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Non-monogamy for beginners

Zoe Russell8 August 2017

Zoe Russell reads Is Monogamy Dead? by Rosie Wilby and believes it could potentially be a good starting point for ‘not-yet non-monogamists’ but perhaps relies too much on the author’s personal experience ...

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A dangerous kind of forgiveness

Taryn De Vere7 August 2017

Taryn de Vere reads South of Forgiveness by Thordis Elva and questions whether the author’s personal account of ‘forgiving’ her rapist sets an unhelpful and problematic precedent ...

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A tale of unlikeable women

Sarah Tinsley20 July 2017

Sarah Tinsley applauds Helen McClory’s Flesh of the Peach for refusing to shy away from women’s less palatable traits and experiences ...

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A new twist on some old standards

Nick Beard18 July 2017

Nick Beard cooks and bakes her way through 2015 Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain’s first cookbook Nadiya’s Kitchen and finds herself asking some thought-provoking questions along the way...

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Strange Love

Ali Cocksworth6 July 2017

Ali Cocksworth finds Strange Heart Beating to be an interesting study of grief and relationships, but feels that at points the novel privileges craft over emotional depth...

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Down the rabbit hole

Lauren Hossack26 June 2017

Lauren Hossack finds Sympathy an insightful and compelling exploration of our increasingly digital lives...

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DIY Cultures 2017 shows us that counterculture is alive and thriving

Erin Aniker8 June 2017

Erin Aniker chats with festival founders Hamja Ahsan, Helena Wee and Sofia Niazi ...

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A literary masked ball

Helen Taylor5 June 2017

Author Helen Taylor explores the concept of the pseudonym and forces herself to confront her own preconceptions around what it is to be a 'woman writer'...

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The magic touch

Sarah Tinsley1 June 2017

Sarah Tinsley praises Laura Dockrill’s Aurabel for its surprisingly gritty take on the fantasy YA novel...

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The sweat behind the words

Evelyn Deshane30 May 2017

Evelyn Deshane reviews Notes from a Feminist Killjoy by Erin Wunker and admires the author’s demonstration of the physical exertion and ‘sweat’ behind the process of writing...

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A story that breaks the skin

Hannah Atkinson22 May 2017

Hannah Atkinson reviews Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You and finds it a heart-breaking and stunningly realistic portrayal of one woman’s experience of an abusive relationship ...

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Getting to the heart of the matter

Jemma Morgan10 May 2017

Jemma Morgan finds Susan Hill’s From the Heart to be a poignant exploration of a woman’s experience in the 1950s, but urges us to tackle issues of inequality in the present, rather than simply looking back at the past...

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The problem with ‘manning up’

Joanna Whitehead4 May 2017

Jo Whitehead enjoys the YA novel Girl Mans Up, but is somewhat disappointed at the lack of critical examination of sexist language and internalised misogyny...

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Gone, but not forgotten

Harriet Kilikita22 April 2017

Harriet Kilikita finds Amy Gentry’s Good as Gone to be a gripping thriller with a sensitive and intelligent heart...

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Paradise Lost

Sonya Lalli30 March 2017

Sonya Lalli finds Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn to be a compelling depiction of three women's lives on the fringes of paradise...

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Opening up the birth story

Ashley Cook22 March 2017

Ashley Cook commends Pamela Erens’ Eleven Hours for its visceral and evocative depiction of the experience of labour...

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A new tool kit for living a feminist life

Evelyn Deshane19 March 2017

Evelyn Deshane reviews Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed and finds it an invaluable resource for assembling your own feminist ‘tool kit’...

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A fever you can’t sweat out

Sarah Tinsley3 March 2017

Sarah Tinsley reviews Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin and finds it to be a powerful and haunting novel which grips to the very end...

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