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The Courage to Play:
How Comedy Improv Brought Her Back to Life.
Comedy improv is more than entertainment. It is a practice of presence, connection and the courage to be fully yourself. Galit Benrobi on a free Sunday-night workshop in a gritty Montreal theatre, and a part of herself that felt like home.
Cornerstone Partner · Michelle Wollaston
The Mothering Expectation: Why Women Are Cast as Nurturers in Every Role, Whether or Not They Are Mothers
DWC 100 Women · DWC Editorial
Nada Itrab: Taken to the Bolivian Jungle at Nine, Rescued, Then Failed Again. Now She Is Fighting Child Trafficking
Food & Travel · Mike Devlin
Wriggling Cheese, Forbidden Ketchup and a King’s Coffee Experiment: The World’s Strangest Food Bans
Advice Column · Kindred Keri
Everyone Says Accusations Are Destroying Men’s Lives: An Advice Column on Living Through the Reaction to Rape in the News
DWC 100 Women · DWC Editorial
Eugenie Clark, the Shark Lady: The Scientist Who Taught Sharks, Found Them Sleeping and Spent Her Life Defending Them
Health & Beauty · DWC Editorial
Blackheads on Your Back, Chest and Shoulders: Why They Happen and How to Prevent Them, From Food to Medication to Natural Remedies
Cornerstone Partner · Julie Hayes
Writing for the Dead: Julie Hayes on Eulogies for Hard Deaths, and Why the Last Page Should Not Swallow the Whole Book
Women in Gaming · Mike Devlin
Ten Women in Video Games Who Refused to Be Rescued: From Lara Croft to Senua, as GTA VI Arrives
Strong Voices.
Pat Allchorne's
Best Reads
Five books. Every month. Chosen by a woman who has spent her life surrounded by them. Pat Allchorne ran a 40,000-book shop for nearly twenty years — now she reads for the joy of it, and shares what she finds with DWC readers around the world.
August 2026 · Summer Reads
The Summer Seekers
August 2026 · Summer Reads
The Shell Seekers
August 2026 · Summer Reads
A Time of Green
August 2026 · Summer Reads
Three Days in June
August 2026 · Summer Reads
A Month in the Country
July 2026 · Fantasy
The Lord of the Rings
July 2026 · Fantasy
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
July 2026 · Fantasy
The Colour of Magic
July 2026 · Fantasy
The Ronan Trilogy
July 2026 · Fantasy
The Inkheart Trilogy
"A book left on a shelf for a decade is a dead thing — but also a chrysalis, packed with the potential to burst into new life."
For nearly 20 years Pat ran a second-hand bookshop in Warrington — over 40,000 books on every subject imaginable. Now retired, she reads with the same joy she always has, especially when she discovers new authors.
favourite book?
Voices that
don't look away.
Writers who go where it's uncomfortable — and come back with something worth knowing.
Michelle Wollaston
Why Your Body Still Remembers Trauma Long After It's Over
Julie Hayes
The Avalanche of Inadequacy: Boobs, Bum Cheeks, and Beauty Blunders
Jamie Tedrick-Monroe
Lessons from the Shadows: Mental Health, Healing, and Year-End Renewal
Sofia Pedroso
The Breakdown That Built Me: How a Crisis Sparked Her Business, Shiffully
One commitment to truth.
The Home of
Sir Archibald Fluffington
He is imperious, opinionated, and thoroughly convinced of his own magnificence. Sir Archibald Fluffington III — Fluff of House Biscuit, Emperor of the Side Table Realm — chronicles the indignities of domestic life entirely on his own terms.
"One meow, a tail wrap around her ankle, and a dramatic flop onto my side — voilà. I had secured a human."
Fluff of House Biscuit. Emperor of the Side Table Realm. Undisputed Duke of Disdain. Sir Archibald has endured much — toddlers, vets, expired yogurt — and he intends to tell you all about it.
imperious cat in fiction?
Books that
stay with you.
Fiction, memoir, mystery and more — reviewed by real readers, women who bring their full lives to the page. Every title in the DWC Reading Room is worth the time it asks for.
Spirituality
Between Earth and Eternity
Memoir, Humour
Marrying George Clooney
Memoir, Business
Hammock Way of Life
Memoir, Family
Awakenings in Real Life
Memoir, Resilience
How to Eat A $*!# Sandwich and Keep Smiling
Spirituality, Growth
Embrace Spirituality and Enhance Your Human Experience
Mystery, Suspense
The Ice Twins
Fiction, Romance
The Other Bennet Sister
Fiction
Mr. Gandy's Grand Tour
is waiting in the Room.