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[[Category:New Reviews|Home and Family]]==Home and family==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oliver James1454955546|title=How Not To F*** Them Up|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=Child psychologist Oliver James can be relied on to fight his corner, whether it's about affluent society or toxic parents. Now he puts the first three years of life under the microscope and argues equally vehemently that parents need to identify their own needs accurately and build their children's care into a 'good enough' framework, in order for the whole family to flourish. He's a controversial figure whose interest in parenting goes back to his own childhood (yes, you've guessed it, his parents where psychoanalysts). He argues the case for modifying childcare decisions to accord with parenting styles while avoiding working mums' guilt trips: “'Why embracing your own parenting style is best for you and your child,' as the cover has it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009192393X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSugarless|author=Eleanor Birne|title=When Will I Sleep Through the Night? An A - Z of BabyhoodNicole M Avena|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=When it comes to parenting, I have discovered that ''This isn't a lot of people liediet book. They lie about sleep, about tantrums, about feeding and nappies and the effects of a screaming newborn on your marriage. There are books galore, and Mummy blogs, and tweeters all happily proclaiming how marvellous it all The last thing anyone needs is, first of all being pregnant, then giving birth, and then raising the babyanother diet book. It's all glowing skin and sunshine smiles and meeting friends for coffee. I quickly stopped reading anything baby-related when I was pregnant because I was sick as a dog for 5 months, I had an awful labour and that first year with my little girl was almost impossibly difficult and totally consumed with the horror of a non-sleeping baby. Now, four and a half years on from giving birth and (mostly) sleeping all night long I felt able to open up this latest baby book, mainly because the title roused such familiar feelings in me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684862</amazonuk>}}'
{{newreview|author=Judy Bartkowiak|title=NLP For Teens|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=NLP For Teens is part of the Engaging NLP series and is There was a follow-on from NLP for Children. Many a parent has been tempted to leave home time, not that long ago, when their children are teenagers; difficult as it is was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. Fat was the parents itdemon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. There's a traumatic time for problem, though. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the teens same way as drugs like heroin and anything which makes cocaine. Does that sound over the top? Well, it a little easier is to be applauded particularly when the changes will come from the teens rather than being imposed by the parentisn't. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685901</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Andrews1635866847|title=The Ultimate Guide to Bicycle MaintenanceLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=This book seemed like It's strange, the answer to my husbandthings that make you ''immediately''s prayersfeel that this is the book for you. Before Istarted reading ''The Lavender Companion''ve had a beautiful Gary Fisher urban bike for about ten years, but shamefully, I can count on visited the fingers author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of one hand chocolate cake on the number of times homepage. Idon've even cleaned itt eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Well-used it certainly is (There's a recipe in the book, but which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I must confess was told to leaving all make a mess of it. Notes in the maintenance margins are sanctioned. You get to aforementioned husbandfold down the corners of pages. Having conceded You suspect that in this day and age I ought to smears of butter would not be more independent that that, a problem. I dived into ''loved'' this book with great expectations for a fairer future …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232362</amazonuk>already.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0760381267
|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life
|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago
|rating=3.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''.
