This column first appeared in The Sunday Times on 21 October 2018: IT’S A SET-UP – Paige Nick I’ve made a terrible mistake. I set up two good friends. I’ve since played the whole thing out in my head a million different ways, and I can’t find a single way this ends well. She is…
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Disaster dates
This column first appeared here in The Sunday Times Lifestyle on 26th August 2018. SUNDAY TIMES FUNNY, NOT FUNNY – Paige Nick I don’t know why I find dating disasters so funny. I’m either a through and through psychopath, or there’s nothing wrong with me and it’s simple self-preservation. Like that thing where if you…
A book you never finish reading
This column first ran in the Sunday Times on Sunday 22nd July 2018 A BOOK YOU NEVER FINISH READING LIGHT THE DARK; Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process, Edited by Joe Fassler (Penguin Books, 2017) 5 stars – hell, 15 stars. I bought this book by accident. I was on a date in…
Lab-grown Date Night
This column first appeared here, in The Sunday Times on 1 July 2018: TINDER BECOMES UNHINGED By Paige Nick I once dated a guy who only had one real-life friend in the whole wide world. That should have been the first sign that something wasn’t quite right with him. There were other glow-in-the-dark red flags…
Super Trumps Dating Game
This column first appeared here, in the Sunday Times on 10th June 2018. Here it is in its uncut form: SUPER TRUMPS DATING – By Paige Nick Dating online is many double-barrelled things; eye-opening, soul-destroying, time-sucking, and utterly hilariously-ludicrous. But the one thing it never is, is dull. I was recently swapping war stories with…
Marriage with an expiration date
This column first appeared in the Sunday Times on 3rd June 2018: The New I Do – By Paige Nick Is marriage the new rhino in the room? Could it be completely extinct within the next couple of years? If we can wipe out a whole species in a couple of generations, I see no…
Does the Royal Family have a family WhatsApp group?
This column first appeared in the Sunday Times on 27th May, 2018 THE ROYAL FAMILY WHATSAPP GROUP – By Paige Nick Do you think the royal family also has a mad, dysfunctional family WhatsApp Group, like the rest of us? Who gets to be on it, and how extended does it get? Blood only, or…
Jim Crace Review
this first appeared in the Sunday Times on 23rd April 2018: SUNDAY TIMES – JIM CRACE – THE MELODY (Picador, 2018) By Paige Nick After his Booker-nominated Harvest (Picador, 2013), Jim Crace was never going to write another novel, until three things happened. The first in India, in a luxury hotel where security kept the…
Wanted: good self-help books about sex
This column first appeared in Sunday Times on 7th January 2018, in a slightly condensed form. Paige Nick discovers it’s trickier to be a sex therapist than a sex columnist WANTED: Good self-help books about sex Guy* thinks his wife is cheating. I know this because he read my column a few weeks ago and…
Sex columnists don’t drop their knickers on request
This column first appeared in Sunday Times on 10th December 2017 THE FRIEND REQUEST – By Paige Nick HIM: Hello Paige, how are you? Shot for accepting my friend request, will be grand to read more of you. ME: Very kind of you to say, thank you for reading me. HIM: Keep it coming Missus….