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…
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….
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…
Man Sells Himself (Sunday Times)
This column first appeared in Sunday Times on 8th April, 2018: SUNDAY TIMES – The Man Who Sold Himself By Paige Nick In 2008, Mike Merrill sold his body for a dollar for the first time. Over the next ten years he would sell it many more times. Only not in the dodgy way you…
Down with fairytales
This column first appeared in the Sunday Times Lifestyle on 4th Feb 2018 4 FEBRUARY 2018 – VALENTINE’S DAY COLUMN WHAT IS LOVE? By Paige Nick “What do I know about love? How am I supposed to write about it?” I whined to my partner the other night, after being invited to write this column…
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…