{{newreview|author=Daniel Lezano|title=Getting Started I've 'gardened' in DSLR Photography|rating=4a vague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a century.5|genre=Home I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and Family|summary=The magazine-style layout of this I needed 'magbookprojects' (an ugly, but apt, term for the format) lends itself particularly well rather than a general commitment to the subject in hand, not least as the glossy pages beautifully illustrate the effects on the photographs that the publishers are showinggardening. It 's published by the team at 'Digital SLR PhotographyVerdura'' magazine with its promise of projects for both indoors and it reads outdoors of varying complexity seemed like a collection of the most useful articles published thereinanswer. So, particularly for the novice to SLR photography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232877</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=Judy Bartkowiak and Carolyn Fitzpatrick|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 Recycling one ton of their successpaper can save 17 trees from being cut down. '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>}}
{{newreview|author=Barbara Warmsley|title=MakeIf you send an apple core to landfill, Mend, Bake, Save it will take between 6 months and Shine!|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=A slim, slither of a book with a big title. ''Green'' is the mantra on most pages, as well as tips on how 2 years to waste less - whether it's food, clothes or water from the tapdecompose. This book has a universal message. How A glass bottle will take up to waste less. There 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 China1 million years.'' Defeating the message?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846013674</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Patricia Nicol|title=Sucking EggsAs a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach You About Dietreducing, Thrift reusing and Going Green|rating=2.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=In the current economy, lots recycling is part of people are trying to make ends meet in their own waysmy DNA. Not since the days of Brownie badges has the word NEVER throw away anything that might ''thriftpossibly'' been bandied around so much, but come in handy now it's not so much about saving money as it is about surviving. Actually, maybe it always was, but the Guiding Association thought a jolly piggy bank was a more appropriate badge emblem than a depressed family collapsed or in front of their Sky TV with their supermarket-own curry struggling to fill the void left by a regular take awayfuture. What we all need is a return to NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the good old days, when life was simpler purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and people happier, any purchase must pass the days when you didntest of 'Is this absolutely essential?'t need to clear half an hour in your diary to navigate On the olive aisle other hand, I suspected I was guilty of the supermarket, and when wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you ate what was fresh ) and local, not because dropping it was cheap or you were in the moodkerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but because it what I needed was all they hada recycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521121</amazonuk>s
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha McElhone0760378134|title=After YouThe First-Time Gardener: 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>}} {{newreviewContainer Food Gardening|author=Joanna Simmons and Jay Curtis|title=The Aargh to Zzzz of Parenting: An Alternative GuidePamela Farley|rating=4.5
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|summary=If you'All in allve 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't know where to start, having kids this is an intense rollercoaster ridethe book you need. It plunges up and down, and there’s lots of screaming and vomiting involved.' So that pretty much sums it up. Advertised ass comprehensive: you'a comprehensively unhelpfulll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, advice-free look at lifewhat you're going to grow, the authors talk about Antecedents what you'll grow it in (both containers and Behavioursoil), where you'll put these containers, without (fortunately) going too deeply into how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the Consequences main part of several dozen baby-related topicsthe book with a handy section on troubleshooting. But this definitely isn’t the rocket science of There's also a parenting manualgood glossary. So, or the touchy-feely of a misery memoir, rather a blackly comic gallop round pragmatic parenthood, instantly recognizable by anyone who’s been through the mill themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408626X</amazonuk>is it any good?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Barnardo1529149800|title=DadcandoThings You Can Do: Build, Make, Do ... the Best Way How to Spend Quality Time with Your KidsFight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=The ideas in this book originated as a [http://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 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.
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{{newreview
|author=Tess Daly
|title=The Baby Diaries: Memories, Milestones and Misadventures
|rating=3.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=One 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 many side effects river and began taking tiny amounts of pregnancy seems water and flying back to be drop them into the need to read everything you can get your hands on about pregnancy and babiesfire. I know The animals laughed: what good was that when pregnant with my daughter doing. ''I trawled 'm doing the library for any baby books they hadbest I can'', scoured said the internet nightly for due date calendars, week by week guides and baby name dictionarieshummingbird. I also became an obsessive baby-watcherAnd that, really, interested in any celebrity baby news and willing to speak to anyone 'normal' is the only way that I met who was pregnant too or who already had children. This book is aiming to be a sort we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of catch-all for pregnancy obsessives I thinkus doing what we can, as it's a mix of pregnancy and birth advice and information alongside of Tess Daly's memories from her pregnancies with her two daughtershowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935164</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evany Thomas1849767009|title=The Secret Language of Sleep: A CoupleIt Isn's Guide t Rude to the