Live This Book!

My beautiful new “Live This Book!” has just been published by Penguin: a journal that asks you to put pen to paper, and consider what it means to spend time with the things that truly count in life, love, work and leisure.

I’ll be speaking, writing, collaborating and exploring around it over the coming months: from events at The School of Life and Google to talks on the Southbank, via the Barbican, Manchester, and further afield.

It’s a highly visual book — courtesy of Penguin design maestro Chris Bentham — and builds on the belief that, when it comes to time and attention, friction is good when it allows us to invest more of ourselves in something. Penguin have put together a gorgeous Pinterest board showing off its pages. But it’s what happens when people get their hands on it that really counts, this being an avowedly physical-only experience.

If you’re intrigued, please do drop me a line. This isn’t an anti-tech book. But it is about negotiating richer relationships with and through digital tools, and the importance of stepping back from each screen to ask what a rich engagement with life really looks like.