Dana chose the early 1990's to set her novel of a young woman athlete coming of age in New York City. These were the first women who were the full beneficiaries of the first wave of feminism. But, as we know, it wasn't a perfect world. Seventeen year old Lucy, secretly in love with her best friend, privileged Percy, looks around her for positive female role models with little luck. Steeped in the pick-up basketball games on the edges of the city, Central Park and the gritty club scene... you will cheer as Lucy finds her own path. 

@danaczapnik @FaberBooks @Radio_Gorgeous

Allie Esiri is desperate for you to fall in love with poetry, one day at a time (A Poem for Every Day of the Year & A Poem for Every Night of the Year) and she has now set her sights on Shakespeare.

Don't be afraid, dears, take your literary medicine, one loving Shakespearean spoonful at a time! Her latest beautiful anthology Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year features poems, excerpts from the plays, soliloquys, and much more. Shakespeare speaks to the very heart of the human condition, from break-ups and grief, to gardening and cooking, to hangovers and politics, Shakespeare’s plays and poems have a line for everything. He is truly a poet for all time.

 

Let Allie let Shakespeare entertain you! 

@AllieEsiri @panmacmillan @Radio_Gorgeous

Clare Wright is on a mission to remind us of the that it was due to some courageous women who, at the very birth of the Australian nation, demanded and achieved the vote and the right to stand for parliament for (exclusively white) women. Australia was watched by the world and considered the leading beacon of democracy. These suffragists then took to the seas to bring their message to Mother Britannia: 'trust the women.' 

@clareawright @text_publishing #trustthewomen  #RadioGorgeous #Feminism

Edward had just lost the love of his life and his reason for living. In walks Isabel and their friendship blooms over his carefully and artfully prepared dinners. His extraordinary love affair - ongoing even after death - highlighted the cracks in Isabel's faltering marriage. A beautiful book about an exceptional man and the wonder of friends. 

@isareport @PushkinPress @Radio_Gorgeous

#GorgeousLives #Food #RadioGorgeous 

70% of women suffer from Vaginal Dryness/Atrophy in their lifetime. Imagine having a condition that is so agonising that you cannot sit down? That the only relief is to place covered ice cold cans against your vagina and that sex is so agonising that you avoid it all together? Jane Lewis has suffered from acute Vaginal Atrophy since the start of her menopause and she has had to come to terms with this life long condition. Jane has written a book called ME and My Menopausal Vagina.

FB: https://www.facebook.com/mymenopausalvag

More info/buy book: https://www.mymenopausalvagina.co.uk/

“An amazing piece of work. It made me smile and cry at the same time and I really feel every woman on the planet needs to read it.”

#RadioGorgeous #Wellbeing #Vagina 

 

Victoria Pearson chats to Canadian/Chinese punk and Oi singer Jenny Woo about her music and how she has toured over sixty countries performing. Jenny also talks about her take on positive thinking and the obstacles she has overcome to achieve the rightful respect she has in the music business. 

Follow: https://www.facebook.com/jennywoooiproject/

#Punk #GorgeousEntertainment #RadioGorgeous 

Gorgeous Entrepreneurs: Souraya Karami Gyves with Donna 'Imelda' Freed

We all know Donna loves shoes so when she spotted a local shoe shop on her way home, she had to stop in and meet former architect turned shoe designer Souraya. A business grown as organically as her design process: hands on! If you can't make it to the shop, the online shop provides just as much personal service.

@esskashoes  www.esskashoes.com @Radio_Gorgeous

'Lady Lazarus' aka Melissa Ann Sweat. Melissa talks to Victoria Pearson about road trips, her music influences and her thoughts on addiction and on writing. She also talks about her new single 'I know what it feels like' and album 'Impossible journey of my soul tonight.'

https://ladylazarus.bandcamp.com/

#Gorgeous Entertainment #Music #RadioGorgeous 

Confessions of a Bad Mother, The Teenage Years is Stephanie Calman's realisation that her really rather nice children were growing up faster than advertised and not only would they be witheringly more clever than their parents but then they would have the temerity to leave home. Don't worry, the nest isn't entirely empty: Stephanie can always conjure the stroppy, sulking teenager she was. 

@Calperson @picadorbooks @panmacmillan

#Author #RadioGorgeous #Lifestyle 

A girl on the margins of a small town, so desperate for love and attention, falls into a relationship with a couple, tattoo artist and satanist Matt and his girlfriend Frankie. She is so willing to belong, to be a focus, even when it hurts and even if they call her by another name. She erases herself to fulfil the role of 'Lilith.' 

@saderotica @404Ink @Radio_Gorgeous @Freed_Donna