Charity Shop World
Chosen for The Independent's 'Books Of The Month' and The Bookseller's 'Titles Not To Miss For September'
‘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.’ Katya Moorman, Editor-in-Chief, No Kill Magazine
'Books Of The Month' - The Independent
'Ten Titles Not To Miss In September' - The Bookseller
Charity Shop World – an investigation into community, consumption and waste is out now and available from:
What's it about?
This is a book I’ve been working on for the past four years, including sixteen months of sorting through donations at a London charity shop to explore all the weird, wonderful and disturbing things people drop off in carrier bags.
Charity Shop World is an investigation into textile waste – where it ends up and who really profits. Expect to deep dive into some murky bank accounts and explode narratives about who the fashion system actually benefits.
The flip side of this book is the cost of living crisis – the consequences of austerity turning the UK into ‘a poor society with some very rich people in it.’ It is about charity shops as places of human connectivity where local communities struggle to find their way through economic hardship to reach more sustainable ways of living.
In a world where ‘broken’ things and ‘unwanted’ people are expelled to the margins of society, I wanted to write this book as a call for a new way of living to rise up from the debris of overproduction and consumption.
Tansy Hoskins
