggins, who bases the book on the diaries he has kept since the early 1970s, recreates in expert sepia tones the cafés of Paris, his home state of Indiana and rural country circuses of 1960s southern Ontario among other locales. Challenging the dictum that you can never go home, "The Pleasures of Time" is a must-read for those interested in gay history as well as intellectual and cultural trends of the recent past.
{
310pp,
155x230mm,
April 2003;
PB,
£9.95,
1894663462:9781894663465
, Insomniac Press
} |
 |
BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS
[Chris Kent]
A new novel by the noted author of books about schoolboys in the UK. The novel depicts in unapologetic terms a world with changing boundaries, where some of the adolescent boys choose to dally with willing, mature men. Butt this is not a tawdry tale of young victims lured into destructive relationships; in fact, the young students of Bruce Academy are frequently the sexual aggressors....
{
273pp,
140x215mm,
January 2006;
PB,
£10.99,
1879194600:9781879194601
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
BETWEEN TRASH & TRAMP
[Bryd Roberts]
He was a beautiful man, a professional boxer, and father, but it also became common knowledge that he made much of his living by hustling with both men and women. In that conservative southern town, that was enough to start tongues wagging, political wars breaking out, even murder.
{
236pp,
140x215mm,
January 2000;
PB,
£9.99,
1879194295:9781879194298
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
BI RANCHERS, BI MATES
[Bill Lee]
A breakthrough in explicit fiction -- the bisexual barrier is breached! Bill Lee has produced a truly bisexual novel that is as honest as it is explicit. Why should explicit fiction be unisexual -- heterosexual or homosexual -- when the bisexual lifestyle may be natural for so many of us? Steve, a lusty horse-breeder and rancher, learns to let nature take its course in his relationships with his fellow cowboys and his women. He has a lot of friends, males and females, who are only too happy to help in demonstrating the joys and satisfactions of bisexuality on the ranch, on the rodeo circuit, and in the bedroom. You will want to join him and his friends in this new exciting novel.
{
163pp,
140x215mm,
January 1991;
PB,
£5.50,
1879194023:9781879194021
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
BLASPHEMY
[Roger N Taber]
Laurence Fisher, a Londoner stuck in a go-nowhere job, is too wrapped up in his own unhappiness to spare concern for anyone else -- until he meets Danny, a street-wise, troubled hustling kid in danger from pimps, drug dealers, and kidnappers. Roger N Taber gives us a suspenseful action story where love intrudes after all, and with a reach for freedom in the British twenty-first century.
{
261pp,
140x215mm,
October 2006;
PB,
£10.99,
1879194619:9781879194618
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
BLESS THE THUGZ & LIL' CHIL'RINS
[Fredryk Traynor]
A first of its kind, a gay gangster paperback by a former denizen of the streets. This novel starts in the streets of San Francisco and ends up, via the ladder of successful rappers and gangster operations, in a castle in the Berkeley Hills, but in so doing it traces the lives of unforgettable characters and depicts especially the intense love between two men caught in traps, sometimes of their own making, but certainly mostly traps of the everyday societal morass of black urban life. Reading it is not for the faint of heart. The language is strong, authentic street black patois, and the action is sometimes brutal. While there have been other noted gangster novels, this is the first gay version, to our knowledge. That may lead to distaste and even hatred on the parts of some in the life; we shall see.
{
205pp,
140x215mm,
January 2004;
PB,
£9.99,
1879194546:9781879194540
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
BLOOD WARM
[Robert Burdette Sweet]
Bob Sweet is a young, bisexual, disillusioned writer who travels to Grenada with thoughts of suicide and finds himself unwittingly entangled with native women and also women of his past, but then, in the mysterious realm of voodoo meets Junior, a dark-skinned giant who woos him among the fires around the enchanted lake...
{
281pp,
140x215mm,
January 2005;
PB,
£10.99,
1879194562:9781879194564
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
BOYS IN SHORTS
: English School Boy Short Stories
[Chris Kent]
Chris Kent follows up his very successful novel, 'The Boys of Swithins Hall' with a prime collection of short stories about the English school boys he knows and loves so well!
{
238pp,
140x215mm,
January 2000;
PB,
£9.99,
1879194287:9781879194281
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
BOYS OF SWITHINS HALL
[Chris Kent]
Set in an English boys' boarding school, this is the story of Tim Dunn's sexual awakening -- in overdrive. A gay English schoolboy novel following the traditional genre.
{
189pp,
140x215mm,
January 1999;
PB,
£9.50,
1879194252:9781879194250
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
BOYS WILL BE BOYS
: Two Novellas
[Chris Kent]
Two novellas back to back, both parodies of famous boys' books as only Chris Kent, the most noted boys-books authors of today, knows boys. 'Coral Island Boys' after 'The Coral Island' and 'Little Big Men' after 'Lord of the Flies'.
{
225pp,
140x215mm,
January 2003;
PB,
£9.99,
1879194406:9781879194403
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
BRASS PONY
: Two Novellas
[Marsh Cassady]
Two novellas about gay men in childhood and old age and the factors that bring each alive and make them live, together and alone.
{
211pp,
155x230mm,
January 2001;
PB,
£9.99,
1879194821:9781879194823
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
BRAVEHEARTS & MEMORIES
: Two Novellas
[Chris Kent]
Two novellas back to back: 'Bravehearts' tells the story of boys' roles in the Scottish War of Independence against the English. 'Luverboy's Memories' is a collection of memories of the boy exposed to or tempted by the joys, trials, and tragedies of adolescents in finding their sexuality.
{
205pp,
140x215mm,
January 2004;
PB,
£10.99,
1879194899:9781879194892
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
BUNNY BOOK
: A Novel for Anyone Who Believes Life & Death Are, After All, A Wonder
[John D'Hondt]
This strange book could become a classic of literature that deals with AIDS, physical suffering, and loss. It's the 'Moby Dick' of bunnies, all right -- their scientific and anthropological history, their mythic and psychic manifestations, and most of all their starring role in children's books. In 'The Bunny Book' cuteness and cosiness come to represent a hopeless longing for safety and resolution.
{
276pp,
140x215mm,
January 1991;
PB,
£7.99,
1879194058:9781879194052
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
CALLING THE FISH & OTHER STORIES
[David Lyndon Brown]
Good, accessible, memorable urban stories. Some stories have the same characters, so that they act as a series of snapshots. The author has been widely published and included in many collections of gay writing.
{
182pp,
155x230mm,
January 2001;
PB,
£13.99,
1877276103:9781877276101
, University of Otago Press
} |
 |
COMMONWEALTH CHRONICLES
: Virginia Short Stories
[Bryd Roberts]
Byrd Roberts is becoming the main 'Voice of Virginia' (I guess that should be 'gay Virginia') with his new work, 'Commonwealth Chronicles' that follows his popular novel, 'Between Trash and Tramp'. His favourite locale is the Norfolk area, historically the playground of randy sailors, but most people don't play those games; some of them are making up and breaking up, or buying their special china pattern with that someone special, and then other guys are into wrestlers -- therein lies a special tale which Byrd Roberts does best...