Thirty-nine Positionsbe Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=35|genre=Home and FamilyFor Sharing|summary=This volume takes could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the premise people who know that nudity is OK and the positions ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in which couples sleep together are an insight the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into their private mindsomething so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. Therefore, with the help It's a celebration of the line drawings of 39 (apparently all bodies: bodies large and small and of THE 39) positions, one might see where one is going wrongevery possible hue. It’s a chicken and egg situation where you might learn you’re Bodies with the wrong bed partner, disabilities and change either them or your nocturnal habitsmarkings. They're fine. In fact, 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're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1932416471</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fraser's Autographs1504321383|title=Collect Autographs: An Illustrated Guide to Collecting Single, Again, and Investing in AutographsAgain, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman
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|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=There must ''You can't be many of us who have at one time had an autograph book or something of 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 kind adults in her life advising her as children and asked friends, relations or even celebrities 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'do something', written to celebrities in the hope of obtaining expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a personally signed picture, or even waited patiently at belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a stage door after belief is a play or concert eagerly clutching a theatre programme, record or CD sleeve and pen in handchoice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597525</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sonali FernandoGraff_Find|title=Soul Mates: True Stories From The World of Online DatingFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=23.5|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=Internet dating is no longer the new taboo it once was. These days, whatever type When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of person you arehandwritten notes from his journal, and whatever type of person youhe didn're looking to meet, you can t take your pick from any number much notice of sitesit. YesAt the age of 24, even Graff didn'Guardian' readers can log on and look for love specifically with, erm, other 'Guardian' readers. To do 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 t realise the gravity of sandal wearing hippies among its membersthe pages he was holding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265202X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jethro AdlingtonGoodland_Worth|title=Online Therapy: Reading Between the LinesIt's Worth a Try|author=Nicola Goodland
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=You can get most things online these days and even therapy This is becoming more widely available on the internet. how Nicola Goodland introduces her book, ''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 of communication and even small changes in skin tone can give clues as to state of mind. In a situation where these clues are not available it's essential to make the most of ''allWorth a Try'' the clues offered by the written word.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312748</amazonuk>}}:
{{newreview|author=Keith Hern|title=Bangers ''I wanted to write this kind of book because when I was a young woman, ladies and Mash|rating=4.5|genre=Home gents told me that they suffered from abuse of some kind as children and Family|summary=Keith Hern only found a small lump in his neck and when the results of the tests came through he tried courage to put the appointment off talk about it as he had something more pressing to do, but the doctor was insistent. He knew then that he had canceradults. 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 to the diagnosis, his treatment and the titular meal of bangers Maybe this book can deter children from becoming future abusers and mash – the first solid food which he had attempted stop abuse so it goes away for some timegood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312772</amazonuk>''
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donna BlinstonHigashida_Fall|title=Make New YearFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Resolutions Voice From the Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and Keep Them Using NLPDavid Mitchell|rating=25
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=ItNaoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The Reason I Jump's coming up to that time '. The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of year again – you know it's the one where you make resolutions about going on autistic mind, as told from the unique perspective of a dietteenager with non-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, getting more exercise, stopping smoking or losing weightby tracing letters on the palm of a transcriber. If they last a week into the New Year you're probably doing well – Despite this slow and laborious method of writing, he has published several books in his native Japan and then you're left with a feeling manages to give public presentations to raise awareness of failurehis condition. Donna Blinston offers advice on how Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to make your resolutions Naoki as a young adult in his 20s and explains how to keep them – and I needed this advice as much as the next couch potatohis perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312845</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vyvyen BrendonBialik_Girling|title=Prep School Children: A Class Apart Over Two CenturiesGirling Up|author=Mayim Bialik|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=This book arrived on my desk to cries of ''Prep School ChildrenAmy Farrah Fowler's written a book?'' is Vyvyen Brendonor ''No, that's second collection (Blossom''Children 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 Raj'' was only PhD on The Big Bang Theory, except for the firstcharacters). It explores the pupil experienceAimed at teenagers, using primary sources like weekly letters homethis book focuses on growing up as a girl, memoirs and interviewsor ''Girling up'' if you will, and less immediate material such as fiction, school magazines and headmasters' biographies. I came to the book with some questions: what was it like means to be a boarder at a prep school? What difference did a prep transition from school education make to life as an adult? Why parents might send their children girl to such schools when the horrors were wellgrown-knownup, many via that hideous detour of the dads presumably having survived the experience themselvesteenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847062873</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tad TulejaMattinson_Puppy|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 Choosing the trivia buff second.