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Fast fashion is the ultimate toxic relationship. It's bad news for the planet, our brains and our bank balances. We can't go on like this; our shopping habits need an overhaul. Journalist Lauren Bravo loves clothes more than anything, but she's called time on her affair with fast fashion in search of a slower, saner way of dressing. In this book, she'll help you do the same.

Bryony doesn’t mind being single. Which is why she doesn’t understand why she keeps seeing (ok, sleeping with) Ed...who is perfectly fine but also only ok. She resolves to end things only to unceremoniously receive a call whilst in the queue for what report to be the best noodles in town. The caller tells her Ed has died. Worse yet, he seems to have represented her as his great love. Obviously, it would be rude to correct them. Then she’s invited to the funeral. It would be equally rude to refuse…right?

Gwen’s life has stalled. She’s in her mid-thirties, perpetually single, her friends are busy procreating in the country and conversations with her parents seem to revolve entirely around herbaceous borders and the council’s wheelie-bin timetable. Above all she’s lonely. But then, isn’t everyone? When Gwen’s made redundant from a job she drifted into a decade ago and never left, she realises it’s time to make a change.

The Spice Girls gave a generation their first glimpse of the power of friendship, of staying true to yourself, of sheer bloody-mindedness. And the girl power generation went on to kick-start a new conversation around gender equality. We may have grown up asking What Would the Spice Girls Do?, but their particular brand of feminism is as relevant today as it was 20 years ago - we still need that fun and fearlessness, we still need accessible and all-embracing equality...we still need a zig-a-zig-ah.

Die Geschichte eines kleinen Londoner Charity-Shops, voller liebenswerter Figuren und lebenssprudelnder Geschichten über Freundschaft, Verlust und die Kunst, sich selbst treu zu bleiben. Warte nicht auf ein neues Leben – mach das Beste aus dem, das du schon hast. Gwendoline Grundle, liebenswert, aber sozial unbeholfen, hat ihr Leben vor die Wand gefahren. Also beschließt sie, gründlich aufzuräumen und sich von all ihren emotional aufgeladenen Dingen zu trennen. Welcher Ort wäre dafür besser geeignet als ein Charity-Shop? Hier meldet sich Gwen kurzerhand als freiwillige Mitarbeiterin