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[[Category:New Reviews|Home and Family]]==Home and family==__NOTOC__{{commenthead}}[[Category:Lifestyle]]{{newreview|author=Donna Blinston|title=Make New Year's Resolutions and Keep Them Using NLP|rating=2|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's coming up to that time of year again – you know it's the one where you make resolutions about going on a diet, getting more exercise, stopping smoking or losing weight. If they last a week into the New Year you're probably doing well – and then you're left with a feeling of failure. Donna Blinston offers advice on how to make your resolutions and how to keep them – and I needed this advice as much as the next couch potato.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312845</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Vyvyen Brendon|title=Prep School Children: A Class Apart Over Two Centuries|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=''Prep School Children'' is Vyvyen Brendon's second collection (''Children of the Raj'' was the first). It explores the pupil experience, using primary sources like weekly letters home, memoirs and interviews, and less immediate material such as fiction, school magazines and headmasters' biographies. I came to the book with some questions: what was it like to be a boarder at a prep school? What difference did a prep school education make to life as an adult? Why parents might send their children to such schools when the horrors were well!-- Remove --known, many of the dads presumably having survived the experience themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847062873</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tad Tuleja|title=A Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=Take a look at the cover design of this book, and you'd be mistaken for thinking this was a trivia compendium for all those foreign words that have taken part in our English language since whenever they crossed over from their original homes. But the title is definitely honest, for this is a dictionary book first, for reference, and a browser for the trivia buff second.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089562</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Loose Women1454955546|title=Here Come the Girls|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=This is the second volume by the panelists from that nice ITV series, ''Loose Women''. Just as promised on the cover, this book is an entertaining night with the girls. It turns out that they're just like us. The faces are already familiar and even if you don't know them yet, with nine contributors, you'll soon find a like-minded woman behind one of the celebrity faces. The women are universally warm-hearted and supportive: there will be many a lonely woman who reads this book and feels as if she sat down with a group of friends for the evening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444700154</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSugarless|author=Gill Hines and Alison Baverstock|title=It's Not Fair! Parenting the Bright and Challenging ChildNicole M Avena

|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=I like parenting books''This isn't a diet book. So, even though my sons are now young adults, I looked forward to reading a new The last thing anyone needs is another diet book about raising children. I'm in touch with many parents with children of all ages, and am always interested in reading current recommendations. '

The subtitle of this book isThere was a time, not that long ago, 'Parenting when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. Fat was the bright demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and challenging childcause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. There's a problem, though. When I saw it, I wondered if it would be similar to Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the American book 'Raising your Spirited Child' (by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka) which I found extremely useful when my sons were youngersame way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Spirited children are defined as those who are intenseDoes that sound over the top? Well, sensitive, perceptive, persistent and energeticit isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749940468</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Mangan 1635866847|title=My Family The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Other DisastersTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Not living in It's strange, the UK means things that we donmake you ''immediately''t have British newspapersfeel that this is the book for you. Even when we lived in England, we never bought Before I started reading ''The GuardianLavender Companion'', so I had never actually heard of Lucy Mangan before being sent this bookvisited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Thatcom/ website] and there's probably not a bad thing, since I began the book - picture of a collection slice of her Guardian columns chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - without any preconceptionsbut I wanted that cake viscerally.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852651244</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Brocket|title=Ripping Things to Do|rating=5|genre=Children (There's Non-Fiction|summary=Right from a recipe in the very moment book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I opened started reading the envelope this book and I was delivered told to make a mess of it. Notes in, I had the distinct feeling this margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a real gem of a book, and how right I wasproblem. Though, initially, I was reminded of the Iggulden brothers' ''Dangerous Book for Boysloved'' series, this book has a very different ethos, even though the subject matter overlaps somewhat unavoidably making it bear comparisonalready.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980966</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Maria Tatar |title=Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories I've 'gardened' in Childhood|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=Like most avid readersa vague, I don't remember the time before there were books. We were brought up with booksindefinite sort of way for more than half a century. There are family tales I know (most of my father as a child eating his breakfast with one hand, while trying to tie his shoelaces with ) the other basics but life has changed and still contriving I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to read at the same timegardening. They were a poor family, ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and books weren't just expensive, they were valuable. They were dear, in every sense outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the wordanswer. Likewise my mother remembers her early school-years when every day ended with a chapter from one of the classics. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393066010</amazonuk>So, how did it stack up?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Brian1394159544|title=The Complete Guide to IVFRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler

|summary=Each year some forty thousand cycles of IVF – in vitro fertilisation – are carried out in the UK and something like a million worldwide. About two hundred thousand IVF babies are born annually with some twelve thousand ''Recycling one ton of those in the UK according to a recent article I read on a BBC site. Fertility expert Kate Brian has followed her [[The Complete Guide to Female Fertility by Kate Brian|Complete Guide to Female Fertility]], which we loved, with another indispensable guide – this time plastic can save up to IVF16.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909706</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ali Valenzuela|title=Weighing It Up|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Although never having had an eating disorder myself, I have been interested in them since I was youngbarrels of oil. I was a competitive gymnast and that is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now I'm a mother of three teenage daughters, I worry about the subject from a whole new angle, especially as one of them is a size 6-8 and idolises those super-skinny celebrities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Anna Paterson|title=Anorexic|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It might seem strange and somewhat ironic that an obese woman is reviewing a book on anorexia. But it is a topic I have always found interesting. Despite my ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being at the opposite end of the weight scale to Anna Paterson, I could empathise with some of the things she feltcut down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0952921529</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Loose Women|title=Girls' Night In|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=I love watching ''Loose Women'' on TV and feel it's like sitting down for a good gossip with a load of girlfriends. Every time If you send an apple core to landfill, it's on, I get involved in the debates will take between 6 months and they spark discussions at home with whoever is around2 years to decompose. My teenage daughters are fans of the show too A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years.

So when As a just-post-WWII baby, I heard faced a book was coming outdilemma: reducing, I definitely wanted to read it! But reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the fun purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and camaraderie so obvious on any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the telly really other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be able to translate to recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it in the written word?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340918454</amazonuk>kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffrey Dean0760378134|title=The Fight of Your LifeFirst-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=45

|summary=This book is a wake-up call. Jeffrey Dean wrote If you've ever thought how good it so that parents can understand would be to be able to pop out into the difficult world garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that their teens may have you wouldn't know where to face everydaystart, and through this understandingis the book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, they will be motivated what you're going to help their teens to survivegrow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1601421109</amazonuk> So, is it any good?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Diacono1529149800|title=Veg PatchThings You Can Do: River Cottage Handbook No 4How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows

|summary=At We begin with a time telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the climate is changing forest fire took hold and most of them stood and the economy appears watched, unable to be heading south the thought think of being able to produce your own vegetables is very temptinganything they could do. Forget about food miles The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and consider instead how few minutes there can be between harvesting your vegetables began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the cooking processfire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. Don't worry about pesticides and residues as you'll know exactly whatI'm doing the best I can''s been fed to your food, said the hummingbird. Mark DiaconoAnd that, really, head gardener on is the hallowed ground only way that we will solve the problem of River Cottage HQ, run climate change – by the sainted Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstalleach of us doing what we can, tells you exactly how to go about it in this, the fourth of the River Cottage Handbookshowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595348</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kay1849767009|title=The Long and the Short of it: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who ArenIt Isn't in the Industry|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Sometimes I wonder if authors set out to stop people reading their books, strange as this might seem. John Kay is an excellent example. He tells us that he expects his readers to be erudite and to be readers of popular science. They'll never knowingly have dealt with Goldman Sachs and will pay tax at the 40% rate. At the other end of the scale they'll not be bad credit risks and just to cut out anyone hoping for a quick buck, they'll not be tempted to make a living from Stock Market speculation. If you don't qualify on all points there's not even a hint of a pass mark which might allow you to sneak into the checkout queue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954809327</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Glenn Harrold|title=Look Young, Live Longer: The Secret Rude to Changing Your Life and Slowing the Ageing Process |rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=I was really intrigued by the title of therapist Glenn Harrold's book ''Look Young and Live Longer''. Could it be possible that a book could deliver on such a huge promise? Having been feeling more than a little jaded lately, I was willing to give it a try.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075288610X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor|title=On Kindness |rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=As a title, ''On Kindness'' doesn't pack quite the same punch as Adam Phillip's earlier: 'On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored'. It put me in mind of an eighteenth century treatise, and, give or take a couple of centuries, that is exactly what the book provides: a thought-provoking exposition on a currently unfashionable virtue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144337</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Olive Hickmott and Andrew Bendefy |title=Seeing Spells Achieving|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=I felt an immediate empathy with Olive Hickmott when I read this book. We're obviously of a similar age and were taught reading and spelling in a time before you were ''dyslexic''. I found that the terms more commonly used were 'not trying hard enough' and 'lazy'. I did master reading although I was late by today's standards but I've always struggled with spelling: certain words and letter combinations still have terrors hidden within them half a century later and until we changed the format of Bookbag I used to warn reviewers that they should check whatever I uploaded onto the site as I was unreliable when it came to spelling. Olive and I have both been saved by the spellchecker. I settled happily into reading, Olive less so, but we both made careers where numbers were important. I could read a set of accounts like a story; she found a home in engineering. We worked in areas where intuition was important.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312209</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNude|author=Kate Brian|title=The Complete Guide to Female FertilityRosie Haine

