Books by and for independent women

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We’ve had a makeover! And from now on we’ll be focusing on women authors too. Find out why…

Kaite Welsh is an author, reviewer, freelance journalist and copywriter. She studied English Literature at Edinburgh University, writing her undergraduate dissertation on female sexuality in science fiction, before moving to Sussex University to do an MA in Sexual Dissidence and Cultural Change. It makes an excellent ice-breaker in job interviews.

Jess Haigh lives in Leeds, where she also runs The Travelling Suitcase Library, and specialises in promoting reading for pleasure. She loves Stella Gibbons, Shardlake and the Dewey Decimal System, and hates bigots and book snobs. You can tweet her @BookElfLeeds, or find her ranting away on the Leeds Book Club blog.

Kate Phillips spends most of her days sitting in darkened rooms as a producer of visual effects for movies. When she’s allowed out, she loves Scandinavian electropop, Bollywood films and all flavours of historical fiction. She reviews theatre infrequently and tweets inconsequentially.

Cariad Martin grew up in Dover, Kent and was drawn to the city lights of London at the age of eighteen. She studied at Roehampton University, and has recently relocated back to Kent to work on her début novel, Cocktails for Smoking. She is a big admirer of American/Canadian writers like Douglas Coupland and Michael [...]

Gina Kershaw is a Wakefield-based writer with a degree in English Literature. After a childhood spent reading and talking at anyone who’d show a vague interest, it seemed only natural to fall into a career talking about books. When she’s not thinking about new features for the site, you can find her at gigs and [...]

Alex Herod is a Manchester-based writer-performer-maker. When not plotting for For Books’ Sake or visiting ramshackle bookshops, she can be found wearing fake moustaches, cutting and pasting, spending whole days at the cinema and repeatedly telling everyone about that time she met Margaret Atwood. Other scribblings can be found online and in print, including Catch, [...]

Jane Bradley is the founder and editor of For Books’ Sake. When not obsessing over Patti Smith, watching roller derby, eating cheesecake or drinking too much tea, she can be found re-reading Jeffrey Eugenides‘ The Virgin Suicides or Donna Tartt‘s The Secret History and tying herself in knots whilst attempting to knit. When not editing [...]

Our recent fundraiser for Lit at Ladyfest Ten was such a smash, we’re taking it on tour!