Category: Culture
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Lessons in Self-Love with Eloise Viola
Eloise Viola is a singer, songwriter and vocal powerhouse from London, whose debut album, Glasshouse, will be released next month. Her songs share messages of self-love, self-empowerment and hard-won strength that shines through in both her lyrics and energy. As an independent artist, Eloise has already achieved some incredible things.…
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Jenny Sharman reviews Rachel Long’s My Darling from the Lions
My Darling from the Lions is the intimate and striking debut poetry collection from Rachel Long, leader of the Octavia Poetry Collective for Womxn of Colour, who has been dubbed by Booker-prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo as ‘an enchanting and heartwarming new voice in poetry.’ The collection is refreshingly candid, touching…
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Heather Roy reviews Bryony Gordon’s Mad Girl: A Happy Life with a Mixed-Up Mind
Comical, emotional and raw, Mad Girl is Bryony Gordon’s second novel and is an entirely unreserved autobiographical account of her experiences with mental illness. Gordon is a well-respected and successful journalist with her own column at The Telegraph, and Mad Girl opens the floodgates on the tidal wave of her…
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Sophie Fisher reviews Chanel Miller’s Know My Name
TW: sexual assault It is difficult to put into words just how powerful and raw this book is. Know My Name poignantly details the trauma caused by sexual assault and how it floods over into every aspect of daily life. Know My Name explains the exhausting and invasive process of…
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Jen Brogan reviews Stronger: Changing Everything I Knew About Women’s Strength by Poorna Bell
“If you are the girl, the woman who feels like she is never enough, that she will never be as strong, as good, as capable, I am here to tell you that you are enough. I am here to tell you that while it shouldn’t have been your burden, you can write a different story.” …
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Siân McQuillan reviews Boys Don’t Cry by Fiona Scarlett
I want to preface this review by stating that I am not normally one to cry at books. While everyone was weeping at the tragic story of Achilles and Patroclus in The Song of Achilles, I was furious at our title character for his destructive pride. While readers dried their…
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Laura Corrigan reviews The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
I was drawn to this book by its mesmerising cover. Once I had read the first page, what was meant to be a quick leaf-through became an instant buy. I had to know what would become of the ghost of a baby whose bones were uncovered by her grand-niece. This…
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The Nila Extract
The Nila Extract – from radio waves to film to TikTok to… television? How Nila is paving her way into the film industry working full-time, whilst also hosting her own radio show and educational instagram platform whereby she is amplifying the voices of minority ethnic communities, dispelling stereotypes and navigating…
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Taking back the narrative
Have you ever wanted to navigate the world of feminist retellings but don’t know where to begin? Explore some of these recommendations about the more successful adaptations, and how they help take back the narrative from their patriarchal origins. Very recently I found myself and a close friend at the…
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