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Tell it slant: a novel
Par Alana Wilcox, Beth Follett. 2001
"Tell It Slant" channels the lesbian couple of Djuna Barnes' "Nightwood", resetting their charged romance from 1920's Paris to contemporary…
Montreal's Plateau district. Nora Flood, indigent in body and soul, searches for love through a confused adolescence in Vancouver and a lonely stint in Toronto, before settling in Montreal. There, she meets Robin, a lover whose passionate nature teaches Nora that she must make a life for herself in the midst of uncertainty. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 2001.Be near me
Par Andrew O'Hagan. 2006
When an English priest, David Anderton, takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He…
does make friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, but the town seems to grow darker each night as he clashes with a world and a language that he barely understands. Fate comes calling, and before the summer is out David's quiet life is the focus of public hysteria. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 2006.After the fire
Par Jane Rule. 1989
Four women sense that love has failed them. As they try to put their lives in order, they come to…
value their friendship with each other. Set in an island community off the British Columbia coast. Some strong language. Winner of the 1991 CNIB Torgi Award. 1989.The time in between
Par David Bergen. 2005
Ava Boatman and her brother, Jon, have come to Vietnam in search of their missing father, Charles. A Vietnam vet…
with a terrible secret that has turned him into an emotionally distant loner, Charles has made a pilgrimage to a small Vietnamese village. As Ada and Jon try to find Charles, they also deal with their own fears, in completely different ways. Descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Winner of the 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize.Brokeback mountain: Story To Screenplay
Par Annie Proulx. 2005
Two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge…
a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. 1997.The lantern bearers: a novel
Par Ronald Frame. 1999
Wicked games (A jane Lawless Mystery Ser.)
Par Ellen Hart. 1998
When Jane Lawless takes a new tenant into her house, she has no idea what lies ahead. Jane and Cordelia…
are drawn deeper into the Beauman's lives, and discover a fundamentally damaged and dysfunctional family with a trail of death in their wake.The farewell symphony: a novel
Par Edmund White. 1997
Starting in the late 1960s and coming up to the present day, this novel is as much about the Jamesian…
dilemma of the American in Europe as it is about love and loss. At its heart is the tale of a writer and his struggle to survive as he and his friends hammer out a new gay aesthetic, support themselves through odd jobs and fight for recognition.The night listener: a novel
Par Armistead Maupin. 2000
Gabriel Noone is a late-night radio story teller who receives endless manuscripts. When "The Blacking Factory", the story of a…
child abused and sold for sex by his parents, arrives, he is intrigued. Noone develops a close relationship with the boy, but begins to sense that the story is not true. 2000.Crocodile soup
Par Julia Darling. 1998
Narrated by the central heroine, Gert, a curator in a northern museum, this story is interwoven with flashbacks to her…
eccentric and often surreal childhood. She had a hopelessly vain mother, a father constantly away at his African crocodile farm and a twin brother who becomes a Buddhist monk. 1998.Tipping the velvet (A virago V Ser.)
Par Sarah Waters. 1999
In the bawdy music halls of the late-19th century, Nan is captivated by Kitty Butler, a male impersonator. She manages…
to meet her heroine and soon after becomes her dresser. Heading for the bright lights of London they form a double act while privately, a love affair begins. Descriptions of sex and strong language. 1999.Odd girl out (Gold medal books ; #s653)
Par Ann Bannon. 2001
Designated the 'Queen of Lesbian Pulp' for her landmark novels of the 1950s and 1960s, Ann Bannon's work defined lesbian…
fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. Bannon's stories broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead characters who embraced their sexuality. In 'Odd Girl Out', Bannon introduces Laura Landon, whose love affair with her college room-mate Beth launched the lesbian pulp fiction genre. 2001, c1957.The moor is dark beneath the moon
Par David Watmough. 2002
After decades in Canada, Davey Bryant returns to his native Cornwall for the funeral of a mysterious relative, and lands…
in the middle of a property-inheritance fight that threatens to escalate into something worse. Distraught by this and all the changes around him, Davey begins wandering the nearby moors. He soon gets embroiled in a mystery concerning two midgets in a minivan, which leads him back into the time of King Arthur, all the while pondering his gay family tree. 2002.The mysteries
Par Robert McGill. 2004
Sunshine, Ontario. Alice Pederson has been missing for almost two years when her remains are found along a nearby shoreline.…
While other strange events unfold, a number of suspects are investigated: Alice's stay-at-home husband Mike; Daniel, her young lover who went to school in England; Stoddart Fremlin, an older dentist; several gay and lesbian couples; and the local mayor and his crazy brother. Some strong language. 2004.Enduring love: a novel
Par Ian McEwan. 1997
On a windy spring day in the Chilterns the calm organised life of Joe Rose is shattered by a ballooning…
accident. It could all have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them, resulting in a powerful obsession. Rose's scientific rationalism, threatens the love of his wife Clarissa and drives him to take desperate measures to stay alive.Shameless: A Novel
Par Paul Burston. 2001
Martin is not a happy bunny. His boyfriend has left him for a male prostitute, his best friend is too…
busy looking for sex on the internet to offer much in the way of support and his gal pal is convinced that her own boyfriend is a closet case. How's a boy to find Mr Right rather than Mr Right Now? 2001.While England sleeps
Par David Leavitt. 1998
As fascism surges in 1930s Europe, Brian, an upper-class writer, and Edward, an idealistic member of the Communist Party begin…
an affair, despite Brian's conviction that his homosexuality is something he will outgrow. As events push Edward to the point of crisis he is drawn into the chaos of war.The line of beauty
Par Alan Hollinghurst. 2004
"The line of beauty" traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. A time when drugs, gay…
sex and AIDS are rife. In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens as the Thatcher boom-years unfold. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2004 Man Booker Prize. 2004.Beyond the foothills
Par Essie Summers. 1976
After the unwelcome publicity aroused by a television interview, Marilla St. John decided to retreat to the country for a…
while until the fuss had died down. She was not prepared for the encounter with Rufus Sinclair, a confirmed bachelor who had heard that Marilla St. John was a determined husband-hunter. How could she convince him he was wrong? 1976.The forbidden valley (Harlequin romance ; #1731)
Par Essie Summers. 1978
Charlotte was worried to death about her cousin Phyl, who seemed to have run away from home and left her…
children. It just didn't seem possible -- although Phyl's rather forbidding brother-in-law Edmund Leigh was only too ready to believe the worst of her. So Charlotte set about solving the mystery, without letting Edmund realize who she was. 1978.