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[[Category:New Reviews|Home and Family]]==Home and family==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Bartkowiak and Carolyn Fitzpatrick1454955546|title=Passing the 11+ with NLP: NLP Strategies for Supporting Your 11 Plus Student|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=The 11+ process is nerve-wracking for parents and children alike and many parents find it difficult to know how best to help their child. Over-enthusiastic intervention can make a child more nervous and conscious that there's a lot at stake, whilst leaving the child to get on with it can well make the child feel that their success or failure doesn't matter to you. It's also important that any preparation is built up in a steady way and that it leaves the child feeling confident of their success. 'Passing the 11+ with NLP' is a dual purpose book: there are the strategies for giving your child self-esteem, focus and concentration along with the other skills needed to pass and then there are details of the type of questions your child will face in the exam.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685731</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSugarless|author=Barbara Warmsley|title=Make, Mend, Bake, Save and Shine!Nicole M Avena|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=A slim, slither of a book with a big title. ''GreenThis isn'' is the mantra on most pages, as well as tips on how to waste less - whether it's food, clothes or water from the tap. This t a diet book has a universal message. How to waste less. There The last thing anyone needs is a nice introduction by seventysomething Barbara Walmsley, aka the charity [http://www.oxfam.org.uk/ Oxfam's] ''Green Granny.'' Certainly catchy but will it catch on? When I was delving inside the first couple of pages looking for the writer's name (it's not on the front cover) I discovered the phrase ''Printed And Bound In Chinaanother diet book.'' Defeating the message?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846013674</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Patricia Nicol|title=Sucking Eggs: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach You About Diet, Thrift and Going Green|rating=2.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=In the current economy, lots of people are trying to make ends meet in their own ways. Not since the days of Brownie badges has the word ''thrift'' been bandied around so muchThere was a time, but now it's not so much about saving money as it is about surviving. Actuallythat long ago, maybe when it always was, but the Guiding Association thought a jolly piggy bank that sugary food was a more appropriate badge emblem better for you than a depressed family collapsed in front of their Sky TV food with their supermarkethigh-own curry struggling fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going to fill the void left by elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a regular take awaycarbohydrate, so good. What we all need is There's a return to the good old daysproblem, when life was simpler though. Sugar is addictive and people happier, the days when you didn't need to clear half an hour can hijack your brain in your diary to navigate much the olive aisle of the supermarket, same way as drugs like heroin and when you ate what was fresh and local, not because it was cheap or you were in cocaine. Does that sound over the moodtop? Well, but because it was all they hadisn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521121</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha McElhone1635866847|title=After You: Letters of Love, and Loss, to a Husband and Father|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=What would you do if, without warning, your brilliant, loving, superman partner died from a catastrophic heart event at the untimely age of 43, leaving you with two young boys and a third on the way? Most of us would probably reach for the Valium and book a very long course of counseling. But Natascha McElhone couldn't because she was already stretched, juggling a busy transatlantic career as an actress as well as caring for her sparky young family. Coping as a single parent left no spare time for self-indulgence; within months she had a new baby as well. So she found her own way, grabbing instead at odd moments to write in her well-established diary. These short entries … e-mails, almost … to her dead husband form the basis of 'After You'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919098</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Lavender Companion|author=Joanna Simmons Jessica Dunham and Jay Curtis|title=The Aargh to Zzzz of Parenting: An Alternative GuideTerry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=It'All in alls strange, having kids the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is an intense rollercoaster ridethe book for you. It plunges up and downBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there’s lots there's a picture of a slice of screaming and vomiting involvedchocolate cake on the homepage. I don' So t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that pretty much sums it upcake viscerally. Advertised as: (There's a comprehensively unhelpfulrecipe in the book, advice-free look at lifewhich I', m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the authors talk about Antecedents book and Behaviour, without (fortunately) going too deeply into I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the Consequences of several dozen baby-related topicsmargins are sanctioned. But this definitely isn’t You get to fold down the rocket science corners of a parenting manual, or the touchy-feely pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a misery memoir, rather a blackly comic gallop round pragmatic parenthood, instantly recognizable by anyone who’s been through the mill themselvesproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408626X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Barnardo0760381267|title=Dadcando: Build, Make, Do ... the Best Way to Spend Quality Time with Your Kids|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=The ideas in this book originated as a [httpVerdura://www.dadcando.co.uk/ website] that Chris Barnardo set up for divorced and separated fathers to help them spend quality time with their children Now he's written Living a book that although aimed at single fathers is equally as useful for married dads, and mums too or grandparents or carers to inspire crafty ideas of things to make with kids.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652011</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGarden Life|author=Tess Daly|title=The Baby Diaries: Memories, Milestones and MisadventuresPerla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago
