Lady Gregory's Toothbrush

8 best books like Lady Gregory's Toothbrush (Colm Tóibín): Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Girl, Woman, Other, Frankissstein: A Love Story, Spring, Night Boat to Tangier, Last Stories, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun, Goodbye to Berlin

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
AuthorAndrea Lawlor
ISBN0986086991
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul’s also got a secret: he’s a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from...
Girl, Woman, Other
AuthorBernardine Evaristo
ISBN0241364906
Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019

Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood

Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...
Frankissstein: A Love Story
AuthorJeanette Winterson
ISBN1473563259
From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...
Spring
AuthorAli Smith
ISBN0241207053
From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet

Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives,...
Night Boat to Tangier
AuthorKevin Barry
ISBN0385540310
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen — Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs — sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are...
AuthorWilliam Trevor
With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor was regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the admired master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered stories that illuminate the human condition which will surely...
Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
AuthorGuillermo del Toro
ISBN0062414461
Fans of dark fairy-tales like The Hazel Wood and The Cruel Prince will relish this atmospheric and absorbing book based on Guillermo del Toro’s critically acclaimed movie.

Oscar winning writer-director Guillermo del Toro and New York Times bestselling author Cornelia Funke have come...
Goodbye to Berlin
AuthorChristopher Isherwood
ISBN0586047956
Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not only buildings, streets, and people, but was also a state of mind which will never come around again.

In linked short stories, he says goodbye to Sally Bowles, to Fraulein Schroeder, to pranksters,...
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