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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1454955546|title=My Psychosis Story: A Story of Fear and Hope Through AdversitySugarless|author=Emmanuel OwusuNicole M Avena|rating=45

|summary=''My Psychosis StoryThis isn't a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.' recounts Emmanuel Owusu's journey into and eventually out of psychosis. In late 2014, during  There was a visit home for Christmastime, he found himself exhaustednot that long ago, anxious and unable to sleepwhen it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. Symptoms persisted and soon he Fat was the demon food which was suffering from noise sensitivity going to elevate your cholesterol and intense headachescause heart disease. Various visits to A&E failed to diagnose Sugar was a physical causecarbohydrate, so good. Things deteriorated further and possible diagnoses of anxiety and post traumatic concussion were suggested. And There''still'' things got worses a problem, though. Eventually, Owusu's condition deteriorated so far that he was suffering from delusions Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and hallucinationscocaine. An ambulance was called and he was detained - sectioned - under Does that sound over the Mental Health Act in 2015top? Well, it isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524680559</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Megan Hine1635866847|title= Mind of a SurvivorThe Lavender Companion|rating= 5|genre= Lifestyle|summaryauthor=Megan Hine is probably the type of person that you'd want with you in a crisis situation. Cool, calm Jessica Dunham and capable; this survival expert is equally at home in desert, mountain, tundra and jungle environments. She's navigated her way around some of the most inhospitable regions on the planet and survived to tell the tale. But just what is it that makes some people more capable in a survival situation than others? Physical fitness? Bushcraft skills? Experience? Whilst all of these are important, Hine argues that ''attitude'' is one of the most important factors in survival. In this book, she examines how the right mindset can mean the difference between life and death when isolated in the wilderness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473649285</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Caroline Ikin|title=The Kitchen Garden (Britain's Heritage Series)Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5

|summary=I love visiting country housesIt's strange, but the things that make you can keep the interiors and the flower gardens - what interests me ''immediately'' feel that this is the kitchen garden: seeing one which has been restored to its former glory is a real treat, as was book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''Britain, I visited the author's Heritage[https: The Country Garden//www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don' when it landed on my deskt eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There was no longer any need to guess at 's a recipe in the work that had been done: here was the history complete book, which I'm avoiding with glorious illustrations as well as some wonderful advertisementsdifficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. ''Canary GuanoNotes in the margins are sanctioned. For Greenhouse and garden. Perfectly cleanYou get to fold down the corners of pages. May You suspect that smears of butter would not be used by a ladyproblem. I '' is still making me giggleloved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566884X</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 7/7 -->Frontpage|authorisbn= Veronica M McNally0760381267|title= Cracking the Obesity CrisisVerdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating= 13.5

|summary= Any weight-related book, whether one that considers issues from ''The most important part of a medical or sociological perspective, or garden is the one that provides advice on how to eat well or lose weight, whose opening pages feature who enjoys it''fat people are basically insecure, unhappy people trapped inside very unattractive bodies. I've ', ''Islamic people however are at an advantage as they do Ramadan and they are not overweight'gardened'in a vague, ''there is hope indefinite sort of way for overweight more than half a century. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and obese people, but I don’t see needed 'projects' rather than a way back for the clinically aid [sic] morbidly obesegeneral commitment to gardening. '' and my personal favourite: Verdura''as women’s hands are smooth with its promise of projects for both indoors and soft in many cases, females would be useful behind soldiers to be there as assistants to men quickly reloading magazines of bullets speedily'', any such book needs to provide an awful lot outdoors of valuable content in varying complexity seemed like the pages that follow to have a chance of redeeming itselfanswer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662003</amazonuk> So, how did it stack up?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Will DarbyshireSarah Wilson|title=This Modern Love One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating= 43.5

