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'The Odd Woman', or celebrating five single females

Career Girls

Writer Rachel Cooke on the phenomenon of the single woman. In this essay, career girls.

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'The Odd Woman', or celebrating five single females

The Divorcee

Journalist and author Rachel Cooke examines the phenomenon of the single woman.

• 14 mins

'The Odd Woman', or celebrating five single females

Widows

Journalist and author Rachel Cooke examines the phenomenon of the single woman.

• 14 mins

'The Odd Woman', or celebrating five single females

Aunts

Writer Rachel Cooke considers five versions of single womanhood - in this essay, aunts.

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They Essay - Let Me Take You There 1

Writers on personal places of refuge in times of crisis 1.Alan Hollinghurst

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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 2.Inua Ellams

Leading writers share the secrets of places of internal refuge in times of crisis

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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 3. Tahmima Anam

leading writers evoke places of internal refuges which they visit in times of crisis

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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 4.Tessa Hadley

leading writers share the secrets of places of internal refuge in crisis 4.Tessa Hadley

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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 5. Alice Oswald

Leading writers share secrets of their place of internal refuge 5.Alice Oswald

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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 6.David Almond

leading writers share the secrets of their internal places of refuge in times of crisis

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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 7. Evie Wyld

leading writers on a place of inner refuge in times of crisis 7.evie wyld

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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 9.David Constatine

Leading writers share the secrets of places of inner sanctuary 9.David Constantine

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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 8.Michael Morpurgo

leading writers on places of inner sanctuary in times of crisis 8.michael morpurgo

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The Essay - Let Me Take You There - 10.Aida Edemariam

leading writers share their secrets of places of inner sanctuary 10.Aida Edemariam

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Let Me Take You There

Alan Hollinghurst

Leading writers share the secrets of their internal places of refuge in times of crisis.

• 14 mins

Let Me Take You There

Inua Ellams

Leading writers share the secrets of their internal places of refuge in times of crisis.

• 14 mins

Let Me Take You There

Tahmima Anam

Leading writers share the secrets of an internal place of refuge in times of crisis.

• 14 mins

Let Me Take You There

Tessa Hadley

Leading writers share the secret of their internal place of refuge in times of crisis.

• 14 mins

Let Me Take You There

Alice Oswald

Leading writers share the secrets of an internal place of refuge in times of crisis.

• 14 mins

Let Me Take You There

David Almond

Leading writers share the secrets of an internal places of refuge in times of crisis

• 14 mins

Let Me Take You There

Evie Wyld

Leading writers share the secrets of their internal places of refuge in times of crisis.

• 14 mins

Let Me Take You There

Michael Morpurgo

Leading writers share the secrets of an internal place of refuge in times of crisis.

• 14 mins

Let Me Take You There

David Constantine

Leading writers share the secret of their internal place of refuge in times of crisis

• 14 mins

Let Me Take You There

Aida Edemariam

Leading writers share the secret of an internal place of refuge in times of crisis.

• 14 mins

The Diarists

AL Kennedy: The Towers We Founded and the Lamps We Lit

AL Kennedy pursues the ever-restless wanderings of Robert Louis Stevenson.

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The Diarists

AL Kennedy: Hope On, Hope Ever

AL Kennedy on the fortitude and humanity of Edward Wilson's Antarctic diaries.

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The Diarists

Helen Mort: More Than Enough

Helen Mort's daily walks echo the explorations of Dorothy Wordsworth in the Lake District.

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The Diarists

Ian Sansom: Cheese Dreams with Graham Greene

Ian Sansom explores his own and Graham Greene鈥檚 active dream life.

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The Diarists

Ian Sansom: Mince on Toast with Christopher Isherwood

Ian Sansom reflects on the supreme sociability of Christopher Isherwood.

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Islands

Mingulay

Kenneth Steven visits another island and responds to its landscape in poetry and prose.

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