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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Crabbe1454955546|title=Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too MuchSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena

|summary=Serendipity often brings you to the important books. Recently I heard myself say to a friend: ''IThis isn'm far too busy to do some of the important stufft a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' There was a time, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. It pulled me up short: there Fat was definitely something wrong here - and then I had the opportunity demon food which was going to listen to an audio download of ''Busy'' elevate your cholesterol and I knew that it cause heart disease. Sugar was something I a carbohydrate, so good. There''had'' to do s a problem, though. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and take notice of if I was to stop going ''backwards''cocaine. Because Does that was what I was doingsound over the top? Well, it isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01727ER84</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Kelly and Jonathan Pugh1635866847|title=Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to HappinessThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5

|summary=How would It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you like 52 tips on how to be happier? . No this isnBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author't an offer to sign up to a dodgy s [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website - it] and there's a small book which you could pop into picture of a bag slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and which will give you tips, tools and positive idea about how you can make your life happier, less complicated and more fulfillingdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Open it at random, if that(There's what you feel like doinga recipe in the book, or work your way through it which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading one tip per week - they're helpfully divided into the four seasons - book and savour just I was told to make a couple mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages . You suspect that smears of elegant writing which will give you something to think about or something positive to do (or butter would not do - if you see what be a problem. I mean)''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722524</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ilka Heinemann0760381267|title=101 Things to do Instead of Playing on Your Phone|rating= 5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= There's Verdura: Living a great joke I saw online recently. One cartoon person says to the other, ''What's your favourite position in bed?'' and the other replies ''Closest to the plug so I can still use my phone while it's charging''. It's funny because it's true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178072246X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGarden Life|author=Brene Brown|title=Rising StrongPerla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=43.5

|summary=This ''The most important part of a garden is Brené Brownthe one who enjoys it''s fourth book. Like Elizabeth Gilbert I've 'gardened' in a vague, she is well known indefinite sort of way for her TED talkmore than half a century. As a professor at I know (most of) the University of Houston, she basics but life has spent the last 13 years working with peoplechanged and I needed 'projects's stories. Such rather than a qualitative approach, based on anecdote and experience, is relatively rare in the social sciences but certainly makes her work more accessible general commitment to laymengardening. Her books fall into the ''Verdura'self-help' arena, but without any with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the negative connotations of that termanswer. Here she makes her research relevant to everyday life by weaving in pop culture references and telling stories from her family and professional life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091955033</amazonuk> So, how did it stack up?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lee CrutchleySarah Wilson|title=How This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to Be Happy (or at least less sad): A Creative Workbookconnection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=I gave up hoping for happiness many years ago and settled instead for enjoying contentment when My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it arrived you plan to do with your one wild and trying precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to make be living my one wild and precious life the most of itway I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver'Happinesss words as her title (though I can' seemed t see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to be rather like think about whether we really ''privilegesare' - something which you shouldn't expect as of rightliving the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Most of the time it works wellHer answer is an unequivocal ''no, but just occasionally an extra boost - a new approach - is neededwe are not''. Lee Crutchley has suffered from depression and he knows that this book is not going to help when Don't care what you're clinically depresseddoing, she thinks you (we, but those of us who have been down that road know I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that there we are certain laybys where you stop and possibly turn aroundnot.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241201950</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Dawson1394159544|title=The Sty's the Limit: When Middle Age Gets MuckyRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=4.5

|summary=Simon Dawson has met something he cannot beat''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil. He '' ''Recycling one ton of paper cansave 17 trees from being cut down.'t come ' If you send an apple core to terms with landfill, it eitherwill take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. ItA glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might 's called Getting Older: not the 'getting olderpossibly' which we all do day by day, but that moment when you realise that you've moved on to an entirely different stage come in handy now or in your life - and no one actually asked you the future. NEVER buy anything if you wanted to go on can cobble together something that would serve the journeypurpose. For Simon itAlmost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 's Middle Age thatIs this absolutely essential?'s taken him by surprise On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: bits of the body have stopped working as they ought to and he's realised assuming that if hesomething must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I's going to look m looking at you) and dropping it in the mirrorkerbside bin. Yes, bareI could go searching on the internet -chested, then he shouldn't do it when he's standing next to and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a fit teenage boyrecycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409160858</amazonuk>s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Swados0760378134|title=My Depression The First-Time Gardener: A Picture BookContainer Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=If you have 've ever suffered from depression you'll find thought how good it very difficult would be to explain be able to other people how pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that youwouldn're feelingt know where to start, this is the book you need. YouIt're not feeling s comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you'just a little bit downre going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'. A treat or a dollop of positive thinking will not miraculously cure ll put these containers, how you. You're definitely not swinging ll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the lead, but suffering from book with a legitimate illness which deserves to be recognisedhandy section on troubleshooting. Elizabeth Swados is a long-term sufferer from severe depression: sheThere's also a talented storyteller and has told her the story of how depression feels for her - complete with drawingsgood glossary. So, which fill in those gaps which words can never fill for is it any sufferer from depression.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609806042</amazonuk>good?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Alexander1398508632|title=Flirting With FrenchThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=4.5