|summary= Love My favourite Mary Oliver line is love, but at the same time one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is changing, ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we find it, really ''are'' living the way life we express it, want – the way best life that we walk away from thingscould be living. You can change a Facebook status and tell the entire world the ins and outs of your relationship Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you can meet people online're doing, she thinks you can conduct long distance relationships in much more real time than in the past when you had to rely on the postman to deliver your heartfelt(we, handwritten note. This book, a compilation of letters and other contributions, explores what love is in the 21st century. ItI) could be doing more…And she's certainly international – there were 15,000 submissions from over 100 countries – and it's also touching, funny, frustrating and all those other thingseffing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784755168</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Williams1394159544|title=Grandpa Diet and DiabetesRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=45|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=Nick's Mum is an accident and emergency nurse and life 'Recycling one ton of plastic can get a bit hectic at times, particularly when she has save up to arrange for someone to look after Nick and his twin sister Emma16.3 barrels of oil. One day in the school holidays Grandpa had the pleasure '' ''Recycling one ton of looking after the kids paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and Nick thought this was cool2 years to decompose. Grandpa used A glass bottle will take up to be 1 million years. As a bit of just-post-WWII baby, I faced a rocker, you seedilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything thatmight ''possibly''s come in handy now or in the sort of music he always has playingfuture. He might have a stick but Nick sure NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that he doesnwould serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?'t really need it On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it's there just in casethe kerbside bin. He does have Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a problem though and Mum explains it by saying that Grandpa has to eat at the right time every day because he has diabetesrecycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667641</amazonuk>s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way0760378134|title=Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series)The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=45|genre=LifestyleHome and Family|summary=Allotments came about originally from If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the enclosure of land, primarily garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for sheep pasture. Fearing a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the enclosures would leave peasants unable book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to feed themselvesgrow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), Elizabeth I issued an act requiring all new cottages to have four acres of groundwhere you'll put these containers, something which has been honoured more by history than by Elizabethhow you's contemporariesll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. It was the first in There's also a long line of legislation with that aim in mind - which largely failed to achieve their aimsgood glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk> So, is it any good?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicos Nicolaou1398508632|title=The Anxiety-Elimination SystemWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45

|summary=Nick Nicolau suffered It had been on the cards for a major panic attack and while but it was told by his doctor that he would need medication to control the attacks and that there wasn't much more that he could do week- apart that was, from going home to sleeplong consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The next morning he end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had another attack which he could neither stop nor control been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and before long was having panic attacks every day and developed generalised anxiety and phobiasa pandemic. After Wilde had a great deal few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of work and research he discovered how terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to control his anxiety - run a fridge, freezer and now he helps others to do the samedehydrator. No one is born with She had a chemical imbalance in the brain car - and genes do fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not determine behaviour. The proof of the efficacy of his system is that through the course of a particularly challenging life event - his divorce - he didnplan to ''live''t slip back into inappropriate anxietywild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667412</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Akon Margaret KaluBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Eat With PleasureI May Be Wrong|rating=35|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=When you the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think about a certified nutrition coach you probably imagine someone who is going to be very strict with you about what you should or shouldnit doesn't be eatingreally matter how the rest of the world responds to your book. You visualise someone who will insist I know, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that you eat worthy thought. He knows (and probably tastelessat core so do I) food and completely avoid those foods which you really love. Gone will be that it matters very much how the bar rest of chocolate and possibly even the mug of coffee which gets you going in the morning. It was particularly refreshing and something of a relief world responds to encounter Akon Margaret Kalu - certified nutrition coach and food blogger at [http://www.therealakon.co.uk www.therealakon.co.uk]. She's outspoken. She believes that this book, because it tells the occasional treat does you no harm so long truth as you don't make it a regular habit. In fact you're better having a small, occasional, indulgent snack than resisting and finally giving into cravings and ''binging''. In other wordsis, she lives in the real world with the rest of us imperfect beingsearly 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524676942</amazonuk>1526644827

