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Margaret Gardiner's 'Damaged Beauty: Joey Superstar' celebrates resilience in style

Margaret Gardiner, former Miss South Africa and Miss Universe, makes her literary debut with 'Damaged Beauty: Joey Superstar', a novel that explores the glamorous yet tumultuous world of modelling through the lens of resilience.

Entertainment Books
Alyssia Birjalal|Published

How Charles Dickens invented modern Christmas traditions

This man might have been the real-life Father Christmas.

News Feel Good
Xolile Mtembu|Published

How Victorian ads shaped fiction

Anonymous personal advertisements made up the column in the mid- to late-19th century. Authors sometimes coded them using numbered ciphers and pseudonyms.

iOS Lifestyle
The Conversation|Published