Works by
Rebecca Brown
(Writer)

The Haunted House (1987)
Laura and Paul were bored...but not for long! The Haunted House is one of 9 titles in Phonics for Reading Set 1 from the Cambridge Reading Key Skills Strand (Progression in Phonics) for children in Year 2/Primary 3. Tim Beer's atmospheric illustrations work with the Tony Mitton's text to make a truly spooky story! The particular phonic focus (or, ore, oor, au, aw) is reinforced throughout the text. Each children's book includes notes on the inside back cover to support use in guided group reading sessions. Extended teaching ideas (teacher notes and photocopiable pupil worksheets) are available to download free from the Cambridge Reading website: http://www.uk.cambridge.org/education  This title is also available as a pack of 6.

The Terrible Girls (1990)
The girls on the prowl in The Terrible Girls are indeed terrible-relentless in love, ruthless in betrayal. These thematically linked stories depict a contemporary Gothic world in which body parts are traded for love, wounds never heal, and self-sacrifice is often the only way out.

The Children's Crusade (1991) -- #93 of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels

Annie Oakley's Girl (1993)

The Gifts of the Body (1994) - Winner, 1994 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

What Keeps Me Here: A Book of Stories (1996)
For more than a decade Rebecca Brown has been one of the best-kept secrets in fiction writing. Her first four novels garnered praise among other writers, and last year her Gifts of the Body proved to a wide-readership that she was one of the finest stylists working today. Her prose is plain-spoken and effective, but carries a wallop; her newest book, What Keeps Me Here, a collection of stories, amazes us with its purity and emotional resonance. Whether she is writing about the relationship of a woman to her art, or the violence that haunts relationships, Brown moves and speaks through her characters like light throuAmazon.comgh a window, or grace through a soul. -- Amazon.com

The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary (1998)
The nameless narrator of The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary lives in her studio apartment with a pack of Doberman pinchers. The dogs, led by the cruel, charismatic bitch named Miss Dog, alternate between being brutal attack animals and loyal companions, being real and otherworldly. Some chapters draw upon the ecstatic and horrifying visions of Christian mystics; others take place in the landscapes of familiar fairytales; others in the banal settings of the late-night pick-up bars or suburban picnics. The narrator uneasily inhabits these worlds until the dogs force her to take irrevocable action. Rebecca Brown is the author of other fictions, including The Terrible Girls, Annie Oakley's Girl, and The Gifts of the Body. She lives in Seattle.

Excerpts From A Family Medical Dictionary (2003)
Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary is an intimate, exquisite, and true account of what it is to help a parent die. After her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, former home care worker and award-winning writer Rebecca Brown cared for her mother during the last six months of her life. This spare, unsentimental book comes out of that experience. In short chapters headed by definitions of medical terms, she confronts anemia, chemotherapy, metastasis, cremation. Brown’s is a poignant and unflinching story of how one family coped with loss and learned about the longevity of love.

The End of Youth (2003)

The Last Time I Saw You (2006)-- Nominated 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
In The Last Time I Saw You, author Rebecca Brown returns to the obsessive, darkly humorous voice that has earned her comparisons to Samuel Beckett and Djuna Barnes. Some of the tales in this collection are told in the scrappy, breathless voice of a naif on the verge of a terrible revelation. Others are noir-baroque monologues that collapse in on themselves as a speaker at last abandons a much-needed delusion. Intense, artfully crafted, and oddly comic, the stories in this collection are bound to stay with you like an insistent, disturbing dream.