
Category: Blog
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The Benefits and Risks of Young Women Dating Older Men
There are many reasons why young women are attracted to older men. Some experts attribute it to vanity, narcissism, and misogyny. But in reality, it…
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Reading Round-Up: Ghosts of the Past
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Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss is told from the perspective of teenage girl Silvie during the days she spends living in a recreation of an Iron Age…
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Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie
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‘You know what fathers and sons are like.’ ‘Not really, no.’ ‘They’re our guides into manhood, for starters […] We want to be like them;…
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A Secret Sisterhood – Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
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A Secret Sisterhood, the story of the friendships of a number of women writers, is out in paperback this week. It’s a book I think is…
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The Book of Joan – Lidia Yuknavitch
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I mean to give myself two birthday presents before I’m forced to leave this existence and turn to dust and energy. The first is a…
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The Silence of the Girls – Pat Barker
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‘“Silence becomes a woman.”’ Every woman I’ve ever known was brought up on that saying. We sat on the shady veranda and contemplated it for…
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Interview with Sandra Newman, author of The Country of Ice Cream Star + giveaway
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Giveaway now closed. If you were following my Bailey’s Prize longlist reading, you’ll know there was one book on the list that I thought was extraordinary. That…


