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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914613319 | ISBN 10: 1914613317
A radical rewriting of the future for all women approaching their mid and elder years.Â
‘There can be a perverse pleasure, as well as a sense of rightness and beauty, in insisting on flowering just when the world expects you to become quiet and ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839811791 | ISBN 10: 183981179x
‘An inspirational book.’ – Jojo Sutherland
‘Enjoy this great tale of determination, courage and joy. You won’t look back.’ – Kaye Adams
Approaching retirement and frustrated with her job, Siobhan Daniels made a BIG dec ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781788168182 | ISBN 10: 1788168186
Voted Britain's favourite poem, 'Warning', written in 1961, is known and loved the world over for its message of old age as a time for indulgence and fun. Â
In the poem's respectable middle-aged woman, as she imagines herself in old age as a chee ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781785787041 | ISBN 10: 1785787047
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED A CHIP SHOP IN POZNAN.
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One millennial, six coach trips, one big generation gap. When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, ... more
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£18.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787331952 | ISBN 10: 1787331954
In his customary pose as the grumpiest of grumpy old men, Raymond Briggs contemplates old age and death... and doesn’t like them much. Illustrated with Briggs’s inimitable pencil drawings, Time for Lights Out is a collection of short pieces, some ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911545262 | ISBN 10: 1911545264
From childhood on, we’re barraged by messages that it’s sad to be old. That wrinkles are embarrassing, and old people useless. Author and activist Ashton Applewhite believed them too — until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781558968172 | ISBN 10: 1558968172
A Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain at a large senior residence community leads us on a journey through the stories and experiences of elders, offering insights into navigating this unique stage of life. Drawing on scores of personal ... more
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£4.95 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781907598470 | ISBN 10: 1907598472
The latest title from Candlestick Press is something of a departure: all the poems have been chosen by pupils at Headington School and the selection includes contributions written by the students themselves and by their English teacher, Liz Soar.Â
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781845233082 | ISBN 10: 1845233085
Recent winner of the Frost medal from the Poetry Society of America, Kamau Brathwaite has discovered a rich new vein of inspiration late in life, writing poems of urgency, wisdom, pain and brave humour. No poet since Hardy and Yeats has written about ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783782727 | ISBN 10: 1783782722
Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no longer live entirely independently, and moved to a retirement home in Highgate. There, she found herself released from the daily anxieties of caring for her own property, and free to settle i ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099573180 | ISBN 10: 0099573180
Bette Davis said ‘Old age ain’t no place for sissies’. If that’s true, we could all use a little help as we approach our twilight years. Translator Tom Payne turns to Ovid, Seneca, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aristophanes to discover invigorat ... more
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£20.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780773544864 | ISBN 10: 0773544860
At the height of the African AIDS crisis older women mobilized across two continents and an ocean of difference to change the lives of innumerable African women confronting insecurity, violence, grief, and illness.
In 2006 the Stephen Lewis Foun ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408841020 | ISBN 10: 1408841029
The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best part of his life Al Alvarez – poet, critic, novelist, rock-climber and poker player – has swum in them almost daily.
&nbs ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782270218 | ISBN 10: 1782270213
'My mother, a house that is slowly collapsing, a bridge dancing to a tremor.'
It started when she could no longer remember the word for 'book'. Then her mind, her language and her identity began to slip away.
This is Erwin Mortier's moving, e ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780230767751 | ISBN 10: 0230767753
Society has a deep fear of ageing. Old age is increasingly viewed as a biomedical problem, something to be avoided at all costs and then vanished away by medicine. Anne Karpf urges us to change our narrative. Exploring how our outlook on ageing is hi ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781447250616 | ISBN 10: 1447250613
The International Bestselling Sensation
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules is an incredibly quirky, humorous and warm-hearted story about growing old disgracefully - and breaking all the rules along the way!
79-year-old Martha ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781681398 | ISBN 10: 1781681392
A passionate declaration for finding victory in survival.
In Out of Time, leading thinker Lynne Segal examines her life and surveys the work and experience of other writers and artists to explore the pleasures and perils of growing old. &nbs ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781847084149 | ISBN 10: 1847084141
Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity even more revealing than the candour of her celebrate ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781447205852 | ISBN 10: 1447205855
In this eloquent meditation on ageing, Marie de Hennezel guides us through a true ‘art of growing old’. She recalls her encounters as a clinical psychologist with extraordinary people who 'grow old gracefully’ – and through her experience shows us ho ... more
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£22.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781849052573 | ISBN 10: 1849052573
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people often face unique challenges as they grow older. It is vital that those providing them with care and support understand their needs, wishes and experiences.
This book demonstrates how ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847082695 | ISBN 10: 1847082696
At the beginning of the 1990s, Linda Grant's mother, Rose, was diagnosed with Dementia. In Remind Me Who I Am, Again Linda Grant tells the story of Rose's illness and tries to reconstruct the history of their Jewish immigrant family, stalking them fr ... more
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£10.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781900322737 | ISBN 10: 1900322730
“No young man believes he shall ever die,” observed William Hazlitt. Yet ageing remains a natural part of life and it is precisely the impermanence of life that renders it so precious. Knowing that life is brief requires us to appreciate each moment ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141043715 | ISBN 10: 0141043717
When she started to clock up the years in earnest, everyone looked away and tried not to mention it. But now Virginia Ironside is actually sixty - well, sixty-five if she's honest - she's can't see what all the fuss was about. She's thrilled to be ol ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596691 | ISBN 10: 0747596697
One morning, William Leith wakes up and realises that something is wrong. He is alone and at the end of his tether. Bits of him are falling apart. With his trademark darkly humorous mix of personal story and social commentary, Leith attempts to answe ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007226474 | ISBN 10: 0007226470
Why we need to be better at ageing...
Julia Neuberger asks why we allow our older relatives to be treated so appallingly and in her 10-point manifesto demands that we change our attitudes and behaviour towards ageing. Parachuting into fields, run ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847080691 | ISBN 10: 1847080693
Diana Athill will be ninety in December, 2007. Somewhere Towards the End tells the story of what it means to be old: how the pleasure of sex ebbs, how the joy of gardening grows, how much there is to remember, to forget, to regret, to forgive - and h ... more
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£39.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415952248 | ISBN 10: 0415952247
This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex ways that gender shapes the lives of women and men. ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747581512 | ISBN 10: 0747581517
Hilarious new collection from feminist cartoonist Jacky Fleming.
Have the inevitable signs of ageing taken you completely by surprise? Do Friends Reunited emails from primary school acquaintances precipitate an instant mid-life crisis? Has you ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781578633739 | ISBN 10: 1578633737
Grandmother's Feng Shui Wisdom is an exquisite reminder of what's really important in this life, not least of which grandmothers themselves...
This lovely little book, a primer in balanced living and a tribute to tradition, offers insight into ... more
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£4.50 paperback (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780900384653 | ISBN 10: 0900384654
The revolution in sexual mores experienced in Western Europe over the past 30 years has largely bypassed the needs of older people, with the emancipated young often unable to accept that the old, especially parents and grandparents, also have a conti ... more
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