Platinum

Platinum is the magazine for women in the prime of their lives - and having the time of their lives, too. Platinum is for those women who are up-to-date in both style and attitude and interested in exploring the world around them. In the pages of Platinum, readers will find everything from in-depth reads to the latest from the world of well-being. Platinum magazine inspires you to live your best possible life with fun-loving, informative, uplifting, and motivational articles and features inside every issue. Rekindle your confidence with expert beauty, skincare, and fashion advice, learn how to curb your financial worries, maintain your fitness goals and so much more with Platinum as your ultimate lifestyle guide. Platinum magazine encourages you to try new styles, recipes, exercises plus much more and pushes you outside of your comfort so that you can make the most of your life and celebrate the incredible woman that you are every day. Discover the lifestyle magazine that is redefining the lives of women aged 55 and over and start living your best and most fabulous life every day.

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Inspiration from our contributors • Meet some of the brilliant minds sharing their wisdom in this month’s issue.

Life Almanac • From russet leaves to radiant ideas - October is the month for thoughtful podcasts, fireside reads, and day trips with just enough chill in the air to justify a flask of something warming. Here’s what’s clever, cultural, and quietly brilliant this month.

‘Don’tworry so much about what other people think of you’ • In our new author Q&A, we sit down with novelist Tracy Chevalier, author of 12 novels, including the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring, which has sold over five million copies and been made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth. American by birth, British by geography, Tracy lives in London and Dorset. Her latest novel, The Glassmaker, is set in Venice and follows a family of glass masters over the course of five centuries.

BOOKS WE LOVE • From addictive social commentary and heart-melting romance to twisty thrillers, historical drama, cosy crime and Clare Balding’s debut novel – this month’s Platinum Book Club is bursting with stories to make you think, laugh, gasp or fall in love. Get stuck in!

‘I didn’t want to write about the trauma I’d been through, so instead I wrote the filthiest, funniest, sexiest book I could’ • Twenty five bestselling books. A film deal. An MBE. And she’s just getting started. Suzy Walker meets Adele Parks to talk big love, bold risks, and why it’s never too late for a beautiful mess.

Choose to thrive! • Feel good, stay strong: health, happiness, wellbeing, and ageing brilliantly.

Glass half full... too often? • Rachel Dobson, Platinum’s health editor, on why cutting back on booze might just be the midlife glow-up you didn’t know you needed.

Never diet again • Instead of chasing the next diet, what if you stopped waiting to feel good and started living like you’re already enough? In this radical rethink of weight, wellness and self-worth, Shahroo Izadi shares the life-changing mindset that’s helping midlife women ditch shame, reclaim joy, and finally make peace with their bodies – no scales, no guilt, no shrinking required.

‘How wild swimming saved me’ • From Gatwick’s control tower to the icy depths of Loch Lomond, Emma Simpson, 53, found salvation, sanity and friendship in the wild open water.

‘My brain’s foggy and I can’t focus’ • Each month, therapist, coach and author Eve Menezes Cunningham helps Platinum readers tackle one big midlife challenge.

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