Find Your Pleasure: The Art of Living a More Joyful Life
In my quest to find Joy (in the Meantime), I went to a talk by Cynthia Loyst – author of a new book called Find Your Pleasure: The Art of Living a More Joyful Life. This was before social...
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Dressed for War: the story of British Vogue editor Audrey Withers
Audrey Withers was not just any editor, she was the courageous woman who braved the Blitz to mastermind British Vogue (known affectionately as brogue by the Condé Nast founders) throughout the turb...
Flash Count Diary: a moving book about menopause
In Darcey Steinke’s Flash Count Diary one woman compares her hot flashes (that’s flushes to us menopausal Brits) to being like a seventies superhero, ‘ I feel like I’m going to...
Style Heroine: Patti Smith
Poet, author, rock star, coffee-lover, Patti Smith has a new book out. Hooray.
No time to retire: 10 lessons for an ageing world
Populations are ageing across the globe and to help work out what we are all doing with our mid-to-late lives, we’re launching a new That’s Not My Age series called No Time To Retire. The ...
Why we should be ageful (not ageless)
Even though we live in an ageing society, old age is treated like a problem. We are living longer, and yet, ageist attitudes prevail.
Two memorable Christmas gifts for style-lovers
One is an unfinished manuscript discovered after the author’s death, the other a best-selling blockbuster from a former First Lady but both memoirs make great last-minute Christmas gifts for sty...
Cathy Newman’s Bloody Brilliant Women
Cathy Newman is a Bloody Brilliant Woman and this is a Bloody Brilliant Book. No surprise there.
Madonna: Like an Icon – at 60
The music industry has never been kind to the older woman, says Lucy O’Brien. Female artists are expected to disappear gracefully, but Madonna, as ever, continues to buck trends.
Books to read: There Are No Grown-Ups
I finally got round to reading Pamela Druckerman’s latest book There Are No Grown-Ups, on holiday. Well, on the return journey – a delayed flight helped.
Something to look forward to: Laura Linney on stage in My Name is Lucy Barton
Our Christmas gift to each other was a smart TV – we’ve joined the 21st century, people. Many an evening is spent scrolling through Netflix on the settee – and we do actually watch s...
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Someone asked at the New York launch party what I’m currently reading. I’ve just started Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach and I’m looking forward to putting my fee...