One for the ladies

New Plymouth-raised, UK-based magazine editor Suraya Singh, 30, has got Europe talking with the launch of Filament, a self-funded quarterly UK magazine that is squarely aimed at turning women on. Tired of being bombarded with celebrity gossip, diet tips and fashion advice at the newsstand, Singh wanted a classy erotica magazine that women like her would be happy to buy. Men’s magazines regularly mix aspirational and intelligent content with high-brow erotica, but women, she felt, were being left out. Which is why she decided to quit her job and set up the magazine herself. Marketed as “the thinking woman’s crumpet”. Filament’s first issue features a semi-naked man in a praying position on its cover.


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Amy Brown’s New Novel Inspired by Women and Art

Amy Brown’s New Novel Inspired by Women and Art

Like many writers before her, New Zealand-born Amy Brown takes inspiration from the Australian feminist icon Stella Maria Miles Franklin in her captivating debut novel My Brilliant Sister – but instead…