"If you see someone without a smile today, give 'em yours." Dolly Parton
This empowering guide to kindness will inspire you to make a real difference to your life and the lives of others.
Inside you'll find:
- over 50 stories about famous - and not so famous - acts of kindness, from Jacinda Ardern's empathetic leadership during the Coronavirus pandemic to Marcus Rashford's determination to support underprivileged children, and the real story of the WWI Christmas Truce.
- suggestions for acts of kindness you can carry out yourself, to improve the lives of those around you
- quotes about kindness to help encourage change, from people like Kamala Harris, Beyonce and RuPaul
This is the perfect gift for yourself or for a friend - because Kindness is Power.
Ali Catterall is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker and editor, who has written for the Guardian, Time Out and GQ, among others. In 2001, he co-authored the critically acclaimed Your Face Here: British Cult Movies Since the Sixties and in 2018 edited Scala Cinema 1978-1993 by Jane Giles, winner of the 2019 Kraszna-Krausz Award. He is currently co-directing a BFI-produced feature documentary about the Scala, and working on a memoir about his childhood.
As Luck Would Have It (https://t.co/2cLsjT24n2), Esquire, FourFourTwo, Empire, The New European, Neon, 'seeks interesting work - anything legal considered...'
Just one of the many good reasons to pick up a copy of Kindness: A User's Guide by @LadyFaversham and @AliCatterall. https://t.co/1kHz2McIHj
Writer & filmmaker. My co-directed debut SCALA!!!, a big-screen feature doc about rise & fall of @scalacinema, the world’s wildest cinema, is out 2023 from @BFI
Morning! And what a glorious morning to announce it's publication day for my and @LadyFaversham's new book Kindness (A User's Guide), available pretty much everywhere, I understand. As kindness ought to be :) https://t.co/D0MuvuT2xI