|genre=Home and FamilyFor Sharing|summary=ItThis could have been one of those books which 's tempting preaches to say the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that every woman over nudity is OK and the age of puberty should have access to Kate Brianones who ''s know'The Complete Guide to Female Fertility'. The truth is that it's shameful will avoid it like they should all have their own copies avoid the hot-and they should read -bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book until itabout not wearing clothes. It's dog-eared a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and falling apartmarkings. They're fine. In fact, because I really canthey't think of a better way to understand why some women are more fertile than others or some women have difficulty in conceivingre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749927925</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=India Knight1504321383|title=The Thrift Book: Live Well Single, Again, and Spend Less Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman

|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=A soon as I read the introduction I wondered if this was really going to be the book for me. Despite having two books in the top ten best seller list India Knight knew the bailiffs well and was facing bankruptcy. It wasn't that she wasn't earning money – it was simply that she had no ability to handle it. Hmm – I have a horror of debt and I You can handle money. Was India Knight ''really'' going to t be able to teach the person who grew up with the austerity of post-war Britain chomping at her heels anything about thrift? Plans were already forming to move the book happy and fulfilled on, when slowly and inexorably I was won over.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490372</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Schmidt and Robert Maslen|title=The Shakespeare Handbook |rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=William Shakespeareyour own. If You are not complete until you're find a fan of the theatre, you may see him as the greatest playwright of all time. If youman're currently studying English at school, he may be the worst thing that ever happened to you. Over the years, I've certainly held both opinions, depending on where I was at the time.

Part of this could have been because I, like most school pupils, never had a gentle introduction This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to Shakespearebelieve. If IIt wasn'd had a book like this t unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually 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 early expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many years of my schooling, I suspect I may have come around to my love of Shakespeare before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a lot sooner than I didchoice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184724615X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania GlydeGraff_Find|title=Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking And LivedFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=43.5

|summary=I suspect that IWhen Ben Graff'm like s grandfather Martin handed him a lot plastic folder of people who enjoy alcohol on a regular basis: there's a nagging guilt and suspicion that you might have a problem. Equallyhandwritten notes from his journal, therehe didn's St Augustine's approach to a sin: you're determined to do something about t take much notice of it, but not just yet. SoAt the age of 24, when Graff didn''Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking And Lived'' dropped through t realise the gravity of the letterbox on Saturday morning I wondered if this pages he was a message from a higher authorityholding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686555</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Toms and Paul SterryGoodland_Worth|title=Garden Birds and Wildlife|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=''Garden Birds & Wildlife'' has been created and published under the auspices of British Trust for Ornithology (though the actual publisher is, possibly in the spirit of penance for damage inflicted on wildlife by the motorcar, the AA). Accordingly, the main focus of the guide is, indeed, on birds. It contains a wealth of information: from birdwatching to bird biology and behaviour, including visual guides to eggs and nests; practical tips and guides to bird watching, feeding (what, how and where), creating a bird-and-wildlife- friendly garden and building nest boxes; it's all there, with copious illustrations, clear text and more interesting or practically relevant facts and tips in separate insert boxes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749559128</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWorth a Try|author=Michael Oke|title=Write Your Life StoryNicola Goodland

|summary=I love writing and over the last few yearsThis is how Nicola Goodland introduces her book, I have begun to write my autobiography. While I find this a very rewarding process, sometimes it can be hard to stay motivated. ''It is easy to get bogged down in wondering if it's any good, if you are going into too much detail or not enough. Sometimes you need Worth a push in the right direction. ''Write Your Life StoryTry'' by Michael Oke is ideal for this, as well as for anyone interested in writing their memoirs, but unsure how to start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845283058</amazonuk>}}:

