I cannot recommend this book enough. It is a real homage to all women out there who are empowered to follow their dreams and to be who they truly are.

This book is amazing!

A self-help guide by Kiran Shah, Pink Shoes and Jilbaab dives into the spiritual and emotional connection and meaning behind wearing the hijab, mixing this lesson with ways to achieve success in other aspects of life.

When we're kids, it seems that reading time comes naturally to us, whether at home or school.

If you lived in a world where everyone was eating human flesh, would you? 

An Ordinary Life explores a life lived, love lost, and sacrifices of life. Molly, at 94, is sharing with us the memories and happy times of her life.

Danilo Kiš's last work The Encyclopedia of the Dead was published in 1983. Critics call this work “the farewell fugue of the literary Mozart”.

We'll Always Have Paris - Sex and Love in the City of Light (2005) by Australian writer and biographer John Baxter is a travel book about a city that is a victim of its own mythology, a city that for centuries has been the place where writers, artists, directors, actors, lovers come in search of themselves.

When Marie NDiaye won the prestigious French Goncourt Prize for Literature in 2009, the novel Three Strong Women (Trois Femmes Puissantes) was incredibly popular with readers in France, but even more significant to the entire French public was the fact that Marie NDiaye became the first black woman winner of this award..

Where do I start? It is hard for me to put into words what this book made me feel. Previous to picking up the book I had heard about it from family and friends as well as on social media; I needed to know what all this fuss was about. For the first few chapters I have to admit it I wasn’t immediately compelled, however I was mistaken. Once you dip your feet into the book all you want to do is keeping swimming.

In her most recent novel, Miss Benson’s Beetle, Rachel Joyce returns to her rare breed of protagonist. Trampled by life’s unfairnesses, unseen and unknown, until an unexpected and perhaps unwelcome moment of self-realisation sets them forth into the world, searching, under the guise of an unconventional adventure, for their lost selves. 

That’s right, ladies. We’ve got together to create our very own ULTIMATE C Word reading list - this can be novels, non-fiction, poems, short stories, haiku’s.

I admit, bibliophiles, I committed that mortal sin of which we are all guilty, and that almost always leaves me full of regret - I saw the film first.

Famous writer, thinker, fashion consultant, podcast pro, mother, and all-round female whirlwind, Pandora Sykes, has written her debut collection of essays, and I couldn’t be more excited.

This June, the #CWORDREADS book we want everyone to get reading is Educated, by Tara Westover.