Shock and horror, ladies! Sarah Waters’ next book will be without lesbians. “What is the world coming to?” I hear you ask, “has she suffered from the literal version of lesbian bed death, no longer feeling the attraction of the fairer sex?”

Being something of a bookworm, I leapt at the opportunity to do a list of the best lesbian books this Christmas… The task proved a little trickier than expected!

Dykes to Watch Out For, Alison Bechdel’s fictional cartoon strip charting the lives and loves of an evolving group of lesbian friends and lovers, started over 25 years ago and now is syndicated to over 50 alternative newspapers and published by Firebrand Books.

For those who may not be familiar, Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan have taken Ireland’s Revenue Commissioners and others to the courts seeking to have their Canadian marriage recognised in this jurisdiction.

We talk to author Emma Donoghue about literature, life, lesbian and gay rights, family, and her latest projects.

I’m not much of a reader, it takes me ages to read a book and although I enjoy it when I do it, I don’t do it very often. However, earlier this week the unthinkable happened and my PC in work went down, this meant no lunchtime internet usage, so off to the bookshop I [...]

A ‘happily married’ woman whose life starts unravelling… a well-worn, yet invariably seductive theme for novel. What reader doesn’t want to be unravelled and restrung, if not in life at least though fiction. I was expecting a little of the quirky humour of Anne Tyler, and a touch of Lorrie Moore’s edgy teens, and all [...]