Pleasure Beach is a lesbian love story from the North West's saucy seaside paradise, Blackpool, on one day: 16th June 1999. Written in multiple voices and styles, Pleasure Beach follows the interconnecting journeys and thoughts of three young women over the course of 24 hours and over 18 chapters which are structured and themed in the same way as Homer's ... Weiterlesen

Lamya H.: Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir

UK 2023, 284 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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When 14-year-old Lamya realizes she has a crush on her teacher - her female teacher - she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can't yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown. Born in South Asia, she moved to the Middle East at a young age and has spent years feeling out of place, like ... Weiterlesen

Kim Hye-jin: Concerning My Daughter

Transl. by Jamie Chang. UK 2022, 163 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Picador

When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income, and, even better, a good husband with a good job with whom to start a family. But when Green turns up with her girlfriend Lane in tow, her mother is unprepared ... Weiterlesen

Li Kotomi: Solo Dance

UK 2022, 256 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
World Editions

Cho Norie is forced to keep her lesbian life hidden. She is 27 and originally from Taiwan, working an office job now in Tokyo. While her colleagues worry about the economy, life-insurance policies, marriage, and children, she is forced to keep her unconventional life hidden - especially her sexuality and the violent attack that prompted her move to Japan. There ... Weiterlesen

Rabih Alameddine: The Wrong End of the Telescope

UK 2021, 354 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Little Brown

Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife ... Weiterlesen

Alison Rumfit: Tell Me I'm Worthless

UK 2021, 264 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cipher

Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends Ila and Hannah. Since then, things have not been going well. Alice is living a haunted existence, selling videos of herself cleaning for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep. She hasn't spoken to Ila since they went into the House. She hasn't ... Weiterlesen

Melissa Broder: Milk Fed

USA 2021, 292 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Scribner

Rachel is 24, 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 subsisting - until her therapist ... Weiterlesen

Eliza Clark: Boy Parts

UK 2020, 304 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Influx

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme ... Weiterlesen

C Pam Zhang: How Much of These Hills Is Gold

UK 2020, 322 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Virago

Ba dies in the night. Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant ... Weiterlesen

John Boyne: My Brother's Name is Jessica

UK 2019, 248 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK

Sam Waver's life has always been pretty quiet. A bit of a loner, he struggles to make friends, and his busy parents often make him feel invisible. Luckily for Sam, his older brother, Jason, has always been there for him. Sam idolises Jason, who seems to have life sorted - he's kind, popular, amazing at football, and girls are falling ... Weiterlesen

Emma Morgan: A Love Story for Bewildered Girls

USA 2019, 272 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Viking

Grace loves a woman. Annie loves a man. Violet isn't quite sure. But you'll love them all! Grace has what one might call a �full and interesting life� which is code for not married and has no kids. Her life is the envy of her straight friends, but all this time she has been waiting in secret for love to ... Weiterlesen

Arundhati Roy: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

USA 2017, 440 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

�The Ministry of Utmost Happiness� takes us on a journey of many years - the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi to the forests of Central India, where, from time to time, �normalcy� is declared. The story has two main strands. One follows Anjum,who used to be Aftab, a hijra, or transwoman, struggling to make a ... Weiterlesen

Zadie Smith: Swing Time

USA 2017, 453 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA

Set in London, New York and West Africa, �Swing Time� is about two brown girls from Willesden who dream of being dancers. Only one - Tracey - has the talent. But the other has the ideas which take her further than she could ever have imagined. It is a story of finding happiness in the meanest of places and feeling ... Weiterlesen

Erin McKenzie: Where Love Leads

USA 2017, 259 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bold Strokes

Sarah O'Shaughnessy, a high school counselor, is very good at taking care of others. What she hasn't mastered is how to take better care of herself. Four years after the death of her wife, Sarah's life has settled into a safe, solitary rut. That is, until the arrival of a new student and her mom. Lauren Emerson and her teen ... Weiterlesen

Chinelo Okparanta: Under the Udala Tree

UK 2016, 336 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Granta Books

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
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Emily O'Beirne: The Sum of These Things

D 2015, 396 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

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

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