Jeanette Winterson became an instant dykon when she burst on the literary scene in 1985 with this semi-autobiographical novel and its popularity was cemented by the excellent and groundbreaking BBC te...

One of the top selling lesbian books of all time - it has sold over 100,000 copies to date - and continues to delight lesbian readers all over the world. Curious Wine is a true classic in the world of...

This is where it all starts... the complete extant work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 B.C. She was a musical genius...

Spring Fire was the first lesbian paperback novel and sold an amazing 1.5 million copies when it first appeared in 1952. It launched an entire genre of lesbian novels and is both a steamy page-turner...

Woman or man? That's the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue-collar town in the 1950's. Coming out as a...

The Color Purple is a classic, period. With over a million copies sold in the UK alone, this Pulitzer Prize winner is hailed as one of the all-time greats of literature.

Set in 1937, The Friendly Young Ladies is a romantic comedy of off-Bloomsbury bohemia. Mary Renault wrote this delightfully provocative novel in the early 1940s, creating characters that are lighth...

It is 1933. Jessica and Jane have been living together for six months. They are devoted friends - or are they? Jessica loves her friend with the cruelty of total possessiveness: Jane is rich and silly...

This extraordinary novel, originally published in 1936, documents the lives of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the decadent roaring twenties. Now recognised as a classic Barnes's novel was a brea...