{{newreview|author= Niall Edworthy and Petra Cramsie|title=The Optimist's/pessimist's Handbook|rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=With a publication date in early November, the passing Christmas shopper is clearly the target for I wanted to write this kind of book. ''The Optimist's/ Pessimist's Handbook'' isn't because when I was a self-help bookyoung woman, but a compendium ladies and gents told me that they suffered from abuse of enlightening snippets. Off some kind as children and only found the shelf, I think you'd know immediately which relative or friend might enjoy receiving courage to talk about itas adults. So I suggest eschewing Amazon in favour of a real-life bookshop, not least because there will be a shelf full of similar books Maybe this book can deter children from becoming future abusers and stop abuse so it goes away for a surreptitious and delightful half-hourgood.''s browse before choosing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561411X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy ButterfieldHigashida_Fall|title=Damp SquidFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The English Language Laid Bare A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell|rating=4.5

|summary=How do you pronounce Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the word ghoti? Go on, say it out loud – you must recognise it, and international best-seller ''The Reason I dare say youJump've eaten one enough times.  OK, I'll help. You know gh sounds like f, like The book was popular because it does in rough. You know o sounds like i, just like in women. And ti is clearly gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the same as shautistic mind, as in notiontold from the unique perspective of a teenager with non-verbal autism. YesNaoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, ghoti is pronounced fishor by tracing letters on the palm of a transcriber. It's just a very blunt way Despite this slow and laborious method of saying the rules that control the languagewriting, he has published several books in his native Japan and manages to give public presentations to raise awareness of his condition. Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to Naoki as a young adult in his 20s and explains how it is spelled, pronounced, used, and changes over history are all over the placehis perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199239061</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Crystal Bialik_Girling|title=Shakespeare on ToastGirling Up|author=Mayim Bialik

|summary=This book arrived on my desk to cries of ''Amy Farrah Fowler's written a book?''Shakespeare on Toastor '' claims to be for virtually everyone: those No, that are 's Blossom'reading Shakespeare ' depending on your generation. Mayim Bialik is or was both, of course, but in addition to being a well-known sitcom actress, she is also a neuroscientist (and the only PhD on The Big Bang Theory, except for the first timecharacters). Aimed at teenagers, occasionally finding him troublesomethis book focuses on growing up as a girl, think they know him backwards or have never set foot near one of his plays but have always wanted to''Girling up'' if you will, and what it means to transition from school girl to grown-up, via that hideous detour of teenage years. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848310161</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marisa Peer Mattinson_Puppy|title=You Can Be Thin: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting... Forever Choosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson

|summary=After having my baby just over two years agoIf you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, I you really ought to read this book. Too many people are carried away in the heat of the moment and ''must'' have a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the consequences. They then have found it quite hard to shed live with the weight problems which seemed to be sticking around''might'' have been avoided for a decade or more. I used The puppy and the adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be quite thin before having him, so able to suddenly accommodate his needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go up a dress size was a bit of a shock-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. I She doesn'm quite a petite person so even just a few extra pounds shows unfortunately. I decided I had t try to get rid talk you out of getting a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the weight, facts and so I turned allows you to this book sent to me by The Bookbagmake your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441394</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elise LindsayRaskin_Grow|title=How to Get a Celeb's BodyGrow: Discover the Secrets of the Stars with Your Own Personal Trainer |rating=2|genre=Home and Family|summary=I do not know Elise Lindsay - neither by name or reputation. I am optimistic and therefore think she must be a great coach. A hundred plus pages with pictures show her posing very confidently in flattering sport outfits and she does seem quite fit. I am sure she can motivate her clients and make them do their best. Quite frankly though, I do not believe that should in any way have motivated anyone to write a book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718153375</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kathleen Burk and Michael Bywater|title=Is This Bottle Corked? The Secret Life of Wine |rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=Now, I'm the first person to admit I am not a wine buff. I know a lot more now than I did before my current relationship, but she is right to say I have a very masculine (ie dead weak) sense of smell. Added to that a blunt sense of taste and I'm left saying I know what I like when I drink it, and that's it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571241743</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicole Klieff|title=Baby Next Time|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=Nicole Klieff grew up with the same knowledge that most women hope to have. They'll enjoy themselves, eventually meet Mister Right, settle down and have a family. Well, most of it went according Guide to plan – it was just that bit about having a family which seemed somewhat elusive. After a period of trying for a baby in the normal way Nicole Growing Fruit and her husband Barry sought help from the medical profession and began the fertility treatments which were to dominate their lives for years to come. It wouldn't do their bank balance much good either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1434395138</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewVeg|author=Ursula James|title=You Can Be Amazing: Transform Your Life with HypnosisBen Raskin

