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Welcome to the archive of magazine contents. Here you will find a listing of all of our magazines with a brief contents summary. For further details of each issue click on the link for full contents. To explore the current issue, click here.

Issue 1

Spring 1999

• ◊ Agenda - Three Cures for Mslexia
• ◊ Interview - Barbara Trapido
• ◊ New Writing: Erotic Writing - Michèle Roberts
• ◊ PLUS: Selima Hill ◊ Val McDermid ◊ Maggie Gee
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Issue 2

Summer 1999

• ◊ Agenda - Writing as Therapy
• ◊ Interview - AL Kennedy
• ◊ New Writing: Death - Jackie Kay
• ◊ PLUS: Wendy Cope ◊ Patricia Duncker ◊ Germaine Greer
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Issue 3

Autumn 1999

• ◊ Agenda - Making Money: The Poverty of the Bestselling Author
• ◊ Interview - UA Fanthorpe
• ◊ New Writing: Man & Boy - Hilary Mantel
• ◊ PLUS: Carol Rumens ◊ Wendy Robertson ◊ Edwina Currie
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Issue 4

Winter/Spring 2000

• ◊ Agenda - Time Management
• ◊ Interview - Meera Syal
• ◊ New Writing: Fat Ladies - Fay Weldon
• ◊ PLUS: Maura Dooley ◊ Gillian Allnutt ◊ Bea Campbell
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Issue 5

Spring/Summer 2000

• ◊ Agenda - Reviewing the Reviewers
• ◊ Interview - Pat Barker
• ◊ New Writing: Aliens - Maggie Gee
• ◊ PLUS: Jackie Hardy ◊ Carol Clewlow ◊ Maggie O'Farrell
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Issue 6

Summer/Autumn 2000

• ◊ Agenda - The Problem with Poetry
• ◊ Interview - Selima Hill
• ◊ New Writing: Fire - Candia McWilliam
• ◊ PLUS: Gillian Allnutt ◊ Jenni Murray
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Issue 7

Autumn/Winter 2000

• ◊ Agenda - Between the Covers of Women's Magazines
• ◊ Interview - Stella Duffy
• ◊ New Writing: Fur - Linda Grant
• ◊ PLUS: Penelope Shuttle ◊ Rosalind Coward
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Issue 8

Winter/Spring 2001

• ◊ Agenda - Twisted Sisters: Female Rivalry
• ◊ Interview - Cathy Kelly
• ◊ New Writing: Faction - Carol Ann Duffy
• ◊ PLUS: UA Fanthorpe ◊ Michelene Wandor ◊ Glenda Jackson
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Issue 9

Spring/Summer 2001

• ◊ Agenda - The Female Brain
• ◊ Interview - Kathleen Jamie
• ◊ New Writing: Blood - Julie Myerson
• ◊ PLUS: Mimi Khalvati ◊ Sarah Dunant ◊ Rosie Boycott
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Issue 10

Summer/Autumn 2001

• ◊ Agenda - Ageing: The Future of Writing
• ◊ Interview - Margaret Atwood
• ◊ New Writing: Conversation - Michelene Wandor
• ◊ PLUS: Ruth Padel ◊ Zoe Fairbairns ◊ Claire Rayner
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Issue 11

Autumn/Winter 2001

• ◊ Agenda - The Hand Across Our Mouths: Censorship
• ◊ Interview - Joolz
• ◊ New Writing: Water - Wendy Cope
• ◊ PLUS: Sophie Hannah ◊ Lydia Fulleylove ◊ Kirsty Wark
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Issue 12

Winter/Spring 2002

• ◊ Agenda - The Age of the Bestseller
• ◊ Interview - Helen Dunmore
• ◊ New Writing: Autobiography - Emma Tennant
• ◊ PLUS: Carole Satyamurti ◊ Marcelle D'Argy Smith
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Issue 13

Spring/Summer 2002

• ◊ Agenda - The Masculine Aesthetic
• ◊ Interview - Hanif Kureishi
• ◊ New Writing: Madness - Kate Clanchy
• ◊ PLUS: Anne Rowse ◊ Ali Smith ◊ Eve Pollard
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Issue 14

