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Jun 29
2 min

Drugs

I am still getting emails from women in a state of confusion and fear about how they are feeling in menopause or peri-menopause. I am oft...

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Apr 10
1 min

Running alone together.

Yes, I'm like a London bus: I write nothing for ages and then two essays in two weeks. Here is one I have written for the New York Review...

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Apr 9
1 min

At sea, at home

I wrote this essay for Technology Review on how being at sea taught me about being marooned at home during this pandemic. I hope you are ...

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Feb 24
8 min

Meltdown

An update on me and menopause depression.

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Jan 14
1 min

Strava

I write about Strava, the fitness app that is agnostic but inspires religious fervour in its users.

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Oct 21, 2019
3 min

High bridges and low moods

I have had to change my HRT, against my will. For months now, it has been difficult and sometimes impossible for women to find their usua...

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Oct 11, 2019
5 min

Join the queue

There has been a furore this week about toilets. I like furores about toilets as I like anything that makes people think about toilets an...

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Aug 2, 2019
1 min

Nine Pints the paperback

I know: you think that Granta's edition of Nine Pints was already a paperback. True. But it is known as a trade paperback, and now here w...

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May 23, 2019
1 min

Bill Gates' summer reading recommendations

The rhythm of publishing a book generally goes like this: if you are lucky, there is a flurry of attention around publication. This goes ...

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May 15, 2019
1 min

Race and blood

I have written something for the New York Times health pages on race and blood. An extract: “We need black blood.” I didn’t know what to ...

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Apr 30, 2019
4 min

Infected blood

Today is the first day of the hearings of the Infected Blood Inquiry. This is a very big deal. Thirty-five years ago, it began to be clea...

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Apr 3, 2019
4 min

Untitled

It is back. They are back. The awful days, the ones I cannot beat with reason or determination. I don’t know why they are back: my medica...

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Mar 22, 2019
1 min

BBC Ideas

I did a video for BBC Ideas on the wonderful, curious world of blood. I'm amazed at everything they can do with a green screen. I'm less ...

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Feb 20, 2019
5 min

Norovirus

I wrote a piece in 2013 for a certain newspaper. The piece was never published; I can't remember why not, but it is a newspaper that is k...

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Jan 9, 2019
3 min

The New Yorker, and an apology to Canadians

The New Yorker is my favourite publication. That is not an empty statement: I have consistently subscribed for over a decade. It is the o...

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Dec 28, 2018
6 min

A run in a city after dark

I wrote this post on my running blog, which is here. But because it is about being a woman in the world, and not just about running, I'm ...

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Dec 19, 2018
1 min

It's that most wonderful time of the year

Aye. Christmas. And Christmas means best books of the year lists. There is a Yorkshire expression: "throwing flowers at yourself." It me...

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Dec 3, 2018
1 min

A book of the year

Lists, lists, lists. This is the month of lists. But I can't scorn them because of this: Nine Pints has been judged one of the books of t...

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Oct 26, 2018
4 min

Missing acknowledgments

For unaccountable reasons, some of the acknowledgments in Nine Pints, UK edition, were cut off. Here is the full version. Apologies to pe...

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Oct 25, 2018
3 min

Publication day! (Again.)

It is publication day for Nine Pints, UK edition. The subtitle is different: this one is "A Journey through the mysterious, miraculous wo...

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