{
181pp,
140x215mm,
January 2002;
PB,
£9.99,
1879194740:9781879194748
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
COUNTRY ROGUES
[Bill Lee (ed)]
Savour outdoor 'gay love' far from the madding crowd in an amazing collection of erotic tales. These are the kind of stories to take with you into the Wilderness for company on rainy days alone in the tent -- and make you squirm in your pants.
{
210pp,
140x215mm,
January 1995;
PB,
£8.99,
1879194198:9781879194199
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
DANCING ON THE BARRICADES
[John Coriolan]
Playwright-turned-novelist John Coriolan presents a pleasantly enigmatic glimpse into the lives of disparate people brought together for a ballet program to tour the country, and he deftly captures the essence of spirit found in the artists, their sexual ruminations, their politics, amidst the personal/political turmoil of a hidden agenda. The well-characterised individuals tell you the story as it progresses from their perspective with clever dialog (or often monologue) masterfully engineered and skilfully interwoven across the individual musings. The need to expose social taboos against nudity and self-expression, and also a lurking, concealed plan for political domination runs through each of the chapters
{
184pp,
140x215mm,
January 2003;
PB,
£9.99,
1879194481:9781879194489
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
DEVIL IN MEN'S DREAMS
[Tom Scott]
A gay man's collection of tales that bring you up short with your own thoughts and words coming at you from the page -- the day they called you 'Fag', the trick who relieved you of your meagre possessions, the discovery of those purple spots on your neck... and the age-old excuse, The devil made me do it.
{
245pp,
140x215mm,
January 1992;
PB,
£7.99,
1879194082:9781879194083
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
DIFFERENT VOICES
: A Different Voice & other Stories
[Walter Febick]
A novella (A Different Voice) and six short stories about gay men finding their ways to relationships. Some episodes are humorous, some touching, and some are futuristic.
{
176pp,
140x215mm,
January 1999;
PB,
£8.99,
1879194260:9781879194267
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
DUSKOURI TALES
[Bryd Roberts]
Byrd Roberts has done it again! Hot on the heels of his last book, 'Between Trash and Tramp', comes a collection of 'gothic' short stories that takes you on a journey through a largely gay, make believe land with unexpected and often bizarre twists. Bravo for surprising, delighting, and horrifying me, a jaded reader!
{
132pp,
140x215mm,
January 2000;
PB,
£8.99,
1879194317:9781879194311
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
FAMILIA AFFAIR
: An Erotisex Fantasy Novel
[Rod Palmer]
Set in a not-so-long ago era (1970s) when 'Gay Pride' was more than a marketing slogan, Rod Palmer's one-handed erotic 'Familia Affair' provides an amusing Soprano-lite plot about mob families, gay activism, and falling in love in post-Stonewall New York City. It's a fast and fun synthesis of accomplished anthropological porn and sweet, almost Puritan, romance.
{
186pp,
140x215mm,
January 2004;
PB,
£9.99,
1879194422:9781879194427
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
GOOD NIGHT, PAUL
[Robert Peters]
Poems and verse written by a lover to a lover, for all lovers with memories and those still looking forward to new experiences. Long considered a 'poet's poet', Robert Peters has fashioned a collection likened to those of Walt Whitman: What incense stunned your system? What lost health food nurtured you? In the keystone sequence, English Pulpits, the poet's lover pops-up like a jack-in-the-box in the pulpits of remote English churches.
{
75pp,
140x215mm,
January 1991;
PB,
£5.99,
1879194066:9781879194069
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
GRACE LAKE
[Glen Huser]
A candid portrayal of a man who finds redemption when he confronts his past and faces the full tragedy of a life unlived -- a life riddled with guilt over the suppression of his homosexuality.
{
160pp,
140x215mm,
July 2003;
PB,
£9.99,
092089769X:9780920897690
, Newest Press
} |
 |
HARDBALL FOR BILLY BUDD
[Richard Dann]
A love story of gay male athletes and a literary spoof on college athletics at the beginning of the 21st Century.
{
294pp,
155x230mm,
January 2001;
PB,
£10.99,
1879194805:9781879194809
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
HOMO ERECTUS
[Edward Proffitt]
Ed Proffitt's work is of the new period. His poems are not merely word games like those of the last century; they communicate actual human experience as well as being God forbid readable. They are eclectic, mining the rich heritage of the past with a difference: though he can handle free verse and disjunctive forms with the best, much of his verse is metrical and even rhymed. However, his rhyming is usually subtle and his metres experimental (e.g., he will play off against iambic pentameter with a nine-syllable line). All in all, this is a poet of consummate skill who has something to say that touches us all.
{
143pp,
140x215mm,
January 2001;
PB,
£10.99,
1879194341:9781879194342
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
HOMONYM
[Edward DeBonis]
About family and one man's search, full of touching portraits of a man in a world not his own, where his brothers are dying daily. And when Mr DeBonis writes about his own struggle to declare his freedom and claim his identity, and the pain he encounters in the process, his work is at its best. No one knows better the stranded, empty beach feeling of a person trapped outside his own identity. There is craft and excellence in these poems. More often than not, the arrows fall true in the bull's eye of the heart.
{
115pp,
140x215mm,
January 2003;
PB,
£9.99,
1879194430:9781879194434
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
HOUSE OF BROKEN DREAMS
[Bryd Roberts]
A tale of the aristocratic Widdicombe family, one of the first families of Virginia, whose members were secretly gay or lesbian. Tragedy stalked the family behind its shuttered windows and hedged gardens, but the drama and passions of Virginia's great are revealed in all their sordid details and hidden plots. The Norfolk, Virginia area becomes as alive as your own neighbourhood.
{
175pp,
140x215mm,
January 2003;
PB,
£9.50,
1879194414:9781879194410
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
IN THE STEPS OF MISTER PROUST
[Stanley E Ely]
This is a very atypical coming-of-age story about Josh, a freshman at Columbia; it becomes much more when Josh is introduced to Proust's writing. Stanley Ely's uncanny ability to take Proust's works and fine-tune Josh's story in such a fashion that they parallel modern life, intertwined, is simply genius, and it charts new territory into the worlds of coming-out stories and coming-of age tales -- not since 'Catcher in the Rye'.