Summer/Autumn 2002

• ◊ Agenda - Children's Books: The Potter Effect
• ◊ Interview - PD James
• ◊ New Writing: Colour - Sara Maitland
• ◊ PLUS: Moniza Alvi ◊ Livi Michael ◊ Tracey Emin
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Issue 15

Oct/Nov/Dec 2002

• ◊ Agenda - Deconstructing Creativity
• ◊ Interview - Rose Tremain
• ◊ New Writing: Fairytales - Adèle Geras
• ◊ PLUS: Maggie Gee ◊ Trezza Azzopardi ◊ Sandi Toksvig
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Issue 16

Jan/Feb/Mar 2003

• ◊ Agenda - Endangered Species: The Parlous State of Short Story Publishing
• ◊ Interview - Joanne Harris
• ◊ New Writing: Babies - Deborah Moggach
• ◊ PLUS: Barbara Trapido ◊ Jo Shapcott ◊ Rabbi Julia Neuberger
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Issue 17

Apr/May/Jun 2003

• ◊ Agenda - A Bigger Splash: Why PR is so Important in Publishing
• ◊ Interview - Ruth Padel
• ◊ New Writing: Interview - Kathleen Jamie
• ◊ PLUS: Margaret Drabble ◊ Janice Galloway ◊ Francine Stock
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Issue 18

Jul/Aug/Sep 2003

• ◊ Agenda - I Did It My Way: The Rise in Self◊ publishing
• ◊ Interview - Ali Smith ◊ Frances Gapper
• ◊ New Writing: Romance - Sophie Hannah
• ◊ PLUS: Joanna Trollope ◊ Anne Fine ◊ Baroness Susan Greenfield
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Issue 19

Oct/Nov/Dec 2003

• ◊ Agenda - Waving or Drowning?: The World of Women's Publishing ◊ Danuta Kean
• ◊ Interview - Beryl Bainbridge
• ◊ New Writing: Hit and Run - Louise Welsh
• ◊ PLUS: Julia Darling ◊ Allison Pearson ◊ Claire Armitstead
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Issue 20

Jan/Feb/Mar 2004

• ◊ Agenda - A Walk on the Weird Side: SciFi and Fantasy
• ◊ Interview - Sarah Waters
• ◊ New Writing: Ice - Liz Lochhead
• ◊ PLUS: Jackie Kay ◊ Clare Morrall ◊ Joan Bakewell
• More about this Issue

Issue 21

Apr/May/Jun 2004

• ◊ Agenda - Can Writing be Taught?
• ◊ Interview - Jenny Colgan
• ◊ New Writing: God - Michèle Roberts
• ◊ PLUS: Emma Brockes ◊ Jane Rogers ◊ Shazia Murza
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Issue 22

Jul/Aug/Sep 2004

• ◊ Agenda - Bedtime Stories: Does 'Sex Sell'? ◊ Danuta Kean
• ◊ Interview - Anne Michaels
• ◊ New Writing: Poetry Competition 2004 - Selima Hill
• ◊ PLUS: Jill Dawson ◊ Val McDermid ◊ Tessa Jowell
• More about this Issue

Issue 23

Oct/Nov/Dec 2004

• ◊ Agenda - One Baby Equals Two Unwritten Books
• ◊ Interview - Claire Tomalin
• ◊ New Writing: Horror - Muriel Gray
• ◊ PLUS: Julie Myerson ◊ Kate Saunders ◊ Polly Toynbee
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Issue 24

Jan/Feb/Mar 2005

• ◊ Agenda - The Next Big Thing: Is it Possible to Predict the Future of Publishing?
• ◊ Interview - Monica Ali
• ◊ New Writing: Shoes - Julia Darling
• ◊ PLUS: Katie Fforde ◊ Jenny Eclair
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Issue 25

