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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: special interest > Literature of special Gay & Lesbian interest > Literature of special Lesbian interest

The Lesbian Pillow Book (Paperback): Alison Hennegan The Lesbian Pillow Book (Paperback)
Alison Hennegan
R360 R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Save R23 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Both a personal pleasure and an historical resource, this wide-ranging collection traces the teasingly elusive figure of "the lesbian" down the centuries from the ancient world to today.;Lesbians appear in fact - trial transcripts and epitaphs, medical pamphlets, and case histories; and in fiction - through fables and songs, poems and stories, by both men and women (Sappho and Swindburne, Emma Donoghue and Charles Dickens). From a kaleidoscopic array of astrological curiosities, marriage resisters, female husbands, bluestockings, runaways, pioneers and menaces, not to mention revolutionaries, gardeners and neglected murderesses, the phenomenon we know as the lesbian begins to emerge

The Well of Loneliness (Hardcover, New ed): Radclyffe Hall The Well of Loneliness (Hardcover, New ed)
Radclyffe Hall
R475 R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Trash: Stories and Poems (Paperback, New ed): Dorothy Allison Trash: Stories and Poems (Paperback, New ed)
Dorothy Allison
R150 R141 Discovery Miles 1 410 Save R9 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days
A Woman Like That (Paperback): Joan Larkin, et al A Woman Like That (Paperback)
Joan Larkin, et al
R240 R225 Discovery Miles 2 250 Save R15 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

The act of "coming out" has the power to transform every aspect of a woman's life: family, friendships, career, sexuality, spirituality. An essential element of self-realization, it is the unabashed acceptance of one's "outlaw" standing in a predominantly heterosexual world.

These accounts -- sometimes heart-wrenching, often exhilarating -- encompass a wide breadth of backgrounds and experiences. From a teenager institutionalized for her passion for women to the mother who must come out to her young sons at the risk of losing them -- from the cautious academic to the raucous liberated femme -- each woman represented here tells of forging a unique path toward the difficult but emancipating recognition of herself. Extending from the 1940s to the present day, these intensely personal stories in turn reflect a unique history of the changing social mores that affected each woman's ability to determine the shape of her own life. Together they form an ornate tapestry of lesbian and bisexual experience in the United States over the past half-century..

Nora and Liz (Paperback): Nancy Garden Nora and Liz (Paperback)
Nancy Garden
R434 R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When her rental car has a flat tyre, Liz Hardy stops at the Tillot farm for a car jack. Nora Tillot walks Liz out to the barn and, as they search for the jack, the two women begin a journey neither anticipated. As their friendship turns passionate, will their happiness be shattered by rumours?

Guarded Hearts (Paperback): Hannah Rickard Guarded Hearts (Paperback)
Hannah Rickard
R307 R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Save R17 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Alyssa Norland is a woman with a past complete with a different name and identity. Now making her living as a professional dog trainer in a small Michigan town, Alyssa wants nothing more than to forget all about the life she left behind. But someone doesn't want her to forget. When the burglaries begin, all the evidence points to Alyssa as the obvious suspect. But former cop Sue Hunter doesn't believe Alyssa is guilty of any crime.

Embrace in Motion (Paperback): Karin Kallmaker Embrace in Motion (Paperback)
Karin Kallmaker
R343 R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Surfing high on the wave of lesbian chic, author/screenwriter Melissa Hartley is deliciously dangerous. When she meets the quiet, elegant Sarah MacNeil at a hotel bar, Melissa makes all the right moves to get Sarah into bed.

Lady Knight (Paperback): L-J Baker Lady Knight (Paperback)
L-J Baker
R466 R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Eleanor, a wealthy widow, has given up all hope of finding passionate love and her perfect knight - until she meets Rhiannon.

Red Sky at Morning                     (Paperback): Melissa Good Red Sky at Morning (Paperback)
Melissa Good
R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A connection others don't understand... A love that won't be denied... Danger they can sense but cannot see...

Dar Roberts was always ruthless and single-minded...until she met Kerry Stuart. Kerry was oppressed by her family's wealth and politics. But Dar saved her from that. Now new dangers confront them from all sides. While traveling to Chicago, Kerry's plane is struck by lightning. Dar, in New York for a stockholders' meeting, senses Kerry is in trouble. They simultaneously experience feelings that are new, sensations that both are reluctant to admit when they are finally back together.

Back in Miami, a cover-up of the worst kind, problems with the military, and unexpected betrayals will cause more danger. Can Kerry help as Dar has to examine her life and loyalties and call into question all she's believed in since childhood? Will their relationship deepen through it all? Or will it be destroyed?

