September | 2011 | For Books' Sake

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For Books' Sake is an intelligent but irreverent website featuring books by and for independent women, including news, reviews, features and interviews.

Books by and for independent women

Invisible and Upside Down Bookshelves

Getting crafty in the name of bizarre but brilliant bookshelves...

Courtney Love To Write Memoirs

We're already hyperventilating...

History in Fact and Fiction at SW11 Literary Festival

Writing cavalier queens and women who made history...

Love Your Indie!

Support indie booksellers and get free books!

Madame Bovary’s Daughter by Linda Urbach

When fictional heroines die, what happens to the characters left behind?

The Green Carnation Prize 2011: The Longlist

8 women on a longlist of 13 as the prize enters its second year!

Battle of the Bookshops: Barter Books in Northumberland

Literary murals, cheap books and cakes. Sounds like heaven to us!

My Three Favourite… Unfinished Novels

The posthumous publications that never got finished...

The Empty Nesters by Nina Bell

Is it as comforting a read as the reviews make out?

Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories by Melinda Moustakis

"A beautiful collection of interlinked short stories..."

Beyond the Valley of the Trolls

Publisher Dan Holloway on cyberbullying, mental health and the arts.

Five-Minute Friday: Dan Holloway

One of our heroes tells us of his love for The Kills, Katelan Foisy and dumplings.

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