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True Crime and Women

Read more to find out why true crime podcasts are so popular with women

Burnt Sugar

Burnt Sugar

My thoughts on Avni Doshi’s stunning Booker Prize winning debut Burnt Sugar

Alias Grace

Alias Grace

Diary of a Book- my experience of listening to Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace

Which way to happiness?

The Study of Happy Rituals

Check out the article I wrote for Yoair about the anthropology of happiness

My Notebook Friend

Every Day is a Poem

Check the guest article I wrote for Tashtastic’s blog about my notebook practise

Clockwork Orange

Clockwork Orange

Diary of a Book- my experience of reading Anthony Burgess’ Clockwork Orange

Lockdown in your childhood home

Lockdown in your Childhood Home

Check the guest article I wrote for Adulting Life

Aerial Yoga

Adventures in Aerial

Dive in with me into the frighteningly limber world of Aerial Yoga, Hoop and Silks

Art Therapy for Refugee Children

The History of Art Therapy for Refugees

Investigate the controversial use of refugee children’s art to tell the story of a conflict

Body

Body

A collection of musings about the body

Dark Mirrors

Near Dark Mirrors

A reflection of a reflection

Old Piano Ad

Flat 26

My musical short story that placed 3rd in the Syncopation Lit Journal Competition

Subtitled Netflix recommendations

[Reads subtitles]

My top picks for foreign language shows on Netflix (You know you keep meaning to watch them)

Unorthodox Review

Unorthodox Review

Why not take a look at my review of the eye-opening Netflix mini-series Unorthodox?

Podcast recommendations

Let’s Get Listening

My top six podcasts to distract us all from the world and get back our wonder

Invisible Women

Invisible Women

My review of Caroline Criado Perez’s Invisible Women exploring data bias

Queenie

Queenie

Diary of a Book- my experience of reading Candice Carty-Williams’ Queenie

Zuko

The 5 Stages of Creation

Check out my article for Assemblage on the 5 stages of creation in lockdown

The Thursday Murder Club

The Thursday Murder Club

Diary of a Book- my experience of reading Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club

The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man

Diary of a Book- my experience of reading H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man

US Civil Rights

A Journey of Discovery

My experiences travelling around the US exploring the civil rights movement

Sampat Devi Pal

Justice on the Streets

Meet Sampat Devi Pal, the Leader of the Gulabi Gangthe- the all-female, vigilante group from central India

Bamboo straws from Baga Dina

The Incredible Story of Baga Dina

Learn more about the village of 47 households fighting plastic pollution one bamboo straw at a time

Diary

Diary of An Isolation

A personal poem about my feelings in isolation

WWI

Letter to the Western Front

A letter to a lost relative I couldn’t know

Girl, Woman, Other

Girl, Woman, Other

Diary of a Book- my experience of reading Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other

The Glorias

Inspirational People

Discover more about an icon of journalism and activism in the new biopic “The Glorias”

Call Me By Your Name Audible audiobook

Call Me, in *that* voice

My first adventure into audiobooks with Audible has a lasting effect

A Room with a View

A Room with a View

Diary of a Book- my experience of reading E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View

The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

Diary of a Book- my experience reading J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye

Sustainability Switches

Sustainable Switches

My new year’s resolution to make six sustainable switches and how you can make them too

Bologna

Accidental Travel

The joy of accidental travel and how it can free you from stress and see more

Tate Modern

Tate Again

A poem I wrote for Assemblage about returning to the Tate Modern

Writing

On Writing and On Reading

A few thoughts about my experience of writing and reading

Job Advert

Job Advert Found Poem

A found poem made from job adverts

Not all those who wander

are lost.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day

A. A. Milne