{
238pp,
155x230mm,
January 2003;
PB,
£11.50,
1879194473:9781879194472
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
ISLAND MAMBO
[Robert Burdette Sweet]
The author describes the book as a bisexual murder mystery, but I think it is much more. Yes, Edgar, a raging business high-roller, has sex with men and women, husbands and wives, all unknown to the others, but when he invites the two couples to his island home, they find he has been murdered, and that's only the beginning. They meet the ancient, withered Mambo and her black male successor who was also Edgar's lover, and then it gets complicated. A suspenseful novel with a murder at its centre, 'Island Mambo' leads the reader on a bizarre, almost hallucinatory journey into our inner fears and drives. Staying alive may require trusting in unseen forces and leaving the known safe orld behind. It gives a vision of how we might act if we knew no one was watching?
{
203pp,
140x215mm,
January 2006;
PB,
£10.99,
1879194589:9781879194588
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
PAINTING MOMENTS
: Art, AIDS & Nick Palazzo
[Mary Melfi (ed)]
Painting Moments tells the true-life story of Nick Palazzo, a brilliant and prolific young painter who died of AIDS before his thirtieth birthday. From a series of essays and interviews as well as extensive excerpts from the artist's own diaries, the particulars of his all too brief life are revealed. His character, the style and subjects of his paintings, and the critics' reaction to his work are detailed. A fourfold message emerges: love of life, acceptance of suffering, defiance of death and the translucent promise of hope. This book is a belated recognition of one man's triumph over isolation, ignorance and illness.
{
150pp,
125x200mm,
October 1998;
PB,
£11.99,
1550710672:9781550710670
, Guernica Editions
} |
 |
PHOENIX
[Ruth Sims]
Like Tess of the d'Urbervilles or The Woman in White, this Victorian novel is replete with plot twists, years-long detours, providential meetings, villainy, and a great deal of drama. It differs from most other Victorian novels in that the main characters who meet and fall in love are both men, one an adopted son with a dark secret and Dickensian background who has taken on a new identity, and the other an uptight doctor with a strong religious background.
{
344pp,
155x230mm,
January 2004;
PB,
£11.50,
1932133402:9781932133400
, Writers' Collective
} |
 |
QUILTED HEART
[R M Vaughan]
When Marsh Cole's body is found in Samson Brindle's pool, who is to blame? Was it suicide, or the vengeful ghost of Sylvian Oulette? From acclaimed poet and playwright R M Vaughan comes the story of three neurotic gay men who fall in love and proceed to torture each other to death -- a twisted fable about love, jealousy, murder, and talking back from the grave.
{
192pp,
140x215mm,
January 1998;
PB,
£8.99,
1895837391:9781895837391
, Insomniac Press
} |
 |
RABBIT'S LEAP
[James Hagerty]
Samuel is a closeted biology teacher, picking up what he can (preferably sailors) in forays to the obvious places in San Diego until he meets the top of the tops in the S&M group, but soon finds himself in the midst of family feuds, royal court and transvestite affairs, even dungeons with a pederastic bishop in the family manse. It is an unforgettable story, something like the Rocky Horror show.
{
211pp,
140x215mm,
January 2002;
PB,
£10.99,
1879194775:9781879194779
, GLB Publishers
} |
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RAM STAM BOYS
[Chris Kent]
Guy Tilson has a new guitar to take back to school for the new semester and on the train meets a new boy who is a tantalising challenge all semester. When not jumping in and out of each others beds, the boys form a rock band, the Ram Stam Boys, where the only rule is that you are not allowed to be a virgin. That is really not a problem.
{
151pp,
140x215mm,
January 2004;
PB,
£9.99,
187919452X:9781879194526
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
REAL TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS
: An English School Boy Parody
[Chris Kent]
The delicious follow-up to his successful novels, Chris Kent returns to his favourite theme of public school boys -- this time through a clever retelling of Thomas Hughes Victorian children's novel, 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'. In Kent's version, the boys have a lot to learn, but will their naughty headmasters get their just desserts in the end?
{
152pp,
140x215mm,
January 2003;
PB,
£9.50,
1879194392:9781879194397
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
ROGUES OF SAN FRANCISCO
[Bill Lee (ed)]
Reveals the bright new SFO School of Writers whose collective erotic-poetic stories will appeal to readers wanting progressively-upbeat, masculine-identified, archetypal, ritual, transcendental sex and a very 90's higher consciousness in raw sex.
{
228pp,
140x215mm,
January 1993;
PB,
£7.99,
1879194155:9781879194151
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
ROGUES TO REMEMBER
[Bill Lee]
For over ten years, Bill Lee has been entertaining gay readers with explicit stories and fantasies of man-to-man sex of all types: military, construction, cowboys, even porn stars. We now bring his readers a collection of short stories on these themes, some never-before published, and all with that wry touch that characterises Bill Lee.
{
162pp,
140x215mm,
January 1991;
PB,
£7.50,
1879194007:9781879194007
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
RUSH OF WINGS
[Axel Soestmeyer]
Posthumous collection of poems. Though Axel Soestmeyer did not live to see the poems into print, this edition – faithful to his intentions – makes public the complex expression of an emotional thinker and intelligent lover. His mastery of vocabulary and the liberties he took with syntax and rhythm permit him to control a vital inspiration that could easily have slipped into vulgarity. Axel Soestmeyer assigns to the sexual and the spiritual similar roles, revealing not the facile moral solution of conformism but an understanding of the savage stuff which constitutes the human and his relationship to others and, ultimately, to God.
{
60pp,
140x215mm,
December 1982;
PB,
£2.99,
0919349110:9780919349117
, Guernica Editions
} |
 |
SAINT OF SODOMY
[William Tarvin]
The Saint of Sodomy plagiarises my 'Don Juan' and libels my manly hero by turning him into a gay milquetoast Don Jaunt. Ten million lawyers (from Infernal Circle 8) have counselled me to seek damages against its author, William Tarvin. Furthermore, I am in torturous correspondence with the likewise-libelled Shakespeare, Joyce, and Auden (torturous since we reside in different Infernal Circles) concerning a defamation class action suite against this poetaster. Any other authors (Literary Canon, only) who wish to be a party to this proceeding should contact: Lord Byron, Circle 7, Round 3, Inferno, 66673. (The above missive, bearing mysteriously scorched edges, appeared in the publisher's mailbox just before going to press. We have chosen to ignore it, perhaps to our peril. -- Editor)
{
126pp,
140x215mm,
January 1999;
PB,
£7.99,
1879194279:9781879194274
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
SENSUOUS MATES / INSEPARABLE SAMURAIS
: Two Novellas
[Bill Lee]
This book is composed of two novellas: 'Montana Mates' is the love story of a young cowboy and an Indian boy he meets in a mountain pool in Montana. 'Inseparable Samurais' is a historical love story of two samurais with seeming eternal ties during the Edo rebellion in the 19th century.
