Milestone Birthdays
One book for each big birthday, written for the person having it rather than about them.
What is the Milestone Birthdays series?
Milestone Birthdays is a Home Truths series. One book for each big birthday, written for the person having it rather than about them. Every factual claim in every book is traced to a named source, and the sources are printed in the back.
Start here if
- 50th birthday gifts for men is what you searched for: Fifty. And Nobody Warned You.
- 50th birthday gifts for women is what you searched for: Fifty. And Nobody Warned You.
- 60th birthday gifts for men is what you searched for: Sixty. Still Here.
- 40th birthday gifts for men is what you searched for: Forty. The Quiet One.
Every book in the series
| Book | Who it is for | What it covers that the others do not | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fifty. And Nobody Warned You | 50th birthday gifts for men | The pilot. For a man turning fifty: what a house and a week of work actually cost in each year he might have arrived, every figure traced to the Office for National Statistics, Nationwide or the Bank of England, and roughly a third of the book he is expected to write in himself. | in production |
| Fifty. And Nobody Warned You | 50th birthday gifts for women | The same fifty years, read from the other side. Built from the identical fact register as the men's edition and written to a woman rather than about one, with the same last third left deliberately blank. | in production |
| Sixty. Still Here | 60th birthday gifts for men | 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. | planned |
| Forty. The Quiet One | 40th birthday gifts for men | Forty is the milestone people mark by not marking it. This book is shorter on nostalgia and longer on the honest bits, because forty years is not yet long enough for the prices to be funny. | planned |
Frequently asked
- What is the Milestone Birthdays series?
- Milestone Birthdays is a Home Truths series. One book for each big birthday, written for the person having it rather than about them. Every factual claim in every book is traced to a named source, and the sources are printed in the back.
- Which Milestone Birthdays book should I get?
- Match the book to the person rather than to the occasion. Fifty. And Nobody Warned You is the pilot. For a man turning fifty: what a house and a week of work actually cost in each year he might have arrived, every figure traced to the Office for National Statistics, Nationwide or the Bank of England, and roughly a third of the book he is expected to write in himself. Fifty. And Nobody Warned You is the same fifty years, read from the other side. Built from the identical fact register as the men's edition and written to a woman rather than about one, with the same last third left deliberately blank. Sixty. Still Here is 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. Forty. The Quiet One is forty is the milestone people mark by not marking it. This book is shorter on nostalgia and longer on the honest bits, because forty years is not yet long enough for the prices to be funny.
- Do the books repeat each other?
- They share a structure and not their content. The tables, the years and the observations are specific to each book, which is the whole reason there is more than one rather than one book with a variable printed on the cover.