Matt Rudd

For anyone who has ever dreamed of finding true love only to discover that happy endings are just the beginning comes this brilliantly comic novel about marriage, ex-girlfriends, 'performance anxiety', and what it takes to make happily ever last beyond the honeymoon.

A Horror Story

William Walker's First Year of Marriage

'The most honest, most revealing - and funniest - exploration of male mental health I have ever read' Adam Kay 'Matt Rudd may have written the most important book in a generation' Idle Society On the surface, men today don't have much to complain about. At work, they still get paid more than women for doing the same jobs. At home, they still shirk most of the unpaid labour. Putting the bins out does not count. Beneath the surface, it's a different story. An alarming number of men end up anxious, exhausted, depressed - and very reluctant to admit they are. Even if they do everything that's expected of them in work, life and fatherhood, genuine happiness is still elusive. By midlife, their levels of stress are higher and their levels of wellbeing are lower - and work-life balance turns out to be just a cruel illusion. The evidence is clear and ironic: the system set up by men for men doesn't work for men either. It is making none of us happy. In Man Down, Matt Rudd takes the long view on this perplexing paradox. Drawing on stories from his own life, and the varied lives of the other men he has interviewed, he goes back to the beginning to consider what makes the modern man - how the seeds of midlife misery are sown in the school playground and cultivated through adolescence and into adulthood. By turns compassionate and provocative, Man Down asks the important question: is midlife unhappiness inevitable? Spoiler alert: it isn't.

Why Men Are Unhappy and What We Can Do About It

Man Down

A hilarious field guide to the world's most remarkable and unusual creatures: the English. Thanks to television documentaries by Bruce Parry and David Attenborough, we are better acquainted with the hunting rituals of the San bushmen and the mating habits of Papua New Guinean tribes than we are with the everyday lives of that most peculiar of species - the English. In The English: A Field Guide, Sunday Times journalist Matt Rudd, sets out to uncover what makes us, the English, tick. He will examine us in our natural habitats, starting with the living room and moving out to the kitchen, the garden, the commuter train, the office, the motorway, the high street, the sports stadium, the pub, club, bingo hall, balti house, beach and ending up in the bedroom. Hilarious, warm-hearted and surprisingly enlightening, The English shines a strong searchlight on us all.

A Field Guide

The English

Daniel Callaghan

Una commedia romantica ed esilarante, con risvolti horror e thriller, un finale a sorpresa e innumerevoli spunti memorabili, da reciclare all'occorrenza, come sopravvivere a una cerimonia nuziale e a un (disastroso) viaggio di nozze, la ricetta dei toast con la Marmite, quello che le donne vogliono e non vogliono, cosa fanno gli uomini quando sono a casa da soli, prove tecniche di spionaggio, un Natale da schifo in quattro atti, Londra e in particolare Finsbury Park, la campagna e in particolare il Galles, perchè le donne si comportano in modo irragionevole (analisi matematica) ma gli uomini non possono fare a meno di loro.

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