Virtually every artist dreams of making an impact with their work, and writers are no different but in some cases, authors don’t live to see their works become classics.
Crime fiction readers and followers of Margie Orford’s work around the world have been waiting with bated breath for a new book. The wait is finally over.
Crime fiction readers and followers of Margie Orford’s work around the world have been waiting with bated breath for a new book. The wait is finally over.
For Laura Bates, it began with a heavy piece of gold jewelery that her mother found on the passenger seat of the family car. It was a gift from her grandparents. Her mother, after two daughters, had been rewarded for giving birth to a son.
“I am five years old,” Bates writes, “and have no idea I’ve already been weighed, valued and found wanting.”
This incident is the first on what the feminist writer and activist calls “my list.” She encourages all women to make one, charting a life in sexism, from the playground to the street to the workplace.
“By