'A book which anyone who has ever bought clothes should read'
Read, watch and listen to press coverage of Charity Shop World
Audio
- LATEST! BBC World Service - Inside the sorting room of a London charity shop (starts at 42:40)
- BBC Woman's Hour with Clare McDonnell - The hidden world of charity shops
- BBC London Robert Elms Show - Interview with Gary Crowley (starts at 2:08)
- BBC Bristol - Interview with Claire Carter
- Garmology podcast - The secret life of charity shops
Reviews & interviews
- LATEST! The Evening Standard - Absolutely Staggering: The real fate of clothing donations
"A starkly compelling investigation into what really happens to the bags-for-life we donate. It is a book which anyone who has ever bought clothes should read."
- Independent - Books of the month
"A humorous and passionate expose of a 'gigantic waste problem' that is blighting the world."
- The Bookseller - Books not to miss for September
- Kind of Wild - What actually happens to the clothes you donate
- True Style - The Stuff
- No Kill Magazine - The afterlife of our stuff
"Few writers could hold the scale of a global waste trade and the intimacy of a shop counter in the same sentence - Charity Shop World does it on every page."
Articles by me
- LATEST! EcoAge - Working in a charity shop broke my wardrobe
- The Telegraph - While volunteers keep charity shops alive, a billionaire prince is profiting
- The Stylist [paywall] - These are my top tips for finding gems this Secondhand September
- The New World [paywall] - How charity shops became a bin for fashionistas
- Vogue [paywall] - How to fix charity retail
Video
Charity Shop World – an investigation into community, consumption and waste is out now and available from bookshops and websites, including:
