Authors of gay and lesbian fiction

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Lesbian and Gay Fiction

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  Naomi Alderman - Disobedience

  An exploration of friendship and morality set in the heart of London's orthodox Jewish community. Long listed for the Orange Prize in 2006.

   

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  Helen Cross - Summer of love

  In her debut novel we have a highly original tale of two 15-year-olds spending one long, hot summer together Although from completely different backgrounds both girls are victims of parental break-ups and they embark on a wild relationship that is both romantic and shockingly violent.

   

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  Stella Duffy - Beneath the Blonde

  Siobhan Forrester, lead singer of Beneath the Blonde, has everything a girl could want but now she has a stalker as well. PI Saz Martin starts on a whirlwind investigation and she isn't sure she wants to keep the relationship strictly business.

   

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  Radclyffe Hall - The Well of Loneliness

  This powerful novel of love between women was banned on publication in 1928 but then went on to become a classic bestseller. Stephen Gordon (named by a father desperate for a son) is not like other girls. As she grows up amidst the suffocating grandeur of Morton Hall she finds herself set apart from others… and then she falls passionately in love.

   

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  Sarah Waters - The Night watch

  Moving through 1940s London this  is the story of a group of young people, including three gay women, and the consequences of their relationships.

   

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  Michael Cunningham - A home at the end of the world

  Two decades of American life told through four people: Bobby and gay Jonathan, growing up together in a small town in the 1970s, Jonathan's mother Alice and unconventional Clare, with whom the two grown-up men forge a life together…and a family.

   

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  Patrick Gale - Dangerous pleasures

  A collection of Patrick Gale's short fiction. The subjects are wide-ranging and various - curious childhood loyalties, long-hidden memories, fractured relationships.

   

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  David Leavitt - The Indian clerk

  Set against the backdrop of the First World War, and populated with such luminaries as D.H. Lawrence and Bertrand Russell, "The Indian Clerk" fashions from this fascinating period a compelling story about our need to find order in the world.

   

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  Armistead Maupin - Michael Tolliver lives

  Michael ‘Mouse’ Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin’s classic Tales of the City series, is back. Now a fifty-five-year-old gardener, he brings the groundbreaking saga of San Francisco life up to date.

   

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  Edmund White - A Boy’s own story

  First published in 1982, White's semi-autobiographical novel became an instant classic. It is regarded as one of the most searing and glorious evocations of a child on the brink of maturity.