Tag: Bywater Books

‘State of Grace’ by Sandra Moran

State of Grace is just as unsparing and jarring as the experience of trauma itself.

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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

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‘Backcast’ by Ann McMan

Backcast is a memorable story about the unbreakable strength and resilience of women

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‘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.

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‘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.

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‘Parallel Lies’ by Stella Duffy

Lambda Literary Award Finalist Anyone

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New in November: Ricky Martin & Portia de Rossi

This month two celebrity memoirs—Ricky

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‘I Came Out for This?’ By Lisa Gitlin

Bywater Books has been making

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