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089562</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPerfect Puppy|author=Loose Women|title=Here Come the GirlsPippa Mattinson|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=This is If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to read this book. Too many people are carried away in the second volume by heat of the panelists from that nice ITV series, moment and ''Loose Womenmust''have a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the consequences. Just as promised on the cover, this book is an entertaining night They then have to live with the girlsproblems which ''might'' have been avoided for a decade or more. It turns out that they're just like us. The faces are already familiar puppy and even if you don't know them yet, the adult dog also has to live with nine contributors, you'll soon find a like-minded woman behind one of the celebrity facesan owner who might not be able to accommodate his needs. The women are universally warm[[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-hearted and supportiveto author on matters dog related: there will be many she talks sense. She doesn't try to talk you out of getting a lonely woman who reads this book and feels as if particular breed or any puppy: she sat down with a group of friends for simply presents the eveningfacts and allows you to make your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444700154</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gill Hines and Alison BaverstockRaskin_Grow|title=It's Not Fair! Parenting the Bright Grow: A Family Guide to Growing Fruit and Challenging ChildVeg|author=Ben Raskin
|rating=5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I like parenting books. So, even though my sons are now young adults, worried when I looked forward to reading a new at this book about raising children. I: ''Grow''m in touch with many parents with children of all ages, and am always interested in reading current recommendations.  The subtitle of this book isit said, 'Parenting the bright 'A family guide to growing fruit and challenging childveg''. When I saw Why did itworry me? Well, I wondered if it would be similar to 's a mere 48 pages and the American book cover says that it includes ''Games, stickers and MORE!'Raising your Spirited Child' (by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka) I have weighty tomes which don't completely cover what I found extremely useful when my sons were younger. need to know about growing fruit and veg, so wasn't this going to fall a little short? Spirited children are defined as those who are intenseWell, sensitive, perceptive, persistent and energeticit doesn't - not at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749940468</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Mangan Mcgrath_Camping|title=My Family and Other Disasters|rating=4|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 ''The Guardian'', so I had never actually heard of Lucy Mangan before being sent this book. That's probably not a bad thing, since I began the book - a collection of her Guardian columns - without any preconceptions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852651244</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCamping With Kids|author=Jane Brocket|title=Ripping Things to DoSimon McGrath|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Right from the very moment I opened the envelope this book was delivered in, I had the distinct feeling this would be a real gem of a book, and how right I was. Though, initially, I was reminded of the Iggulden brothers' ''Dangerous Book for Boys'' series, this book has a very different ethos, even though the subject matter overlaps somewhat unavoidably making it bear comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980966</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maria Tatar |title=Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood|rating=3
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=Like most avid readersWhen my daughter was young it used to be joked that if a child asked on his fifth birthday to go camping and you told him that he could in five years' time, I donhe't remember the time before d be there were books. We were brought up with books. There are family tales of my father as a child eating on his breakfast with one handtenth birthday, while trying all kitted up and ready to tie his shoelaces with go. These days the other discussions - and still contriving delaying tactics - are more likely to read at the same timebe about technology - and mobiles in particular. They were a poor familyWhilst it's wonderful that children do embrace technology, and books werenit shouldn't just expensivebe at the expense of getting out in the fresh air, they were valuable. They were dear, in every sense being free of the word. Likewise my mother remembers her early schoolscreens and having an adventure -years when every day ended preferably with a chapter from one of all the classicsfamily doing it ''together''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393066010</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate BrianWilliams_Son|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 the UK and something like a million worldwide. About two hundred thousand IVF babies are born annually with some twelve thousand 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]]My Son's Not Rainman: One Man, which we lovedOne Autistic Boy, with another indispensable guide – this time to IVF.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909706</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewA Million Adventures|author=Ali Valenzuela|title=Weighing It UpJohn Williams|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Although never having had an eating disorder myself, 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 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 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>}} {{newreview|author=Loose Women|title=Girls' Night In|rating=45
