We could pass anything, anything at all, at speeds which would astonish you . Sue, orphaned at birth, is born among petty thieves - fingersmiths - in London's Borough. From the moment she draws breath, her fate is linked to another orphan, growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.

B format publication of this wonderfully lush, sensuous and bawdy novel set in the music halls of the late 19th century.

Jeanette is adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves.

* An eerie and utterly compelling novel of mystery and seduction set in a women's prison in Victorian London.

Meet the author's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who is involved with his male students and the family babysitter. This title is a graphic memoir.

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Sarah Waters, the award-winning author of three novels set in Victorian London, returns with a stunning novel that marks a departure from the 19th century.

A rejacketed reissue of the classic love story of American painter Mary Ann Wilson and her companion Miss Brundidge.

A novel of loss and love, and a philosophical meditation on the body. The novel explores the body as a physical entity and as an image of our innermost selves in order to reveal more about the phenomenon of love.

A novel from the author of The Talented Mr Ripley .

A novel, both funny and macabre, which ties in with the film of the same name, starring Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates.

The classic, Pulitzer-Prize winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name.

This eighth collection in the strip cartoon series will delight and titillate both loyal fans and new-found friends.

This is the story of two women, Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim, who met and fell in love during the war years in Nazi Germany. The story is based on interviews with Lilly, now 80 years old, and with friends and acquaintances of the couple.

Nightwood was acknowledged by T S Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th-century.

Reprint with new cover.

Full title: 'Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms to Watch Out For'. The tenth book in the bestselling lesbian comic series.

Second edition.

While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this bare-bones abridgement highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature, and in Western civilization surveys.