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What If Movement Can
Shift Our Way of Being?
A diagnosis in lockdown took her work, her identity and her sense of a future. Ruth Elliott-Booth on chronic illness, autism, and the movement practice that handed her back the keys to her own life.
From the Cover · Issue 113
Ruth Elliott-Booth: What If Movement Can Shift Our Way of Being?
From the Cover · Issue 93
Cathy Jones: The Rise of the Kidult
From the Cover · Issue 101
Dr Jacquiline Cox: I Prayed for Rain, But Nobody Told Me About the Mud
Issue 100
Helen Mirren: The Woman They Tried to Make Smaller
Cornerstone Partner · Michelle Wollaston
The Body Keeps the Receipts: What Roni Millard’s Fifteen Years of Warning Signs Teach Ambitious Women
Book Review · Pat Allchorne
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession: A Gentle Novel About Two Quiet Men, and Why It Is the Antidote to a Noisy World
DWC 100 Women · DWC Editorial
Navi Pillay: The Sugar-Plantation Granddaughter Who Made Rape a Crime of Genocide, and Won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize
Short Story · Elaine Edwards
The Gingerbread Man of Winterhaven: A Christmas Ghost Story About a Doll, a Curse and Every Fifth Christmas
Cornerstone Partner · Jamie Tedrick-Monroe
Learning to Be Loved Without Shrinking: Love After Trauma, and the Room to Be Yourself
Food & Travel · Mike Devlin
The Full English Breakfast: What Makes It Full, Why It Is English, and the Rules Nobody Writes Down
Contributor · Jaala
Self-Love, In Practice: What Loving Yourself First Actually Looks Like Day to Day
Advice Column · Kindred Keri
I Cannot Afford Christmas This Year: An Advice Column on the Pressure of Buying Presents for Everyone
DWC 100 Women · DWC Editorial
Tammy Duckworth: The Black Hawk Pilot Who Lost Both Legs in Iraq and Changed the Rules of the US Senate
Health & Beauty · DWC Editorial
Getting Healthier Before Christmas Without Wrecking Yourself: A Gentle Eight-Week Approach to Weight Loss
Contributor · Kathryn Toomey
Coming Out With Women in Business: How to Network as an Established Woman Without Disappearing Yourself
TV Series Review · DWC Editorial
Black Mirror: Nosedive (2016) — The Episode Where Everyone Is Rated, and Why It Looks More Like 2026 Than It Did Then
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.