January | 2012 | 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

Girls Get Busy

Birthday cake and riot grrrl karaoke...tonight!

The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue

Real-life scandal, feminism and lesbian affairs. Sounds like our cup of tea...

Sorrell’s Typewriter Tattoo

The Tattoo Tuesdays series continues with a typewriter...

The Folio Society Edition of The Handmaid’s Tale

The Balbusso sisters work their magic on Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic.

An Officer and a Gentlewoman: The Making of a Female British Army Officer by Heloise Goodley

The true tale of a city girl turned Army Air Corps Captain...

For Books’ Sake Talks To: Meg Rosoff

We talk censorship, sexuality and transatlantic translation with the acclaimed YA author.

And Finally…

The latest gossip, and news you might have missed...

Five-Minute Friday: Katie Antoniou

"Shapeshifters and werewolves just make you look desperate..."

Natterjack Press

Resist the system with this anarchist publishing and distributing collective.

Tom-All-Alone’s by Lynn Shepherd

Bleak House inspired tale of mystery in the East End...

Battle of the Bookshops: Gay’s The Word in London

A LGBQT bookshop snuggled down a London side street...

My Three Favourite…Lesbian YA Books

Three YA books with lesbian heroines...

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