There’s something profoundly satisfying in watching a novel that you just wasted days of your life NOT enjoying bouncing off a wall
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Honestly, have you ever picked up a book and from the very first page, felt like the writer was describing you, your life and innermost hopes and fears? That’s how I felt when I started reading In The Mink: Fashion Was My Business by Anne Scott-James.
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May 9, 2013 at 10:00am | 1 comments
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Just because something is literary babyfood, that doesn’t mean it’s poor quality at all. It’s more that it’s about simple, easy-to-digest ideas written in a clear style with no nasty shocks, surprises or twists and definitely no unhappy endings.
literature
From novels to glossy coffee table books, poetry anthologies to biographies, fashion writing is a rich, diverse world to immerse yourself in.
books
Give me a choice between Ryan Gosling and the descriptions of the detective Albert Campion that you find Margery Allingham’s novels and I would always plump for the latter.
culture
I’m a full-time-jobber, a freelancer, and an unlikely gym-bunny, and I’m worried that it’s affecting my wosscalled. Intelligence
books
If, like me, you secretly enjoyed E.L James’s lip-bitingly repetitive vanilla shagathon, check out my list of five alternative erotic books to culture-up your Valentines Day.
books
I love a novel that lingers with you days, even weeks after you’ve turned the last page because its observations are so astute and the descriptions of people, places and emotions are so compelling.
entertainment
I would sell my vagina for a good sex work memoir.
drink shop do
Also: my early twenties were RUBBISH. Did anyone else get this?
jilly cooper
Or what happens when one obsessed fan starts stalking their favourite author, and tries to call it journalism. PLUS: why you should always write thank-you cards...
gore vidal
And I'd like to pay tribute to the very different ways in which they touched my life...
lace
I was around 13 or 14 when I read Lace by Shirley Conran. I guess I was young enough to not really understand a lot of it, but old enough to know that I couldn't wait to find out what all the dirty bits* meant...
booker prize
"Part of this novel's concern is with the stories that have been lost to history, the stories of people like Hiero, black Germans, largely absent from the historical record."
horror stories
Because all the best life lessons come from hammy adolescent horror stories...
books
I'm writing a novel and it's really bloody hard. So, I swallow my jealousy and ask two published authors what the secret is
books that changed your life
I've run out of things to read and really, really, really need some suggestions...
books
In the pages of my favourite Working Girl novels, friendships are forged over coffees in cafeterias, crucial outfits are purchased during hastily snatched lunch breaks, awkward dates are endured in sleazy bars and tiny apartments are lovingly, thrillingly furnished with second hand finds.
books
As a former Twihard, I've got to face facts: either this saga is over before it's done or I'm just too old to be a vampire-loving emo kid now (damn it)
bonk busters
I love Jilly Cooper more than my gran (not really – love yooooou Gran)
books
From bullying, peer pressure to divorce and even death via periods and pubic hair, there's not much that they'd shy away from.
books
....erm yes, yes they are. They're still amazing though.
