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A writer talks about suffering a miscarriage, and what helped her to recover physically and emotionally.

"'Accelerator' feels like a late night highway chase," Blusher says of the new single.

Annie Nightingale, the pioneering DJ and broadcaster who "changed the face and sound of British TV and radio" has died aged 83

GROVE – A northeast Oklahoma charitable foundation is banking that its investment in the Grove School District will enrich the lives of young readers. A $5,000 Arvest Foundation grant will buy library books for the school’s Early Childhood, Lower Elementary, Higher Elementary, Middle School and High School campuses. “We are thrilled,” said Miranda Ward, Upper […]

We chat with Melbourne pop trio Blusher (Miranda Ward, Jade Ingvarson-Favretto, and Lauren Coutts) after the release of their new EP Should We Go Dance?

Melbourne band Blusher talk ‘Should We Go Dance?’, their EP of pop bangers that bask in the joy of female friendship – read the NME interview

Kicking off our new monthly series about emotions in literature, Sophie Ratcliffe finds the best literary descriptions of hopefulness

A revealing new book challenges the notion of miscarriage as a blip in the past, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Can books unite us in divided times? Writers appearing at this year’s Hay Festival recommend the best reading to reconnect us

The Geography Closest In Photo by Mats Silvan/Getty Images. Edit by Cheri Lucas Rowlands. Miranda Ward | Adrift | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | January 2021 | 15 minutes (4,339 words) The bald conclusiveness of a positive pregnancy test draws a clear line between yes/no, this/that, knowing/not-­knowing. For a moment at least it clarifies everything, or distils it, into a single and irrefutable piece of knowledge. This certainty, when it comes to the body, is rare (later a doctor will tell me: if e...