Date: Mon, 29 May 95 16:21:27 EDT From: "Ellen Greenblatt" THE WOMEN'S PRESS -- LESBIAN LIST, SPRING 1995 34 Great Sutton Street London ECIV ODX Tel 0171-251 3007 Fax 0171-608 1938 **Availability and price may be subject to change** NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! Crime Fiction SHE CAME BY THE BOOK -- Mary Wings At last! The third bestselling Emma Victor mystery! ISBN: 0704344327 L5.99 Also available: SHE CAME IN A FLASH -- Mary Wings ISBN: 0704341085 L5.99 SHE CAME TOO LATE -- Mary Wings ISBN: 0704339951 L5.99 Fiction REFLECTIONS -- Caeia March A lesbian reworking of the enduringly fascinating legend of Tristan and Iseult, this is a compelling exploration of the power of legend, women's spirituality and erotic love. ISBN: 070434419X L6.99 THE HIDE AND SEEK FILES -- Caeia March "A classic story of fiery passions and clandestine emotions between two women" -- 7 Days ISBN: 0704340968 L6.99 May Sarton COMING INTO EIGHTY AND EARLIER POEMS -- May Sarton ISBN: 0704344130 L8.99 I KNEW A PHOENIX -- May Sarton ISBN: 0704343924 L8.99 May Saron's much-loved first autobiographical work, evoking her early years and her crucial encounters with the Huxleys and Virginia Woolf. RECENTLY PUBLISHED CANCER IN TWO VOICES -- Sandra Butler & Barbara Rosenblum Through journal entries and letters, the authors share the experience of living with cancer and being the partner who survives. ISBN: 0704343932 L7.99 CROSSING THE BORDER: AN EROTIC JOURNEY -- Kim Chernin An autobiographical account of the author's passionate youth. ISBN: 0704344149 L8.99 WEBSTER'S FIRST NEW INTERGALACTIC WICKEDARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE -- Mary Daly An illustrated guide to the creating, spelling and new meanings of words, it is an outrageous romp through word that 'do not live in the dictionary (but) live in the mind'. (Virginia Woolf) ISBN: 070434414X L12.99 STAGE FRIGHT -- Ellen Hart Like Nancy Drew and her sidekick George, but grown up and out as lesbians Jane lawless and partner Cordelia are soon embroiled in a series of events which will keep even the most jaded reader turning pages. ISBN: 0704344084 L6.99 A DOORYARD FULL OF FLOWERS -- Isabel Miller An enchanting continuation of her classic story _Patience and Sarah_. Isabel Miller offers glimpses of their 'slow, ardent, exalted life together'. ISBN: 0704344114 L6.99 KINDS OF LOVE -- May Sarton With perceptive warmth and humour, May Sarton charts the triumphs, tragedies and understandings which make up a year in the life of one small town. ISBN: 0704344181 L6.99 JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE -- May Sarton Written originally to help the author through a personal depression, this journal is an unsurpassed accounting of a writer's life, and remains her most acclaimed and cherished book. ISBN: 0704328674 L7.99 FICTION SISTER GIN -- June Arnold At 50, Sue finds her peace of mind is invaded by hot flushes, frustrated creativity, a compulsion to leave her lover, and the insistent voice of Sister Gin. ISBN: 0704338335 L3.95 LOVERS' CHOICE -- Becky Birtha A resonant collection which plays upon the possibilities and problems of claiming an identity as a black lesbian. ISBN: 0704341174 L3.95 MISS X, OR THE WOLF WOMAN -- Christine Crow The extraordinary story of Mary Wolfe and her love affair with Miss X, her headmistress. ISBN: 0704342596 L6.95 CLOSING THE BOOK -- Stevie Davies For five years, Bridie and Ruth have been steadfast companions in a harsh world. Now without warning, all has changed, and their future together is suddenly called into question. "An extraordinary insight into the workings of the human minds and emotions" -- The Times ISBN: 0704343886 L6.99 ISBN: 0704350645 (Hardback) L12.99 THE JUDAS ROSE -- Suzette Haden Elgin In the Earth of the future, language has become the ultimate weapon and a deadly struggle for control takes place between men and women. ISBN: 0704340984 L4.50 DAUGHTERS OF A CORAL DAWN -- Katherine V. Forrest A superbly entertaining alternative Utopia where women work, play, love, and procreate together