Books by and for independent women

Booty inspired by the Nancy Drew books to celebrate the anniversary of Mildred Benson’s death.

A review of On Both Sides of the Camera, Carolyn Burke’s biography of Lee Miller.

The fifth annual London Zine Symposium arrives at The Rag Factory on Brick Lane.

Show off your literary icons on your lapels, with these badges by Beanforest.

Stella Duffy, author of Theodora and the Saz Martin series, at Lambeth Readers & Writers Festival.

Scarlett Thomas on heaven, hell, fiction writing and philosophy.

Review of Alice Sebold’s bestseller and Peter Jackson’s cinema adaptation.

An charitable excuse to buy new revamped red editions of the Penguin Classics series.

A review of After the Party, the long-awaited sequel to Ralph’s Party by Lisa Jewell.

Tony Curtis dishes the dirt on Marilyn Monroe, Janet Leigh and Some Like It Hot.

The oldest bookshop in London and the birthplace of the paperback? Count us in.

For Luna Lovegoods everywhere, a journal that looks like the wizarding world’s favourite tabloid.