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Elisa Segrave

Wisdom of the ages: we must keep listening to the elderly

Elisa Segrave 30 November 2019 9:00 am

There are wonderful encounters to be had with them

Single women are happier – here’s why

Elisa Segrave 6 July 2019 9:00 am

People are too obsessed with being part of a couple

Addicts love talking about their addiction – but haven’t we suffered enough?

Elisa Segrave 2 February 2019 9:00 am

When did alcoholics forget the bit about being anonymous?

Midnight sun on the Yukon

I hate fishing — but was hooked by the story of the Yukon’s salmon

Elisa Segrave 2 June 2018 9:00 am

‘Help!’ I thought, when I read the Author’s Note. ‘It’s about salmon, and I hate fishing.’ But by the first…

Wham bam, thank you Ma’am

Elisa Segrave 24 February 2018 9:00 am

Why do Americans seesaw between violence and politeness?

What Katie didn’t do: how Hopkins was silenced in Lewes

Elisa Segrave 2 December 2017 9:00 am

Miss Hopkins should not have been gagged

Why women fall for philanderers and abusers

Elisa Segrave 21 October 2017 9:00 am

Why women fall for philanderers and abusers

Brava Bella Pollen

Elisa Segrave 3 June 2017 9:00 am

I like Bella Pollen for her open-mindedness, self-deprecation and verve. Given her early success as a fashion designer — top…

The drug that my Asperger’s son loved turned his life upside down

Elisa Segrave 7 January 2017 9:00 am

My son loved his new treatment – but it changed his life for the worse

Emma Donoghue’s novel The Wonder reviewed

Elisa Segrave 1 October 2016 9:00 am

Emma Donoghue’s novel Room was short-listed for the 2010 Man Booker prize and made into a film in 2015. Inspired…

The pleasure of keeping — and rereading – diaries

Elisa Segrave 18 June 2016 9:00 am

The pleasures of keeping them, rereading them – and publishing them

How to Measure a Cow — and escape the shadows of the past

Elisa Segrave 26 March 2016 9:00 am

Margaret Forster, who died on 8 February, excelled at writing about complex relationships between women. Even old friends, she demonstrated,…

Illustration by beatrice forshall

Is the Slender-billed curlew already extinct?

Elisa Segrave 2 January 2016 9:00 am

This unusual book is beautifully written, produced and illustrated, but its subject — the small Slender-billed curlew — is strangely…

The trials of living with a High Court judge

Elisa Segrave 29 August 2015 9:00 am

This intensely written memoir by Adam Mars-Jones about his Welsh father, Sir William, opens with the death of Sheila, Adam’s…

Elisa Segrave’s diary: A prison visit to a friend

Elisa Segrave 20 June 2015 9:00 am

Off to prison to visit a writer friend, first jailed led some years ago for trying to find a hit…

Alexandra’s Fuller’s parents are the stars even when their daughter is divorcing, in this sequel to the bestselling Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight

Elisa Segrave 21 February 2015 9:00 am

‘Double ouzo, hold the Coke,’ Mum ordered at the Mkushi Country Club bar, during spanikopita night. ‘My daughter’s a lesbian.’…

No pains spared

Elisa Segrave 18 February 2009 12:00 am

Matthew: A Memoir, by Anne Crosby

Remembrance of girls past

Elisa Segrave 5 November 2008 12:00 am

Past Imperfect, by Julian Fellowes

Scared of Christmas presents

Elisa Segrave 8 May 2004 12:00 am

In this fascinating book about her two autistic sons Charlotte Moore describes what would be a nightmare life for most…

Angels and ministers of grace

Elisa Segrave 26 October 2002 12:00 am

Despite its provocative title, this is not a salacious book. Any reader hoping for disclosures about Woolf’s lesbian love affairs…

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