Apr/May/Jun 2005

• ◊ Agenda - The Small Press Revolution ◊ Danuta Kean
• ◊ Interview - Andrea Levy
• ◊ New Writing: Dogs - Barbara Trapido
• ◊ PLUS: Margaret Forster ◊ Wendy Cope ◊ Rowan Pelling
• More about this Issue

Issue 26

Jul/Aug/Sep 2005

• ◊ Agenda - Holding Out for a Hero: What Women Writers Need from their Partners
• ◊ Interview - Diana Wynne Jones
• ◊ New Writing: Poetry Competition 2005 - Jo Shapcott
• ◊ PLUS: Stella Duffy ◊ Colette Bryce ◊ Daisy Goodwin
• More about this Issue

Issue 27

Oct/Nov/Dec 2005

• ◊ Agenda - Campaign for Real Women
• ◊ Interview - Kate Atkinson
• ◊ New Writing: Flying - Helen Simpson
• ◊ PLUS: Carol Clewlow ◊ Kathy Lette ◊ Tracey Wilkinson
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Issue 28

Jan/Feb/Mar 2006

• ◊ Agenda - The Rise of Lit Lite
• ◊ Interview - Joanna Trollope
• ◊ New Writing: Seven Deadly Sins - Kate Mosse
• ◊ PLUS: Malorie Blackman ◊ Sinead Morrisey ◊ Sue Lloyd Roberts'
• More about this Issue

Issue 29

Apr/May/Jun 2006

• ◊ Agenda - Don't Give Up the Day Job
• ◊ Interview - Bernardine Evaristo
• ◊ New Writing: Children's Voices - Jill Dawson
• ◊ PLUS: Candida Clark ◊ Kathleen Jamie ◊ Carmen Callil
• More about this Issue

Issue 30

Jul/Aug/Sep 2006

• ◊ Agenda - Blood, Money and Motives: Why Literary Authors are Turning to Crime
◊ Interview - Hilary Mantel
• ◊ New Writing: Poetry Competition 2006 - Wendy Cope
• ◊ PLUS: Aminatta Forna ◊ Louise Doughty ◊ Anne Massey
• More about this Issue

Issue 31

Oct/Nov/Dec 2006

• ◊ Agenda - Plagiarism: The Sincerest Form of Flattery? ◊ Danuta Kean
• ◊ Interview - Diana Evans
• ◊ New Writing: Travellers' Tales - Sara Wheeler
• ◊ PLUS: Kitty Fitzgerald ◊ Patience Agbabi ◊ Shami Chakrabarti
• More about this Issue

Issue 32

Jan/Feb/Mar 2007

• ◊ Agenda - Nature vs. Nurture: Is there a Writing Gene? ◊ Brigid McConville
• ◊ Interview - Joanna Briscoe
• ◊ New Writing: Rain - Kirsty Gunn
• ◊ PLUS: Deborah Moggach ◊ Maeve Binchy ◊ Corinne Bailey Rae
• More about this Issue

Issue 33

Apr/May/Jun 2007

• ◊ Agenda - From Page to Screen
• ◊ Interview - Penelope Shuttle
• ◊ New Writing: The Garden - Val McDermid
• ◊ PLUS: Tracy Chevalier ◊ Eva Salzman ◊ Emma Brockes
• More about this Issue

Issue 34

Jul/Aug/Sep 2007

• ◊ Agenda - Webdream Weavers
• ◊ Interview - Sophie Kinsella
• ◊ New Writing: Poetry Competition 2007 - UA Fanthorpe and RV Bailey
• ◊ PLUS: Helen Oyeyemi ◊ Joanne Harris ◊ Brenda Blethyn
• More about this Issue

Issue 35

Oct/Nov/Dec 2007

• ◊ Agenda - Behind the Iran Curtain
• ◊ Interview - Helen Simpson
• ◊ New Writing: Mirror, mirror - Gillian Allnutt
• ◊ PLUS: Charlotte Mendelson ◊ Jean Sprackland ◊ Kate Nash
• More about this Issue

