Who hasn’t indulged by wallowing in hindsight? Or analysed the mistakes of each misstep? ‘Regrets, I’ve had a few,’ crooned Frank Sinatra back in the sixties, articulating a sentiment that ...
Dear Thomas Hardy, I have been a fan of your torrid tales since I was a teenager. Nevertheless I have always wanted to ask you a question that you may ...
Sibling relationships have always been rich fodder for literature. I love exploring the bond between people who are uniquely the only ones in the whole world who have the singular ...
“The issue with our current take on wellbeing is that we care when it’s not there.” According to corporate wellbeing and advertising professional Elodie Caucigh, who had ignored her burnout ...
Dear Beatrix, How do I begin to write a letter to someone who has impacted my life for over forty years? It’s funny that coming from one author to another, ...
The work of over 40 contributors (many of them women) from across the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia has been published in a new charity book of poetry and short stories celebrating Ukraine. All the proceeds ...
Have you ever wondered why you react to certain situations the way you do, why your moods change so much from one day to the next, or why you always ...
The time has come to take a stand AGAINST “one size fits all”. Sophisticated technologies are evolving, rapidly bringing with it endless possibilities especially in the field of biohacking and ...
Dear Ms. Highsmith, First, I would like to thank you. To me, your novels were revolutionary in the suspense and psychological thriller genres—genres I have always loved. I remember first ...
I was diagnosed with ASD (old school Asperger’s) at the ripe old age of forty-three after winning the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award. I used the prize money to pay for ...
I have known I was a writer since I was about seven years old. All through my childhood and teens, I filled notebook after notebook with poems and stories, carefully ...
Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine by celebrated feminist thinker and author Antonella Gambotto-Burke is an intellectual tour-de-force that will transform our understanding of birth, and ...
1. Revolution is in my blood. The one in Dangerous Remedy is bigger than anything my family has known, but from my mum being loaded into a police van at ...
1. Perhaps I do live vicariously through my novels – my last novel was called The Ladies Midnight Swimming Club, I can best be described as a poor swimmer – ...
Many women find themselves afraid of giving birth and this fear can lead them to take a passive role in their choices. However, by learning about their rights, they can ...
Even in some of the most unique and inclusive cultural practices in the world, there is so much focus on heteronormativity. It feels like you can’t read about Gods and ...
Rima Ray writes an open letter to her favourite author Mindy Kaling to celebrate the release of her new book Ruby Roy and the Murder in the Falls. Dear Mindy, ...
In doing research for my new book There Are Moms Way Worse Than You, I came across some absolutely wretched animal mothers, but some good ones too. So, here are seven ...
Memories are funny things. Some hide from you almost completely. Some are playful, popping out now and then to amuse you. Some memories hang on you like weights, panting into ...
When we become mothers we are inundated with, at times quite bewildering and contradictory, advice: there are numerous books, blogs, tv programs telling us how to best bring up our ...