to build a life of idyll, and where Mother is the only heterosexual on the planet. ISBN: 0704343592 L5.99 THE FIRES OF BRIDE -- Ellen Galford Maria, a fugitive artist, lives on a Scottish Island so remote that it only emerges from the mist every hundred years or so. What compels her to stay? her love affair with the clan chieftain Catriona, or her strange affinity with the Fires of Bride? "Boisterous, sprung with joy and wit." -- New Statesman ISBN: 0704340208 L6.99 SAINTS AND ADVENTURERS -- Frances Gapper A wildly funny mix of Coriscan legend, Catholic mythology and contemporary reflections on sex, death, feminist and diet drinks. ISBN: 0704341050 L3.95 THE WANDERGROUND -- Sally Miller Gearhart A Utopian vision of the future that will delight and inspire. "Sally Gearheart is an original and so is her book. Buy it. Read it. Give it to a friend." -- Rita Mae Brown ISBN: 0704339471 L1.95 FIRE! FIRE! -- Caeia March In late twentieth-century Britain, Denny reaches out for a sense of equilibrium after a series of emotional and material losses. From seventeenth-century Britain, Roarie, a weaver's daughter is attempting to reach across time to Denny. Can these two women possibly connect? ISBN: 0704342820 L6.95 THREE PLY YARN -- Caeia March Past, present and future are woven together in a passionate story of love and friendship, anger and lies, dreams and harsh reality. ISBN: 0704340070 L6.95 PATIENCE & SARAH -- Isabel Miller Based on the lives of American painter Mary Ann Willson and her companion Miss Brundidge, a cherished lesbian and literary classic. ISBN: 0704338483 L5.99 REMEMBER THE TARANTELLA -- Finola Moorhead A wild, whirling dervish of a book, it has twenty-six extraordinary characters, each representing a letter of the alphabet and between them every astrological sign. The most exciting literary debut since Jeanette Winterson's _Oranges are Not the Only Fruit_. ISBN: 0704343762 L6.99 STILL MURDER -- Finola Moorhead A new and unusual plant is discovered in a central city park. But how does a passing nun recognise it a marijuana? And why does she call in homicide as well as narcotics? ISBN: 0704343975 L7.99 THE HIGH COST OF LIVING -- Marge Piercy The acclaimed novel by this bestselling author. ISBN: 070433836X L6.99 A PIECE OF THE NIGHT -- Michele Roberts The story of Julie: dutiful daughter, romantic heroine, the perfect wife and mother. The woman who seeks nothing but acceptance. But Julie knows she is also the witch, the whore, the madwoman, the insatiable, the lesbian. "A writer of talent and energy" -- Guardian ISBN: 0704338300 L6.99 ON STRIKE AGAINST GOD -- Joanna Russ "It's brilliant, it's exuberant, it's hilarious. And the love scenes are the funniest and most honest I've ever read." -- Joan Larkin ISBN: 0704340747 L2.95 THE EDUCATION OF HARRIET HATFIELD -- May Sarton Devastated by the death of her lover of thirty years, shy and diffident Harriet fights grief by opening a women's bookshop. Soon she finds herself embroiled in a single-handed struggle against ignorance and prejudice. ISBN: 070434226X L6.95 AS WE ARE NOW -- May Sarton Abandoned in a home for old people, Caro Spencer determines to turn her nightmare into defiant freedom ... ISBN: 0704339218 L5.99 THE MAGNIFICENT SPINSTER -- May Sarton Jane Reid epitomises all that is glorious about the state of spinsterhood: freedom, honesty, courage. When Cam embarks upon a biography of this remarkable woman, she rediscovers a whole new emotional landscape of her own. ISBN: 0704340135 L6.99 MRS STEVENS HEARS THE MERMAIDS SINGING -- May Sarton Hilary Stevens, a formidable personality and renowned poet, has her hard- won peace disrupted by two journalists seeking the source of her creative inspiration. In the course of her interview with them she comes to terms with her own past and her muse. A lesbian classic and May Sarton's best- known novel. ISBN: 0704343339 L5.99 A RECKONING -- May Sarton "The novel has an intensity and an essential truth that will make it an enduring bestseller." -- Carolyn Heilbrun ISBN: 0704339390 L6.99 THE COLOR PURPLE -- Alice