Plain Pleasures
Madelaine LucasA monthly newsletter of recommended reading and other pleasures.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Monthly |
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| Issues | 7 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 16 days ago |
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Women in a Man's World
Last month, the British author Gwendoline Riley was named as one two writers who would receive a 2026 Windham-Campbell prize for fiction. The announcment of this news was not without controversy: it was revealed, via a series of Tweets, tha...
Whimsy and Mystery
Since I relocated back to Australia at the end of last year I have felt out of tune with the seasons. After ten years living on the East Coast of North America, I learned to bend to a different rhythm: mid-year summers, the quiet and intima...
Long live the sad horny novel
I don’t read Amazon reviews of my novel because I know how to protect my peace and I assume they are mainly complaints about the lack of quotation marks, but after Thirst For Salt was published my husband got curious and came across this ge...
Animal Intimacies
The year I was first forced to confront the fallibility of my body, I adopted a dog. We were facing our first pandemic winter, and I needed a reason to get out of bed every morning. It was not clear then what was causing the strange revolut...
What We Read in 2025: Bonus Children's Book Edition
When I was fifteen, I got my first job: the Saturday shift at a children’s bookshop. It was possibly the most wholesome job a girl could have, very heroine-in-a-romcom-movie, especially once the shop moved to a bright corner location, where...
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Author of the debut novel THIRST FOR SALT. Senior editor of NOON. Dog person.
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