|summary=Ursula James is a hypnotherapist who has written I worried when I looked at this book to help you to instigate changes in your life: ''Grow'', whatever they may be – careerit said, relationships''A family guide to growing fruit and veg''. Why did it worry me? Well, your physical self. It is accompanied by it's a CD of hypnotic suggestions mere 48 pages and the cover says that it includes ''Games, stickers and MORE!'' I have weighty tomes which reinforce the messages don't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and exercises in the bookveg, so wasn't this going to fall a little short? Well, it doesn't - not at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846051975</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim ScrivenerMcgrath_Camping|title=Learning TeachingCamping With Kids|author=Simon McGrath

|summary=It takes a year When my daughter was young it used to do be joked that if a PGCE. Some other people even do whole 3 year degrees in teaching. Not me. I did a 20 day course. Those other teachers may not need this sort of book, but gosh, did I, especially when a job offer came my way child asked on day 7, his fifth birthday to go camping and I was suddenly only a few short weeks away from having real live students at my mercy. There are two English as a Foreign Language (EFL) you told him that he could in five years'biblestime, he'. One is this oned be there on his tenth birthday, all kitted up and the other is ''How To Teach English'' by Jeremy Harmerready to go. Also known as These days the purple one discussions - and delaying tactics - are more likely to be about technology - and the blue one mobiles in our householdparticular. I like purple better, so Whilst it's this one wonderful that made children do embrace technology, it into my pathetic 20kg-for-a-year luggage allowance. Lucky for meshouldn't be at the expense of getting out in the fresh air, I chose well (being free of screens and Amazon users agree... having an adventure - preferably with all the purple one gets 5* customer reviews, the blue one only 2family doing it ''together''.5*)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405013990</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mathew Collins and Nicky BarclayWilliams_Son|title=Living and Working in the UKMy Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures|author=John Williams|rating=23.5

|summary=In 2012, stand-up comedian John Williams was encouraged by his work colleagues to write a show charting his experiences as the parent of an autistic boy. After registering the domain name: ''My Son's Not Rainman,''Living he also decided to write a blog to share his funny anecdotes and Working in the UKexperiences. After a shaky start ('' claims to be I had a source handful of followers. Three of them were my brothers''all ), the practical information you need to live happily blog eventually went viral as it increased in the UKpopularity with parents who felt a connection with John and 'The Boy', whether you are a student, an expat or an HR professional intending to bring staff over.  Unfortunately, it's nothing This book fills in some of the sort. Most of its bulk is a compilation of information easily available gaps in the public domain (the sources are scrupulously quoted) that at the first look seems excellent story, starting with 'The Boy's' early childhood and comprehensiveending, but whichappropriately, on more detailed perusal, is very, very disappointinghis thirteenth birthday when he suddenly became 'The Teen'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845280679</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ursula JamesMbaya_Brain|title=You Can Think Yourself ThinMy Brain Is Out Of Control|author=Patrick Mbaya|rating=54

|summary=I wanted to read this book because I have always struggled with my weight since having my two childrenDr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a consultant psychiatrist, husband and father. Although more traditional diets have worked for me in the short term I never seem to be able to maintain the weight loss so I His career was fast reaching the conclusion that I needed to work on my mind as going well as my bodyand he enjoyed making ill people better. Ursula James' book ''You Can Think Yourself Thin'' came along at just the right time for me His marriage was solid and fulfilling and I have been absolutely astounded by his two children were exploring their potential, often through the effects uplifting power of reading this book and listening to the hypnosis tracksmusic. I had never tried anything like this before and Life was even alittle skeptical but not any more!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846051983</amazonuk>good. But then...

