Nobody Tells You This at Sixty: You Still Feel Like You
When I was thirty, sixty sounded ancient. Then I got there and discovered the strange thing about growing older: inside, you're still fundamentally you.
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I’m Billy. Welcome to my publishing home.
My name is William “Billy” Brown, though most readers know me simply as Billy.
I spent more than thirty years working around the world on some of the largest gas and LNG construction projects ever built, with individual project values exceeding $30 billion, before I ever thought of myself as an author.
But the biggest lessons I ever learned did not come from engineering. They came from life. From love, from loss, from families, from friendships, and from the long stretches in between.
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Billy
Just a Bloke Trying to Build Something Real
The memoir of William “Billy” Brown — a Scottish bloke from Methil who worked hard, made mistakes, got a few things right, got a few things badly wrong, and somehow ended up building a life in Tobago that thirteen-year-old him would never have believed. Judo mats in Fife. Oil rigs in the North Sea. Amsterdam, Houston, Singapore, Tobago. A life, honestly told.
A trilogy
The Love Survival Guide
Break-up recovery, written by a man, for men.
Book One
The Space Between
A Survival Guide for the Broken-Hearted
Book Two
Still Standing
Navigating the Long Middle of Recovery
Book Three
Loving on Purpose
Building a Life and Love You Actually Choose
A second series
Billy’s Life Lessons
Same honest voice, a different stage of life. Three books about growing older, losing the job title, and building the next chapter deliberately — plus two standalone companions on the conversations families put off, and a growing collection of short, standalone guides to the specific, significant moments of getting older.
Book One
Nobody Tells You This at Sixty
A Book Every Man Over Fifty Wishes He’d Read Ten Years Earlier
Book Two
More Than My Job
Who Are You When the Title Disappears?
Book Three
Built to Last
Thirty Years Building Billion-Dollar Projects, and the Lessons They Taught Me About Building a Life
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Shorter pieces from between the books.
Starting Again After 50: What Do You Do When the Old Life Is Gone?
Starting again after 50 isn't just about making one big decision. It's learning how to live the ordinary days afterwards and finding reasons to look forward again.
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Starting Over After Divorce at 50
At 50, the retirement I'd planned disappeared along with my marriage. I had to decide whether to abandon the dream or find a way to continue it alone.
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