This week we publish our long-awaited Letter To My Younger Self book.
The book brings together 100 of the best of our weekly Letter To My Younger Self interviews. The section has been running in The Big Issue for 12 years.
Conceived by books editor Jane Graham, who also compiled the book and conducted the majority of the interviews, it sees some hugely known global figures provide advice to their 16-year-old self based on what they know now.
“The one person we all try not to lie to, the one person who has known us at our worst and best, is ourself,” explained Graham. “In the past dozen years in The Big Issue, I’ve posed that question to more than 500 people and never ceased to be amazed at what I’ve discovered.”
The book, published by Blink, will be on sale from October 31. It will be available in all good high street retailers and online.
“It’s a brilliant, brilliant collection,” said Big Issue editor Paul McNamee. “There is a deep richness in what these people have delivered to us in the pages of The Big Issue, with unvarnished honesty, for so many years.