Walker Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller tells the touching and engrossing story of Celie, who has no one to talk to but God --until, that is, she meets Shug Avery, singer and magic woman -- and discovers the love and support of women. ISBN: 0704339056 L5.99 AFTERSHOCKS -- Jess Wells When an earthquake hits San Francisco, Trout Giovanni finds that her meticulously controlled life has disintegrated. As her lover, Patricia, waits for her in a bar across town, Trout finds herself slowly, inexorably changing ... ISBN: 0704343835 L6.99 THE WOMEN'S PRESS BOOK OF NEW MYTH AND MAGIC -- Helen Windrath, ed. An entrancing collection of stories, exploring women's relationship to mythology and magic. ISBN: 0704343479 L7.99 ACROSS THE ACHERON -- Monique Wittig Monique Wittig's feminist version of Dante's _The Divine Comedy_ -- an extraordinary journey through the circles of Hell and Limbo. ISBN: 0704341573 L3.95 LESBIAN CRIME FICTION LEGAL TENDER -- Marion Foster A racy and skillfully constructed mystery which moves effortlessly between seedy city streets and the wild beauty of a remote island haven. ISBN: 0704343622 L5.99 COLD STEAL -- Carole Spearin McCauley Stevens, a genetic engineer, is found dead -- his body horribly mutilated. Pauli Golden determines to expose his murderer, uncovering a lethal cocktail of hate, treachery, bitterness and fraud, far more vicious than the unpalatable practices of Steven's research institute. ISBN: 0704342901 L5.95 COMMON MURDER -- Val McDermid Journalist and reluctant sleuth, Lindsay Gordon, investigates a case of murder at a peace camp, and is plunged into a drama with far-reaching political implications. ISBN: 0704342065 L5.99 FINAL EDITION -- Val McDermid Lindsay Gordon returns to Glasgow to find her ex-lover, Alison, murdered, and her former colleague, Jackie, jailed for the crime. Slowly, inexorably, Gordon gets drawn in. ISBN: 070434274X L5.99 REPORT FOR MURDER -- Val McDermid What is a right-on lesbian reporter doing at a gala fundraising concert at a Derbyshire public school? And when the star attraction is murdered in the wings can Lindsay Gordon solve the crime? ISBN: 0704340801 L5.99 UNION JACK -- Val McDermid At the Amalgamated Media Workers Conference, Lindsay Gordon is less than thrilled to find that her old 'friend' Tom 'Union' Jack has gained more power and looks to be doing some pretty dodgy deals. Then Jack dies -- suddenly and violently -- and Lindsay is suspect number one. ISBN: 0704343347 L5.99 ALL THE MUSCLE YOU NEED -- Diana McRae "Something plaguing you? We'll give you a low-cost estimate for any job, no matter how large (or small). Eliza Pirex Investigations. _All the Muscle you Need_." Intrigued by a small ad, thirtysomething Eileen, trapped in a dreary marriage, seeks the services of Eliza Pirex to help find a long-lost friend. It soon seems that her disappearance is steeped in mystery, danger and -- murder. ISBN: 0704343428 L6.99 FINAL SESSION -- Mary Morell The exciting debut of freewheeling Chicana lesbian police officer, Lucia Ramos, in an entertaining mystery which raises serious questions about psychotherapy and the abuse of power. ISBN: 0704343428 L5.99 BAYOU CITY SECRETS -- Deborah Powell In 1936, tough-talking investigative reporter, Hollis Carpenter, has quit her job at the _Houston Times_ rather than accept a society page assignment. Andrew Delacroix, the newspaper owner, intervenes personally to dissuade her, as does his beautiful wife, Lily ... ISBN: 0704343266 L5.99 HOUSTON TOWN -- Deborah Powell When a friend finds a corpse in her bed, Hollis Carpenter searches the seedy byways of Houston for the killer, confronting sleazy politicians, cops on the make, and a powerful woman evangelist with incredible personal magnetism. ISBN: 0704343274 L5.99 THE END OF APRIL -- Penny Sumner Helping in the transcription of 'illicit sexual writings from the nineteenth century' at an Oxford college, Victoria Cross finds herself falling in love with beautiful anti-porn activist, April Tate. But when death intrudes violently, life becomes