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A Life Built on Books,
Boldness, and a Refusal to Whinge.
"You have to laugh at yourself, because if you can't, you may as well give up."
Her Majesty Queen Camilla turns 79 this month — on the charity that began with a scrap of paper in lockdown, and the plainest language a modern consort has used yet on violence against women.
Read Issue 98 →Thoughts and Prayers Won't Stop This
Four women and girls died in four days last week — Lavanya Chappa, Jana Armstrong and others among them. The response was vigils, tributes and talk of what drives men to violence. What's needed is law and enforcement.
The Little Girl Who Held David Beckham's Hand and Captured Britain's Heart
In October 2001, David Beckham walked onto the Old Trafford pitch before England's World Cup qualifier against Greece holding the hand of six-year-old Kirsty Howard, who pulled an oxygen cylinder behind her. Some friendships are measured in moments that stay with us forever.
What Your Resume Never Captured About Who You Actually Are
Michelle Wollaston on the folder she carried for 42 years, and what it taught her about the story a CV can never tell.
My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor: A Vatican Choir's Secret War Against the Gestapo
Rome, 1943. A priest, a choir and a hidden escape line — and a Gestapo boss convinced he can break anyone who crosses him.
Nilofar Ayoubi: The Afghan Journalist Raised as a Boy to Escape the Taliban's Rule
For Nilofar Ayoubi, the fight for women's rights began long before she understood the word activism — in the streets of Afghanistan, where being born a girl could decide whether you were educated at all. Now, from exile in Poland, she is one of the world's most outspoken voices for Afghan women's rights.
The Great Facebook Marketplace War: A Love Story
Sarah and Tom first met elbows-out and breathless, chasing a free toaster on Facebook Marketplace in the seaside town of Westport. What started as a scramble for other people's castoffs turned into something neither of them expected.
The Call You Didn't Take
There's a particular kind of silence that lives inside a missed call.
The Not-So-Glamorous Truth About How Long Food Really Sits in Your Stomach
Four stages of digestion, one enduring mystery — why does sweetcorn always outstay its welcome?
Why Every Long-Term Traveller Should Use Buy Nothing Groups
Landed in a new city with a bare flat and a budget to watch? Buy Nothing groups have saved our writer countless pounds — and headaches — while slow-travelling across the UK and beyond, restoring her faith in humanity more than once.
How to Handle Negative Reviews About Your Small Business, Whether They're Real or Not
Even the most well-run business will eventually collect a bad review, real or not. What matters isn't the review itself but the response — professionalism over defensiveness, and a willingness to improve.
How Power Protects Itself: One Woman's #MeToo Story From Inside Australian Television
At 10 years old, Annette Densham knew what she wanted to do when she grew up. She remembers declaring it to her mum after watching 60 Minutes.
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.
"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.
One commitment to truth.