|rating=3.5
|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=One ''The most important part of a garden is the many side effects of pregnancy seems to be the need to read everything you can get your hands on about pregnancy and babies. I know that when pregnant with my daughter I trawled the library for any baby books they had, scoured the internet nightly for due date calendars, week by week guides and baby name dictionaries. I also became an obsessive baby-watcher, interested in any celebrity baby news and willing to speak to anyone 'normal' that I met one who was pregnant too or who already had children. This book is aiming to be a sort of catch-all for pregnancy obsessives I think, as enjoys it's a mix of pregnancy and birth advice and information alongside of Tess Daly's memories from her pregnancies with her two daughters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935164</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Evany Thomas|title=The Secret Language of Sleep: A Couple's Guide to the Thirty-nine Positions|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=This volume takes the premise that the positions in which couples sleep together are an insight into their private mind. Therefore, with the help of the line drawings of 39 (apparently all of THE 39) positions, one might see where one is going wrong. It’s a chicken and egg situation where you might learn you’re with the wrong bed partner, and change either them or your nocturnal habits, or in order to change yourself alter things having reflected on the contents here – with the help as they suggest of a ceiling-mounted camcorder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1932416471</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=FraserI's Autographs|title=Collect Autographs: An Illustrated Guide to Collecting and Investing in Autographs|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=There must be many of us who have at one time had an autograph book or something of the kind as children and asked friends, relations or even celebrities to ve 'do somethinggardened', written to celebrities in the hope of obtaining a personally signed picturevague, or even waited patiently at a stage door after a play or concert eagerly clutching indefinite sort of way for more than half a theatre programme, record or CD sleeve and pen in handcentury.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597525</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sonali Fernando|title=Soul Mates: True Stories From The World I know (most of Online Dating|rating=2.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=Internet dating is no longer ) the new taboo it once was. These days, whatever type of person you are, basics but life has changed and whatever type of person youI needed 'projects're looking rather than a general commitment to meet, you can take your pick from any number of sitesgardening. Yes, even 'Guardian' readers can log on and look for love specifically with, erm, other Verdura'Guardian' readerswith its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer. To do so So, they just have to click through to 'Guardian Soulmates', which is probably no different from 'Match.com' or 'Datingdirect', though might count a larger proportion of sandal wearing hippies among its members.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265202X</amazonuk>how did it stack up?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1394159544
|title=Recycling for Dummies
|author=Sarah Winkler
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.''
{{newreview|author=Jethro Adlington|title=Online Therapy: Reading Between the Lines|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=You can get most things online these days and even therapy is becoming more widely available on the internet. It might seem like a simple step to take but many of the signals beyond the spoken word are not available to the online therapist. In a face-to-face situation body language is an added form ''Recycling one ton of communication and even small changes in skin tone paper can give clues as to state of mindsave 17 trees from being cut down. In a situation where these clues are not available it's essential to make the most of ''all'' the clues offered by the written word.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312748</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Keith Hern|title=Bangers and Mash|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=Keith Hern found a small lump in his neck If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and when the results of the tests came through he tried to put the appointment off as he had something more pressing 2 years to do, but the doctor was insistentdecompose. He knew then that he had cancer. The lump in his neck was, in fact, a secondary tumour with the primary being in the back of his tongue. But for the secondary tumour the discovery of the primary might have been too late for successful treatment. Keith takes us through the discovery of his cancer, his reactions A glass bottle will take up to the diagnosis, his treatment and the titular meal of bangers and mash – the first solid food which he had attempted for some time1 million years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312772</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Donna Blinston|title=Make New YearAs 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 Resolutions and Keep Them Using NLP|rating=2|genre=Home and Family|summary=Itpossibly's coming up to that time of year again – you know it's come in handy now or in the one where future. NEVER buy anything if you make resolutions about going on a diet, getting more exercise, stopping smoking or losing weightcan cobble together something that would serve the purpose. If they last a week into Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the New Year youtest of 're probably doing well – and then youIs this absolutely essential?'re left with a feeling On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of failurewishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. Donna Blinston offers advice Yes, I could go searching on how to make your resolutions and how to keep them – the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed this advice as much as the next couch potatowas a recycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312845</amazonuk>s
