Stuart Heritage – Bald: How I Slowly Learned to Not Hate Having No Hair (And You Can Too) - Maidstone LitFest 2024

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Join Stuart Heritage in conversation with Adrian Wills at the Market House pub in this hilarious exploration of the inevitable…

“This is a guide to life in the club that nobody wants to join.

Nobody chooses to be bald. Nobody wants to look into the mirror and be confronted with an absence. Nobody gains any comfort from having a slightly better idea of what their skull looks like.

Stuart Heritage has been bald for two years. But before he accepted the inevitable, he spent a number of years ineptly trying to conceal this fact with an array of expensive treatments and terrible haircuts. Can a man go bald with dignity? Maybe. But can a man go bald with more dignity than Stuart Heritage? Oh good god yes, and this book is his attempt to make that happen for you.

Part-manual-part-tantrum, this is a self-deprecating, funny and genuinely helpful guide to being bald: what really happens, why it matters and how to feel much less crap about it.”

Biography:

Stuart Heritage has written for the Guardian since 2009, and has also written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, The Times, Men's Health, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Red, Marie Clare and the NME. Earlier in his career he founded a website that was named as both Metro's Best British Blog and one of the Observer top 50 most powerful blogs in the world.

He is also the author of several books, including Jonathan the Magic Pony, Don't Say Elephant! and the O.D.D Squad series (which are for kids) and Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals and Don't be a Dick, Pete (which are definitely no for any kids whatsoever). He has also written for television and, as you can see, is bald now, so that's fun.

Copies of Bald will be available for purchase and signing by the author. Private bar available at the venue.