Chatelaine Book Club

Check out our first official Chatelaine Book Club pick: Ami McKay’s The Virgin Cure. In part one (pages 1-116), we meet 12-year-old Moth, who finds herself out on the streets after her mother sells her into service.

As Hillary Jordan’s When She Woke opens, heroine Hannah Payne finds herself incarcerated in solitary confinement after an unusual punishment. It seems she has to wait 30 days before she is released — but, of course, there’s more to the sentence, and her story, than that…

If you asked me my favourite book, I couldn’t possibly pin it down to just one. However, there are a number of books that I love and which have had a lasting impression on me. Here they are, along with other memorable reads.

This uplifting true story is stranger than fiction. One day, Peggielene Bartels woke up to find that her uncle had died, leaving her king of a fishing town along Africa’s west coast

We caught up with Caitlin Moran, author of How to Be a Woman, on Twitter in a recent chat and discussed everything from women's contraceptive rights to the best way to hand-wash tights — all in snippets of 140 characters or less. Here's a round-up of our favourite tweets from the chat.