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Pearson1732898731|title=Say Yes to New Opportunities!The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=4.5

|summary=Ruth Pearson There was deputy head of her school and was studying for a Masters degree when she suffered an emotional breakdown as a result of the stresses of the jobBoy who loved boxes. The breakdown He had a box for everything and he was so severe that she was afraid to return to the classroommeticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, but rather than sitting back stuffed toys and letting the circumstances overwhelm her she allowed what had happened to become a catalyst like: all the things which would help her to change her lifemost children have in abundance. In The Boy''Say Yes to New Opportunities'' she shares what she learned from s delight was in the experiencesense of order in his room: it made him feel happy. To come back from this situation requires strength, honesty As he grew up and became a sense of purposeMan, all his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one of which Pearson demonstrates quite clearly throughout this bookthem has a padlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=Confessions The End of Modern WomenBias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Spadge WhittakerJessica Nordell

|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=SheAnyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's back! Huzzah! Do you remember simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when Spadge Whittaker [[Braver Than Britainthose who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, Occasionally that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.}}{{Frontpage|author=Erling Kagge|title=Walking: One Step At A Time|rating=5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by Spadge Whittaker|faced her the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (and provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy ourown copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why) deepest fears]]? We loved the way she did that. EXCEPT FOR THE SPIDERS.

This time, Spadge Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has turned her attention walked to the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to be walk. It is a modern woman in twenty-first centuryplenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, digital Britaineach essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993429912</amazonuk>0241357705

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dixe WillsRichard Brook|title=Tiny CampsitesUnderstanding Human Nature: 80 Perfect Little Places A User's Guide to PitchLife

|genre=TravelLifestyle|summary=I've often been put off the idea am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of camping by the thought latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of largeit interesting, soul-less campsites, often populated by people who want to party late into but it would not have 'hit home' in the nightway that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I much prefer camping was likely to mean something - give it a feeling of being somewhere specialfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, of being able so there is a predisposition towards expecting to be at one with nature. But like the trouble is, where do you find these gems? Wellbook, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'Tiny Campsites'' will provide you with eighty perfect little places ] – but also because it is a book I needed to pitch your tentread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749578483</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Redress0753558378|title=Dress (with) senseEffortless: The Practical Guide Make It Easier to a Conscious ClosetDo What Matters|author=Greg McKeown

|summary=Not too long ago I didn't have any problems with clothes'The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative. They were just about all black and I wore them until they dropped off my back - and then I used '' That's what I could of the material for other purposeshappened to Patrick McGinnis. I had this lovely little clothes shop in Ilkley (it says It'Oxfam' over s no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the door) company he worked for, struggling through, even when I needed he was ill, only to restockfind that he was working for a bankrupt company. Clothes were simple. Then I encountered the lovely [[:Category:Numba Pinkerton|Numba Pinkerton]] His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and suddenly I his job had colour in my life: not all of it could be had from Oxfamlittle value. Sometimes I might even be buying ''new'' clothesHe made a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. I needed help He did survive and more advicecame through stronger - and richer. There is, you see, because it really isna different way: 't as simple as just walking into the nearest department store'great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292779</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Elizabeth Blackburn and Dr Elissa Epel1523092734|title=The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach Women's Guide to Living Younger, Healthier, LongerClaiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort

|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=I have lived my ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the life determined not of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you''ageve always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: I see nothing aspirational at a time when violence against women is much in the dependence of old agenews, whether it be on other people, government in all its forms or the NHS''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. INow - to be clear - this book is not a 'm prepared how to put effort into thisdisable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's not the cosmetic image of youth I seeksomething far more effective, but rather discussion at the ability moment seems to do as I do now - running a business, regularly walking for miles in our glorious countryside and enjoying life - for as long as possible. So far itbe about how women can be 's working out, but what else could I do and 'protected'why'. I' does ve always thought that women need to rise above this work for some , to be people who don't need protection, people and who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not for others?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297609238</amazonuk>just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Weatherhogg1529109116|title=Living With DepressionCall Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson|rating=4.5

