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Getting to know you
This column first appeared in Sunday Times Lifestyle on 2 June 2019: I recently had an interesting debate with this guy I once dated. Let’s call him ‘X’. We got together about a billion years ago for half a second, until he ghosted me. He then reappeared all apologetic six or seven years later and […]
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Wanted dead or alive. Preferably alive.
This column first appeared in Wanted Magazine on 2nd November 2018 WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE. PREFERABLY ALIVE. – by Paige Nick Am I high end? I don’t lick the knife, I flew business class that one time, and I know how to use that weird cutlery for snails. But I have also been known to […]
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Sunday Times Review – Theo & Flora
This review first appeared here in the Sunday Times Lifestyle on 4th November 2018: REVIEW – By Paige Nick THEO & FLORA – MARK WINKLER (Penguin SA, 2018) **** The story behind this novel is almost as nuanced as the one in it. After Mark Winkler’s first novel (An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Absolutely Everything (Penguin, […]
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It’s a set up
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 […]
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Travel fomo: it’s a thing, people. And I have it bad
This column first appeared in The Sunday Times on 5 August 2018. ACCIDENTAL TOURIST – SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL FOMO By Paige Nick My father is an adventurer. A month ago, he spent two nights in a barely-anything by barely-anything-meter-squared hide, to watch bears mating in the wild. He was somewhere near Khumo, Finland, and otherwise […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The odds of you actually meeting your soulmate are slim at best
This column first appeared in The Sunday Times on 24th June 2018 SUNDAY TIMES – STOLE MATES? By Paige Nick This week I’ve been thinking a lot about soul mates. Yours mostly, as I don’t have one. I’ve been thinking about how some believe there’s just one perfect match out there for each of us. […]
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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 […]