Tropical Storm (Paperback, 3rd ed.): Melissa Good Tropical Storm (Paperback, 3rd ed.)
Melissa Good
R729 R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From bestselling author Melissa Good comes a tale of heartache, longing, family strife, lust for love, and redemption. Tropical Storm took the lesbian reading world by storm when it was first written . . . Don't miss this exciting revised "author's cut" edition. Dar Roberts, corporate raider for a multi-national tech company, is cold, practical, and merciless. She does her job with razor-sharp accuracy. Friends are a luxury she cannot allow herself, and love is something she knows she'll never attain. Kerry Stuart left Michigan for Florida in an attempt to get away from her domineering politician father and the constraints of the overly conservative life her family forced upon her. After college she worked her way into supervision at a small tech company, only to have it taken over by Dar Roberts' organization. Her association with Dar begins in disbelief, hatred, and disappointment, but when Dar unexpectedly hires Kerry as her work assistant, the dynamics of their relationship change. Over time, a bond begins to form. But can Dar overcome years of habit and conditioning to open herself up to the uncertainty of love? And will Kerry escape from the clutches of her powerful father in order to live a better life? The answer to both questions is no - unless these two women can strengthen and cement the tenuous bond that forms between them. First they must face storms that neither expects . . . and live to tell the tale.

Sword of the Guardian (Paperback): Merry Shannon Sword of the Guardian (Paperback)
Merry Shannon
R476 R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Save R26 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A shocking assassination creates an unconventional bond between a princess and her guardian in a kingdom filled with political intrigue, danger and unexpected romance.

Princess Shasta Soltranis enjoys a pampered life of court dances, elaborate finery, and the occasional secret fencing match with her twin brother, Daric. But in the midst of a birthday celebration, her world shatters when a mysterious assassin takes her brother's life. Shasta, the only remaining heir to the throne, narrowly escapes the assassin's blade thanks to the intervention of a traveling acrobat named Talon.

With the threat of another attempt on Shasta's life imminent, her father declares that the young hero will be come the Princess's bodyguard. But what Shasta doesn't know is that her new guardian has a very well-kept secret: he is actually a she.

Talon and Shasta soon grow closer than anyone, especially her father, could have predicted. Will the truth of her guardian's secret change their relationship forever?

Terrors of the High Seas (Paperback): Melissa Good Terrors of the High Seas (Paperback)
Melissa Good
R590 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Save R41 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After the stress of a long Navy project and Kerry's father's death, Dar and Kerry decide to take their first long vacation together. A cruise in the eastern Caribbean seems just the nice, peaceful time they need to unwind and relax. It is not long, though, until they get involved in a family feud, an old murder, and come face to face with pirates as their vacation turns into a race to find the key to a decades old puzzle.

Distant Shores, Silent Thunder (Paperback): Radclyffe Distant Shores, Silent Thunder (Paperback)
Radclyffe
R451 R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For Dr KT O'Bannon, a near-fatal tragedy derails a career and disrupts everything she knew about herself. She turns for solace to the woman who know her best - her ex-lover, Dr Tory King. Their unexpected reunion uncovers old wounds, forges new bonds, and awakens long-buried passions.

Thicker Than Water (Paperback): Melissa Good Thicker Than Water (Paperback)
Melissa Good
R407 R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Save R21 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Thy Neighbor's Wife  (Paperback): Georgia Berrs Thy Neighbor's Wife (Paperback)
Georgia Berrs
R335 R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Save R17 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Alex Foster's life is exactly as she wants it. She's quit her job as an English teacher and has decided to hole up in her newly acquired lake house to try her hand at writing a novel.

Jennifer Wainwright is a young, wealthy suburbanite whose life is exactly as she expected it would be. She's married to her highschool sweetheart who is about to inherit his father's law firm.

A chance meeting over a runaway dog is the start of a journey for each woman, both of whom had thought themselves content.

Distant Thunder (Paperback): Peggy J. Herring Distant Thunder (Paperback)
Peggy J. Herring
R410 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The story of two women forced by circumstance into the outlaw life. For Cordy, robbing banks and trains is the only way she knows how to survive. For Meg, a life of crime is the only resort to feed her family. Then Cordy awakens strange feelings within Meg, feelings she isn't equipped to deal with.

