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 her blog.
Roller derby reads, feminism, fairytales, author interviews and more...
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Does her fiction début live up to the hype?
Are women writers the original morality-offending raspberry blowers?
Rainy day reads, accessible books about feminism and more...
Author Kirsty Logan can't stomach any more mutilated ladies...
We show some love to the author of Rebecca.
Three books with the same impact as Le Tigre's riot grrrl anthem...
Multi-award winning journalist is posthumously awarded the Orwell Special Prize for her collected works
The bestselling author releases a 'dystopian fairytale for adults...'
Modern life for modern ladies, apparently...
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