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The Second Half
  • Published: 17 January 2027
  • ISBN: 9781529956917
  • Imprint: Century
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $59.99

The Second Half

How to Thrive in Your Later Years & Find Confidence, Purpose & Joy

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17 Jan 2027
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Essential advice to plan and live better in your retirement / later years - from the former England rugby player turned psychotherapist

The average UK retirement age is 66.
12 million people in UK are aged over 65.
10% of this number is still working - by choice or by financial necessity.
Whether you choose to retire or not - this book is how you can live your later years to their fullest.

Many of us can be apprehensive to start planning for our 'second half' in life. And then, once it begins, what should become some of our very best years, a time of hard-earned relaxation and freedom, focusing on what we cherish the most, can instead become a period of worry and stress. For some, lacking the structure of their old routine, it is easy to struggle with a lack of purpose and even loneliness. But it needn't be. And help is at hand.

In The Second Half, Brian Moore, the former England rugby player turned psychotherapist, draws on how he learned to thrive after the end of his own sporting career - athletes 'retire' from their principal careers earlier than most people - as well as the transformational stories of the clients he has treated to get the most out of this period of their lives.

The result is an exciting and essential handbook full of easy and practical advice on: Finding Purpose, Building and Maintaining Relationships, Financial Planning, Preparing Wills, Physical and Mental Health & Wellness, Volunteering & Mentoring, Habits for Happiness, and How to Lead Your Most Fulfilled Life.
  • Published: 17 January 2027
  • ISBN: 9781529956917
  • Imprint: Century
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $59.99
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About the author

Brian Moore

Brian Moore is an award-winning author, broadcaster and psychotherapist, who runs his own practice helping individuals navigate retirement. He is a former England and British and Irish Lions rugby union international player. Brian Moore earned sixty-four caps for the England rugby team between 1987 and 1995. He played in three Rugby World Cups and won the Grand Slam in 1991, 1992 and 1995. He went on two British Lions tours. Originally a qualified solicitor, he has co-commentated for international rugby matches alongside Eddie Butler on BBC TV, writes for the Daily Telegraph, and broadcasts on talkSPORT radio.
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Praise for The Second Half

A MUST READ for anybody dealing with retirement and who wants to make the best of their later years

Gary Lineker

Brian’s book is going to resonate with so many men and women who are in the often messy, muddled period of transition we call ‘midlife’. What he has to say about men in retirement will help many others to make a smoother transition into a happier and more purposeful second half.

Gabby Logan, BBC Match of the Day Presenter and Author

The Second Half is a candid, thoughtful, and practical book about how we take the best of who we have been and use it to build wo we want to become

Brigadier James Cook OBE PhD

A fascinating book that will help anybody facing retirement, full of practical suggestions in how to make the best of your later years

Gavin Hastings OBE, former Scottish International Rugby Player

This is a very important issue and I believe this book can help to have a huge impact.

Professor David Lavallee, PhD, Abertay University Dundee

The Second Half is a book that I wholeheartedly recommend as being accessible, engaging and psychologically astute

Dr Matthew Stiff BA, MSc DPsych, Dphil - Chartered Psychologist