Meet photographer and artist Julie Poly who sees beauty in the trivial. Her Ukrzaliznytsia project is a tactile rich photo essay book that takes the reader on a journey on Ukraine’s one and only railroad transportation enterprise.

“What I desperately want is to lose myself. To be nothing more than a raw bare piece of nature, that surrenders to simply being and ceasing to be,” she narrates longingly, in subtitled German, while stretched out naked in a steaming bath, eyes closed, weighted by feelings of disconnection from her lover.

Sun, sun, sun, here we come. When the days are longer and the humidity slowly builds, we begin shedding our layers – clothes, cares and skepticisms. Now is the season to lean in – embrace optimism, check our auras and eat for the chakras.

‘To the table or to bed you must come when you are bid.’ And so begins the most passionately explosive love story ever told along with a recipe for Christmas Rolls.

First published privately in 1928, in Florence, Italy, English author D. H. Lawrence's final novel sat quietly in the world of literature until it was released openly in the United Kingdom in 1960 where it became a censorship sensation.

The smell of frangipani always, without fail, pulls me back in time to a holiday spent in Honolulu, Hawaii. Years ago, inspired by visions of turquoise water, swaying coconut palms, lush rainforests dripping with vibrant-hued flowers, ukulele fuelled dance parties and cocktail dreams served poolside, I booked a last minute flight and took my son to Hawaii.