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book club
Education is one of the best and most powerful gifts you could ever give or hope to receive. So with that beautiful sentiment in mind, we wanted to list our top five books that we believe any woman would adore. From hard-hitting true stories, to poetic masterpieces our list comprises of some of the sharpest...
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With a passing interest in history, particularly ancient history, when I took a BA in English Literature I felt I was consigning that interest to a vague hobby, pushing it to the background of my life. However, I found my slight craving for history more than satisfied during my course; fictional work can be a more insightful...
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I’m no extreme feminist, however in the last year or so Twitter has heightened my interest in feminism. After months of observing boys on Twitter making bold statements such as “girls shouldn’t be able to do this or that” or “girls with no tits are basically men”, I started to get a little fed up. I...
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My boyfriend and I have started a new tradition, one that we wish to keep going for as long as life allows us to. We have visions of us in our nineties, disorientated and unfiltered, still jumping on the Northern Line to Charing Cross and turning the corner to arrive at our much loved bookshop,...
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the girl on the train
It was pitched as the new Gone Girl so expectations were high and with plot twists and turns right from the start the comparison isn’t surprising. But does new novel The Girl on the train, live up to the hype? Paula Hawkins’ crime novel is her first thriller after 15 years of journalism. The story starts with Rachel...
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friends
With social media at our fingertips wherever we go, it can seem strange that our online friends don’t always equate to real life relationships. As people move apart for various reasons and lose touch, many of us can start to feel isolated by the fact that we don’t have any real friends to simply hang out with. Nobody ever...
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