‘State of Grace’ by Sandra Moran
State of Grace is just as unsparing and jarring as the experience of trauma itself.
Read an Excerpt from Ann McMan’s New Novel ’Backcast’
Humor and heart go hand in hand in Backcast, a new novel from writer Ann McMan
‘Backcast’ by Ann McMan
Backcast is a memorable story about the unbreakable strength and resilience of women
‘Art on Fire’ by Hilary Sloin
Art on Fire is framed as a biography of Francesca deSilva, a reluctantly revolutionary artist. DeSilva is a character of Sloin’s own making, but under the author’s deft craftsmanship she is an uncannily realized creation.
‘Trick of the Dark’ by Val McDermid
Trick of the Dark (Bywater Books) is something old and something new from McDermid. A stand-alone novel (not one of her series detectives appears) and thoroughly, engagingly, compellingly lesbian as well as being just as bloodily intense as her previous thrillers.
‘Parallel Lies’ by Stella Duffy
Lambda Literary Award Finalist Anyone
New in November: Ricky Martin & Portia de Rossi
This month two celebrity memoirs—Ricky
‘I Came Out for This?’ By Lisa Gitlin
Bywater Books has been making