Nat Reeve: Nettleblack

UK 2022, 420 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Cipher
The year is 1893. Having run away from her family home to escape an arranged marriage, Welsh heiress Henry Nettleblack finds herself ambushed, robbed, and then saved by the mysterious Dallyangle Division - part detective agency, part neighbourhood watch. Desperate to hide from her older sisters, Henry disguises herself and enlists. But the Division soon finds itself under siege from ... Weiterlesen

Sally Wainwright (R): Gentleman Jack Series 2

UK 2022, engl. OF, engl. UT, 3 DVDs, 464 min., € 34.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
BBC - Gentleman Jack 2
All eight episodes from the second series of the BBC period drama starring Suranne Jones as landowner Anne Lister. Based on her own diaries, the show follows Lister as she returns to Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1832 to find her ancestral home at Shibden Hall has fallen into a state of disrepair. In an effort to improve its fortunes, Anne ... Weiterlesen

Anna North: Outlawed

UK 2022, 263 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
On the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. She loves her broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice midwife. But her luck will not last. It is every woman's duty to have a child, to replace those that were lost in the Great Flu. And after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where ... Weiterlesen

Maggie Tokuda-Hall: The Mermaid, the Witch and the Sea

UK 2020, 411 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Walker
A desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial daughter find a connection on the high seas in a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic. Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. For Flora, former starving urchin, the brutal life ... Weiterlesen

Jen Manion: Female Husbands

UK 2020, 320 pp., hardback, € 29.90
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Cambridge University Press
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories ... Weiterlesen

Virginia Woolf: Orlando

UK 2020, 225 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
A Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend, the charismatic writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a playful mock »biography« of a chameleonic historical figure, immortal and ageless, who changes sex and identity on a whim. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia ... Weiterlesen

Kimberley Peirce (R): Boys Don't Cry

USA 1999, engl. OF, 90 Min., € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
In Falls City, Nebraska, Brandon Teena arrives to start a new future for himself. The local community falls for his charms and everyone becomes drawn to his innocence and wit. However, behind the charming persona is a totally different person - Brandon is actually a woman. After falling for a local karaoke singer, Brandon moves in with her family and ... Weiterlesen

Ali Smith: Girl Meets Boy

UK 2015, 164 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ligdus and Telethusa are having a child, but they cannot afford to have a girl. Ligdus informs Telethusa that she had better hope for a boy. While this decision makes them both sad, Telethusa »must obey«. She prays to Isis, but births a girl and names her Iphis, a name that »suited male or female - a neutral name«. She ... Weiterlesen

Jae: Hidden Truths

D 2014, 476 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag - 3
»Luke« Hamilton has been living as a husband and father for the past seventeen years. No one but her wife, Nora, knows she is not the man she appears to be. They have raised their daughters to become honest and hard-working young women, but even with their loving foundation, Amy and Nattie are hiding their own secrets. Just as Luke ... Weiterlesen

Jackie Kay: Trumpet

USA 2000, 282 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate workings of the human heart and mind and offers a triumphant tale of loving deception and lasting devotion. The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret, one that enrages his adopted son, Colman, leading him to collude with a tabloid journalist. ... Weiterlesen