Review by Emily Fuller Alix Chamberlain is a woman who is so used to getting what she wants that she has built a career in coaching other woman how to achieve the same. Growing comfortable in the hustle of New York City, she transforms her small blog into a small confidence-driven empire. That is, until […]
Words by Emily Fuller My affinity for reading presented itself from a very early age. I was always entranced by the literary gateways that would open up before me, offering passage into another world of the fiction and the fantastic. I would run, jump and swim through words to escape a reality of my own, […]
Review by Emily Fuller For those of you who have read any of my previous pieces, you would know that I am incredibly passionate about mental health awareness and advocacy. In my own experience, it was quite a journey for me to get to a point of acceptance and understanding of my own mental health […]
Review by Emily Fuller Australia’s climate of domestic abuse is not exactly clandestine in our reality today. There is a high chance you have experienced abuse at the hands of a perpetrator either physically, sexually or emotionally, or you know someone who has. For myself, I have witnessed the nightmarish nature of violent abuse in […]
Words by Elaine Mead “Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. I lived. It wasn’t easy. And yet. I found out how little is unbearable.” A dalliance of popular #Bookstagram accounts put Nicole Krauss’ second novel ‘The History […]
Review by Emily Fuller “I wished that well-meaning white liberals would think before they said things that they thought were perfectly innocent.” Queenie Jenkins is a 25 year-old Jamaican-British woman living in the hustle and bustle of London, walking a fine line between two cultures and yet never seeming to find her sense of place […]
Review by Elaine Mead “To live in a city is to live the life that it was built for, to adapt to its schedule and rhythms, to move within the transit layout made for you during the morning and evening rush, winding through the crowds of fellow commuters. To live in a city is to […]
Review by Elaine Mead I’ve seen Fiona Wright speak twice on festival panels, once at the Feminist Writers Festival in Sydney last year, and earlier this year at Perth Writers Week. She has a lovely stage presence, a sharp sense of humour and a way of delivering her insights that belies their depth. She is […]
Words by Emily Fuller It’s the late sixties, the paramount of bare feet, drugs and rock and roll. Daisy Jones, a coming of age woman is gaining recognition for her allure and her undying relationship with the LA music scene. Simultaneously, a rock and roll blues band, The Six, is also gaining momentum within the […]
Words by Elaine Mead “Reading is escaping, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real.” Nora Ephron Most people enjoy reading, some don’t find a […]
