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Glorious Bodies: Menopause The Anthology Review and Interview
There are times when you read something that just sings off the page. The passion, intimacy and honesty found in Menopause The Anthology is wonderful. Coming from Arachne Press, I was expecting something good anyway, but I wasn't prepared for how various this...
Powerful Mothers: Mothers Lead by Jenny Wong
I'm so glad to be a member of the Women Writer's Network. We support and promote all kinds of women writers, and it often leads to people contacting me about their books. Jenny Wong got in touch about Mothers Lead, her unuusal memoir written in flash and poetry that...
Cosy Comfort – Winter Lights, Short Story Collection by Deborah Jenkins
As someone whose short stories always end up somewhat on the dark side, it's great to read writers who can craft a story with nuance and depth that still has a hopeful feeling overall. I featured Deborah Jenkins' wonderful novel Braver last year (which has deservedly...
Haunting Tale: Things Found On The Mountain by Diana Powell
Having only read the wonderful Diana Powell's short stories before (Trouble Crossing The Bridge is her excellent collection), I was delighted to have the opportunuty to read her novel Things Found On The Mountain. Just like her other fiction, it resonates with an...
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I can safely say I've never read anything like this before. Featuring a cast of Death, A Business Man and a Magus (as...
It happened again! Somehow I am writing this three months after finishing week 7. Despite all my best intentions, I...
One of the benefits of having a little space to myself here on the Internet is that other writers reach out to me and...
I had the extra treat of meeting Elizabeth in real life this year! She came to Geneva to run a workshop for the Geneva...
This one's pretty special. Years ago I was at a Byte The Book event when I met Nadia Attia. We bonded over our shared...
The reading in the opening of this week felt incredibly relevant to me. As I turned each page I was thinking ‘yes....
At the start of March I set myself a seemingly simple goal: to make things. While a lot of my time gets poured into...
As the days and weeks pass, more and more I’m remembering why I haven’t managed to get to the end of the twelve-week...