“All women are born and remain daughters” is how novelist, journalist, historian, and member of the well-known Sackville-West family, Juliet Nicolson, opens ‘A House Full of Daughters’. It’s a study of the lives of seven generations of women in her family…

Twenty-five years since its original release Britpoppers My Life Story are re-releasing their 2000 album. Featuring the singles ‘It’s a Girl Thing’, ‘Empire Line’ and ‘Walk/Don’t Walk’ it’s nice to revisit it and its references to the concerns of the time…

The debut novel from Zoë Rankin – who grew up in Scotland, but now lives in New Zealand – is a propulsive thriller that opens in a remote New Zealand town. Anya, an eight-year-old girl, stumbles out of the dense bush. She’s disorientated and hungry and ma…