{
196pp,
140x215mm,
January 2006;
PB,
£10.99,
187919466X:9781879194663
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
SEX & THE SINGLE CAMEL
[Phil Clendenen]
If you would like to feast on peach-fuzz boys, kif, and the streaming life of Morocco tongue-stroked earlier by Burroughs, Ginsburg, and Bowles, 'Sex and the Single Camel' is for you. The language is most original and the eroticism perpetual; the quirky style, evoking steamy peregrinations through Arabic sex bazaars, is rich, poetic, and yes, bizarre! You may want to rush to Maroc and never return.
{
184pp,
140x215mm,
January 1994;
PB,
£9.50,
187919418X:9781879194182
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
SNAPSHOTS FOR A SERIAL KILLER
[Robert Peters]
Book and play. The cerebral images of a gay computer programmer-serial killer whose victims' mutilated bodies are found in parks and highway ramps in Orange County, California.
{
130pp,
140x215mm,
January 1992;
PB,
£7.50,
1879194074:9781879194076
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
ST STEPHEN'S
[Sky Gilbert]
Sky Gilbert boldly challenges the boundaries of gay politics and politically correct intellectualism in this book, an intriguing and sexually charged story of a university professor's trysts with his younger male students. Never afraid to confront even the most taboo of taboos, Gilbert sets his novel in a conservative, small town university, allowing him the platform he needs to bring the difficult subject matter to the fore. The novel relies on humour, too, to propel the suspenseful plot through its tortuous twists to the end. Gilbert's skill as a dramaturge is most evident here, as he delivers his off-the-wall ramblings in the intimate style that is now his trademark. His approach allows a much wider audience a chance to explore the world of gay subculture, unhindered and unintimidated. This is the sequel to his critically acclaimed debut novel, 'Guilty'.
{
180pp,
155x230mm,
January 1999;
PB,
£8.99,
1895837707:9781895837704
, Insomniac Press
} |
 |
STATIONS
[Winfried Weiss]
In a powerful testimony to two men's struggle with AIDS, Weiss writes of caring for his dying lover in a posthumous publication that coincides with the 20th anniversary of the emergence of AIDS. Written in the form of a short novel in which the names are changed (but presumably the events and the emotions are from life), the book charts the decline of Weiss's lover (dubbed Alexander in the memoir) from the first signs of the syndrome to his death in 1984 and the scattering of his ashes. Weiss, who died of AIDS in 1991, writes with unapologetic directness that can startle with its simplicity and pain.
{
112pp,
140x215mm,
December 2001;
PB,
£12.99,
0889627282:9780889627284
, Mosaic Press
} |
 |
SUBWAY STOPS
: Collected Poems
[Abmorman]
Abnorman's poems, joyous and brave, reverberate with originality and zest. They steam and scream with a no-nonsense style that grabs you often by the throat, and by the balls.
{
83pp,
140x215mm,
January 1998;
PB,
£7.99,
1879194244:9781879194243
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
TALES FROM C.A.M.P.
: Jackie's Back!
[Victor J Bani]
Reprinting of three popular novels in Gay History from the 1960s (from the man from CAMP series) plus the author's summary of the legal battles waged in those days.
{
310pp,
155x230mm,
January 2006;
PB,
£10.99,
1879194597:9781879194595
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
TIME TO LIVE
[Jim Brogan]
Jim Brogan's 'A Time To Live' is as enjoyable as it is honest and wise. It's a 'must read' for the gay community because, finally, here is a book concerned with the problems of ageing, especially those of sex, affection, and grief in an AIDS-haunted San Francisco. The main character, Brian, becomes vastly richer through his need to accept the inevitabilities of maturing the 1990s... as does the reader of this engrossing, well-told tale that dares embrace the intrigue of reality itself.
{
224pp,
140x215mm,
January 1997;
PB,
£9.50,
1879194228:9781879194229
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
UNRULY ANGELS
[Ronald Nevans]
Novel on the lives and times of gay men in New York City in the early 1980s and the impact the new disease, AIDS, had on them.
{
256pp,
140x215mm,
January 1998;
PB,
£9.99,
1879194236:9781879194236
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
WHITE SAMBO
: A Novel in Stories
[Robert Burdette Sweet]
Robert Sweet shows a virtuosic command of fictional techniques, but he is not showing off. His style is never merely an overlay, but always organic to the stories. And in this day when so many writers are specialists in the angst of their demographic group, Sweet manages to imbue his characters with human credibility and their situations with utterly recognisable tensions. And probably because of this, 'White Sambo' offers a more powerful and touching vision of gay life than one could find in more politicised accounts. Here, it is always the people who matter. For me this book was a find.
{
235pp,
155x230mm,
January 1993;
PB,
£5.99,
1879194120:9781879194120
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
ZAPPED
: Two Novellas - Asbestos: A Book for Lepers / How to Make Love to a Foot
[Robert Peters]
A world-acclaimed poet presents two new age novels back to back: asbestos: 'A Book for Lepers' and 'How to Make Love to a Foot'. Both novellas are parodies of the gestalt psychology fad of the sixties and the pop culture of the era. A wonderfully experimental text.
{
135pp,
130x230mm,
January 1993;
PB,
£7.99,
1879194104:9781879194106
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
BI LIVES
: Bisexual Women Tell Their Stories
[Kata Orndorff]
A collection of 18 in-depth interviews with a wide range of bisexual women of different races, ages, and economic classes involved in a very wide variety of lifestyles.
{
252pp,
155x230mm,
January 1999;
PB,
£9.99,
1884365094:9781884365096
, IPG (See Sharp Press)
} |
 |
BUTTERFLY EFFECT
[Susan Hawthorne]
The butterfly effect is a concept from physics in which it is surmised that small actions can have enormous consequences, and that the flutter of a butterfly's wing on one side of the world can cause devastating storms on the other side. The author explores the impact of the love between lesbians. The butterfly effect is a force that can destroy families and bring down governments, but is also a force full of vitality and world changing creativity. She evokes the ancient worlds of pre-Vedic and Sapphic lovers, of Medieval jonglaresas and nuns 'fingering petals and hips' as well as the contemporary world of circuses and global politics.
REVIEW: "A forthright voice and the singular free play of energy and will, memory and perception that holds the reader." -- Judith Rodriguez. "She has opened up the mosaic form to all levels of lived experience with new confidence and fragility, moving in all ways to the heart of matter, the edge of experience and the breath of tomorrow." -- Suzanne Bellamy.
{
248pp,
130x195mm,
November 2005;
PB,
£10.95,
187675656X:9781876756567
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
COUNTERING THE MYTHS
: Lesbians Write About the Men in Their Lives
[Rosamund Elwin (ed)]
When false ideas prescribe our existence, our lives are limited, our communities are diminished, and we are, sadly, set against one another. In Countering the Myths, lesbians write about fathers, brothers, lovers, friends, co-workers, and strangers. Their words are cautious, tender, urgent, and angry. They dispute entrenched myths and provoke instead difficult questions. Their stories and poems provide an opportunity to unite in an exciting and liberating lesbian sexuality and life.
