What are we gassing about in this month's episode? Literary awards, lesbian romances, superheroes, mental health must-reads and much more besides...

In the latest For Books’ Sake podcast, we’re looking at the nominees shortlisted for this year’s Caine Prize and Author’s Club awards, and congratulating Ancillary Justice author Ann Leckie for scooping the Arthur C. Clarke prize earlier this month.

We’re also investigating the latest zine and comic releases you have to get your mitts on, with special shout-outs for both the Lumberjanes series and Ms. Marvel.

Then we’ve got the inside track on why For Books’ Sake loved Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion so much, followed by our collection of the best books to explore mental health issues, for Mental Health Awareness Week.

Some of the resources we recommend include:

Staying sane, featuring Ruby Wax, Phillipa Perry and many more.

Books about depression, featuring Marian Keyes, Salley Vickers and Maggie O’Farrell.

Women writers and their mental health, featuring Jeanette Winterson, J.K. Rowling and Elizabeth Wurtzel.

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (aka The Bloggess)

Live Through This edited by Sabrina Chap

Marbles by Ellen Forney

The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange

After all that we’ve got a reading from Ntozake Shange, followed by an exclusive extract from London Calling, the debut lesbian romance novel by author Clare Lydon.

As always, we love hearing from you – so let us know your feedback (or what you’d like to hear in the next For Books’ Sake podcast!) in the comments. Happy listening!

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