BOOK REVIEW :: SECRET GIRLS’ BUSINESS BY MAGGIE HAMILTON

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“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. [...]

INTRODUCING THE TGSG MAGAZINE BOOK CLUB

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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 [...]

BOOK REVIEW :: THE CARRIE DIARIES BY CANDACE BUSHNELL

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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 [...]

REVIEW :: THE ROMANCE DIARIES ‘RUBY’ BY JENNA AUSTEN

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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 [...]

BOOK REVIEW :: VENOM BY FIONA PAUL

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“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 [...]

BOOK REVIEW :: WHAT KATIE ATE BY KATIE QUINN DAVIES

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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 [...]

BOOK REVIEW: THINGS MY DAUGHTER NEEDS TO KNOW

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 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 [...]

BOOK REVIEW: ‘GIRL! THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BEING YOU’ BY ANNA BARNES

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“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 [...]

HOW TO EAT LESS WITHOUT TRYING TO EAT LESS

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The title of this book is deceptive. One’s first impression of it might be that it is yet another dieting self-help book; but in fact, it is an anti-dieting self-help book. The author, Sue Thomason, has dedicated her life to helping people with body image and disordered eating issues and is considered an expert in [...]

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