“Be brave. Have fun. Take care… Nurture your dreams, because everything you wish for lies inside you. It’s just waiting for you to discover it” ~ Maggie Hamilton Part scrapbook, part help guide, Maggie Hamilton becomes the guru of all things vintage and creative for girls “fed up with bland conformity” in Secret Girls’ Business. [...]
Do you love a good read? AND do you love surprise packages in the mail? If you’re shouting yes then keep reading girls! Say hello to the TGSG magazine’s Book Club! Each month we’ll offer you girls the chance to receive books and write a short review on what you thought about it. The following [...]
Candace Bushnell brings sparkling vivacity and humour to her latest novel and sequel to The Carrie Diaries. Now a hit TV show on the C.W Network, this series is perfect for a younger audience. Bushnell follows the young Carrie Bradshaw’s summer at a writing course in the Big Apple and all the entertaining travails that [...]
Friend ~ “a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard” . Sitting in the computer lab after school hours, You Tubing the Elephant Love Medley from my favourite movie Moulin Rouge and singing along, I knew I’d met one of my best friends. Bonding over our mutual love of Ewan McGregor, [...]
Are you a Jane Austen kinda girl or do you like the brooding bad boys like Jane Eyre? That’s precisely what Jenna Austen asks readers in her novel ‘The Romance Diaries- Ruby’. A light-hearted easy read, girls are invited to peek into the protagonist Ruby’s diary as she navigates her way through the confusing world [...]
A new year, a fresh start. As we count down to midnight and watch the myriad of colours flashing upon darkness, the feeling of excitement is contagious. Each New Year brings us limitless possibilities and the chance to make it the best year yet. When I was little, my family would go into Docklands and [...]
“You may study the bodies of the living and the dead for clues…but you can never unravel the mystery of the human heart.” Venom is Fiona Paul’s debut young adult novel and the first book in her series The Secrets of the Eternal Rose. Set in Renaissance Venice, it follows the life of a teenager [...]
“I was diagnosed with my eating disorder when I was 14. I’m now 18 and after 5 hospitalisations this year alone, it’s hard to ignore the impact that it’s had on my life”- Genevieve Do you ever look in the mirror and only see your imperfections? Big thighs, stretch marks, protruding stomach, wide hips, flabby [...]
Are you searching for a book that looks as good as it tastes? Then look no further than ‘What Katie Ate: Recipes and Other Bits and Bobs’. Filled with exquisite food photography, Katie Quinn Davies delivers a feast for the eyes. The cook book has a rustic, vintage feel compiled of ‘simple and seasonal’ recipes [...]
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Nervous anticipation fills the air; rows upon rows of tables are lined perfectly behind each other. Finally an invigilator declares, “Reading time commences…now”. Broken hearts; illness; family trouble; friendship dramas. Genevieve and Bianca have experienced first –hand that the realities of life do not take a break during the final year of secondary schooling. The [...]
In her new edgy self-help/parenting guide, ‘Things My Daughter Needs to Know: The truth about drugs, drink, sex, tattoos, babies, strange men and high heels’, Dilvin Yasa gives you the kind of advice she wishes her own mother had told her. Tackling a range of hard gritty topics, Yasa tells young women her “truth about [...]
“Always be a first rate version of yourself rather than a second rate version of someone else”~ Judy Garland Fancy a chat with a cool older sister about the perils of teenage-hood? Then sit down with young author and blogger Anna Barnes book ‘Girl! The Ultimate Guide to Being You’. Motivating and inspiring, this guide [...]
Freedom at last. No longer will I have to rely on public transport, or the charity of other people. No longer will I have to listen to my mum screeching to “Slow Down!!!” or “Breakkkkkkkkkkk”. At long last, I finally have my driver’s licence. After 120 hours of supervised driving, passing the annoying hazards, and [...]
My first online shopping trip was disastrous. Super excited with plenty of birthday money, I logged onto Etsy.com. Scrolling through a myriad of eclectic jewellery options I stumbled across a Steampunk ring. It was bronze coloured, held part of a Victorian era clock, and boasted a large topaz stone. For those of you not up [...]
Once upon a time the biggest issue you had to deal with was “What TV show do I want to watch tonight” and now suddenly you’re a player in your very own TV drama. Enter “Teenage life. Hormones. Lust. Love. Jealousy. And other melodramatic fun stuff.” Dealing with guy dramas is funny at first [...]
Do you ever have those days when you feel like the unluckiest person ever? Today, I could’ve sworn I was in a bad comedy. If I was in some lame cartoon, it would feature everyone skipping in sunshine while I walked with a raincloud over my head and no umbrella. I messed around with [...]
The zip is quickly undone as I refile through my purse searching. Come on, I know it’s there somewhere. When I finally manage to dig my ID out I clutch onto it possessively. Teetering towards the entry in our heels I hand over my learners permit to a burly looking bouncer. A nervous flutter of [...]