{
304pp,
140x215mm,
January 1996;
PB,
£12.99,
0889612196:9780889612198
, Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press)
} |
 |
C-WORD
: A Story About Cancer
[Jean Taylor]
This is a book about the different ways the diagnosis of ovarian cancer affected two active members of the lesbian community in Melbourne in the 1990s. When Maureen O'Connor was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in February 1996, she delayed going to hospital so she could appear in the Performing Older Women's Circus production, 'Still Revolting'. This book describes the daily battle Maureen (Maurs) fought over the next two-and-a-half years. This is an honest and forthright account of cancer. It deals with the loneliness the partner of a sufferer faces, the gruelling treatments with radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and the terror and calm of facing death. A story of a powerful partnership, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of community.
{
291pp,
125x195mm,
January 2000;
PB,
£11.95,
187555999X:9781875559992
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
HOT! INTERNATIONAL -- LESBIAN
[David Appell & Paul Balido (eds)]
Your passport to romance! Love and sex in seven languages: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Czech and English. Learn how to talk about: pickups and dating; safer sex; kink and compliments; health; kisses and quarrels; passion; shopping.
{
320pp,
105x135mm,
May 1996;
PB,
£8.99,
1885948190:9781885948199
, Very Inc (Babelcom Inc)
} |
 |
I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY
: A Memoir. Foreword by Louise DeSalvo
[Toni McNaron]
This 'brave and lovely' memoir details one woman's transformation from a sheltered white childhood in Jim Crow's Alabama to a self-aware and self-accepting educator, lesbian and recovering alcoholic (Booklist). This expanded and revised edition includes a moving, nuanced portrait of racial identity and relations during the civil rights period and new material on a life lived at history's doors.
{
301pp,
155x230mm,
February 2002;
PB,
£10.99,
1558612807:9781558612808
, Feminist Press
} |
 |
LESBIAN PARENTING
: Living with Pride & Prejudice
[Katherine Arnup (ed)]
This is an indispensable collection of articles examining the multi-faceted experience of being a lesbian parent. It offers information, inspiration, and support to lesbians considering parenthood, to women involved with lesbian mothers, and to lesbians with children.
{
418pp,
140x210mm,
January 2001;
PB,
£12.99,
0921881339:9780921881339
, Canadian Scholars' Press
} |
 |
LOVE UPON THE CHOPPING BOARD
[Claire Maree]
Marou Izumo and Claire Maree met at a bar in Tokyo. Separated by seventeen years difference in age, by their cultural origins, and by the requirements of visas, they have managed to maintain their relationship through these vicissitudes. Autobiography, duobiography, love story, cross-cultural reflections, lesbian history -- this book is all of these things and more. It looks at different perceptions and attitudes towards lesbians in Japan and Australia.
{
175pp,
140x215mm,
May 2002;
PB,
£8.95,
1875559825:9781875559824
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
NEW LESBIAN STUDIES
: Into the Twenty-First Century
[Bonnie Zimmerman & Toni A H McNaron (eds)]
Includes 31 new essays representing the best in scholarship and theory in the study of lesbianism from both inside and outside the US. The text has sections on incorporating lesbian studies into academia and student services; understanding the origins of lesbian studies; exploring the questions proposed by lesbian studies; and offering us new voices, personal testimony, and multicultural perspectives. The collection is a necessary addition to lesbian and queer studies -- an emerging genre in social, theoretical, and literary studies.
REVIEW: "The New Lesbian Studies is monumental and passionate -- the only book of its kind... (It) provides a lively chronicle of the growth and development of lesbian scholarship while it poses some key questions: What is the future of lesbian studies? How is this future shaped by queer studies on the one hand and feminism and women's studies on the other? With impressive breadth, these essays explore these questions as they address issues of identity and community, the challenges of teaching, the impact of new research, and the transformation of institutions. The substantial number of essays by women of colour and the contributions by international scholars provide new perspectives, information, and approaches that move the field forward. The clarity and energy of the writing make this work an excellent introductory text for newcomers, while the complexity of the issues considered makes it invaluable for experienced scholars in the field." -- Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies at the State University of New York, Buffalo.
{
295pp,
155x230mm,
November 1996;
PB,
£11.99,
1558611363:9781558611368
, Feminist Press
} |
 |
OUR LIVES
: Lesbian Personal Writings
[Frances Rooney (ed)]
In the extraordinary collection lesbians of various ages, experiences and economic backgrounds write of their personal lives. Coming out, loving, separating, parents and children, work and getting along in the world are only some of the themes explored. This is a compelling, sometimes humorous collection of diary accounts, letters, poems and short stories by women interpreting the day-to-day occurrences of their lives through their private diaries.
{
280pp,
155x230mm,
June 1991;
PB,
£8.99,
092900521X:9780929005218
, Sumach Press
} |
 |
OUT ON THE FIELD
: Gender, Sport & Sexualities
[Helen Jefferson Lenskyj]
This book provides an in-depth examination of gender, sport and sexualities, an analysis of the limitations of liberal feminist responses, and an exploration of radical feminist alternatives. Dr Lenskyj presents illuminating case studies from Canada, the United States and Australia, with exposés of coaches' and administrators' complicity in perpetuating the chilly climate for female athletes in general, and for lesbians in particular. It includes a content analysis of the mass media treatment of sportswomen, and a discussion of how lesbian characters are portrayed in mainstream and lesbian fiction. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples, Lenskyj contexualises the homophobia and sexual harassment present in the everyday experiences of significant numbers of women involved in sport and physical activity. She shows that despite three decades of feminist and lesbian activism, and despite the apparent liberalisation of attitudes since the 1960s, lesbian sexuality remains largely "in the closet" while heterosexuality continues to be exploited in the name of selling sport.
{
174pp,
155x230mm,
December 2003;
PB,
£11.99,
0889614164:9780889614161
, Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press)
} |
 |
TONGUES ON FIRE
: Caribbean Lesbian Lives & Stories
[Rosamund Elwin (ed)]
In this groundbreaking anthology, Caribbean women tell their personal stories of loving women. Through interviews and stories they reveal their hidden histories, their secret longings and sexual awakenings. Rosamund Elwin has put together a fine collection that includes well-known writers such as Michelle Cliff, Shani Mootoo, and Makeda Silvera. In 'Tongues on Fire', Caribbean lesbians speak zami desire honestly and eloquently, loudly and clearly. Narrating their life stories, they claim what has never been acknowledged -- lesbian history and continuity in the Caribbean. And diasporic writers collectively honour that history and continuity in fiction sweet with intimacy, sensuality, and memory. Like the lives and stories of Caribbean lesbians, 'Tongues on Fire' is unique.