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vyvyen Brendon0760378134|title=Prep School ChildrenThe First-Time Gardener: A Class Apart Over Two CenturiesContainer Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=45
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn'Prep School Children'' t know where to start, this is Vyvyen Brendonthe book you need. It's second collection (comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you'Children of the Rajre going to grow, what you'' was the firstll grow it in (both containers and soil). It explores the pupil experience, using primary sources like weekly letters homewhere you'll put these containers, memoirs how you'll water and interviews, fertilise them and less immediate material such as fiction, school magazines and headmasters' biographies. I came to you finish the main part of the book with some questions: what was it like to be a boarder at handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a prep school? What difference did a prep school education make to life as an adult? good glossary. Why parents might send their children to such schools when the horrors were well-knownSo, many of the dads presumably having survived the experience themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847062873</amazonuk>is it any good?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tad Tuleja1529149800|title=A Dictionary of Foreign Words Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and PhrasesReduce Waste|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summaryauthor=Take a look at the cover design of this book, Eduardo Garcia 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>}} {{newreview|author=Loose Women|title=Here Come the GirlsSara Boccaccini Meadows
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=This is We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the second volume by river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the panelists from fire. The animals laughed: what good was that nice ITV series, doing. ''I'Loose Womenm doing the best I can''. Just as promised on the cover, this book is an entertaining night with said the girlshummingbird. It turns out And that they're just like us. The faces are already familiar and even if you don't know them yet, with nine contributorsreally, you'll soon find a like-minded woman behind one of is the celebrity faces. The women are universally warm-hearted and supportive: there only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might 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>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gill Hines and Alison Baverstock1849767009|title=ItIsn's Not Fair! Parenting the Bright and Challenging Childt Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=Home and FamilyFor Sharing|summary=I like parenting This could have been one of those books. So, even though my sons which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are now young adults, I looked forward the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to reading bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a new book about raising childrennot wearing clothes. I It'm in touch with many parents with children s a celebration of all ages, bodies: bodies large and small and am always interested in reading current recommendationsof every possible hue.  The subtitle of this book is, 'Parenting the bright Bodies with disabilities and challenging child'markings. When I saw it, I wondered if it would be similar to the American book They'Raising your Spirited Child' (by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka) which I found extremely useful when my sons were youngerre fine. Spirited children are defined as those who are intenseIn fact, sensitive, perceptive, persistent and energeticthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749940468</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Mangan 1504321383|title=My Family Single, Again, and Other DisastersAgain, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Not living in the UK means that we don't have British newspapers. Even when we lived in England, we never bought 'You can'The Guardian'', so I had never actually heard of Lucy Mangan before being sent this bookt be happy and fulfilled on your own. That's probably You are not complete until you find a bad thing, since I began the book - a collection of her Guardian columns - without any preconceptionsman''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852651244</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Jane Brocket|title=Ripping Things This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to Do|rating=5|genre=Childrenbelieve. It wasn's Non-Fiction|summary=Right from the very moment I opened t unkind: it was simply the envelope this book was delivered adults in, I had the distinct feeling this her life advising her as to what they thought would be a real gem of a book, and how right I wasbest for her. Though, initially, I It was reminded of reinforced by all those fairy tales where the Iggulden brothersgirl (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 ''Dangerous Book for Boyswithout'' series, this book has the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a very different ethos, even though the subject matter overlaps somewhat unavoidably making belief and it bear comparisonwould be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980966</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Tatar Graff_Find|title=Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in ChildhoodFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=3.5|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=Like most avid readers, I donWhen Ben Graff't remember the time before there were books. We were brought up with books. There are family tales s grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of my father as a child eating his breakfast with one hand, while trying to tie handwritten notes from his shoelaces with the other and still contriving to read at the same time. They were a poor familyjournal, and books werenhe didn't just expensive, they were valuable. They were dear, in every sense of the word. Likewise my mother remembers her early school-years when every day ended with a chapter from one take much notice of the classicsit. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393066010</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Brian|title=The Complete Guide to IVF|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Each year some forty thousand cycles of IVF – in vitro fertilisation – are carried out in At the UK and something like a million worldwide. About two hundred thousand IVF babies are born annually with some twelve thousand age 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 to IVF.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909706</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ali Valenzuela|title=Weighing It Up|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Although never having had an eating disorder myself24, I have been interested in them since I was young. I was a competitive gymnast and that is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now IGraff didn'm a mother t realise the gravity 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 celebritiespages he was holding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna PatersonGoodland_Worth|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 's Worth a topic I have always found interesting. Despite my being at the opposite end of the weight scale to Anna Paterson, I could empathise with some of the things she felt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0952921529</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTry|author=Loose Women|title=Girls' Night InNicola Goodland
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I love watching This is how Nicola Goodland introduces her book, ''Loose Women'' on TV and feel itIt's like sitting down for Worth a good gossip with a load of girlfriends. Every time itTry''s on, I get involved in the debates and they spark discussions at home with whoever is around. My teenage daughters are fans of the show too.:
So ''I wanted to write this kind of book because when I heard was a book was coming outyoung woman, I definitely wanted ladies and gents told me that they suffered from abuse of some kind as children and only found the courage to read talk about it! But would the fun as adults. Maybe this book can deter children from becoming future abusers and camaraderie stop abuse so obvious on the telly really be able to translate to the written word?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340918454</amazonuk>it goes away for good.''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffrey DeanHigashida_Fall|title=The Fight Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Your LifeAutism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell|rating=45
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=This Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The Reason I Jump''. The book is was popular because it gave a wakerare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, as told from the unique perspective of a teenager with non-up callverbal autism. Jeffrey Dean wrote it so that parents can understand Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, or by tracing letters on the difficult world that their teens may have to face everydaypalm of a transcriber. Despite this slow and laborious method of writing, he has published several books in his native Japan and through this understanding, they will be motivated manages to give public presentations to help their teens raise awareness of his condition. Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to surviveNaoki as a young adult in his 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1601421109</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark DiaconoBialik_Girling|title=Veg Patch: River Cottage Handbook No 4|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=At a time when the climate is changing and the economy appears to be heading south the thought of being able to produce your own vegetables is very tempting. Forget about food miles and consider instead how few minutes there can be between harvesting your vegetables and the cooking process. Don't worry about pesticides and residues as you'll know exactly what's been fed to your food. Mark Diacono, head gardener on the hallowed ground of River Cottage HQ, run by the sainted Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, tells you exactly how to go about it in this, the fourth of the River Cottage Handbooks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595348</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGirling Up|author=John Kay|title=The Long and the Short of it: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the IndustryMayim Bialik
|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.
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{{newreview
|author=Glenn Harrold
|title=Look Young, Live Longer: The Secret to Changing Your Life and Slowing the Ageing Process
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I was really intrigued by the title This book arrived on my desk to cries of therapist Glenn Harrold's book 'Amy Farrah Fowler'Look Young and Live Longer''. Could it be possible that s written 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 Kindnessor '' doesn't pack quite the same punch as Adam PhillipNo, that's earlier: Blossom'On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored'depending on your generation. It put me in mind Mayim Bialik is or was both, of an eighteenth century treatisecourse, andbut in addition to being a well-known sitcom actress, give or take she is also a couple of centuriesneuroscientist (and the only PhD on The Big Bang Theory, that is exactly what except for the characters). Aimed at teenagers, this book provides: focuses on growing up as a thoughtgirl, or ''Girling up'' if you will, and what it means to transition from school girl to grown-provoking exposition on a currently unfashionable virtueup, via that hideous detour of teenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144337</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Olive Hickmott and Andrew Bendefy Mattinson_Puppy|title=Seeing Spells AchievingChoosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I felt an immediate empathy with Olive Hickmott when I