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane VassAllingham_Beloved|title=Daily Mail Tax Guide 2008/2009Beloved Old Age and What to Do About it: Margery Allingham's the Relay|author=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones

|summary=I doubt that there's anyone who genuinely looks forward to completing We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a Tax Return. Even as an ex-Inspector of Taxes I'll freely admit that novelist from the thought golden age of it fills me with dread. It's tediouscrime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but important that you don't get it wrong. So, what do you do? Professional assistance can be expensive certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and isn't necessarily entirely reliableexcellent plotting. You can go along to your H M Revenue and Customs Enquiry Centre, Her last completed book was not a novel but their function is to answer your queries rather than give advice about where you could minimise your tax bill. Going it alone is free''The Relay'', but you need to have comprehensive knowledge a combined account of taxation caring for three elderly relatives, (Em, Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as to be sure that you're paying the correct amount of taxhow other people might achieve a good old age for their relatives. The Margery died in 1966 and ''Daily Mail Tax Guide 2008/2009The Relay'' will give most people all was never published in the information that they need to ensure that they're getting form in which it rightwas written.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680891</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lee SiegelRodgers_Peace|title=Against the MachinePeace of Mind: Being Human in the Era A Book of the Electronic MobCalm for Busy Mums|author=Georgina Rodgers|rating=4 3

|summary=Some people switch the television or the radio on first thing The promise of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, in the morning and only turn it off when they go to bedtitle, my job description (busy mum... For mewell, itthat's the computer and particularly the internet. It's my source just one of information, my workjobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to find, my play and peace of mind. I have to an unfortunately large extentsay, I was looking forward to some insightful revelations into changing my social life. To most it seems bizarre I think the problem, however, was quickly apparent in that I list amongst my friends people I've never met or even spoken like a busy mum, who is trying towear a hundred masks at the same time, but it's and carry out a fact. Whilst I might argue that circumstances have thrust multitude of roles, this situation upon me and that life would be emptier without the computer book isn't entirely sure what it's still something which shouldn't trying to be allowed , with everything from poetry and colouring to persist without thought. High-tech isolation mindfulness and social famine are not necessarily the best way forwardrecipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686970</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Reynolds Ehrlin_Rabbit|title=On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep|author=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin

|summary=The term "guerrilla gardening" was first used in New York in 1973 Roger the Rabbit wanted to describe fall asleep, but somehow he couldn't, no matter how hard he tried. It wasn't that he didn't do much during the transformation of a derelict private plot into a gardenday, although because he did but sometimes he was so tired that he could fall asleep on the actual practice is much olderswings. As an environmental movementOne night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to see Uncle Yawn, guerrilla gardening is who had a form of direct action in which flowering or food plants are established on an abandoned piece of land, without the owner's permission, saving the land from neglect or misuse notice outside his house saying I can make anyone fall asleep and giving once Roger went home (it a new purpose. It is also a political stance, challenging issues of land ownership, the misuse of urban land was actually quite difficult for him to get there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to bed and the deterioration of the urban environmentfell asleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747590818</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Andy Hamilton and Dave Hamilton|title=The Self-sufficientish Bible|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=Andy and Dave Hamilton practice what they preach. They grow vegetables, they forage for wild food, they cycle, they make-and-mend-do. They don't live Move on a farm with many acres to play with, but live in Bristol and enjoy what the city has to offer, but want a low-impact lifestyle. They haven’t renounced the real world. They realise that the whole hog of self-sufficiency isn't for everyone, hence the concept of "self-sufficientish" – doing what you can, with what you have, and with an eye on the environment, ethical living and saving money.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034095101X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview |title=The Secret|author=Rhonda Byrne|genre=Home and Family|rating=1|summary=The Secret has been on Amazon's list of top bestsellers for quite a while now. (It's no 12 at the time of writing). The description suggested a motivational self-help book of some kind and the synopsis referred to physicists, old oral traditions, religions, poetry and philosophy. Intrigued by the consistently high ranking, I included the book in my last order even though I am not normally in a market for this kinds of work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847370292</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Horror Reviews]]