{
256pp,
150x225mm,
January 1997;
PB,
£12.99,
0889612269:9780889612266
, Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press)
} |
 |
WE, TOO, MUST LOVE
[Ann Aldrich]
As soon as it was published in 1955, 'We Walk Alone' inspired hundreds of lesbians and heterosexuals to write letters to Ann Aldrich. Certain they had touched a nerve (and found a market), Gold Medal Books asked the young writer to respond with a sequel in 1958 giving more detail about lesbians and the lesbian communities in New York City and its environs. 'We, Too, Must Love' probes more deeply than the first book into questions of class, notably by exploring the different jobs, many undercover, which lesbians had and by delineating more subtly the diversity among lesbians. Equally important, this volume contains hints of a consciousness that would flower in the movements of the 60s and 70s. A representative sampling of the actual letters sent to Ann Aldrich make up a concluding chapter.
{
186pp,
140x215mm,
November 2006;
PB,
£9.99,
155861527X:9781558615274
/
HB,
£32.99,
1558615288:9781558615281
, Feminist Press
} |
 |
WE WALK ALONE
[Ann Aldrich]
Ann Aldrich flings a provocative assertion at her readers in 1955 when she opens her groundbreaking account of lesbian life in New York City by saying this book is the "result of fifteen years of participation in society as a female homosexual." After the release of 'We Walk Alone', by Gold Medal Books, Aldrich became both a heroine and a scapegoat in some of the period's most contentious public debates over what exactly 'lesbian culture' was. Her non-fiction pulp literally transformed the landscape overnight. Part Kinsey-esque portraits of real people, part you-are-there reports on the scene in bars and offices and at clubs and house parties, this is a unique 'cultural artefact', a compelling composite of an alienated yet amazingly self-aware community. Ann Aldrich is both observer and commentator, writing investigative journalism in the mode of Doris Lessing. As Stephanie Foote explains in her afterword, the combination produces "as rich and conflicted a look at the formation of lesbian urban culture as that of any contemporary queer historian."
{
183pp,
140x215mm,
November 2006;
PB,
£9.99,
1558615253:9781558615250
/
HB,
£32.99,
1558615261:9781558615267
, Feminist Press
} |
 |
WOMEN AS LOVERS
: Two Plays
[Theresa Carilli]
By satirising the lesbian in her quest for love and identity, Theresa Carilli renders funny, moving and candid portraits of lesbian life. Two plays about lesbian culture in San Francisco.
{
269pp,
120x195mm,
June 1996;
PB,
£10.99,
1550710079:9781550710076
, Guernica Editions
} |
 |
ZEST FOR LIFE
: Lesbians' Experiences of Menopause
[Jennifer Kelly]
'Zest for Life' is how lesbians describe their experience of menopause. This book suggests that the experience of menopause can be significantly altered through shifting perceptions about body image. Based on a survey of over one hundred women, Kelly's research shatters the myths promoted by the pharmaceutical companies and the medical industry. Instead of the false eternal youth presented to women, this book shows that many other factors are involved in how we experience our bodies.
{
235pp,
140x215mm,
October 2004;
PB,
£11.95,
1876756462:9781876756468
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
ALL THAT FALSE INSTRUCTION
[Kerryn Higgs]
Maureen Craig escapes from a difficult childhood on the fringe of a country town to the promise of the big city and a new world. But within the stone walls of university and the supposedly freewheeling youth-culture of the 1960s, she encounters a suffocating conformity. The life she longs for brings her into conflict with a society that values convention above all and forbids love between women. Against the odds, Maureen seeks to break free from social expectation and find a place in the world where she can be herself.
{
252pp,
130x195mm,
March 2002;
PB,
£9.95,
1876756144:9781876756147
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
BENT ON WRITING
: Contemporary Queer Tales
[Elizabeth Ruth (ed)]
Elizabeth Ruth has gathered the work of 55 of the talented writers who have performed at the reading series 'Clit Lit', now entering its fifth successful year. Clit Lit is the only monthly queer literary series in Canada. With conviction, Ruth says, "Good writing breeds good writing." Working from this premise, she founded and developed a community-based artistic space where established and emerging writers could meet and learn from each other. Each contributor in this collection is interested in bending or queering the canon in exciting ways, challenging some of our most basic preconceptions about writing, life, and love. At Clit Lit writers find inspiration and motivation from each other and are able to showcase their talent in various forms -- prose, poetry, spoken work, playwriting, creative non-fiction, storytelling, and drag. Bent on Writing offers readers a permanent and lasting record of that work and a how-to guide for establishing their own community-based literary events. This book is more than an anthology; it is a gathering of three-dimensional talent for the two-dimensional page.
{
309pp,
175x225mm,
January 2002;
PB,
£14.99,
0889614032:9780889614031
, Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press)
} |
 |
CHINESE GARDEN
: A Novel
[Rosemary Manning]
Rosemary Manning's 1962 gem The Chinese Garden is a delicate and finely crafted novel of the discovery -- and betrayal -- of love. In a girls' boarding school in the late 1920s, a world of iron-willed authority, frigid rooms, and forbidden friendships, sixteen-year-old Rachel struggles to find a place for herself. When a rebellious student introduces her to a mystical, secret part of the grounds, the 'Chinese garden', Rachel becomes torn between this hidden world of sensuality and pleasure and the formidable, controlling headmistress who inspires Rachel's intellectual growth.
{
194pp,
140x215mm,
August 1999;
PB,
£9.99,
1558612165:9781558612167
, Feminist Press
} |
 |
COWRIE
[Cathie Dunsford]
Cowrie visits Hawaii, which her ukulele-playing grandfather had left decades earlier. There she visits her extended family and Mt Kiluea, travelling around the island in an old pick-up truck called Hone. As she enters the crater of Kiluea we are drawn into the very centre of the earth, with Cowrie and her cousin, Paneke as our guides. Sensual and sexual language bring the earth to life, and Cowrie too, as she tests the limits of her endurance and explores her own erotic connection with the earth. The mythology of the islands comes through the descriptions of natural and cultural events. One can taste the tropical fruit, the fish cooked in banana leaves and coconut, and smell the sweet fresh ginger.
{
123pp,
125x195mm,
November 1994;
PB,
£6.95,
1875559280:9781875559282
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
EXILE & THE HEART
: Lesbian Fiction
[Tamai Kobayshi]
REVIEW: "From the Future Bakery to Old Man Dam, Tamai Kobayashi reveals the ordinary and extraordinary lives of Asian-Canadian lesbians and their families with a quiet, intense passion. Kobayashi has a sharp eye for the poetic in the everyday, and for the small resonant truths that gleam amidst the seemingly mundane. Contemplative, generous, and precise, this is a book about how history, personal and global, creates the present and how the present evolves into history." -- Larissa Lai, author of When Fox is a Thousand.
