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The Woman They Tried
to Make Smaller.
In 1975 a thirty-year-old actress walked down a BBC staircase to talk about Lady Macbeth and was told, on air, that her body might stop her being taken seriously. She answered levelly — then took the criticism for answering. Fifty-one years on, the only thing she would change is the politeness.
Wellbeing · Michelle Wollaston
Feeling Empty Inside: What That Emptiness Is Actually Telling You
DWC 100 Women · DWC Editorial
Béatrice Vialle: The Only Frenchwoman to Fly Concorde, and the Choice That Took Her There
Advice · Jamie Tedrick-Monroe
Coming Home to Yourself: What Six Articles Turned Out to Be About
DWC 100 Women · DWC Editorial
Iva Hills: Eighty Years Old, Fifty-Five Years Nursing, and Still on Shift in the Emergency Department
Book Review · Pat Allchorne
The Ghost Cat by Alex Howard: 120 Years of Edinburgh, Seen From the Hearthrug
Food · Mike Devlin
The Food “Truths” We Believe To Be True (And Why Almost None of Them Are)
Scars That Shine
Ninety Seconds: The Schoolteacher Who Recorded Her Own Testimony
Column · Adriana Carballo
When the Hoop Falls: What a Hula Hoop Taught Me About the Way I Meet My Own Life
Column · Robyn Laycock
Joy: The Capacity to Hold Light in the Grit
Movie Review · DWC Editorial
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come — Samara Weaving Is Still Magnificent, The Film Around Her Is Not
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.