|summary=I am not It had been on the cards for a bad linguistwhile but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. I don’t tend The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to struggle with languages too muchstart, especially when in a world where the goal is communicative fluency rather than precise grammatical accuracynormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and I’ve taught English as a foreign language in pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a handful variety of countries tooterrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, so I have some ideas of what does freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and doesn’t work with language acquisition in adultsfuel. William Alexander is, perhaps Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not so lucky. An American with a longing plan to be a Frenchman, he is devoting himself ''live'' wild just to learning the lingo and much more, and chronicles his efforts in this booklive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649957</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy MorinBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't DoI May Be Wrong

|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary=When Amy Morin was just 26 and working as a psychologist and therapist her husband died suddenlythe Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, but even whilst she was reeling from the shock she realised that there were things which she must I'm inclined to think it doesn'not'' do. She knew that she must not develop a sense t really matter how the rest of entitlement, feel resentment or succumb the world responds to self-pityyour book. That was ten years ago: since then Morin has remarried and worked I know, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with numerous patients using the principles which she applied to herselfthat thought. She's found 13 common habits which hold us back in life He knows (and developed strategies at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of the world responds to combat them. But this book, because it tells the best thing which she makes clear is that mental strength truth as it is not about acting tough - for instance, if you've suffered a bereavement, you need to grieve - it's about having in the mental wherewithal to overcome life's challengesearly 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008105936</amazonuk>1526644827

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kemp1732898731|title=Caring for Shirley|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=John KempThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's wife, Shirley, suffered from dementia and loss of coordination and Book for eight years he was her full-time carer as she was unable to walk unaided (well, she ''could'' - but it was likely to result in a serious fall) and took care of all her most personal needs. Probably the most heart-breaking part of this is that Shirley didn't recognise John as her husband - apart from 'give us a kiss', the question 'where's John?' was usually the first which sprang to her lips in any situation. Although she could often have quite an affable disposition she was capable of kicking and biting when she was being 'encouraged' to do something which she didn't want to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479374245</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAdults|author=Dr William Davis|title=Wheat Belly: The effortless health and weight-loss solution - no exercise, no calorie counting, no denialMichael Albanese |rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Dr William Davis poses an interesting question: why is it that people who are leading an active life and eating a healthy diet are putting on weight despite all their best efforts? He has a simple and worrying answer: wheat, which he argues increases blood sugar more than table sugar. The problem isn't restricted to weight gain, either: there's evidence to suggest that wheat affects psychosis and autism too. In fact - the more that you read, the more you'll wonder if there's an organ in the body which ''isn't'' adversely affected by wheat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008118922</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett|title=The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media|rating=35

|summary=I love magazines more than is socially acceptableThere was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and I invariably read the women’s ones, or like: all the fitness ones, but yes, mainly those ones for females things which insist on telling me how to dress and act, how to style hair most children have in abundance. The Boy's delight was in some areas and remove it the sense of order in others, how to have his room: it all but still let men open doors for memade him feel happy. I don’t really object to any of this – after all As he grew up and became a Man, I choose to keep subscribing – but I was still keen to read his life became more complicated and he dealt with this bookby getting bigger and better boxes. And not just to check I hadn’t been indoctrinated into forgetting it was all Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one of them has a ruse to make me buy stuffpadlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700436</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Madsen Pirie1846276772|title=The End of Bias: How to Win Every ArgumentWe Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell

