Editor’s Highlights

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  Episode 4: Roller Derby, Live Lit & Recommended Reads

  Roller derby reads, feminism, fairytales, author interviews and more...

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  Derby Shorts: One Week to Go!

  Not long to go before it's out!

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  Paper Aeroplanes by Dawn O’Porter

  Does her fiction début live up to the hype?

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  Are we the trolls? Feminism and the Carnivalesque

  Are women writers the original morality-offending raspberry blowers?

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  Episode 3: April Showers and Kathy Acker

  Rainy day reads, accessible books about feminism and more...

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  No Escape from the Beautiful Dead Girls

  Author Kirsty Logan can't stomach any more mutilated ladies...

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  10 Reasons to Love Daphne du Maurier

  We show some love to the author of Rebecca.

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  My Three Favourite…Hot Topic Books

  Three books with the same impact as Le Tigre's riot grrrl anthem...

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