Issue 36

Jan/Feb/Mar 2008

• ◊ Agenda - GIrls Aloud: The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
• ◊ Interview - Scarlett Thomas
• ◊ New Writing: Gloves - Stella Duffy
• ◊ PLUS: Kate Grenville ◊ Tamasin Day Lewis ◊ Tess Gerritsen
• More about this Issue

Issue 37

Apr/May/Jun 2008

• ◊ Agenda - The Road Less Travelled: British Antarctic Survey's Artist in Residence
• ◊ Interview - Posy Simmonds
• ◊ New Writing: Zoo - Fleur Adcock
• ◊ PLUS: Thamima Anam ◊ Wendy Holden ◊ Bonnie Greer
• More about this Issue

Issue 38

Jul/Aug/Sep 2008

• ◊ Agenda - The New Publishing Revolution
• ◊ Interview - Aminatta Forna
• ◊ New Writing: Poetry Competition 2008 - Carol Ann Duffy
• ◊ PLUS: Stella Blackstone ◊ Fay Weldon ◊ Fi Glover
• More about this Issue

Issue 39

Oct/Nov/Dec 2008

• ◊ Agenda - Places of Our Own: The literary tourist trail
• ◊ Interview - Isabel Allende
• ◊ New Writing: Bugs – Carol Birch
• ◊ PLUS: Amanda Dalton ◊ Alexandra Fuller ◊ Julie Walters
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Issue 40

Jan/Feb/Mar 2009

• ◊ Agenda - The Dragonesses Awaken! – Welsh women writers
• ◊ Interview - Maggie O'Farrell
• ◊ New Writing: The Four Elements - Lavinia Greenlaw
• ◊ PLUS: Kathy Reichs ◊ Kate Summerscale ◊ Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
• More about this Issue

Issue 41

Apr/May/Jun 2009

• ◊ Agenda - Sleight of Hand - Bookmaking
• ◊ Interview - Nicola Barker
• ◊ New Writing: Short Story Competition 2009 - Helen Simpson
• ◊ PLUS: Ursula K Le Guin ◊ Sophie Hannah ◊ Julia Hobsbawm
• More about this Issue

Issue 42

Jul/Aug/Sep 2009

• ◊ Agenda - Reading Matters – the importance of reading for the young
• ◊ Interview - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• ◊ New Writing: Poetry Competition 2009 - Ruth Padel
• ◊ PLUS: Jen Hadfield ◊ Sarah Waters ◊ Lesley Lokko
• More about this Issue

Issue 43

Oct/Nov/Dec 2009

• ◊ Agenda - Between the Covers - the state of the publishing industry
• ◊ Interview - Lynn Barber
• ◊ New Writing: Idols – Patience Agbabi
• ◊ PLUS: Diana Evans ◊ Kira Cochrane ◊ Jane Gardam
• More about this Issue

Issue 44

Jan/Feb/Mar 2010

• ◊ Agenda - Revisiting the Reviews
• ◊ Interview - Naomi Alderman
• ◊ New Writing: Skin - Alex Clark
• ◊ PLUS: Sara Wheeler ◊ Bernardine Evaristo ◊ Hilary Bradt
• More about this Issue

Issue 45

Apr/May/Jun 2010

• ◊ Agenda - In the Loop – how women are driving the digital revolution
• ◊ Interview - Kamila Shamsie
• ◊ New Writing: Short Story Competition 2010 – Tracy Chevalier
• ◊ PLUS: Dreda Say Mitchell ◊ Jodi Picoult ◊ Victoria Coren
• More about this Issue

Issue 46

Jul/Aug/Sep 2010

• ◊ Agenda - In These Financial Times
• ◊ Interview - Claudia Roden
• ◊ New Writing: Into the Deep – Christina Patterson
• ◊ PLUS: Maggie Gee ◊ Jill Mansell ◊ Jancis Robinson
• More about this Issue

Issue 47

Oct/Nov/Dec 2010

• ◊ Agenda - Funny Girls
• ◊ Interview - Jojo Moyes
• ◊ New Writing: Poetry Competition 2010 – Vick Feaver
• ◊ PLUS: Viv Groskop ◊ Monique Roffey ◊ Tracey Thorn
• More about this Issue