{
102pp,
140x215mm,
January 1998;
PB,
£7.99,
0889612293:9780889612297
, Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press)
} |
 |
FEDORA WALKS
: A Comic Crime Novel
[Merrilee Moss]
When the ghostly Fedora interrupts Julie Bernhard's morning coffee in Brunswick Street, Julie's life is set to change. An out-of-work private investigator, Julie is seduced by Fedora's French accent and beautiful hats, but soon discovers that wearing beautiful millinery is a dangerous activity. A satirical take on lesbian crime fiction, with a mix of fantasy and otherworldy theatricals, Merrilee Moss makes us laugh out loud.
{
90pp,
125x195mm,
January 2001;
PB,
£10.95,
1876756047:9781876756048
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
FIGMENTS OF A MURDER
[Gillian Hanscombe]
First there was the detective novel with its stubble-chinned PI. Then came the feminist super sleuths. Feisty fierce and real. Now there's 'Figments of a Murder'. And Babes. Babes is about lust. She lusts to change the world, to remake everyone in her own image. Which means laying waste to whoever she's got her hooks into. Babes is about power. But what else is she up to? Set in London, 'Figments of a Murder' is passionate and satirical. It probes images of self, sex, stardom and sisterhood. Images complicated by memories and money. The world Gillian Hanscombe conjures in her fiction is torn asunder by love and lust between women. It is a world of murder and menace where Babes creates collisions and calls the shots. Or does she?
{
264pp,
140x215mm,
May 1995;
PB,
£7.95,
1875559434:9781875559435
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
GIRLS CLOSED IN
[France Théoret]
1950s Quebec: a shy sixteen-year-old in a Catholic boarding school for perspective schoolteachers falls in love with a classmate. When the fantasised relationship fails, she takes superficial refuge with a group of girls, and learns how alone she is, how alone and closed off they all are.
{
116pp,
140x215mm,
June 2005;
PB,
£8.99,
1550712063:9781550712063
, Guernica Editions
} |
 |
GIRLS IN 3-B
[Valerie Taylor]
Annice, Pat, and Barby are best friends from Iowa, freshly arrived in booming 1950s Chicago to explore different paths toward independence, self-expression, and sexual freedom. From the hip-hang of a bohemian lifestyle to the sophisticated lure of romance with a handsome, wealthy, married boss to the happier security of a lesbian relationship, these three experience first-hand the dangers and limitations of women's economic reliance on men. Well-known lesbian pulp author Valerie Taylor skilfully paints a sociological portrait of the emotional and economic pitfalls of heterosexuality in 1950s America -- and then offers a defiantly subversive alternative. A classic pulp tale showcasing predatory beatnik men, drug hallucinations, and secret lesbian trysts, this book approaches the theme of sex from the stiffened vantage point of 1950s psychology.
{
208pp,
155x230mm,
November 2003;
PB,
£9.50,
1558614567:9781558614567
, Feminist Press
} |
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HEART SUTRA
[Caren Wilton]
Caren Wilton's characters find themselves in unfamiliar landscapes: sometimes physical -- a Bangkok flat, a youth hostel in Edinburgh, a Wellington massage parlour -- and sometimes personal. Wherever they are, she takes a vivid, compassionate look at human strengths and vulnerabilities, and people's skewed attempts at finding happiness.
{
218pp,
140x210mm,
September 2003;
PB,
£13.99,
187727660X:9781877276606
, University of Otago Press
} |
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IMAGO
[Francesca Rendle-Short]
Molly Rose Moone dreamt of worms the night before she married Jimmy Brown in Tooting Bec. Milky sticky wet worms wriggled and fed off one another in clumps all over the bed. Breast deep. The young couple were on their way to Australia. When Molly agrees to go on a journey across hemispheres she's looking for an escape from home, distraction. Once there she meets Marj. Fat Marj. This is a story of love and obsession, of seductions and transformations. The threading together of skins, of bodies. It's a story about metamorphosis, taking and eating, larvae and pupae, the risks of stagnation. Possibilities of death.
{
230pp,
130x195mm,
May 2002;
PB,
£7.95,
1875559361:9781875559367
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
JOURNEY HOME
[Cathie Dunsford]
Cathie Dunsford's much-loved Cowrie returns. This novel follows her through her passions for life, love, food and challenge. Peopled by a diverse array of characters: Benny the outrageous filmmaker, Peta who Cowrie falls in love with and the student DK who has a few things to learn. Torn between her newly made friendships in California and her roots in her homeland, Cowrie discovers that there is a price to pay for exile, even when it's voluntary.
{
302pp,
130x195mm,
January 1997;
PB,
£7.95,
187555954X:9781875559541
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
LOVE RULES
[Marilyn Reynolds]
This young adult novel accurately portrays the widespread effects of a young lesbian's decision to come out of the closet and live openly and honestly while still in high school. The story line revolves around Kit Dandridge -- a young lesbian struggling to be herself in a repressive environment-her best friend Lynn, and their families and friends. Included are plot elements seen in recent headlines that include the often tragic consequences of high school intolerance and bullying as well as the development of support group networks for gay and lesbian students and their heterosexual allies.
{
269pp,
155x230mm,
July 2001;
PB,
£6.99,
1885356765:9781885356765
, IPG (Morning Glory Press)
} |
 |
MANAWA TOA
: Heart Warrior
[Cathie Dunsford]
Dive into a luscious feast of language and imagery, laced with Maori proverbs. Cowrie boards a ship bound for Mururoa Atoll during the French nuclear tests. She is in for a rough ride. As international attention is focused on the Pacific and the environment, the stakes rise. She is joined by Sahara, a young peace activist from England. But can she be trusted? Can anyone be trusted? With the rich flavours and textures of the island nations, Cathie Dunsford brings us a third novel about Cowrie. With sensuous writing and a deep knowledge of the traditions, the reader can feel the rock of the sea, taste the food, and fear the attacks on the peace flotilla.
{
196pp,
130x195mm,
May 2002;
PB,
£9.95,
1875559698:9781875559695
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
NO MARGINS
: Writing Canadian Fiction in Lesbian
[Catherine Lake & Nairne Holtz (eds)]
Elegant tomboys, academic femmes, and small-town kisses; encounters on the road and in the bar; questions arising from an in-between culture; cane stalks, sake, fresh-cut flowers, home insemination and hotel-room orgasms. Crossing race, culture, and gender constraints, 'No Margins' leads the reader through the lushness of lesbian life and the vastness of the Canadian experience. This is a stellar short-fiction collection featuring fifteen of Canada’s finest contemporary writers -- all of whom include lesbian identity as one piece of their selves and their work. These highly acclaimed authors were selected to convey the places Canadian lesbians currently inhabit and the future we are forging. The contributors have included artist’s statements to accompany their work, sharing the creative process and speaking on the politics of lesbian writing. This is an unprecedented anthology, reflecting an esteemed gathering of lesbian writers who are currently shaping Canadian literature. Contributors: Anne Fleming; Ann-Marie MacDonald; Daphne Marlatt; Dionne Brand; Elizabeth Ruth; Emma Donoghue; Jane Eaton Hamilton; Karen X Tulchinsky; Larissa Lai; Luanne Armstrong; Lydia Kwa; Marion Douglas; Marnie Woodrow; Nicole Brossard; Shani Mootoo.
