Novels
- All About Men (1997)
- B Movies, Blue Love (1999)
- Hunting Unicorns (2002)
- Daydream Girl (2005)
- Midnight Cactus (2006)
- The Summer of the Bear (2010)
Non fiction
- Meet Me in the In-Between (2017)
Novels Book Covers
Non fiction Book Covers
Bella Pollen Books Overview
All About Men
The second volume of Alyson’s best of the best, luscious, mouthwatering lesbian erotic fiction, featuring writing by Carol Queen, Patrick Califia, Lesl a Newman, Karen X. Tulchinsky, Anne Seale, Wendy Caster, Saachi Green, Linnea Due and more. Nicole Foster edited the bestselling books Skin Deep, Awakening the Virgin, Body Check and Electric. She promises you won’t leave these pages unsatisfied.
B Movies, Blue Love
Intense and vibrantly real lesbian erotica in the spirit of Skin Deep, these quick and dirty true stories revel in hot lesbian sex. As they peek into the diary of a very busy and very bad girl, readers will be panting hungrily as women from around the world reveal their most intimate lesbian encounters. Nicole Foster edited the best selling books, Skin Deep, Awakening the Virgin, Body Check, and Electric. She undresses in front of her window in Los Angeles.
Hunting Unicorns
A stylish, screamingly funny, razor sharp look at the British aristocracy in decline, Hunting Unicorns introduces us to the owners of the vast Bevan estate: the Earl and Countess charming and possibly round the bend; Daniel, their eldest son funny and clever, but a hopeless alcoholic; and Rory the younger brother mired in the tidying up of his family’s well meaning schemes. Adrift in a rapidly changing world, the Bevans cling to tradition while wrestling with taxes, tree blight, and the need to keep the family skeleton firmly in the cupboard. Enter Maggie, an opinionated American journalist for the hard hitting show Newsline. Far happier sending dispatches back from the trenches of war torn anywhere, Maggie is none too pleased at being forced to research a documentary on the decline of England’s upper clas*ses. When these two worlds collide, no one is prepared for the fallout. The story of two brothers bound by duty, and one woman who feels bound by no one, Hunting Unicorns is a delightful romantic comedy that explores loyalty, family, and, ultimately, having the courage to risk everything in the pursuit of what really counts.
Daydream Girl
Sometimes life can be like a bad movie. You sit through it, hoping it will get better, suspecting that it won’t and wondering at what point you can reasonably walk out…
Kit Audrey Butler is the manager of the Orange, a dilapidated independent cinema. Estranged from her father, undermined by her boyfriend, and with her third screenplay recently rejected Kit finds herself badly adrift. Her favourite therapy, renting the appropriate video and scrutinizing the footage for clues on how to behave, no longer provides her with all the answers. But when new ownership threatens the Orange, Kit is forced to confront reality and discovers that help and heroes come in the unlikeliest forms…
Midnight Cactus
To the south lies Mexico. To the north you can see the flat plains and snow tipped peaks of the Patagonia Mountains…
and in between is a strange and wild landscape representing a freedom so great that for a long moment, I find it hard to breathe. On the run from her claustrophobic marriage in London, Alice Coleman moves her two small children to the Arizona desert with the intention of renovating an abandoned mining town on the Mexican Border and there finds an escape and solitude she hadn’t thought possible. But in the dusty, alien atmosphere, where it seems that everyone from Benjamin, the town’s Mexican caretaker to the laconic cowboy, Duval has something to hide, Alice is uncertain whom to trust. As winter moves to scorching summer, what seemed idyllic turns deadly as Alice is drawn deeper into an obsessive quest for revenge, until finally she must decide how far she is willing to go to cling on to her freedom and what exactly she will have to sacrifice. Fierce and compelling, Midnight Cactus explores the territory between unrealized dreams and the pull of family. In a blistering climax Alice discovers it is only by risking everything that you learn what is really worth living for.
The Summer of the Bear
With her fifth novel, critically acclaimed writer and journalist Bella Pollen takes readers into the private dynamics of a family grappling with the loss of father and husband in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, where between elemental beauty and utter bleakness, strange forces are at play. In 1980 Germany, under Cold War tension, a mole is suspected in the British Embassy. When the clever diplomat Nicky Fleming dies suddenly and suspiciously, it s convenient to brand him the traitor. But was his death an accident, murder, or suicide? As the government digs into Nicky s history, his wife, Letty, relocates with her three children to a remote Scottish island hoping to salvage their family. But the isolated shores of her childhood retreat only intensify their distance, and it is Letty s brilliant and peculiar youngest child, Jamie, who alone holds on to the one thing he s sure of: his father has promised to return and he was a man who never broke a promise. Exploring the island, Jamie and his teenaged sisters discover that a domesticated brown bear has been marooned on shore, hiding somewhere among the seaside caves. Jamie feels that the bear may have a strange connection to his father, and as he seeks the truth, his father s story surfaces unexpected ways. Bella Pollen has an uncanny ability to capture the unnoticeable moments in which families grow quiet. A novel about the corrosive effects of secrets and the extraordinary imagination of youth, The Summer of the Bear is Pollen s most ambitious and affecting book yet.
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