Issue 48

Jan/Feb/Mar 2011

• ◊ Agenda - Hard Times
• ◊ Interview - Susan Hill
• ◊ New Writing: Departures - Amanda Craig
• ◊ PLUS: Guest editor Danuta Kean ◊ Pascale Petit ◊ Barbara Taylor Bradford
• More about this Issue

Issue 49

Apr/May/Jun 2011

• ◊ Agenda - The Mid-list Crisis
• ◊ Interview - Mary Hoffman
• ◊ New Writing: Short Story Competition 2011 - Jackie Kay
• ◊ PLUS: Celia Imrie ◊ Louise Doughty ◊ Linda France
• More about this Issue

Issue 50

Jul/Aug/Sep 2011

• ◊ Agenda - Boutique Books – Small Press Publishing
• ◊ Interview - Leila Aboulela
• ◊ New Writing: Ego - Salley Vickers
• ◊ PLUS: Guest editor Elsbeth Lindner ◊ Elaine Feinstein ◊ Kate Pullinger ◊ Miriam Margolyes
• More about this Issue

ISSUE 51

Oct/Nov/Dec 2011

• ◊ Agenda - e-pportunities – what the digital revolution has to offer women writers
• ◊ Interview - Sally Wainwright
• ◊ New Writing: Poetry Competition 2011 - Jo Shapcott
• ◊ PLUS: Guest editor Val McDermid ◊ Stella Duffy ◊ Meg Rosoff ◊ Sarah Brown
• More about this Issue

ISSUE 52

Dec/Jan/Feb 2011/12

• ◊ Agenda - The case for 4x4 fiction
• ◊ Interview - Gillian Slovo
• ◊ New Writing: Motherhood - Kate Figes
• ◊ PLUS: Guest editor: Linda Kelsey ◊ Amanda Craig ◊ Lavinia Greenlaw ◊ Alexandra Shulman
• More about this Issue

ISSUE 53

Mar/Apr/May 2012

• ◊ Agenda - Negative feedback
• ◊ Interview - Alice Oswald
• ◊ New Writing: In the year 2212 - Ann VanderMeer
• ◊ PLUS: Celia Rees ◊ Ruth Padel ◊ Kona Macphee ◊ Ann Widdecombe
• More about this Issue

Issue 54

Jun/Jul/Aug 2012

• ◊ Agenda - Dyke writing
• ◊ Interview - Sarah Hall talks to Bidisha
• ◊ New Writing: Short Story Competition 2012 – Tessa Hadley
• ◊ PLUS: Guest editor: Suzi Feay ◊ Scarlett Thomas ◊ Katy Guest ◊ Mimi Khalvati ◊ Rachel Johnson
• More about this Issue

ISSUE 55

Sep/Oct/Nov 2012

• ◊ Agenda - The multiple challenges facing women writers
• ◊ Interview - Caroline Sanderson talks to Deborah Moggach
• ◊ New Writing: Poetry Competition 2012 – Gillian Clarke
• ◊ PLUS: Guest editor: Danuta Kean ◊ Amanda Craig ◊ Michelle Paver ◊ Chrissie Wellington
• More about this Issue

ISSUE 56

Dec/Jan/Feb 2012/13

• ◊ Agenda - Do the social media really sell books?
• ◊ Interview - Diana Athill talks to Homa Khaleeli
• ◊ New Writing: The affair – Sarah Dunant
• ◊ PLUS: Bidisha ◊ Viv Groskop ◊ Judy Chicago
• More about this Issue

ISSUE 57

Mar/Apr/May 2013

• ◊ Agenda - Do antidepressants affect women's writing?
• ◊ Interview - Gwyneth Lewis
• ◊ New Writing: Memoir – Rachel Cusk
• ◊ PLUS: Homa Khaleeli ◊ Jenny Colgan ◊ Kirsty Lang
• More about this Issue