Bald: How I Slowly Learned to Not Hate Having No Hair (And You Can Too)

'The funniest book of the year' SPECTATOR 'The funniest imaginable version of a grief memoir and brilliantly unpacks male vanity and insecurity' GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY 'Stuart is made for baldness' LARRY DAVID 'A genuine tonic and very funny read' NATHAN FILER 'Excellent and should be read by vaguely vain men of all hair types' SIMON USBORNE 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.

About the Author :
Stuart Heritage is a writer and columnist for the Guardian, and has also written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, The Times, Men's Health, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Red, Marie Clare and the NME. He has also written for television, and is the author of several books, including Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals and Don't be a Dick, Pete. For two years running he was named as one of the 50 most influential emerging figures in the British media by Independent, an honour that has singularly failed to manifest itself into anything even slightly meaningful. He is also bald, as you may have deduced by now.

Review :
Going bald can scramble a man's self-esteem and leave those around them walking on eggshells. Stuart Heritage reveals the unvarnished truth about his own hair loss - and how he learnt to survive it It's excellent and should be read by vaguely vain men of all hair types including none Speaking as a man who is getting too rapidly acquainted with the contours of my own skull, this book was a genuine tonic. And a very funny read. Cards on the table, I'm not a bald man yet ... [and] Heritage fills me with renewed confidence about my future Very very funny [and] LOL-packed while also quite poignant and weird ... all things I like a lot in a book Stuart's head is made for baldness The funniest imaginable version of a grief memoir ... Heritage does what he does best: he lays on the laughs. Happily, all the wry self-deprecation packed into an appropriately thin volume serves a grander goal ... Heritage gives sensitivity scores to things people say to balding men. Managing to brilliantly unpack male vanity and insecurity, Bald stands ready to hold the hand of any vulnerable man who might otherwise fall into a pit of despair on the internet ... I'll never hear 'you have a nice-shaped head' the same way again The funniest book of the year - an extended rant on the terrible unfairness of male pattern baldness , and particularly how it has destroyed the life of one Stuart Heritage . It's deranged , and priceless , whether you are as bald as a coot , moving in that direction or merely spending every waking minute worrying about going bald (that covers most men). Larry David thought the book was very funny indeed and , as so often , he's spot on. I love Stuart's constantly visible skull Praise for Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals Laugh-out-loud No one writes about the incidentals and the characteristics of British life better than Stuart Heritage The funniest book I've read this year ... Superb Praise for Don't Be a Dick, Pete Really funny and crazy Almost unfairly funny I loved it so much I read it in one fell swoop. Fantatically funny but also so touching The funniest book of the year Hilarious ... a touching take on modern masculinity and family This is (very, very) funny, but it's also a story about brothers and families and home, and it's as warm as it is rude