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Fair Play : A novel
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| NZ$ 27.00 each |
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| Author: Tove Jansson (tr from Swedish Thomas Teal) |
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What mattered most to Tove Jansson, she explained in her eighties, was work and love, a sentiment she echoes in this tender and original novel. Translated for the first time into English, "Fair Play" portrays a love between two older women, a writer and artist, as they work side-by-side in their Helsinki studios, travel together and share summers on a remote island. In the generosity and respect they show each other and the many small shifts they make to accommodate each other's creativity we are shown a relationship both heartening and truly progressive. "so what can happen when Tove Jansson turns her attention to her own favourite subjects, love and work, in the form of this novel about two women, lifelong partners and friends? Expect something philosophically calm - and discreetly radical. At first sight it looks autobiographical. Like everything Jansson wrote, it's much more than it seems ..."Fair Play" is very fine art." - (Ali
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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for
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| Author: Alison Bechdel |
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When Alison Bechdel's unflinching graphic memoir, "Fun Home", was published in 2006 it was met with universal acclaim and named by many reviewers as the graphic book of the year, bringing her once-underground work to a wider audience. Cape is now proud to announce the publication of the strip that made her name. Since its inception in 1983, "Dykes To Watch Out For" has become a counterculture institution. The first strips were stand-alone pieces, each offering an eye-opening and acerbically funny insight into the Lesbian society of 1980s America. Here we learnt the terminology of that world ('Luppies', for example, are Lesbian Urban Professionals) and discovered its codes of conducts, like the dos-and-don'ts of a couple's first night together. Soon, after those first few strips, a compelling and addictive soap opera developed.We met Mo, a neurotic feminist book clerk, and her unforgettably eclectic group of friends. There was Lois, the
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Butterfly Soup : A Mystery
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| Author: Jan Marsh |
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Counsellor Gabrielle Murphy leads a quiet life, but when a missing client leads Gabrielle to discover a body, she is drawn into the dark side of her pretty tourist town. Fearing that her client, Jasmine, will be charged with murder, Gabrielle enlists some determined women to prove her innocence. She is hampered not only by Jasmine's dubious associates, but also by the client herself who, confused and suicidal, may be on the brink of confessing. Gabrielle enlists forensic psychologist, Martina Day in her quest. When Gabrielle visits the psychologist in her sophisticated home in the city, they become lovers and Gabrielle's judgement is clouded by her desire to impress. As she becomes deeply involved, Gabrielle finds herself not only investigating, but also the target of, murder. A girls' night out provides the killers with their opportunity and Gabrielle finds herself running for her life in a dark forest.
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To Quote a Queer
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| Author: John Lessard |
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We're here. We're queer. And we're hilarious - not to mention eloquent, bitchy, poetic, incisive, shrill, luminous, and dead-on brilliant. "To Quote a Queer" gathers in one convenient, comprehensive volume more than 3,000 of the most pert, sinister, and illuminating pearls of wisdom ever uttered ...with a lisp. "To Quote a Queer" brings together the wisdom of Sir Elton John, Virginia Woolf, and Stephen Fry, the wit of Oscar Wilde and Billie Jean King, and the dramatic flair of Noel Coward and Karl Lagerfeld. Covering every known gay standby - from coming out and cruising to grooming, grilling, parents, and pets - this wickedly amusing book catches a host of topics in the queer crosshairs.
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Footnotes to Sex
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| Author: Mia Farlane |
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Love in the 21st century is a many-splintered thing. May and Jansen are in love. That must be why they bicker and fight over, well, just about everything. The spark in their relationship, or at least the sex, has been misplaced. May, too busy not writing a PhD, decides to take life lessons from fabulously French Francine. Jansen, meanwhile, is hooking up with an old flame, wondering why what might have been is more attractive than what you've got. Into this cauldron of confused hormones comes May's highly irresponsible younger sister, ready to stir things up. Leading mixed-up twenty-first century lives, May and Jansen need to believe in themselves before they can believe in each other. Footnotes to Sex is a brilliantly funny lesbian novel which shows what a nightmare all women can be.
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The Night Watch
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| Author: Sarah Waters |
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Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching ...Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret ...Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover ...Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances ...Tender, tragic and beautifully poignant, set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic and ordinary, here is a
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