Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does - born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls. When their lesbian love is discovered, Ijeoma learns ... Weiterlesen

Rita Mae Brown: Rubyfruit Jungle

USA 2015, 223 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Bantam

A landmark lesbian coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of most distinctive voices of the US, �Rubyfruit Jungle� remains a transformative work more than forty years after its original publication. In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in ... Weiterlesen

Josef Winkler: Graveyard of Bitter Oranges

Transl. by Adrian Nathan West. USA/UK/AUS 2015, 465 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Contra Mundum Press

In 1979, Carinthian author Josef Winkler appeared on the literary horizon as if from nowhere, collecting numerous honors and the praise of the most prominent critical voices in Germany and Austria. Throughout the 1980s, he chronicled the malevolence, dissipation, and unregenerate Nazism endemic to Austrian village life in an increasingly trenchant and hallucinatory series of novels. At the decade's end, ... Weiterlesen

Mark Merlis: JD

USA 2015, 272 pp., hardbound, € 29.95
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University of Wisconsin Press

When a would-be biographer approaches Ascher's widow Martha, she delves for the first time into her husband's papers and all the secrets that come tumbling out of them. She finds journals that begin as a wisecracking chronicle of life at the fringes of the New York literary scene, then recount Ascher's sexual adventures in the pre-Stonewall gay underground and the ... Weiterlesen

Paul Russell: Immaculate Blue

USA 2015, 228 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Cleis

From the award-winning author of �The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov� comes �Immaculate Blue�, which explores the lives of four people - Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia - and their intermingled and unwinding desires. Set in upstate New York, the novel follows these characters as they achieve their aims in lives redolent with loss and hope, humor and sadness, union ... Weiterlesen

Emily O'Beirne: The Sum of These Things

D 2015, 396 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Ylva Verlag - A Story of Now Series 2

In the sequel to �A Story of Now�, Claire has already learned a few things this summer. Like falling for a girl is easy. Well, it is if that girl is Mia. What Claire hasn't learned yet is that now comes the hard part: learning to trust in this new relationship. Then there's the pressing question of what to do ... Weiterlesen

Miranda July: The First Bad Man

USA 2015, 276 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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Cheryl, a tightly-wound, vulnerable woman lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat. She is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six, who sometimes recurs as other people's babies. Cheryl is also obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the women's self-defense non-profit where she works. She believes they've been making love for many ... Weiterlesen

Bernard Cooper: My Avant-Garde Education

A Memoir. USA 2015, 251 pp., hardbound, € 26.95
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W. W. Norton

Growing up in the suburbs - confused about his sexuality, about his consumer-oriented world, about the death of his older brother - Bernard Cooper falls in love with Pop art and sets off for the California Institute of the Arts, the center of the burgeoning field of conceptual art, in this beguiling memoir. The most famous, and infamous, artists of ... Weiterlesen

James Purdy: Malcolm

USA 2015, 233 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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W. W. Norton

Introduced simply as �the boy on the bench�, the titular character of James Purdy's debut novel, �Malcolm� is a Candide-like figure who is taken under the wing of the �most famous astrologer of his period�, the worldly Professor Cox, and introduced to a series of increasingly bizarre characters and situations in this black comic fable. From an undertaker to a ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry

UK 2014, 169 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Vintage

�Sexing the Cherry� celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality. It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.

Sonwabiso Ngcowa: In Search of Happiness

South Africa 2014, 152 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Nana is fifteen when she travels from her village in the Eastern Cape to the city. She is over joyed to be reunited with her family, even if they are living in a tiny shack. But she struggles to fit in at her new school, and she is shocked at the violence shown to chino and Agnes, her Zimbabwean neighbours. ... Weiterlesen

Pippa Goldschmidt: The Falling Sky

UK 2014, 256 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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A blackly comic campus satire combined with a heart-breaking family mystery, �The Falling Sky� mixes fiction and astronomy into a moving narrative. Jeanette is a young, lesbian post-doctoral researcher who has dedicated her life to studying astronomy. Struggling to compete in a prestigious university department dominated by egos and incompetents, and caught in a cycle of brief and unsatisfying affairs ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Greco: Now and Yesterday

USA 2014, 464 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Kensington

Set in New York's fast lane of advertising and media, Stephen Greco's new novel is a thoughtful and fascinating exploration of modern gay relationships, as a successful older gay man forms a friendship with a younger man that gradually turns to love. Peter, a 59-year-old gay advertising executive, lost the love of his life years ago, and since then he ... Weiterlesen

Judith Schalansky: The Giraffe's Neck

Transl. by Shaun Whiteside. UK 2014, 213 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Bloomsbury

Adaptation is everything, something Frau Lohmark is well aware of as the biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany. It is the beginning of the new school year, but, as people look west in search of work and opportunities, it's future begins to be in doubt. Frau Lohmark has no ... Weiterlesen

Ali Smith: Artful

UK 2013, 240 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK

Adapted from four lectures given by lesbian author Ali Smith at Oxford University, �Artful� is a tidal wave of ideas in four thematically organised bursts of thought: �On Time�, �On Form�, �On Edge� and �On Offer and on Reflection�. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, �Artful� is narrated by a character who is haunted ... Weiterlesen

Andr� Aciman: Harvard Square

USA 2013, 292 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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W. W. Norton

1977: amid the lovely streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of 17th-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square caf�, everything changes. Nicknamed Kalashnikov ... Weiterlesen

Peter Cameron: Coral Glynn

USA 2013, 210 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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Picador

Coral Glynn arrives at an isolated mansion deep in the English countryside early in the very wet spring of 1950 to nurse the elderly Edith Hart, who is dying of cancer. Hart House is also inhabited by Mrs Prence, the perpetually disgruntled housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, Mrs Hart's war-ravaged son, who is struggling to endure his thwarted life. When ... Weiterlesen

John Irving: In One Person

UK 2013, 623 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Black Swan

John Irving's 13th novel tells the outrageous story of bisexual novelist Billy Abbott, who comes of age in the uptight 1950s and explores his sexuality through the decades into the plague-ridden 1980s and finally to a more positive present day. Sexual confusion sets in early for Billy, simultaneously attracted to both the female librarian and golden boy wrestler Jacques Kittredge, ... Weiterlesen

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