|summary=Nick Weatherhogg has been diagnosed as suffering from severe depression. Many ''I want the image of you will a British farmer to simply be nodding wisely and thinking that you know how he feels: but there are two points he wants to make hereof a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. You ''I don'tthink that is too much to ask.'' know how he feels. This is  The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' depression and only he knows family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what it feels like - if he's able really wants to think or express how do: he knows that he's feelingll be a farmer. The other point is that thereIt's a big difference between ''feeling'' depressed not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'being'' depressed - ''fepressiond always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' and ''bepression'' as he terms themshe was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake District. HeShe saw a lamb being born and, although 's right: IHannah Jackson, farmer've been there. My feelings, my experience will have been differentlacked the kudos of her original intention, but I do know she knew that it was hellishshe wanted to be a shepherd. He describes With the experience as determination that you''a mental state in which your brain regularly and consistently lies to youll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524663662</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 12/1 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Jo Bird1786495902|title=Web to SuccessThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=4.5

|summary=[[:Category:Jo Bird|Jo Bird]] (illustrator, designer and… errrIsabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share.. .wall tattooist) had She says that a lightbulb moment about positive thinkingfriend who does know, selfburst into tears and health-improvement and success. The road to an improved self isncare professionals't linear jaws have sagged in a 'change disbelief. Hardman dealt with this thing and all will be fineat the time by ' way; itkeeping going's a web that connects : the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and intersects several paths then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and subjects that can be summarised under three headings. All successful people (socially as much as professionally) know about selfreturned home to begin long-awareness, personal development and emotional awarenessterm sick leave. After having a shot at principles of self-improvement herself, Jo shares the fruit of her experience across a wealth of fields That was what brought me to make one heck of a self-help this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152466622X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary Ellen GuineyLauren Martin|title=Vietnamese VoicesThe Book of Moods|rating=3.5

|summary=Mary Ellen Guiney has been diagnosed at various times I was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''great'' being delivered with schizophrenia an eye roll and bi-polar disordera sigh, through clenched teeth. The resulting treatment I had spent the best part of choice is the conventional western medicine approach and drug regimens that brought with them unpleasant side-effects. Determined to find a better way of symptom controlrainy, using her biochemical backgroundwindy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, Mary Ellen begins to investigate alternative eastern medicine and therapies on standby in addition to looking at the effect of nutrition and exercisecase anyone who was racing needed support. The results are here: this is Mary EllenIt's story written in her own words.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524663123</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patrick Mbaya|title= My Brain Is Out Of Control|rating= 4|genre= Home and Family|summary=Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a consultant psychiatristvolunteer duty we all do during the year, husband and father. His career normally I'm happy to, but that day the weather was going well miserable and he enjoyed making ill people better. His marriage I was solid miserable, and fulfilling it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and his two children were exploring their potential, often through the uplifting power of music. Life was good. But thenwife".Wow.I had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524636649</amazonuk>1538733625

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan S Lee0008420386|title=Lean GainsFailosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day

|genre=SportLifestyle|summary=I donWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They't often begin a book by telling you what it ve all failed and - more importantly - they''isn't'' but in this case I think itve been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's important. If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking podcast to shed a few pounds then you won't get the best discuss their failures and how life worked out of this bookfor them afterwards. You'll find some good advice about diet, but I'm afraid that much the results of it is going to go over your head. Of course you could always take up a sport seriously... On the other hand, if you ''are'' a serious sportsman then you could find that the advice these discussions in ''Lean GainsFailosophy'' could lift you up to the next level of performance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463493X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Slater1504321383|title=Hollywood Beauty: Vintage SecretsSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=I have vivid memories from my youth of seeing the Hollywood beauties on the television or at the cinema and wishing that ''IYou can'' could look like that t be happy and - of course, no matter how I tried, I never couldfulfilled on your own. The look of Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Ava Gardner and Sofia Loren always eluded meYou are not complete until you find a man''. To begin with, I lacked knowledge. Despite being reasonably petite my oblong face  This was what Louisa Pateman was never going brought up to look anything like Audrey Hepburn'sbelieve. I lacked quite a few of Brigitte BardotIt wasn's attributes toot unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. Gradually, I realised that developing my own style It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the best way to go, but Igirl (she'll confess s usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that there they can live happily ever after. Few girls are still lucky enough to be brought up ''elementswithout'' of the stars' looks which I'd love to copyexpectation that they will marry and have children. ThatIt was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that 's where ''Vintage Secrets: Hollywood Beautya belief is a choice'' comes in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655083</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuchi Yang1538731738|title=A Food Guide Simple Abundance: 365 Days to Lowering Blood Pressure: 6 Simple Stepsa Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=45

