Lesbian fiction

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Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens: ‘Rather whore than chore’  

Over the past decade or so I’ve read several modern takes on westerns, the most enjoyable of which was Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers although Glenn Taylor’s The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggert and A Hanging at Cinder Bottom were also thoroughly entertaining. A couple of years ago the more sober How Much of These Hills […]

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Pages for Her by Sylvia Brownrigg: Flannery and Anne reprised

Back in 2001, I was very taken with a novel called Pages for You. It was a love story, telling of the intense almost visceral affair between seventeen-year-old Flannery and her teacher Anne, ten years her lover’s senior. Since then I’ve read and thoroughly enjoyed Sylvia Brownrigg’s The Delivery Room, a very different novel. When

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