3 d. ago Feminist History for Every Day of the Year by Kate Mosse review – the women who helped change the world

The bestselling author champions female trailblazers in an enjoyable anthology for all agesWomen make up roughly 50% of the population but only feature in about 0.5% of recorded history. In Feminist History for Every Day of the Year, Kate Mosse, the bestselling author of Labyrinth, celebrates can-do women and gives history’s trailblazers their due. Aimed at teenage readers but just as enjoyable for adults, this anthology comprises bite-sized stories of female achievement and the centuries-old fight for equality. As Mosse notes in the introduction, it is about women “who refused to accept the limitations put on them, who campaigned and marched, battled and challenged the status quo to change the world for the better”.The book features a mixture of famous and lesser-known figures: artists, writers, scientists, academics, sportswomen, educators and politicians. There’s primatologist Dian Fossey; avant garde painter Amrita Sher-Gil; Britain’s first black headteacher Beryl Gilroy; Pakist...

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9 d. ago Men are still faking it till they break: Inside the crisis of hidden depression

On this week’s Well Enough podcast, bestselling author Owen O’Kane and TV presenter Matt Johnson open up to host Emilie Lavinia about the realities of men’s mental health – from masking pain with normality to learning the power of taking the first step toward help

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9 d. ago Men are still faking it until they break: Inside the crisis of hidden depression

On this week’s Well Enough podcast, bestselling author Owen O’Kane and TV presenter Matt Johnson open up to host Emilie Lavinia about the realities of men’s mental health – from masking pain with normality to learning the power of taking the first step toward help

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9 d. ago Owen O’Kane and Matt Johnson on the men’s mental health crisis

Men and boys are told to "man up," but suicide is still the biggest killer of men under 50. To mark Men’s Mental Health Awareness month, Sunday Times Bestselling author Owen O’Kane, and broadcaster and mental health campaigner Matt Johnson discuss the UK’s male mental health crisis. Together with podcast host Emilie Lavinia, they discuss the most common symptoms of anxiety and depression that are often missed, how and when to seek help the simple tools for supporting good mental health and wellbeing.

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2 w. ago I'm an author — these five books are so good I recommend them to everyone

Alix E. Harrow, author of Starling House, The Ten Thousand Doors of January and The Everlasting, has shared some of her top book recommendations for book lovers

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3 w. ago The uptick in book banning has spread to the stage. Jodi Picoult is hitting back

The superintendent of Mississinewa High School in Indiana canceled a production of ‘Between the Lines’

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3 w. ago Bestselling author Jodi Picoult pushes back after her musical is canceled by Indiana high school

Jodi Picoult faces bans on both her books and a musical based on her novel “Between the Lines.”

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3 w. ago Regretting You review – sudsy Colleen Hoover adaptation is no It Ends with Us

The second big screen take on one of the hugely successful author’s trauma dramas is a bland misfire and wastes Girls actor Allison Williams in the leadIt’s hard to remember now, nearly a year into the legal and reputational slugfest that is Justin Baldoni v Blake Lively, that It Ends With Us, the film at the heart of so much litigious mudslinging – predominantly and relentlessly, it should be noted, by Baldoni’s legal team – was a Hollywood success story.The first big-screen adaptation of bestselling author Colleen Hoover, an initially self-published romance writer catapulted by BookTok to cult-figure status under the mononym CoHo, successfully elevated what many have dismissed as trauma porn fetishizing abuse into glossy, but effective and emotionally mature, adult theatrical fare. Lively, a Taylor Swift-adjacent style icon (to some) who excels at warm-hearted melodrama, was the perfect anchor for a film targeting what celebrity gossip columnist Elaine Lui termed the “minivan majo...

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