If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to read this book. We're obviously Too many people are carried away in the heat of a similar age and were taught reading the moment and spelling in a time before you were ''dyslexicmust''have a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the consequences. I found that They then have to live with the terms more commonly used were problems which 'not trying hard enough' and might'lazy'have been avoided for a decade or more. I did master reading although I was late by today's standards but I've always struggled with spelling: certain words The puppy and letter combinations still have terrors hidden within them half a century later and until we changed the format of Bookbag I used adult dog also has to warn reviewers that they should check whatever I uploaded onto the site as I was unreliable when it came live with an owner who might not be able to spellingaccommodate his needs. Olive and I have both been saved by the spellchecker[[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. I settled happily into reading, Olive less so, but we both made careers where numbers were important. I could read a set She doesn't try to talk you out of accounts like getting a story; particular breed or any puppy: she found a home in engineeringsimply presents the facts and allows you to make your own decisions. We worked in areas where intuition was important.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312209</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate BrianRaskin_Grow|title=The Complete Grow: A Family Guide to Female FertilityGrowing Fruit and Veg|author=Ben Raskin
|rating=5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=ItI worried when I looked at this book: 's tempting to say that every woman over the age of puberty should have access to Kate Brian's Grow'The Complete Guide to Female Fertility'. The truth is that they should all have their own copies and they should read the book until , itsaid, 's dog-eared and falling apart, because I really can't think of a better way to understand why some women are more fertile than others or some women have difficulty in conceiving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749927925</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=India Knight|title=The Thrift Book: Live Well and Spend Less |rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=A soon as I read the introduction I wondered if this was really going family guide to be the book for me. Despite having two books in the top ten best seller list India Knight knew the bailiffs well growing fruit and was facing bankruptcyveg''. It wasn't that she wasn't earning money – Why did it was simply that she had no ability to handle worry me? Well, it. Hmm – I have 's a horror of debt mere 48 pages and I can handle money. Was India Knight the cover says that it includes ''really'' going to 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 onGames, when slowly and inexorably I was won over.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490372</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Schmidt stickers and Robert Maslen|title=The Shakespeare Handbook |rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=William Shakespeare. If youMORE!'re a fan of the theatre, you may see him as the greatest playwright of all time. If you're currently studying English at school, he may be the worst thing that ever happened to you. Over the years, Ihave weighty tomes which don've certainly held both opinions, depending on where I was at the time.  Part of this could have been because t completely cover what Ineed to know about growing fruit and veg, like most school pupils, never had a gentle introduction to Shakespeare. If Iso wasn'd had a book like t this in the early years of my schooling, I suspect I may have come around going to my love of Shakespeare fall a lot sooner than I didlittle short? Well, it doesn't - not at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184724615X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania GlydeMcgrath_Camping|title=Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking And LivedCamping With Kids|author=Simon McGrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=I suspect that I'm like a lot of people who enjoy alcohol on a regular basis: there's a nagging guilt and suspicion that you might have a problem. Equally, there's St Augustine's approach to a sin: you're determined to do something about it, but not just yet. So, when ''Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking And Lived'' dropped through the letterbox on Saturday morning I wondered if this was a message from a higher authority.
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{{newreview
|author=Mike Toms and Paul Sterry
|title=Garden Birds and Wildlife
|rating=5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=''Garden Birds & Wildlife'' has been created When my daughter was young it used to be joked that if a child asked on his fifth birthday to go camping and published under the auspices of British Trust for Ornithology (though the actual publisher is, possibly you told him that he could in the spirit of penance for damage inflicted on wildlife by the motorcar, the AA). Accordingly, the main focus of the guide is, indeedfive years' time, he'd be there on birds. It contains a wealth of information: from birdwatching to bird biology and behaviourhis tenth birthday, including visual guides to eggs all kitted up and nests; practical tips and guides ready to bird watching, feeding (what, how and where), creating a birdgo. These days the discussions -anddelaying tactics -wildlifeare more likely to be about technology - friendly garden and building nest boxes; mobiles in particular. Whilst it's all therewonderful that children do embrace technology, with copious illustrationsit shouldn't be at the expense of getting out in the fresh air, clear text being free of screens and more interesting or practically relevant facts and tips in separate insert boxeshaving an adventure - preferably with all the family doing it ''together''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749559128</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael OkeWilliams_Son|title=Write Your Life StoryMy Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures|author=John Williams|rating=43.