Home Truths
The bit nobody says out loud.
Funny books about the things everyone notices and nobody mentions. Three series so far: books for the birthdays people dread, dictionaries of what people say when they mean something else, and guides to the stages of life nobody warns you about.
What is the Home Truths series?
Home Truths is a publishing imprint making short, funny reference books about the things everyone notices and nobody says out loud. Every factual claim in them is traced to a named source, which is unusual for the shelf they sit on, and every book has pages the reader is expected to write in.
The series
- Milestone Birthdays. One book for each big birthday, written for the person having it rather than about them.
- What They Actually Mean. Free, complete glossaries of the language one trade uses when it means something else, then the printed version for a pocket. Estate agents first.
- Survival Guides. The transitions people get given presents for, written honestly. Retirement first.
Free gift guides
These are free, complete, and stay that way. They carry the sourced tables the books are built from.
Books
- The Retirement Survival Guide: What Nobody Tells You About the First Year, and the Bits That Actually Help
- The Student Survival Guide: What Nobody Tells You About First Year, and the Bits That Actually Help
- The New Mum Book: A Survival Guide to the First Year: What Nobody Tells You, and the Bits That Actually Help
- Fifty. And Nobody Warned You: The 50th Birthday Book for Men: what changed since you were born, what you can finally say, and room to write the rest
- Fifty. And Nobody Warned You: The 50th Birthday Book for Women: a funny gift for turning 50, what fifty years actually cost, and room to write the rest
- Sixty. Still Here: The 60th Birthday Book for Men: sixty years of prices, chart positions and things nobody says out loud
- Forty. The Quiet One: The 40th Birthday Book for Men: the birthday nobody throws a party for, in full
- What Estate Agents Actually Mean: A Property Jargon Buster: Sold STC, Guide Price, Chain Free and 200 More House Buying Phrases, Decoded