The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley is a fairly quick read and one that you can pick up and put down at your leisure. The story follows Julian, Monica, Hazard, Riley and towards the end, Alice too as they try to be more authentic with those around them. It starts with Julian leaving a notebook at Monica’s café and in it, he’s written his deepest truth and the story unfolds from there as each…
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AnnMarie Wolpe who died in 2018, was a South African anti-apartheid activist, socialist and feminist. In her lifetime, she wrote an autobiography, authored and co-authored several books on gender and education, contributed to numerous academic journals and was a founding member of the Feminist Review. She was also a wife, mother and grandmother. Before her accomplishments though, she was a…
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Some months ago, I wrote this for a blog post that another company was doing on VoiceMap. I had just started working there and was pretty proud of it but it never got published. Today I decided to publish it here, to share with all of you what I do during the day, when I’m not on an adventure, behind the camera or in the kitchen. One of travel’s greatest joys is exploring somewhere new, and…
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The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary is one love story you won’t want to put down. It’s an easy, breezy type of read perfect for poolside indulgences and cocoa by the fire. The lives of the two main characters, Tiffy and Leon, are pushed together when Tiffy begins a flatshare agreement with Leon, who she’s never met. He’s a nurse working the night shifts and she’s a book editor with a regular 9 to 5,…
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For many, the word Provence conjures images of lavender fields, sunflowers and hilltop villages. The Provence I know is all that and more. Its vineyards stretch out across small mountains, a thousand shades of green punctuated by the silvery leaves of olive trees. Add the sound of cicadas in the early evening and balmy summer days. More than that, it’s platters of fruit, cheeses and baguettes…
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“Over the last few millennia, we've invented a series of technologies … that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories,” writes Joshua Foer in Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, his recently 2011 release, which even earned a review from Bill Gates. Foer explores this concept of our memories being externalised by…
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