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I love writing and over 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 last few yearsdomain name: ''My Son's Not Rainman, I have begun '' he also decided to write my autobiographya blog to share his funny anecdotes and experiences. While After a shaky start (''I find this had a very rewarding processhandful of followers. Three of them were my brothers''), sometimes the blog eventually went viral as it can be hard to stay motivated. It is easy to get bogged down increased in wondering if itpopularity with parents who felt a connection with John and 'The Boy's any good, if you are going into too much detail or not enough. Sometimes you need a push This book fills in some of the gaps in the right direction. story, starting with 'The Boy'Write Your Life Storys'' by Michael Oke is ideal for thisearly childhood and ending, as well as for anyone interested in writing their memoirsappropriately, but unsure how to starton his thirteenth birthday when he suddenly became 'The Teen'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845283058</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Niall Edworthy and Petra CramsieMbaya_Brain|title=The Optimist's/pessimist's HandbookMy Brain Is Out Of Control|author=Patrick Mbaya
|rating=4
|genre=Trivia
|summary=With a publication date in early November, the passing Christmas shopper is clearly the target for this book. ''The Optimist's/ Pessimist's Handbook'' isn't a self-help book, but a compendium of enlightening snippets. Off the shelf, I think you'd know immediately which relative or friend might enjoy receiving it. So I suggest eschewing Amazon in favour of a real-life bookshop, not least because there will be a shelf full of similar books for a surreptitious and delightful half-hour's browse before choosing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561411X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jeremy Butterfield
|title=Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=How do you pronounce the word ghoti? Go on, say it out loud – you must recognise itDr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a consultant psychiatrist, husband and I dare say you've eaten one enough timesfather.  OK, I'll helpHis career was going well and he enjoyed making ill people better. You know gh sounds like fHis marriage was solid and fulfilling and his two children were exploring their potential, like it does in roughoften through the uplifting power of music. You know o sounds like i, just like in womenLife was good. And ti is clearly the same as sh, as in notionBut then. Yes, ghoti is pronounced fish. It's just a very blunt way of saying the rules that control the language, and how it is spelled, pronounced, used, and changes over history are all over the place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199239061</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Crystal Allingham_Beloved|title=Shakespeare on ToastBeloved Old Age and What to Do About it: Margery Allingham's the Relay|author=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones
|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 ''Shakespeare on ToastThe Relay'' claims , a combined account of caring for three elderly relatives, (Em, Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as to be how other people might achieve a good old age for virtually everyone: those that are their relatives. Margery died in 1966 and ''reading Shakespeare for the first time, occasionally finding him troublesome, think they know him backwards or have never set foot near one of his plays but have always wanted toThe Relay''was never published in the form in which it was written. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848310161</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marisa Peer Rodgers_Peace|title=You Can Be ThinPeace of Mind: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting... Forever A Book of Calm for Busy Mums|author=Georgina Rodgers|rating=4.53
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=After having The promise of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, in the title, my baby job description (busy mum...well, that's just over two years agoone of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to find, peace of mind. I have found it quite hard to shed the weight which seemed say, I was looking forward to be sticking aroundsome insightful revelations into changing my life. I used to be quite thin before having himthink the problem, however, was quickly apparent in that like a busy mum, so who is trying to suddenly go up wear a dress size was hundred masks at the same time, and carry out a bit multitude of a shock. Iroles, this book isn't entirely sure what it'm quite a petite person so even just a few extra pounds shows unfortunately. I decided I had s trying to get rid of the weightbe, with everything from poetry and so I turned colouring to this book sent to me by The Bookbagmindfulness and recipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441394</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elise LindsayEhrlin_Rabbit|title=How to Get a Celeb's Body: Discover the Secrets of the Stars with Your Own Personal Trainer The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep|author=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin|rating=25
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I Roger the Rabbit wanted to fall asleep, but somehow he couldn't, no matter how hard he tried. It wasn't that he didn't do not know Elise Lindsay - neither by name or reputationmuch during the day, because he did but sometimes he was so tired that he could fall asleep on the swings. I am optimistic and therefore think she must be One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to see Uncle Yawn, who had a great coach. A hundred plus pages with pictures show her posing very confidently in flattering sport outfits and she does seem quite fit. notice outside his house saying 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 fall asleep and once Roger went home (it was actually quite difficult for him to write a bookget there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to bed and fell asleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718153375</amazonuk>
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{{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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest Horror Reviews]]

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