{
316pp,
155x230mm,
February 2006;
PB,
£9.95,
1897178158:9781897178157
, Insomniac Press
} |
 |
PARACHUTE SILK
: Friends, Food, Passion. A Novel in Letters
[Gina Mercer]
A novel in two voices, 'Parachute Silk' consists of letters between two women friends who discuss in depth their feelings and share their lives by corresponding. They send poems, letters and long explanations and stories of their lives. This is a beautifully written novel with a deft touch. The language sings, even as the women come to grips with issues around sexuality, children and the exigencies of an unplanned life.
{
210pp,
130x195mm,
May 2001;
PB,
£8.95,
187675611X:9781876756116
, Spinifex Press
} |
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PICTURE THEORY
[Nicole Brossard]
A novel first published in French in 1982, 'Picture Theory' demonstrates Nicole Brossard's fiction théorique and her preoccupation with the difficulty of writing and reading woman. The title (taken from Wittgenstein) implies her reference to the hologram as a new pictorial model for woman; like the hologram which is intended to be read from an infinite number of changing conditions, Brossard's text abstracts the image of the feminine so that it can be read from all angles. Centred on four women, this novel of lesbian love moves from Curaçao to Montreal, from New York to Paris. Essentially, Picture Theory poses the question of what is a novel.
{
186pp,
March 2006;
PB,
£8.99,
1550712187:9781550712186
, Guernica Editions
} |
 |
POPPY'S PROGRESS
[Pat Rosier]
Poppy Sinclair is approaching fifty and -- mostly -- loves her life, teaching young children, living in her Auckland house, intimately involved with friends and family. It is an ordinary life she thinks, but with her partner she has found a place in the world, which suits her. But when things change unexpectedly Poppy discovers that even those you are closest to can surprise you, and that especially in midst of disaster new adventures and special relationships can arise.
{
184pp,
125x200mm,
October 2002;
PB,
£10.95,
1876756284:9781876756284
, Spinifex Press
} |
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SONG OF THE SELKIES
[Cathie Dunsford]
The Edinburgh Festival brings together artists from all over the world, and Cowrie is among them, telling stories and giving readings. But even Cowrie can't anticipate the chemistry that will begin when a group of traditional storytellers sets off to the Orkney Islands with Ellen, to stay at her coastal family cottages. For Ellen turns out to be Morrigan, and Morrigan is a selkie, living in the sea and on land. As an ancient mystery unravels, Cowrie and Sasha must turn detective to discover the truth behind Morrigan and the song of the selkies.
{
202pp,
130x195mm,
January 2001;
PB,
£9.95,
1876756098:9781876756093
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
SP LIKES AD
[Catherine Brett]
For ages 14+. A fast moving short novel in which Brett treats the topic of homosexuality in a matter of fact way. Looking up slowly, still thinking about dinosaurs, she found herself staring into the face of Anne Delaney. She wanted to die. "Eric told me you needed help building your sculpture." There it was. Anne Delaney had spoken to her, to Stephanie. Stephanie suddenly felt that she didn't know who she was anymore. She tried to find her voice and drag it out from somewhere deep inside herself.
{
118pp,
100x175mm,
January 1989;
PB,
£4.99,
0889611424:9780889611429
, Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press)
} |
 |
ST SUNITI & THE DRAGON
[Suniti Namjoshi]
This is an extended fable. The central theme, of how to live decently and honourably in a cruel and irrational world, is explored through related themes such as sainthood, love, and the anticipation of death. Ironic and fantastic, the imagery ranges from talking flowers to instructive angels, from literary monsters to religious icons. The fables are formed by song, dialogue, narrative, dramatic monologue and lyric, as well as everyday forms such as postcards, prayers and diary entries. The resulting sequence is at once elegant, fearful and funny. It is, in fact, a thoroughly modern fable.
{
126pp,
140x215mm,
May 1993;
PB,
£7.95,
1875559183:9781875559183
, Spinifex Press
} |
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SYBIL
: The Glide of Her Tongue
[Gillian Hanscombe]
Gillian Hanscombe performs a feat of lesbian imagination in this stunning sequence. Her sybilic voice, familiar and strange at once, radiates both vision and anger in a prose that echoes the music of our thoughts back to us. 'Sybil' gives us a lesbian politics, a lesbian tradition, grounded in what Suniti Namjoshi defines as the prophetic. Welcome to lesbian imagination singing at full range.
{
101pp,
140x215mm,
May 1992;
PB,
£5.95,
1875559051:9781875559053
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
TANSIE
[Erika Kimpton]
Alix Clemenger, sophisticate and internationally famous composer and concert pianist, is the toast of high society. A succession of momentous milestones has determined her life and career, the last being when she meets Tansie Landon. Tansie, beautiful, enigmatic, fragile, is -- although not yet successful -- an exceptional sculptor. But Tansie's childhood of abuse and neglect has left her so emotionally scarred that love has become a source of embattlement. When Tansie begins to display towards Alix the same harshness and indifference she knew as a child, she tests Alix's love to its limit and pushes herself to the edge of destruction. In the end, Tansie's gift to Alix is a lesson in the possibilities and limitations of love.
{
413pp,
130x200mm,
January 1996;
PB,
£6.95,
1875559345:9781875559343
, Spinifex Press
} |
 |
TOWARD THE BEGINNING
[Veronica Cas]
Lesbian historical novel which uses an old lesbian bar in Los Angeles as the reference point for tracing the lives of a group of lesbians who met first after World War II. They survived the social stigmata and interpersonal problems of the era and trace back through history to highlight the changes that have taken place in the last fifty years, through fiction.
{
216pp,
140x215mm,
January 2001;
PB,
£9.99,
1879194872:9781879194878
, GLB Publishers
} |
 |
WORD BURNERS
[Beryl Fletcher]
A new addition to the thought-provoking collection of Spinifex feminist classics, this award-winning novel by New Zealand novelist Beryl Fletcher explores the themes and contradictions of contemporary women's lives in a vivid and memorable setting. How do you decide how to live? Or do others make that decision for you? In this lyrical novel, Beryl Fletcher explores the paradoxes of modern life. As a new academic, Julia finds her beliefs challenged by her students, reinforced by her friends mistreatment and dismissed by her family. Just as her mother sought freedom from her family's rural poverty, Julia and her sister, Isobel, search for their own solace, finding it in different and disparate places.
{
312pp,
140x215mm,
June 2002;
PB,
£10.95,
1876756233:9781876756239
, Spinifex Press
} |
