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Recommended Books

Ageing and Embracing Age

How to Age - Ann Karpf (Macmillan, 2014)

Bolder - making the most of our longer lives - Carl Honore (Simon & Schuster, 2018)

The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After Midlife - Jonathan Rauch (Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2018)

The 100 Year Life - Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016)

The Art of Ageing – John Lane (Green Books, 2010)

The Big Shift - navigating the new stage beyond midlifeMarc Freedman (Perseus books, 2011)

Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom - Mary Catherine Bateson (Penguin Random House, 2011)

At Seventy – May Sarton (WW Norton, 1993)

No Stone Unturned – Maggie Kuhn (Ballantine Books, 1991)

The Measure of my Days – Florida Scott- Maxwell (Penguin Books, 1979) 

Aging Well – George E Vaillant (Little Brown, 2003)

The Time of Your Life – John Burningham (Anthology) (Bloomsbury, 2002)

The Warmth of Your Heart Prevents Your Body From Rusting – Marie de Hennezel (Pan Macmillan, 2012)

Growing Old – A Journey of Self Discovery – Danielle Quinodoz (Routledge, 2009)

The Long History of Old Age – ed. Pat Thane (Thames and Hudson, 2006)

Memento Mori – Muriel Spark (New Directions, 2000)

Aging: The Fulfillment of Life – Henri Neuwen and Walter Gaffney (Image, 1976)

Somewhere Toward the End – Diana Athill (WW Norton, 2008)

Mirror, Mirror: The Terror of Not Being Young – Elissa Melamed (Simon and Schuster, 1983)

Ending Aging – Aubrey de Grey (St Martin’s Press, 2007)

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