|summary=Yuchi Yang has been a registered dietitian for over twenty years and sheSomeone once said: it's allowing us the benefit of her knowledge to help us to reduce our blood pressure ''without'' taking medicationnot self-indulgence, although she does stress that if you it''are'' taking medication you shouldn't stop doing so without consulting your doctor. s therapy! You I think they were talking about shopping, but it probably can reduce your BP in six steps, which are actually a lot simpler than they soundbe applied to most things. Does it work? YesIn my case, it does: applies to writing about things because I've been eating this way for more want to, rather than two years and because I can sell it or because I've gone from having 'very worrying' blood pressure readings got something to getting a smile when they're taken and being told that my BP is perfectly normal - and that's without taking medication of any sortsell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1539803422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael LongSharon Blackie|title=The Mock OlympianIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=45|genre=SportBiography|summary=It started with I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. Perhaps an idle conversation just even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Longone I's friend Sarah gave him a book as part of his birthday presentve borrowed. It was I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful''Time Outinspiring's'life-changing' guide to the history of the Olympics and – although it covered each of is definitely the summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all the running Michael did, he'd probably have run in most of the Olympic cities. Although Long had done a goodly number of runs, bike rides first two and triathlons he'd only competed in two of time will tell about the twenty three cities - London and Athens. Now most of us would have left it at that, third – but that's not the Michael Long you're going to come to know and love. He saw it as clichés exist for a ''challenge'' reason and whatI's more he blogged about m not sure I can succinctly put it and then wrote this bookany better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524662887</amazonuk>1912836017

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Numba Pinkerton1543987877|title=The No Black ProjectLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan

|summary=I don't like shopping for clothes, but there's no valid reason whyLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. IThe two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of grief: ''if you love''m small, but reasonably slim - a size 10 petite usually fits me perfectly - and IDr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''m lucky to be able to afford to buy whatever clothes I want. The trouble is that I lack Your love relationships begin the confidence to know what is going to suit me moment you're born and to be honest it's very difficult to get excited about a trip which will almost certainly end up with another pair of smart black trousers and a matching toponly when you die. I never feel that I look particularly good in black, but I've resorted Whilst we all come into the world hoping to it because it can usually take me anywhere give and receive love there are many people for whom love is unlikely to cause offencenot quite so simple. So, how did I feel when I was given a copy of ''The No Black Project''? Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. WellFor people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, to be honestself-preservation, I felt in the form of resignation is a little scared..necessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1533506957</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert ShortMichael Harris|title=101 Things To Do When You're Not DrinkingSolitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=45

|summary=If you're thinking about giving up alcohol long term, short term or for Dry January then you might This is not the book I was expecting it to be wondering if . For some reason I expected it's going to leave one helluva hole in your social lifebe another self-help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the mainstream, but it is not that at all. You might be thinking Instead of telling us how, it is more about what you'll do with the time you normally spend out socialising (just having a quick one before you get the train home...) as well as the time you spend recovering from having had ''justwhy'' one too many the night before. Sunday mornings will loom large as uncharted Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be a natural part of our human life, and largely unknown territorywhy that matters. Robert Short Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has a few answers for you - well 101 come of them that, and eventually in fact the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by- in a pocket-size book which should give you some inspirationways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780722877</amazonuk>1847947662

