Books by and for independent women

Welcome the weekend in early with our Friday round up of news and views from the past week!

We get to grips with why Sarah loves Lauren Laverne and hates Philip Roth.

Dubbed “the greatest Southern writer after Faulkner,” we pay tribute to the author of Wise Blood.

Poet Sarah Thomasin tells us about spoken word etiquette and her hatred for the villanelle.

Erotic fiction author Kristina Lloyd tells us why the madwoman in the attic is a feminist hero.

‘Unsettling, beautiful and utterly enrapturing’ is the assessment of Anuruadha Roy’s new novel.

Another blog featuring fancy editions we could spend all day drooling over.

Keep track of who’s borrowed your beloved books with this handy kit!

Paris Press publishes ‘daring and beautiful’ books by women writers.

We natter to erotica author Kristina Lloyd about Kathy Acker, feminism and BDSM.

We’re none too taken with the latest novel by the bestselling author of What I Loved.

We wouldn’t want to meet any of these on a dark night…