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An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves,...
An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. The Swimming-Pool Library focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life...
"A remarkable story."—Publishers Weekly
Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated painter, and Sarah Dowling, a cross-dressing farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. They choose to live together and love each other freely, even though they know of no precedents for
...Nina Revoyr brings us a compelling story of race, love, murder, and history against the backdrop of Los Angeles.
—Winner of a 2004 American Library Association Stonewall Honor Award in Literature
—Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award
—Nominated for an Edgar Award
The plot line of Southland is the stuff of a James Ellroy or a Walter Mosley novel . . . But the climax
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