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tonia Vojtkofsky0753553236|title=Keep Your Brain Stronger for LongerTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=45

|summary=On the front of the book Go on, admit it says that our brains need a well-rounded workout just like our bodiesyou're not quite perfect. A decade or two ago I wouldn't You still have given very much thought those odd, quirky even loveable (to this - my body ''and'' my brain seemed you) habits which seem to get all the workout annoy other people. Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they needed without me adding to their burdenscould so easily correct, but close on the beginning if only they would make just a little bit of my eighth decade I've noticed somethingeffort. Or put another way, I keep losing words: nothing major, you know, but this morning get cross with myself because I couldn't remember the name of a flower which forget to do things or do some actions more than I hadn't seen since this time last year - until about half an hour later, when, of course it was should and no longer relevantmatter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. When you're young you don't worry about what you'll suffer from in old ageI constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. As you get older you develop dreads and one Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the biggest for people who are still hale and hearty is that they'll develop dementialist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722842</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones1785785516|title=Beloved Old Age and What to Do About it: Margery Allingham's the Relay|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a novelist from the golden age of crime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and excellent plotting. Her last completed book was not a novel but ''The Relay'', a combined account of caring for three elderly relatives, (Em, Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as to how other people might achieve a good old age for their relatives. Margery died in 1966 and ''The Relay'' was never published in the form in which it was written.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262296</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFucking Good Manners|author=Jack Pendarvis|title=Cigarette Lighter (Object Lessons)Simon Griffin|rating=34

|summary=I Manners maketh man, they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of conventions, some of which are ages old and other which have a favourite cigarette lighterevolved over time. That sentence may become more strange Manners are not about how much to tip or how you when should behave if you consider get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the fact that I have never smokedbasics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. I donOf course we all have more relaxed manners when we't know how re with family and friends, but I got it as a freebie donkey's years ago, best if we learn to distinguish between our public and I loved its curvy bronzed lines, private lives and the fact that I had to click down on a button instead of rub against a flint-wheel to light itact appropriately. I optimistically took it with me at uni in case I found a girl good enough to be with even though she smoked (which took almost another twenty years, but that's a different story) – therefore I was carrying something so evidently not a match as a potential match-maker. Later, its semi-art deco styling made it perfect for a play I was in once, after which it dried up. Now it's more or less a paperweightFucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the way. But if I can imbue such personal relevance in a bleeding fag lighter, just think what all of culture can do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307363</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Pyne1999811402|title=Bookshelf (Object Lessons)Painting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley

|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=Could you imagine a whole book dedicated It's very difficult to a single lump of wood, or a few sections of metal? classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I canthought that as it't assume s loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be great – with or without said item being ''an object with physicala lifestyle book, historical and psychological componentsbut you''. But shove some distorted tree by-products re not going to get advice on what to said wood or metal, plant when and lo and behold you have a bookshelfwhere for the best results. Now you're talking – but could you even now imagine a whole book dedicated to it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307320</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Georgina Rodgers|title=Peace of Mind: A Book of Calm for Busy Mums|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summary=The promise answer would be something along the lines of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There 'try it is, in the title, my job description (busy mum...well, thatand see's just one of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to find, peace of mind. Then I have to sayconsidered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, I was looking forward to some insightful revelations finally got into changing my lifemedical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I think the problem, however, was quickly apparent in found out that like a busy mum, who is trying there's an awful lot more to wear what goes on in a hundred masks at the same timeMajor Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', and carry out a multitude of roles, this book but that isn't entirely sure really what itthe book's about. There's trying a lot about rock & roll, which seems to bethe real passion of Hartley's life, with everything from poetry and colouring to mindfulness and recipesbut it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473635519</amazonuk>