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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 15 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781839978142 | ISBN 10: 1839978147
"Sometimes, it's easy to feel like the only lesbian in the world - let alone in the village. But wherever you are with your sexuality, you've just picked up a book with the word 'lesbian' in the title and I know baby you would be so proud." Fr ... more
View book details£16.00 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781915261694 | ISBN 10: 1915261694
Pretended is a vivid historical, political and cultural account of schools and teaching under Section 28, a law that banned schools in the UK from promoting homosexuality as a 'pretended family relationship'. Catherine Lee was a teacher in ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780500297032 | ISBN 10: 0500297037
A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today’s varied gay culture. This book gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major conti ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780224101905 | ISBN 10: 0224101900
*A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK* From the bestselling, award-winning author of Fun Home. All her life, Alison Bechdel has searched for an elusive secret. The secret to superhuman strength. She has looked for ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780349006406 | ISBN 10: 0349006407
‘Part confession, part call to arms and wholly entertaining’ OBSERVER  ‘Her writing style is as kooky and digestible as Bill Bryson’s... A fun-filled, fact-packed, memorable ride’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Full of wit and wisdom’ RADIO TIM ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781908745842 | ISBN 10: 1908745843
Out of the thousands of letters Tove Jansson wrote a cache remains that she addressed to her family, her dearest confidantes, and her lovers, male and female. Into these she spilled her innermost thoughts, defended her ideals and revealed her heart. ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781471194917 | ISBN 10: 1471194914
The Lead singer of multi-million-selling rock band Skunk Anansie, solo artist, LGBTQ+ activist and all around trail blazer - Skin is a global icon, and she has been smashing stereotypes for over twenty-five years. Her journey from Brixton to one of t ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780997048797 | ISBN 10: 0997048794
Meet real life butches from all around the world in The Butch Lesbians of the 50s, 60s, and 70s Coloring Book. From our cover butch, badass Moroccan lover and reputed witch Cherifa Amina, to the ground-breaking curator Adrienne Fuzee, to Honey ... more
View book details£16.50 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781438461762 | ISBN 10: 1438461763
Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s. LGBT Americans now enjoy the right to marry — but what will we remember about the vibrant cultural spaces that lesbian activists created in the 19 ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780062309358 | ISBN 10: 0062309358
Hailed by ESPN as the world s most famous female basketball player, Brittney Griner, the dunking phenom and national sensation who is shattering stereotypes and breaking boundaries, now shares her coming-of-age story, revealing how she found her stre ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781500350505 | ISBN 10: 1500350508
In 1989 nineteen-year-old Natasha is obsessively in love with her former teacher, Miss Williams. The tattoo she flashes around says so. Natasha meets Alex, a girl her own age, who questions her about the tattoo. An awkward romance is born. Â In t ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780224093521 | ISBN 10: 0224093525
Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, her remarkable graphic memoir about her father, established itself immediately as a classic of the genre, being chosen as Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year for 2006, while The Times called it 'a profound and important b ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844087198 | ISBN 10: 1844087190
These remarkable diaries are a piece of lost lesbian history. Anne Lister defied the role of womanhood seen in the novels of Jane Austen: she was bold, fiercely independent, a landowner, industrialist, traveller ? and lesbian. She kept extensive diar ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781558615274 | ISBN 10: 155861527x
Three years after We Walk Alone, Ann Aldrich expands on her journalistic portraits of lesbian subcultures in and around New York to include: class questions; the diverse jobs lesbians held; social cliques; differences among the “Village,” “Uptown,” a ... more
View book details£15.99 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780553378269 | ISBN 10: 0553378260
It is often said that the best comedy springs from hard times. And Rita Mae Brown has seen plenty of those. In this irresistibly readable memoir, she recounts the drama of her birth as the illegitimate daughter of a flighty blue blood who l ... more
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