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  • Getting to know you

    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 […]

    June 6, 2019
  • Wanted dead or alive. Preferably alive.

    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 […]

    November 12, 2018
  • Sunday Times Review – Theo & Flora

    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, […]

    November 12, 2018
  • It’s a set up

    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 […]

    October 21, 2018
  • Disaster dates

    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 […]

    August 26, 2018
  • Travel fomo: it’s a thing, people. And I have it bad

    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 […]

    August 5, 2018
  • A book you never finish reading

    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 […]

    July 22, 2018
  • Lab-grown Date Night

    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 […]

    July 1, 2018
  • The odds of you actually meeting your soulmate are slim at best

    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. […]

    June 24, 2018
  • Super Trumps Dating Game

    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 […]

    June 10, 2018
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