more complicated for our intrepid PI. ISBN: 0704343584 L5.99 DIVINE VICTIM -- Mary Wings Her bestselling Gothic mystery, 'Divine Victim has me hooked. Compulsive and intriguing.' -- James Herbert ISBN: 0704343231 L5.99 POETRY HALFWAY TO SILENCE: LOVE POEMS -- May Sarton A fine collection of exquisite poetry from an internationally acclaimed woman of letters. A poignant and resonant portrayal of the artist, which includes some of her most moving love poetry to date. ISBN: 0704343703 L7.99 LIVEWIRE BOOKS FOR TEENAGERS GET A LIFE -- Jenny Pausacker Leith, at 16, is asking herself why some of her old friendships are no longer satisfying ... Could she *really* be a lesbian? ISBN: 0704349256 L3.95 CARTOONS VISIBLY VERA -- Cath Jackson Cartoon adventures of Vera the Visible Lesbian, from the shrewdly hilarious pen of Cath Jackson. ISBN: 0704340291 L2.95 LESBIAN STUDIES GRANDMOTHERS OF THE LIGHT: A MEDICINE WOMAN'S SOURCE BOOK -- Paula Gunn Allen Traditional, mythological tales from the Cherokee, Navajo, Aztec, Maya, and other North American cultures, which reveal a world where people converse with animals and change shape at will, and where supernaturals exercise special powers and wisdom. ISBN: 0704343185 L7.99 A WORLD OF GIRLS: THE APPEAL OF THE GIRL'S SCHOOL STORY -- Rosemary Auchmuty In this lively and controversial book, the author takes a radical look at girls' boarding school stories, discovering a powerful world of independent young women living together without the dominating influence of men. ISBN: 070434310X L8.99 BEYOND GOD THE FATHER: TOWARD A PHILOSOPHY OF WOMEN'S LIBERATION -- Mary Daly A brilliantly argued and classic book which exposed the misogyny at the heart of the Judaeo-Christian religion, a misogyny which continues to flourish in Christianity's modern, secular manifestations. ISBN: 0704339935 L6.95 GYN/ECOLOGY: THE METAETHICS OF RADICAL FEMINISM -- Mary Daly Her major work, now with a new introduction. 'Daly writes with deep healing anger and uncompromising vision. Her book gives a shock of awakening.' -- Publishers Weekly ISBN: 0704338505 L8.95 PURE LUST: ELEMENTAL FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY -- Mary Daly 'Mary Daly is an extraordinary woman and this is an extraordinary work, demanding unusual spiritual and intellectual effort from its readers. The effort is worth it.' -- New York Times Book Review ISBN: 0704339358 L5.95 INTIMACY AND SOLITUDE: BALANCING CLOSENESS AND INDEPENDENCE -- Stephanie Dowrick Intimacy. Solitude. Both have the potential for immense personal satisfaction. Both can be disappointing, distressing or feel wrong. This empowering and urgently needed book enables us to discover our own unique inner world, as well a sour connections with others. ISBN: 0704343088 L7.99 THE INTIMACY AND SOLITUDE SELF-THERAPY BOOK -- Stephanie Dowrick In a warm and wise companion to her international bestseller, _Intimacy and Solitude_, the author guides us to greater fulfillment and joy through simple, effective self-therapy. ISBN: 0704343770 L7.99 SURPASSING THE LOVE OF MEN: ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE BETWEEN WOMEN -- Lillian Faderman 'A fascination from beginning to end ... a sort of revelation.' -- Jill Tweedie, Guardian A quietly revolutionary book which reconstructs a lost history of women loving women. ISBN: 0704339773 L8.95 A CHORUS OF STONES: THE PRIVATE LIFE OF WAR -- Susan Griffin A powerful, moving and lyrical look at the nature of war and gender, illuminating the interplay between private suffering and public tragedy. ISBN: 0704343878 L8.99 WOMAN AND NATURE -- Susan Griffin In this superb, resonant book, acclaimed theorist and philosopher, Susan Griffin, provides an extraordinary history of man's dominance over woman and nature, and offers a shining vision of utter transformation. ISBN: 0704339331 L7.99 WHAT LESBIANS DO IN BOOKS: LESBIANS AS WRITERS, READERS AND CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE -- Elaine Hobby and Chris White, eds. ISBN: 070434288X L8.95 ANTICLIMAX: A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION -- Sheila Jeffreys Controversial lesbian historian Sheila Jeffreys argues that the pursuit of sexual revolution is directly opposed to women's search for freedom, and presents a compelling analysis of trans within sex from the early twentieth century to the present day. ISBN: 0704342030 L8.99 THE LESBIAN HERESY -- Sheila Jeffreys Arguing for a rebuilding of lesbian sexuality which is positive and egalitarian, and free from dominant/submissive role-playing. ISBN: 0704343827 L8.99 NOT A PASSING PHASE: RECLAIMING LESBIANS IN HISTORY -- Lesbian History Group Have lesbians been expunged from history by academics and biographers who wish to deny their existence? The authors of this lively and contentious collection of essays certainly believe so, and aim to redress the balance. ISBN: 0704341751 L8.99 LOOK ME IN THE EYE: OLD WOMEN, AGING AND AGEISM -- Barbara MacDonald and Cynthia Rich 'Extremely rarely does a book actually change lives, open doors and affect the human condition. I believe this one should and will.' -- May Sarton ISBN: 0704339455 L2.95 WOMEN LIKE US: LIVES OF OLDER LESBIANS -- Suzanne Neild and Rosalind Pearson A warm and personal history of the changing face of lesbian life and culture in Britain from the 1920s to the present day. 'A truly moving experience.' -- Spare Rib ISBN: 0704342855 L7.95 A PASSION FOR FRIENDS: TOWARD A PHILOSOPHY OF FEMALE AFFECTION -- Janice Raymond 'A scrupulously honest, never sentimental attempt to give women a basis for pride in independence through friendship.' -- New Society ISBN: 0704339978 L7.95 THE KNOT OF TIME: ASTROLOGY AND FEMALE EXPERIENCE -- Lindsay River and Sally Gillespie An exhilarating and challenging exploration of the science of astrology, reinterpreted through women's perspective. ISBN: 0704339129 L8.99 BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY LESBIAN NUNS: BREAKING SILENCE -- Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan Over fifty nuns -- some sexually active, others chaste; some politically involved, other not; some still in religious life, others now outside -- break the repressive silence of their orders to talk courageously and rankly about their experiences. ISBN: 0704343746 L8.99 OUTERCOURSE: THE BE-DAZZLING VOYAGE -- Mary Daly The resplendent philosophical autobiography of the world's foremost radical lesbian philosopher. ISBN: 070434372X L9.99 THE WORRY GIRL -- Andrea Freud Loewenstein An evocative story, which is part autobiography, part coming-out novel, of one sensitive, assimilated Jewish girl. ISBN: 0704343711 L5.99 ONE OF THE FAMILY: AN AUSTRALIAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Pearlie McNeill A compelling picture of life in Sydney in the 1950s as seen by a lesbian teenager rejected and made homeless by her own parents. ISBN: 0704342103 L7.95 A CORRIDOR OF MIRRORS -- Rosemary Manning In this powerful autobiography, Rosemary Manning, a school principal and author of the much-loved _The Chinese Garden_, describes how she conducted a successful public career, whilst keeping the most central facts of her private life secret. ISBN: 0704340542 L5.95 AFTER THE STROKE -- May Sarton An inspiring record of the author's fight back to health after a crippling stroke. ISBN: 0704341441 L4.95 ENDGAME: A JOURNAL OF THE SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR ISBN: 0704343320 L7.99 ENCORE: A JOURNAL OF THE EIGHTIETH YEAR ISBN: 0704343800 L7.99 May Sarton's journals document the journey into old age with unflinching grace and candour -- her creative spirit soaring above the limits imposed by physical frailty. MAMA SAID THERE'D BE DAYS LIKE THIS: MY LIFE IN THE JAZZ WORLD -- Val Wilmer 'It is both a series of verbal snapshots of encounters with some of the most creative musicians of this century and an account of the social, sexual, and musical changes of postwar Britain.' Guardian ISBN: 0704341204 L8.95 ** ORDERING INFORMATION ** TRADE INFORMATION: We aim to offer the highest standard of customer service and information. 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