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Category: LGBTQ Book Recommendations
LGBTQ Book Recommendations – Immersive, accessible and thought-provoking books (and authors) that take the reader on a journey. Mostly LGBTQ+ themed.
Kirsty Logan | Rental Heart & Other Fairytales
Kirsty Logan - Literary Crush - A writer’s writer. By that I mean she inspires a creative vision which is expansive and borderless.
Carol Ann Duffy – First Female Poet Laureate
Carol Ann Duffy - Literary Crush - UK’s first female Poet Laureate. Open, engaged, and fearless defender of poetry, social justice and equality.
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mae Brown author of Rubyfruit Jungle tells the story of the feisty, resolute and unapologetic lesbian heroine Molly Bolt.
Virginia Woolf – On Being Ill – Literary Crush
Literary Crush - With every page I turned, Virginia Woolf the celebrity gave way to Virginia Woolf the writer.
DIVA Magazine – Challenging Homophobia
I remember buying my first DIVA magazine in 1994, the year DIVA was first published. I remember thinking a whole magazine for lesbians, WOW.
Ali Smith – Other Stories and Other Stories
Ali Smith, Literary Magician - her stories resonate way beyond the actual page and I am left with my imagination working overtime.
W H Auden – Literary Crush
W H Auden showed me the power of personification as a tool for description - the art of bringing alive the inanimate elements of a scene.
Maurice by E M Forster
Maurice was one of the first gay books I read. And at 17, with no language to express my longing, to find the words that spoke of it meant everything to me
Elizabeth Bishop – Reaching for the Moon
Elizabeth Bishop - Reaching for the Moon, a biopic of her life in Brazil with lover Maria Carlota Costallat de Macedo Soares (Lota)
Silver Moon Women’s Bookshop
Silver Moon Bookshop - Pioneering women of feminist and lesbian publishing. Pandora Award Winners.
Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
Annie On My Mind - A narrative of teenage gay love with a positive message, and a happy ending to treasure by author Nancy Garden