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I love watching 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: ''Loose WomenMy Son's Not Rainman,' on TV ' he also decided to write a blog to share his funny anecdotes and feel itexperiences. After a shaky start (''s like sitting down for a good gossip with I had a load handful of girlfriendsfollowers. Every time itThree of them were my brothers''s on), I get involved the blog eventually went viral as it increased in the debates popularity with parents who felt a connection with John and they spark discussions at home with whoever is around'The Boy'. My teenage daughters are fans This book fills in some of the show too. So when I heard a book was coming outgaps in the story, I definitely wanted to read it! But would the fun starting with 'The Boy's' early childhood and camaraderie so obvious ending, appropriately, on the telly really be able to translate to the written word?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340918454</amazonuk>his thirteenth birthday when he suddenly became 'The Teen'.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffrey DeanMbaya_Brain|title=The Fight of Your LifeMy Brain Is Out Of Control|author=Patrick Mbaya
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=This book is Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a wake-up callconsultant psychiatrist, husband and father. His career was going well and he enjoyed making ill people better. Jeffrey Dean wrote it so that parents can understand the difficult world that His marriage was solid and fulfilling and his two children were exploring their teens may have to face everydaypotential, and often through this understanding, they will be motivated to help their teens to survivethe uplifting power of music. Life was good. But then...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1601421109</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark DiaconoAllingham_Beloved|title=Veg Patch: River Cottage Handbook No 4|rating=4|genre=Home Beloved Old Age and Family|summary=At a time when the climate is changing and the economy appears What 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 whatDo About it: Margery Allingham'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>}} {{newreviewRelay|author=John Kay|title=The Long and the Short of it: A Guide to Finance Margery Allingham and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the IndustryJulia Jones
|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 We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a novelist from the title golden age of therapist Glenn Harrold's 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 ''Look Young and Live LongerThe Relay''. Could it be possible that , a book could deliver on such combined account of caring for three elderly relatives, (Em, Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as to how other people might achieve a huge promise? Having been feeling more than a little jaded lately, I good old age for their relatives. Margery died in 1966 and ''The Relay'' was willing to give never published in the form in which it a trywas written.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075288610X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Phillips and Barbara TaylorRodgers_Peace|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 earlierPeace of Mind: 'On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored'. It put me in mind of an eighteenth century treatise, and, give or take a couple A Book of centuries, that is exactly what the book provides: a thought-provoking exposition on a currently unfashionable virtue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144337</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCalm for Busy Mums|author=Olive Hickmott and Andrew Bendefy |title=Seeing Spells AchievingGeorgina Rodgers|rating=4.53
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I felt an immediate empathy with Olive Hickmott when I read this The promise of a bookbringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, in the title, my job description (busy mum. We..well, that're obviously s just one of a similar age my jobs!) and were taught reading and spelling in a time before you were ''dyslexic''. I found that the terms more commonly used were 'not elusive state that many mums seem to be trying hard enough' and 'lazy'to find, peace of mind. 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 say, I was unreliable when it came looking forward to spellingsome insightful revelations into changing my life. Olive and I have both been saved by think the spellchecker. I settled happily into readingproblem, Olive less sohowever, but we both made careers where numbers were important. I could read was quickly apparent in that like a set of accounts like busy mum, who is trying to wear a story; she found hundred masks at the same time, and carry out a home in engineering. We worked in areas where intuition was importantmultitude of roles, this book isn't entirely sure what it's trying to be, with everything from poetry and colouring to mindfulness and recipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312209</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate BrianEhrlin_Rabbit|title=The Complete Guide to Female FertilityRabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep|author=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin
|rating=5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=It's tempting to say that every woman over Roger the age of puberty should have access Rabbit wanted to Kate Brianfall asleep, but somehow he couldn's t, no matter how hard he tried. It wasn'The Complete Guide to Female Fertilityt that he didn'. The truth is t do much during the day, because he did but sometimes he was so tired that they should all have their own copies and they should read he could fall asleep on the book until it's dog-eared and falling apartswings. One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to see Uncle Yawn, because who had a notice outside his house saying I really can't think of a better way make anyone fall asleep and once Roger went home (it was actually quite difficult for him to get there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to understand why some women are more fertile than others or some women have difficulty in conceivingbed and fell asleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749927925</amazonuk>
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{{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 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 can handle money. Was India Knight ''really'' going to be able Move on 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 on, when slowly and inexorably I was won over.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905490372</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Horror Reviews]]

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