A Diary of the Lady: My First Year As Editor by Rachel Johnson – review
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Heidi Murkoff’s latest baby
The What to Expect When You're Expecting author is back with a guide to conception
Heidi Murkoff looks like a miniature, bird-like prom queen. But despite appearances the 49-year-old is the "powerhouse mom" behind What to Expect When You're Expecting, the best-selling pregnancy book in the world. It has 16m...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: feminist, or not?
Stieg Larsson's bestselling thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo divided the critics, now the film has united them – and not in a good way
The debate has raged ever since Stieg Larsson's bestselling thriller, the first in a trilogy, was published in Sweden in 2005, a year after...
Journeys for the girls (and women)
Virginia Woolf's house, Gertrude Stein's flat – feminist pilgrimages are a great way to connect with history. So when Vera Groskop said girls were boring, her mother decided it was time for her first trip
Despite my best efforts, my three-year-old daughter Vera hasn't exactly been celebrating her girlhood...
Nurtureshock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
This handbook, promising to reverse all conventional thinking on parenting, took the US by storm. Viv Groskop is less than impressed
This book has been hailed as "a wake-up call for parents" and "the Freakonomics of child-rearing". It caused a storm in the US, where it was on the...
