About Garland Press.

An 18th or 21st is a beginning. Garland Press makes a hardback book for it: advice and stories from the people who know them, in their own words.

It started when my cousin’s son turned 18. My cousin was putting together a book for him by hand, and asked me to write for it. I loved the idea, and was surprised nobody had made it easier to do.

With Garland Press, you decide which topics and questions you’d like in the book. You then share one link with anyone you’d like to include, and they choose what they’d like to write about.

Ask someone to ‘write something’ and most people freeze. Ask what they know about money now that they wish someone had told them at 18, and they have their first sentence before they’ve finished reading. Every entry in the book answers a question like that.

You can read every entry before anything is printed. I check every proof myself, and each book is printed and bound in the UK.