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Can We Save Anyone? No Good Deed by Clar Ni Chonghaile
I love seeing the different ideas people have for their books. Last year I featured Clar Ni Chonghaile's book Rain Falls On Everyone and loved the gritty realism of Dublin. This time she takes us to the Central African Republic with Elodie, a naive psychologist who...
Tense Thriller: The Secret Life Of Carolyn Russell by Gail Aldwin
I have had the privilege of being a member of the brilliant Women Writer's Network for many years now. As well as our work promoting the writing of others and our monthly Tweetchats, we get to share in each other's success! The Secret Life of Carolyn Russell by Gail...
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...
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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...
The good news is I am still managing to get up in the morning. Even this week, while my partner is away, which means a...
I confess, while I was reading this book, it got stains on it. There's a splash of coffee near the beginning, while I...
This is the third time I’ve started working my way through The Artist’s Way. I can see from my notes that my last...
I like to be surprised. My assumption is that crime fiction is formulaic and a little bit cheesy. Clearly I had some...
Wouldn't it be wonderful if there were benevolent forces around us, helping us cope with difficult times? In The...
Warning: This article contains reference to sexual assault and violence. Today (25th November) is the International...
From the moment you enter the world of The Regeneration of Stella Yin, a novella-in-flash by Kristen Loesch, you are...