|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=When Anyone 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 simply a book makes a promise on its coverpart of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, call me old fashioned but I’m kinda expecting it to deliver on thishigher salaries are the preserve of the white man. So Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it'How to Win Every Arguments rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It'' has me thinking that I would read it s personally appalling and become an expert in proving I’m right all degrading for the time (even when I’m not). I was expecting individuals on the sort receiving end of hints and tips one could use to argue successfully that the Earth is flat, chocolate is a vegetable (cocoa is a plant) and Cheerleaders should rule bias but it's not just the worldindividuals who are negatively impacted. Simples.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147252912X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr Gareth MooreErling Kagge|title=Clever CommuterWalking: Puzzles, Tests and Problems to Solve on Your JourneyOne Step At A Time|rating=3.5|genre=EntertainmentLifestyle|summary=The week Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I reviewed loved a book is evidenced by 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 saw a newspaper article that said will say that so-called brain-training apps are as a waste reader of this type of timebook there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, that they merely replace what but not scribbles – for the latter we should be doing anyway must buy our own copy – which I am about to keep our grey cells active (multi-tasking, observing, REAL LIFE etcdo as soon as I have finished telling you why). This  Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the puzzle book version North Pole and the summit of Everest. He knows a brain training appthing or two about walking. However, and so with all this isn't a travelogue about any of those electronic titles on the market epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it already had oppositionmeans to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, even before that news came ineach essay is only a few pages long. But let's face it – who on earth would risk the science being wrong on this occasion? Surely this kind Perhaps then, better thought of book should be as a meditation rather than an inherently essential purchase?essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782433953</amazonuk>0241357705

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amelia FreerRichard Brook|title=Eat. Nourish. Glow.Understanding Human Nature: 10 easy steps for losing weight, looking younger and feeling healthierA User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5

|summary=Amelia Freer had struggled with her own health for I am a while firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it reached a stage where she was waking up feeling tired and groggy, relying on ten cups a day found some of sugary tea it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to perk her up and her food me not just because I was mainly processed convenience foodslikely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u. At the time she was working as s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a PA predisposition towards expecting to Prince Charles and loved like the job but her busy life meant that she made automatic food choices without consideration of what they were doing to her health. It wasnbook, even if it doesn't until she went to see a nutritionist always turn out that she realised what she had been doing and made the decision not only to change her diet, way'' ] – but to train to be a nutritionist. The result also because it is a busy practice - and this bookI needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000757990X</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler0753558378|title=The Test BookEffortless: 64 Tools Make It Easier to Lead You to SuccessDo What Matters|author=Greg McKeown

|summary=''The title marginal return of the book intrigued me: working harder was, in fact, negative.''The Test Book That'' and the offer of sixty four tools which would lead me s what happened to successPatrick McGinnis. IIt'm happy with where my s no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life is but it struck me that only a fool doesn't see room to the company he worked for improvement - and besides, it's a slim bookstruggling through, even when he was ill, ideal only to find that he was working for popping into a bag or pocket for those waiting room momentsbankrupt company. It was only the reputation of the authors - His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and the his job had little value of their earlier books - which . He made me realise that this wasn't going to be a lightbargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger -hearted series of 'tests' such as those favoured by some magazines and newspapersricher. For the most part these There is, you see, a different way: ''great things are seriousnot reserved for those who bleed, well-established tests used by professionalsfor those who almost break.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125320X</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1523092734|title=Digital InfernoA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Paul LevyEliza Van Cort|rating=45|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=You know how it goes. You have ''She brings a pressing job hug-kick-thunderclap that requires your immediate attentionevery woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, but decide to treat yourself Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to a five minute tea break surfing live the internetlife of choosing unapologetically and bravely. One link leads It is to another and before live the life you know it, your short tea break has swallowed up a whole hour've always wanted. Or maybe you '' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at an important meeting and you feel a time when violence against women is much in the phone vibrate in your pocketnews, signalling an incoming text''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Is it rude Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to check disable your messages when your full attention should really be elsewhere? If you feel that meaningful communication attacker with the family has been replaced with a glut of hastily-typed xtwo simple jabs' manual: it'ssomething far more effective, LOLs and emoticons, this book may but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be just what you need. ''Digital Infernoprotected''. I' aims ve always thought that women need to help its readers reclaim rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their place in the digital world and gain mastery over own space. If all of women did this, those pieces of tech few men who are violent to women would realise that seem we are not just an easy target to be used to demand so much of usprove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570740</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529109116|title=The Making of HomeCall Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Judith FlandersHannah Jackson

|summary=In 1900 ''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a young girl person who is proudly employed in a strange land told feeding the people around her nation. I don't think that she had decided she no longer wanted is too much to live in their lovely country, but would ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much rather return thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the ‘dry, grey’ place 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 'd always had come from, because there was ‘no place like home’a deep love of animals. The girl Her original intention was Dorothythat she would become 'Dr Jackson, while the people around whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her were life changed on a family holiday to the citizens of Oz – Lake District. She saw a lamb being born and, yes, it was all fictionalthough 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the creation kudos of author L. Frank Baumher original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. Nevertheless he had put into words something which many people deeply felt but had not yet expressedWith the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848877986</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786495902|title=The Bookshop BookNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Jen CampbellIsabel Hardman|rating=4.5