The Friendly Young Ladies (Paperback, 1st vintage books ed): Mary Renault The Friendly Young Ladies (Paperback, 1st vintage books ed)
Mary Renault
R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Set in 1937, The Friendly Young Ladies is a romantic comedy of off-Bloomsbury bohemia. Sheltered, naïve, and just eighteen, Elsie leaves the stifling environment of her parents’ home in Cornwall to seek out her sister, Leo, who had run away nine years earlier. She finds Leo sharing a houseboat, and a bed, with the beautiful, fair-haired Helen. While Elsie’s arrival seems innocent enough, it is the first of a series of events that will turn Helen and Leo’s contented life inside out. Soon a randy young doctor is chasing after all three women at once, a neighborly friendship begins to show an erotic tinge, and long-quiet ghosts from Leo’s past begin to surface. Before long, no one is sure just who feels what for whom.

Mary Renault wrote this delightfully provocative novel in the early 1940s, creating characters that are lighthearted, charming, and free-spirited partly in answer to the despair characteristic of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness or Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour. The result is a witty and stylish story that offers exceptional insight into the world of upcoming writers and artists of in 1930s London, chronicling their rejection of society’s established sexual mores and their heroic pursuits of art and life.

Half-moon Scar (Paperback, New edition): Allison Green Half-moon Scar (Paperback, New edition)
Allison Green
R428 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A Trio of Childhood Friends Reunite in an Attempt to Heal their Emotional Scars; Amy is a thirty-something lesbian who escaped her small, Midwestern hometown to pursue an academic career and establish an outwardly happy life with her lover, Robin. After years away, she returns to visit the people she's left behind - only to discover that her old friends Gina and Gavin have learned to dissociate from their pasts in extreme ways that rival her own. Amy's tendency toward self-mutilation parallels both Gavin's anorexia and Gina's moody detachment from life, and Amy soon begins to fear for Gavin's life while becoming more and more bewildered by Gina's behaviour. As past and present collide and the visit extends far beyond its intended length. Amy finds that she must reconcile the tense relationship with her family and her long-standing attraction to Gina, as well as her past romantic experimentation with Gavin. Together, Amy, Gina, and Gavin examine the scars - both emotional and physical, visible and invisible - that pervade their still-unresolved lives.

Seven Moves (Paperback): Carol Anshaw Seven Moves (Paperback)
Carol Anshaw
R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Christine Snow, a successful Chicago therapist, sets out to find her vanished lover, the sultry and elusive travel photographer Taylor Hayes. Forging a trail that leads into the heart of Morocco, Seven Moves tracks Christine's gradual recognition that no one can ever really know another's soul. Bearing Anshaw's trademark style -funny, hip, and laser-sharp -this is "a tightly told tale that resists the bookmark as well as any thriller" (Chicago Sun-Times). A Reader's Guide is now available.


The Sea of Light (Paperback): Jenifer Levin The Sea of Light (Paperback)
Jenifer Levin
R728 R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Save R53 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Two Friends and Other 19th-Century American Lesbian Stories: By American Women Writers (Paperback): Susan Koppelman, Various Two Friends and Other 19th-Century American Lesbian Stories: By American Women Writers (Paperback)
Susan Koppelman, Various; Edited by Susan Koppelman
R476 Discovery Miles 4 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
El Bello Verano / The Fine Summer (Spanish, Paperback): Cesare Pavese El Bello Verano / The Fine Summer (Spanish, Paperback)
Cesare Pavese; Edited by Manuel Carrera
R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

El bello verano lo escribio Pavese entre el 2 de marzo y el o de mayo de 1940. Con la cuidad como fondo unico, sordido y gris, el autor nos ofrece un relato del horror a lo adulto: el paso de la adolescencia a la madurez, la transicion del verano hacia el invierno que trae el frio tiempo de la desesperanza.

My Lover is a Woman - Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems (Paperback, 1st trade paperback ed): Lesl ea Newman My Lover is a Woman - Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems (Paperback, 1st trade paperback ed)
Lesl ea Newman
R479 Discovery Miles 4 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Editor Lesléa Newman has collected the work of both well-known and emerging poets to create an anthology of some of the finest writers of any gender or sexual orientation writing poetry today. The probing fierceness of Adrienne Rich's "Love Poem," the stirring sensual incantation of Ellen Bass's "Praise," the intensely felt tenderness of Dorothy Allison's "Reason Enough to Love You," are just a few examples of the rich talent displayed in this volume.

These poets have written daring confessions of love, sorrow, anger, and joy. Each poem is an elaborate confirmation of the resilience of the human spirit, and the ability to transform experience--including the struggle against the societal taboo of same-sex love--into brilliant poetry.

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