'The bible of lesbianism' THE TIMES

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.

Twenty two year old, Sumire is in love for the first time with a woman seventeen years her senior, Miu. Surprised that she might, after all, be a lesbian, Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend, K, a primary school teacher, who is used to answering questions, but what he most wants to say to Sumire is I love you.

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

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

The poet, Audre Lorde, depicts her life and examines the influence of various women on her development.

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

This collection of prose writings by Adrienne Rich, an American poet and feminist theorist, reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work. Issues explored include the politics of language, the uses of scholarship, racism, history and motherhood.

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.

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.

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

Explores diverse positive understandings of lesbian philosophy. This book examines the dualisms and methods of traditional Euro-American philosophy, and offers creative experiments in wisdom-seeking. It also examines areas of contested sexual behaviors, such as pornography and sadomasochism.

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.

If you were one of the girls , as early Hollywood described Sapphic stars, lesbian affairs lent an edge to both your life and your work. This book lifts the veil from the lives of such powerful and uninhibited Hollywood goddesses as Nazimova, Dietrich, Bankhead and Garbo.

Provides an account of the growth of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. The books draws on oral histories collected from 45 women.

Argues that the shift from 'pathological' to 'gay affirmative' research merely substitutes one depoliticized construction of lesbianism for another. This work contends that the gay affirmative model is incompatible with radical feminist theory in which lesbianism is a political statement representing the bonding of women against male supremacy.

When Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under the spell of her beautiful and charismatic teacher. But Madamoiselle Julie's life is not as straightforward as Olivia imagines and the school year is destined to end abruptly in tragedy.

Seduction, madness, addiction, suicide - this was the bohemian world of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks, two pivotal figures in the cultural life of Paris at the turn of the century.