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  • Tears for the Past and Future

    To me, it felt like a strange question to ask, given we’d only known each other a couple of hours. “Do you spend more time thinking about the past or the future?” It came at a reasonable point in the morning’s work, a pause as a truck load of logs headed off down the gravel…

  • Embracing Generalism in a World of Specialisation

    I’m a … Generalist! The world often champions the idea of mastering one skill, of finding your niche and excelling in it. Specialists are revered for their depth of knowledge in a specific area, but I’ve never felt the need to confine myself to one lane. Instead, I fly in the face of this notion…

  • The Evolution of Lad Lit: From Cheeky Beginnings to Contemporary Depth

    In the late 1990s, while women were devouring Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and candid confessionals about urban single life, publishers identified a parallel opportunity: men needed their own contemporary fiction that spoke to their experiences. Enter “lad lit,” a term that would briefly define a literary movement centered on the male experience of relationships,…