|summary=I love Isabel Hardman suffered a good bookshoptrauma which she chooses not to share. The smell, the feel of an old bookshop, and the wonderful feeling when you chance upon a book She says that appeals to you. They may be a dying breed in some placesfriend who does know, but Jen Campbell has written a fantastic book that celebrates the bookshop burst into tears and those who love themhealth-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472116666</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=William Poundstone|title=How to Predict Hardman dealt with this at the Unpredictabletime by 'keeping going': The Art of Outsmarting Almost Everyone|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=William Poundstone believes that we are all in the business of predicting, whether it be something as minor as playing rock, paper, scissors next day she went to pay a bar bill though work to anticipating how cover the housing or stock markets are going to move. Nowbudget, next there was the EU referendum, I'm not particularly competitive - if whatever the political party leadership contests and then it is means ''that'' much was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to someone else then I'd rather let them have it begin long- so term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book didn't appeal to me on : 2020 was the year when the basis of doing better bins went out more often than someone else, but I was interested in how it might be possible to predict what is going to happendid. So, care to predict how it stacked up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780744072</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan WaddellLauren Martin|title=Who Do You Think You Are?: The Genealogy Handbook|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=The celebrity genealogy programme ''Who Do You Think You Are?'' celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The makers, Wall to Wall Media, were fortunate enough to ride the ripple Book of family tree fascination, helping to turn it into the hobbyist tidal wave that remains today. For those not familiar with the format, each episode allows us to accompany a household name as they discover secrets, scandals and surprises about an ancestor or two. Thus we aren't only entertained; we're encouraged to delve into our own pasts, BBC TV publications acting as tutor and motivator via this handy little reference guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849908249</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lynne Martin|title=Home Sweet Anywhere: How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the World|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Lynne and Tim Martin had known each other decades ago but when we meet them they've only been married for a short time. There's just one thing though - they're not ready to settle down, despite the fact that they're what might be called 'upper middle aged'. Their roots are in the US - both have adult children there and the Martins have a house in California - but they want to travel and not just as tourists. They want to see the world as the locals see it and to experience what it's like to live there. Lynne describes them as not being wealthy, but they decide to sell their home, invest the money and become 'home-free'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00J0CRNKE</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Conversations|author=Olivia FaneMoods

|summary=I need no encouragement to start talking. Leave me alone with someone and was in a great mood when I will find something to talk to them aboutfirst learnt of this book, in whatever language. I’ve dated people I’ve met by talking to them on aeroplanesand because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, hablaring español imagine the word ''great'' being delivered with them in evening classesan eye roll and a sigh, chatting to them onlinethrough clenched teeth. I’ve made friends at I had spent the gymbest part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the shop floorwater at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during a day’s IT system trainingthe year, people and normally I still keep in touch with. So you might think 'm happy to, but that day the last thing weather was miserable and I need is a book of conversation starterswas miserable, and yet in it all came to a way that’s what head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this isbook more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581981</amazonuk>1538733625

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008420386|title=Flowerpot FarmFailosophy: A First Gardening Activity Book|author=Lorraine Harrison|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=With the demand handbook for us to eat seemingly more fruit and vegetables every day, the world of grow-your-own is back. Why buy from the supermarket when you can release the kids into the garden to graze like cattle? However, before you do this, perhaps you should pick up a book like ‘Flowerpot Farm’ by Lorraine Harrison and Faye Bradley which will show them how to create their own fruit, veg and flower garden no matter how small a space they have to work with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400818</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=He Texted: The Ultimate Guide to Decoding Guysthings go wrong|author=Lisa Winning and Carrie Henderson-McDermottElizabeth Day

|summary=This bookWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, despite the titleAlain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, is about more than texting. It is about the whole digital world Dame Kelly Holmes and how guys Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and gals interact within it (Companies’ House stalkerage aside). From how long - more importantly - they've been willing to wait to text back, to how to respond to friend requests and what to do with the power when you’re unleashed appear on his Facebook wall, this book promises Elizabeth Day's podcast to provide hilarious discuss their failures and essential advice on how to navigate life worked out for them afterwards. You'll find the perplexing world that is trouser-shaped.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892071</amazonuk>results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=William HansonLouisa Pateman|rating=4.5|titlegenre=Autobiography|summary=The Bluffer's Guide 'You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to Etiquette what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (Bluffershe's Guidesusually fairly young)is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1538731738|title=Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach

