Reviews supplied by Rebecca Kagan

The Talented Miss Highsmith

Joan Schenkar   $65.00

St Martin’s Press

A fabulous and epic biography detailing the secret life and serious art of the amazing author, Patricia Highsmith. Pat Highsmith lived a bizarre personal life, and was a prolific writer of fiction, journals, diaries, letters, and comics. Born in 1921 she grew up in Greenwich Village and was an out and active lesbian in the New York literary world of the 40s and 50s.

 

Starting From Scratch

Georgia Beers   $27.95

Brisk Press

A most enjoyable story about a girl and a special dog.  Avery King is a single 34-year-old lesbian whose heart belongs to her rescued dog Steve.

Gay superhero comic nominated for prestigious award!

Controversial new comic Spandex has been nominated for an Eagle Award – the comics equivalent of the Oscars! The comic – about a group of gay superheroes – is nominated in the category for Best British Colour Comic Book.

More raves about  “Radiant Women – simple steps to better menstruation and menopause.” 

Doctor’s recommendation …….

Mary Louise Clarke, fun runner and fundraiser extraordinaire passed away in 2004 after a long battle with cancer. Now five years later, her partner Rosie (read her dedication, left) has released Mary's Journey - a story of inspiration and hope, which chronicles Mary's illness and how she lived through it.

Reflections on living with madness by Sandy Jeffs, The Vulgar Press, North Carlton, 2009

Sandy Jeffs is well-known as a poet with no less than five best-selling poetry books to her credit. Sandy is also equally famous for being the most celebrated mad person in Australia, especially after her appearance on Andrew Denton’s doco Angels & Demons on the ABC.  In fact, Andrew was so impressed by Sandy’s courage and resilience to withstand the worst kind of odds that he wrote the Foreword for the book.    

The editor of a website that documents the violence and intimidation suffered by the gay community in Uganda has won the Sappho in Paradise Book Prize.
Kizza Musinguzi, editor of gayrightsuganda.org, and an ayslum seeker in the UK, is the winner this year. Gayrightsuganda.org documents the organised campaign of violent religious and state-sponsored homophobia sweeping the African nation.

Watched all your L Word DVDs so much you know all the lines? Jennifer Beals is giving all the fans something new – a book! Beals spent six years documenting the cast and crew and it’s now available for all of us. Kate Moennig in a bra? Check. Laurel Holloman’s pregnant belly? Yup.