Welcomed reissue of this archetypal lesbian novel with a new introduction by Diana Souhami to mark the 80th anniversary of Radclyffe Hall's trial. If you have never read Hall's books, now it's the tim...

The classic 1950s love story from the Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction. "Called trash by the literary world and pornography by the commercial world, Ann Bannon's books were hidden away on drugstore pulp...

Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognised, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952 under the pseudonym Claire M...

Originally published in 1974, Loving Her is the first novel by an African American author to deal explicitly with interracial lesbian love.

First self-published in 1969 in an edition of 1,000 copies, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel is a historical romance that was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the late ...

Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a lesbian in America - and living happily ever after. Critcally acclaimed when it was first publshed in 1...

Written with biting wit and cool compassion, Two Serious Ladies is a bittersweet celebration of female freedom that has been hailed as a landmark in twentieth-century literature. Copperfield  ...

Immortalised for a whole new generation by the film 'Desert Hearts', Jane Rule's classic Desert Of The Heart is arguably her finest novel. Told with all the wit and skill of this fine novelist, the bo...

Perhaps the most famous example of early twentieth-century lesbian autobiography is The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), written by American modernist Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). As its title ...

Here's Toklas's rich mixture of menus and memories of meals shared with such famous friends as Wilder, Picasso, and Hemingway, originally published in 1954.