Survival Guides
The transitions people get given presents for, written honestly. Retirement first.
What is the Survival Guides series?
Survival Guides is a Home Truths series. The transitions people get given presents for, written honestly. Retirement first. Every factual claim in every book is traced to a named source, and the sources are printed in the back.
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- retirement survival guide is what you searched for: The Retirement Survival Guide.
- student survival guide is what you searched for: The Student Survival Guide.
- new mum book is what you searched for: The New Mum Book.
Every book in the series
| Book | Who it is for | What it covers that the others do not | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Retirement Survival Guide | retirement survival guide | The pilot for the survival guides. Retirement is the only major life change people are congratulated for and then left alone with. This one covers the year that starts on the Monday after the last Friday: the month that catches almost everybody out, what to write in the card, and a short serious chapter with real phone numbers in it and no jokes. | in production |
| The Student Survival Guide | student survival guide | Every guide to first year is written by somebody who came out the other side cheerful and has quietly forgotten the bad fortnight. This one has week six in it, plus the second-year house that gets signed in November after eight weeks of knowing people, and a chapter for the first years nobody writes for: commuters, mature students, student parents and the first in their family to go. | in production |
| The New Mum Book | new mum book | The only book in this part of the shop that contains no advice about the baby at all. There are four hundred of those and the reader has been given three. This one is about what happens to the adult: the visitors, four in the afternoon, the invisible list, the fourth month, and going back to work, with every question about the baby pointed at the health visitor where it belongs. | in production |
Frequently asked
- What is the Survival Guides series?
- Survival Guides is a Home Truths series. The transitions people get given presents for, written honestly. Retirement first. Every factual claim in every book is traced to a named source, and the sources are printed in the back.
- Which Survival Guides book should I get?
- Match the book to the person rather than to the occasion. The Retirement Survival Guide is the pilot for the survival guides. Retirement is the only major life change people are congratulated for and then left alone with. This one covers the year that starts on the Monday after the last Friday: the month that catches almost everybody out, what to write in the card, and a short serious chapter with real phone numbers in it and no jokes. The Student Survival Guide is every guide to first year is written by somebody who came out the other side cheerful and has quietly forgotten the bad fortnight. This one has week six in it, plus the second-year house that gets signed in November after eight weeks of knowing people, and a chapter for the first years nobody writes for: commuters, mature students, student parents and the first in their family to go. The New Mum Book is the only book in this part of the shop that contains no advice about the baby at all. There are four hundred of those and the reader has been given three. This one is about what happens to the adult: the visitors, four in the afternoon, the invisible list, the fourth month, and going back to work, with every question about the baby pointed at the health visitor where it belongs.
- 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.