A witty take on feminism for every woman who wants equality but sometimes wants a day off from fighting for it Sometimes we feel a bit like "I'm a feminist, but..." As in, "I'm a feminist, but I skipped the Women's March to buy face cream." As in, "I'm a feminist, but I've never found time to read Sylvia Plath (but I have watched fifteen seasons of Keeping Up with the Kardashians)." In The Guilty Feminist, Deborah Frances-White reassures us that we don't have to be perfect to be a force for meaningful change. Exploring big issues of identity, equality, intersectionality, and the current feminist agenda, she explodes the myth of the model activist and offers a realistic path toward changing the world.

A funny, frank, accessible book about embracing both feminism and our imperfections, from the host of the hit comedy podcast The Guilty Feminist. From confidence to crying, from motherhood to activism, Deborah Frances-White explores what it means to be a 21st century woman in a series of essays that will make you laugh and think. Deborah's writing has the same qualities warmth, humour, sharpness, intimacy and honesty - that have attracted a dedicated and ever-growing following to her podcast, but you don't need to have listened to the podcast: this will be a book for anyone who has enjoyed reading Sara Pascoe, Caitlin Moran and Bridget Christie. Though sharing the same tone as the podcast, it will be all new material. The Guilty Feminist podcast has 500,000 regular listeners, with over 2m downloads total. Celebrity fans include Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Gemma Arterton, Sharon Horgan (all of whom have appeared on the podast) and Giovanna Fletcher, and other podcast guests have included Rachel Bloom, Sara Pascoe, Sarah Millican and Shappi Khorsandi. They have regular sold-out live recordings and a line of merchandise and workshops, and their audience is only growing.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Breathes life into conversations about feminism' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE 'Very funny, very clever, very thoughtful and very relevant' DOLLY ALDERTON Why do we find it so hard to say 'No'? How can feminism be more inclusive? What can rom-coms tell us about taking charge? The Guilty Feminist will challenge you, reassure you and empower you to see the world differently. From inclusion to intersectionality, #MeToo to men's rights, rom-coms to pornography, Deborah Frances-White tackles urgent questions for the modern woman. Featuring interviews with activists, businesswomen and all-round inspirations, The Guilty Feminist examines how women can abandon their guilt, say No (when they mean it), say Yes (when they want to), and to change the world - and ourselves - for the better. Includes interviews with Jessamyn Stanley * Zoe Coombs Marr * Susan Wokoma * Phoebe Waller-Bridge * Hannah Gadsby * Reubs Walsh * Bisha K. Ali * Becca Bunce * Mo Mansfield * Leyla Hussein * Amika George 'Genius' Sunday Times 'Funny, fresh, thought-provoking' Observer 'Everything you wanted to know about feminism but were afraid to ask' EMMA THOMPSON 'Quite possibly the defining feminist of our generation' ELIZABETH DAY 'Encouraging every woman to say: "I get to be heard. I deserve to be seen" ' Daily Express 'A passionate and engaging manifesto, reminding readers that feminism isn't one-size-fits-all' I

THE NEW BOOK FROM DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITE, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GUILTY FEMINIST A brave and brilliantly funny new book about how we can have difficult conversations well, how we can disagree well, how we can build bridges and change minds, including our own. Deborah Frances-White's smash hit podcast The Guilty Feminist is about being a force for change without being perfect: she's done her learning in public over the past ten years. In private, people often confide in her that they're frightened to ask questions about controversial topics. In her new book, she takes this out into the open, presenting presents six conversations that are scary to have - including problematic historical figures, gender, cancel culture and free speech. Throughout the book, Deborah draws on her unique perspective as a inclusive feminist, a comedian and someone who grew up in a high-control group, where free thinking was forbidden. She argues that if we are to make real change in our society, we need to become skilled at asking difficult questions, reasoning, listening, compromising and even changing our own minds. This book is a breath of fresh air and inspires us to accept that we will never agree on everything, and do not need to in order to move forward. Praise for Deborah Frances-White and THE GUILTY FEMINIST: 'Breathes life into conversations about feminism' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE 'Genius' SUNDAY TIMES 'Funny, fresh, thought-provoking' OBSERVER 'Very funny, very clever, very thoughtful and very relevant' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Everything you wanted to know about feminism but were afraid to ask' EMMA THOMPSON 'Quite possibly the defining feminist of our generation' ELIZABETH DAY 'Encouraging every woman to say: "I get to be heard. I deserve to be seen" ' DAILY EXPRESS

Twenty years ago, Nigel Marsh was an overweight mortgage slave struggling to balance a career, marriage and four children under eight. Until he lost his job. In Fat, Forty and Fired, Nigel wrote about falling off the corporate hamster wheel and surviving. Now that he's approaching sixty, he can't help but notice it's been a while since he stepped onto that wheel with other hamsters. One day he reads that a graduate trainee who used to work for him in London is now a global CEO with an office on the top floor of a skyscraper in New York. Nigel, by contrast, is wearing a dressing-gown and sitting at his writing desk in a dank storage room under his garage in Sydney. It's enough to give anyone a moment of self-doubt - even a man whose ground-breaking TED Talk on work/life balance has been downloaded a whopping five million times. Could it be that Nigel's most successful days are behind him? Or is conventional success simply that - conventional success? And is it possible that his happiest days lie ahead? In his memoir for his sixth decade on earth, Nigel ponders ageing well, sex, parenting adult children, his parents' passing, and the secret to his living a happy life. By turns humorous, thought-provoking, poignant and life-affirming, Smart, Stupid and Sixty is a celebration of the third trimester as a privilege to be enjoyed rather than a sentence to be endured.

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