The birth

If you thought raising kids was tricky, spare a thought for the mother eaten by her own spiderlings…

Mothers are the most familiar strangers in our lives, says novelist Abigail Bergstrom. We grow up believing we know them inside out, and, yet, how much of them do we truly see?

We meet teen mum Maddie, who had to grow up extra fast

Would her daughter’s enthusiasm for insects revive Elaine’s creativity? ELAINE stared at the muddy footprints leading across her freshly mopped kitchen floor. She didn’t need to be a detective to work

Efforts to prohibit abortion down the ages

A SPACECRAFT HURTLING THROUGH THE cosmos. An indomitable female lead. Armed crew members creeping through claustrophobic hallways where death could be lurking around any corner. A hostile alien that l