PENGUIN LIFE ANNOUNCE NEW BOOK FROM RUBY WAX, AND NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS: TO THE FUTURE WITH LOVE COMING THIS SEPTEMBER
When was the last time that reading the news made you feel good?
Penguin Life today announce the much-anticipated new book by the number one bestselling author of How to Be Human: the Manual and A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled, Ruby Wax. Called And Now For The Good News...To the Future with Love, it is the comedian and leading mental health campaigner Ruby Wax’s fifth book, due to be published in the UK and Ireland on 17th September 2020. The striking new cover is also revealed across Ruby’s social media channels today, where her many followers on Twitter and Facebook enjoy her words of wisdom on mental health, well-being and, currently, on how we can look after ourselves during the coronavirus crisis.
In her previous book, How to Be Human: the Manual, Ruby presented us with a guide through the chaos of the 21st century and a user’s manual for surviving life. Now, in And Now for the Good News she turns to the future and ‘the green shoots of hope’, investigating how recent and new developments in technology, education, business, health, food and social change are turning our world into a better place than it’s ever been. Drawing on brand new research, compelling case studies and exercises to reframe your thinking, this is your guide to embrace change.
Filled with hope, actionable tips and memorable facts, And Now for the Good News will inspire you to look at the world around you with a renewed sense of optimism. It will also empower you to take action to make the world a kinder, better place.
In her own inimitable words, Ruby Wax says:
Dear Reader,
I know what you’re thinking, is it some kind of macabre joke? Has she been in a coma? How can Ruby Wax write a book about good news when the world is facing the worst disaster since the Plague?
Let me explain. I began writing in 2018, back when the world’s worries were somewhat different. Climate change, greedy bankers, exam results, crap politicians, mental health: these are still HUGE ISSUES, but even the ancient soothsayers reading pig entrails couldn’t have predicted this.
This is my new mission: to share the green shoots of hope peeping through the soil of civilization. Literacy is at an all-time high, world-hunger is likely to be eradicated this century, technological improvements are saving lives – just to scratch the surface. I’ve talked to everyone from leaders to scientists to tech geniuses. I’ve done the research and practiced what I preach. And my conclusion? Behind the clouds, the sun still shines.
So here’s to the shoots – may they become a blueprint for how the world can shift for the good. Hopefully we’ll learn from them.
Love, Ruby
Venetia Butterfield, Publishing Director for Viking and Penguin Life, says:
“We are extremely proud to be publishing And Now for the Good News…To the Future with Love, Ruby’s third book with Penguin Life. From tackling her own mental health issues to understanding her brain, stress and the human mind, she has entertained, informed and helped hundreds of thousands of readers with these brilliant books for the past 6 years. Now, she looks at the bigger picture and at this unprecedented moment in our history, who better than the outrageously witty, smart and infinitely accessible Ruby Wax be our guide to the future?”
RUBY WAX is a successful comedian, TV writer and performer of over 25 years. Ruby additionally holds a Master’s degree in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy from Oxford University, and was awarded an OBE in 2015 for her services to mental health. She is the author of books Sane New World and A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled and has toured all over the world with the accompanying one-woman shows. Both books have reached the number one spot on the Sunday Times bestsellers list and a third book, How to Be Human: the manual was also a major bestseller. In March 2017 she launched Frazzled café in partnership with Marks & Spencer and has been running daily sessions online at Frazzled.org during the coronavirus lockdown. Her memoir, How do You Want Me? was published with a new introduction in April 2020.
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