It will have come as little surprise to anyone with a passing interest in football that Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore's work emails referre...
Known most commonly by her pen name Isak Dinesen, but also as Tania Blixen, Pierre Andrézel and Osceola, the Norwegian author and Baroness Karen Blixen was re...
I have a confession to make. I used to love reading chick-lit. But British chick-lit has the reputation of being full of stories of white middle-class women wor...
"Paint it large!" I remember my high school art teacher encouraging my all-female class, while we toiled away on tiny pictures. "Women's art is often so small...
I first picked up this book on the basis of wanting to read a crime novel, but simultaneously wishing to avoid the male protagonist. This wasn't a decision ba...
Jolene Tan rounds up the best science fiction and fantasy she has read in 2013 - from novels to short stories
I've read a lot of fantasy and science fiction ...
Katherine Williams is intrigued by The Tattooist by Louise Black, a sinister insight into a controlling, cruel obsessive
I mostly avoided all the furore surr...
It was an overcast evening at the Hive in Edgware, with rain in the air, and a rather smaller Girls' Football Festival outside than spectators enjoyed last ye...
This week I found myself away from home, and therefore not able to watch England v Turkey in the World Cup qualifier, screened live on BBC Three.
Without wif...
Hello all! Welcome to our weekly round-up of interesting stories and features that we noticed but didn't have time to blog about. As always, please exercise c...
While the headlines have been taken up by the England men's series victory over Australia (and the rather unconventional celebration of urinating on the pitch at the Oval), the England women have been quietly working away and have secured an Ashes win of their own.
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Here's our weekly round-up of stories we found interesting this week but didn't have chance to blog about. Linking does not imply endorsement; and as always, because these go through to other sites, the content you find there could be triggering, so please click with caution.
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Here's our regular round-up of things that struck us as interesting this week, and that we didn't have time to blog about. As always, linking here doesn't nec...
Last week, I was really excited to be invited to the trophy handover for this season's Champions League competitions, the biggest European football club tourn...
Yesterday, Martin O'Neill, the manager of Sunderland AFC, lost his job.
The Sun's Steve Brenner, formerly the newspaper's north-east football correspondent, ...
As it's International Women's Day, salute Lily Parr - the woman with a kick like a mule, a chain-smoking habit, and as many career goals as Pele...
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It's odd that some people find murder-suicides so glamorous; so understandable; so noble; so deserving of sympathy.
Not for the murdered, necessarily; but fo...
Here's this week's open thread for discussion and our regular round-up of some of the articles and blogs we've noticed over the last week or so, but not had t...