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Agenda All the rage: Lucy Nichol traces the emergence of angry female characters in literature

Bedside table Susie Dent tells us what she's been reading in bed

Interview Debbie Taylor talks to performance poet Len Pennie

The accidental biographer Lorraine Gibson on turning her passions into publications

The knowledge Julie Vuong explains what's happening in 'food fiction'

Dark work Amita Murray on how anguish feeds creativity

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Mslexia Magazine - Issue 107

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Inspired, inspiring, invaluable.

Sarah Waters

Entertaining, insightful and unpredictable. No woman who is serious about writing should be without it.

Sophie Hannah

I like the non-elitist way it deals with all kinds of writing.

Wendy Cope