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Sixty. And Nobody Warned You
The 60th Birthday Book for Men: a funny gift for turning 60, what sixty years actually cost, and room to write the rest
- Author
- Frankie Bexley
- Pages
- 130
- Paperback
- $6.99
- Ebook
- $2.99
- Published
- Not yet
Not out yet. This page exists so the work is visible while it is being made, which is more honest than a placeholder.
Sixty years is long enough that the numbers stop being nostalgia and start being evidence. This one leans hardest on the what-it-cost-then tables, because the gap is widest here, and it does not assume the reader is retiring, because most sixty-year-olds are not.
What is in it
- The years you could have been born, and what a house, a week of work and a pound actually cost in each of them.
- What has changed since, with the figures rather than the sighing.
- The honest bits about the age, written by somebody not pretending it is fine.
- Quizzes and things to argue about.
- Things you can now say and get away with.
- Around forty pages to fill in, which is the part that survives.
Formats and price
| Format | Price | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Hardback | £18.99 | The gift version. Survives being kept. |
| Paperback | $6.99 | The one most people buy. |
| Ebook | $2.99 | Read it, but you cannot write in it. |
Part of Milestone Birthdays, an Home Truths series.
Frequently asked
- Why does the 60th book lean on the price tables more than the 50th?
- Because sixty years is long enough for the numbers to stop being nostalgia and start being evidence. The gap between what a house cost in the mid-1960s and what one costs now is wide enough that it does the joke by itself.
- Is it about retirement?
- No. Sixty is not retirement for most people any more, and a book that assumes it is will be wrong about its reader. Retirement is a separate occasion and it has its own book in the survival guides.
- Is every fact in it sourced?
- Yes, to the Nationwide house price index, the Bank of England historical dataset, the Office for National Statistics and the Official Charts Company, all listed in the back.