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  • Published: 17 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241400678
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

And Now For The Good News...

The much-needed tonic for our frazzled world




Bestselling author and comedian, Ruby Wax, uses her trademark wit and expertise to equip readers with a positive roadmap for a kinder, brighter world and better mental health

Bestselling author and comedian, Ruby Wax, uses her iconic wit and expertise to equip readers with a positive roadmap for a kinder, brighter world and better mental health.

As we begin to see the green shoots of a post-pandemic world, Ruby Wax's clever and witty And Now for the Good News is the blueprint we all need for achieving a kinder, more compassionate world.

Brimming with practical learnings, Ruby gives readers the opportunity to create lasting positive change and provides us all with a much-needed tonic for better mental health.

She has spent the last three years speaking to the people who are spearheading the latest innovation and influencing a brighter future for humanity. From the communities being designed to eradicate loneliness and the companies putting their employees' happiness first, to the impressive AI technology teaching children with learning difficulties and taking literacy levels higher than ever before. And Now for the Good News distils her inspiring findings into key practical takeaways for all.

Ruby's here to equip us all with a positive roadmap for a brighter world and most importantly, for better mental wellbeing.

  • Published: 17 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241400678
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

About the author

Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax's acting and presenting career has spanned stage and screen, and her writing talent has created some of our favourite television comedies, from Girls on Top to Absolutely Fabulous. With a Masters from Oxford in mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy, Ruby is now also a mental health campaigner and author.

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Praise for And Now For The Good News...

I think at this point in time we're all in need of as much good news as we can get! Ruby can always be guaranteed to lift your spirits!

Annie Lennox

In a world of relentlessly worrying news, finally a moment of good. I adored reading And Now for the Good News - truly there is hope

Emma Freud

I adored interviewing Ruby: she has such a fizzing, uniquely vibrant and clever way of thinking about things. And I've wanted her on the podcast for ages because she does such important work

Elizabeth Day

Easy-to-read and interesting take on (...) what's good in the world

People Magazine

In her imitable style, Ruby describes her global journey to hunt out people inventing a better world (...) self-compassion is at the heart of Ruby's philosophy

Waitrose Magazine

It's the antidote to all Covid angst life anxieties & proves that optimism is not an eye disease

Kathy Lette

I am reading and finding on every page a delicious morsel

Celia Imrie on Twitter

It is nice even to think about Good News. Thank you for the book @Rubywax!

Neil Gaiman on Twitter

@Rubywax's New book is out on 17th September and it's GOOD NEWS. She explores the goodness out there and how to cultivate it

Miranda Hart

This is a good read by my friend Ruby Wax and it's actually positive about the future, which I must say isn't something that often occurs to me about the future. Also, it's funny which I think is very important. And finally, Ruby has neither paid me, blackmailed me or threatened me to make me say this

Jo Brand on Instagram

A new book by Ruby is in itself Good News! It sounds like a tonic for the universal malaise

Ian McKellen on Twitter

This book couldn't be more needed right now!

Nigella Lawson on Twitter

I loved it!

Claudia Winkleman on Twitter

A book celebrating what's good in the world (...) despite Covid-19, climate change and general political nastiness, there's so much good stuff going on. And we can improve our lives by leaps and bounds if we embrace it

Woman's Weekly

Inspirational

Jewish Chronicle

The book the world NEEDS right now by one of my heroes

Scarlett Curtis