|summary=If you ask people what they fear most in any social situation most will tell you that Someone once said: it's not knowing how to behave. self-indulgence, it's therapy! They'll be fine I think they were talking about the basicsshopping, but it's those little niceties - how probably can be applied to introduce yourselfmost things. In my case, what it applies to ask for as an aperitif, how writing about things because I want to address someone, for instance which rather than because I can suddenly reveal you as a parvenu. William Hanson gives us a quick trip through the essentials in a book which is very readable and - in places - hilariously funnysell it or because I've got something to sell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909937002</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John JacksonSharon Blackie|title=A Little Piece of England: A tale of self-sufficiencyIf Women Rose Rooted

|genre=LifestyleBiography|summary=Here at Bookbag we're great fans of John JacksonI normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. We loved his [[Tales for Great Grandchildren by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|Tales for Great Grandchildren]] ''and'' [[Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology]] so it was something Perhaps an even greater measure of a treat impact is setting out to meet buy my own copy before I've finished reading the author on his own ground, so to speakone I've borrowed. Originally published as I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful'A Bucket of Nuts and a Herring Net: The Birth of a Spare-Time Farm'inspiring' this is actually Jackson's first book and thirtylife-five years later wechanging're delighted that – although it's been republished in hardback complete with is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the original black-third – but clichés exist for a reason and-white illustrations by Val BiroI'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909661031</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1543987877|title=MastermindLearn to Love: How Guide to Think Like Sherlock HolmesHealing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Maria KonnikovaDr Thomas Jordan|rating=34.5

|summary=Psychologist Maria Konnikova seems ''Learn to Love: Guide to have Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather ambitious aims regarding her new than a bookabout love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''Mastermindyou will inevitably grieve'' . She plans Your love relationships begin the moment you're born and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the world hoping to teach her readers how to think like Sherlock Holmesgive and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Anyone who has read Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the adventures of the world’s most famous detective will have no doubt marvelled at his uncanny powers of analysis same mistakes - and observationthis eventually becomes resignation. Can a book really unlock For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the power form of the mind and turn average-Joe into resignation is a master of deduction?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085786727X</amazonuk>necessity.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chip Heath and Dan HeathMichael Harris|title=DecisiveSolitude: How to Make Better Decisions In Pursuit of a Singular Life in Life and Worka Crowded World

|genre=Business and FinanceLifestyle|summary=This is not the book I don't have a problem with making decisionswas expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to find calm, probably because I've always tended how to step outside the view mainstream, but it is not that it's better to make a decision and get on with life than haver and waste time in limboat all. With a few notable exceptions Instead of telling us how, itis more about the 's served me well, but when 'why'Decisive'. Harries examines how we' appeared on my desk it struck me that there could re eroding solitude, which used to be advantages to improving the quality a natural part of the decisions tooour human life, and why that matters. The Heath brothers Of course he talks about how some people have a good history found solitude and what has come of collaborating on such subjects that, and delivering books which open eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the mindalleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847940862</amazonuk>1847947662

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0753553236|title=Tiny Habits: The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves Small Changes That Change Everything|author=Stephen GroszB J Fogg

|summary=I usually review fictionGo on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people. For that reason alone Other people, I knew that reviewing this particular book of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would be make just a challengelittle bit of effort. Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I was attracted never quite seem to it get to grips with the concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for many reasons; I thought it would give me a window into many situations failing. Lack of which I know little or nothingwillpower is another burden to add to the list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099549034</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hadfield1785785516|title=Change One ThingFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin|rating=34

|summary=On the face Manners maketh man, they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of conventions, some of it which are ages old and other which have evolved over time. Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the principle is simple: just change one thing for a better lifebasics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but it's not that simplebest if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to act appropriately. Working ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the basis way.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=Painting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that the longest journey starts with as it's loosely based around a single step Sue Hadfield looks at the disillusionment which is year on an allotment it would be a by-product of our work-driven life and guides us towards the steps welifestyle book, but you'll need re not going to take get advice on what to pull ourselves out plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of what's not so much a rut try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a pit of despair on occasionsbusker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). Changing one thing is just the beginningI found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but as she points out, it can be that isn't really whatthe book's about. There's needed a lot about rock & roll, which seems to kick-start be the whole process - to a better way real passion of our current Hartley's life or , but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a whole new lifecategory for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857084607</amazonuk>