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[[Category:New Reviews|Home and Family]]==Home and family==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Brian1454955546|title=Precious Babies: Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting after InfertilitySugarless|author=Nicole M Avena

|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=There are lots of avenues of support for those dealing with infertility, but what happens if you do finally get pregnant? You're still dealing with the scars, both emotional and physical that infertility can leave behind, but it might seem callous to ask for help from other friends from your support network who themselves aren't yet pregnant. This book aims to be a helpful guide that discusses everything from pregnancy to birth to parenting after birth in the light of your history with infertility.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749954019</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Roud|title=The Lore of the Playground: The Childrenisn's World - Then and Now|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=Like many reviewers of the hardback edition, I thoroughy enjoyed reading this book, a nostalgic excursion into my own childhood games and rhymes. It's quite fun to identify the regional context of childhood lore. It cleared up for me, as a South-East Londoner, the exact nature of a hitherto mysterious game called tag. If you have already delved into the classic ''The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren'' by Iona and Peter Opie (1959), you might find this book adds little for t a general readership. For the specialist, I'm sure this diet book will take its rightful place in the scholarly literature on childhood culture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099505274</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Judy Bartkowiak|title=So You've Passed Your Driving Test... What Now? Advanced Driving Skills For Young Drivers|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's always struck me that the most difficult time for young drivers is that period just after they pass their driving test. Someone has told you that you're an OK driver, right? ''But'' you're out there, all on your own, without The last thing anyone to explain those odd things which you still haven't come across or to be the extra pair of eyes. You've got a sense of freedom, but somehow it's a little bit ''daunting''needs is another diet book. Judy Bartkowiak offers something a little bit different. It's not another book about road signs, driving etiquette and stopping distances – it's some ideas for getting into the right mindset to absorb the new experiences and learning some skills which might help you in other areas of your life too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218371</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Anthony T DeBenedet and Lawrence Cohen|title=The Art of Roughhousing: Good Old Fashioned Horseplay and Why Every Kid Needs It |rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=Rather There was a time, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than running around outdoors, food with high-fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going for bike rides to elevate your cholesterol and building denscause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. There's a problem, lots of children nowadays end up spending hours watching TV or playing computer gamesthough. Play times in school are often very regimented Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in some schools certain games much the same way as drugs like 'British Bulldog' and 'Leapfrog' heroin and even 'Tag' have even been bannedcocaine. Children are discouraged from physical play, for fear Does that they will hurt themselves and also through sound over the fear that those responsible for them will find themselves facing a lawsuit if someone does get hurt. top? This book aims to support the thinking that very physical play is good for children; that unless they face risks in their lives and learn to assess those risksWell, or experience a few bumps and bruises and learn to get up and carry on, then they will lack vital life skills for their future adult livesit isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594744874</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Ackerman1635866847|title=One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and the Language of HealingTerry Barlin Vesci

|summary=Diane AckermanIt's husband, Paul Weststrange, had been in hospital for three weeks with a kidney infection and was just rejoicing in the fact things that make you ''immediately'' feel that he was to go home this is the next day. As Diane watched , Paul suffered a massive strokebook for you. Before I started reading ''The effects were catastrophic, but worst of allLavender Companion'', I visited the man who had been author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a brilliant wordsmith was robbed picture of his power a slice of speech chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and lost his extensive vocabularydesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. It (There's eight years since this happened and a recipe in the intervening years have been a constant battle to improve Paulbook, which I's speech m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and restore some joy I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to his lifefold down the corners of pages. There have been ups – and many downs – but despite a brain scan indicating You suspect that Paul might well smears of butter would not be a vegetable he has since his stroke written booksproblem. His vocabulary will never be back to what it was, but it remains impressive and, strangely enough, many of the words which he finds easiest to use are those which he encountered a number of years ago I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039307241X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Oliver James|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 cornerI've 'gardened' in a vague, whether it's about affluent society or toxic parentsindefinite sort of way for more than half a century. Now he puts I know (most of) the first three years of basics but life under the microscope has changed and argues equally vehemently that parents need to identify their own needs accurately and build their childrenI needed 'projects's care into rather than a 'good enough' framework, in order for the whole family general commitment to flourishgardening. 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 mumsVerdura' guilt trips: “'Why embracing your own parenting style is best with its promise of projects for you both indoors and your childoutdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer. So,' as the cover has how did it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009192393X</amazonuk>stack up?

{{newreview|author=Eleanor Birne|title=When Will I Sleep Through the Night? An A - Z ''Recycling one ton of Babyhood|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=When it comes to parenting, I have discovered that a lot of people lie. 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 is, first of all paper can save 17 trees from being pregnant, then giving birth, and then raising the babycut down. 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 a follow-on from NLP for Children. Many a parent has been tempted If you send an apple core to leave home when their children are teenagers; difficult as landfill, it is for the parents it's a traumatic time for the teens will take between 6 months and anything which makes it a little easier is 2 years to be applauded particularly when the changes decompose. A glass bottle will come from the teens rather than being imposed by the parenttake up to 1 million years. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685901</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Guy Andrews|title=The Ultimate Guide to Bicycle Maintenance|rating=4.5|genre=Home As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and Family|summary=This book seemed like the answer to recycling is part of my husbandDNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly''s prayerscome in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. I've had a beautiful Gary Fisher urban bike for about ten years, but shamefully, I Almost everything can count on be used one more time and any purchase must pass the fingers test of one 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand the number , I suspected I was guilty of times wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I've even cleaned m looking at you) and dropping itin the kerbside bin. Well-used it certainly is Yes, but I must confess to leaving all could go searching on the maintenance to aforementioned husband. Having conceded that in this day internet - and age get conflicting advice - but what I ought to be more independent that that, I dived into this book with great expectations for needed was a fairer future …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232362</amazonuk>recycling bible.s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Lezano0760378134|title=Getting Started in DSLR PhotographyThe First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=4.5

|summary=The magazine-style layout of 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't know where to start, this is the book you need. It'magbooks comprehensive: you' (an uglyll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, but aptwhat you're going to grow, term for the formatwhat you'll grow it in (both containers and soil) lends itself particularly well to the subject in hand, not least as where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the glossy pages beautifully illustrate main part of the effects book with a handy section on the photographs that the publishers are showingtroubleshooting. It There's published by the team at 'Digital SLR Photography' magazine and it reads like also a collection of the most useful articles published thereingood glossary. So, particularly for the novice to SLR photography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232877</amazonuk>is it any good?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Bartkowiak and Carolyn Fitzpatrick1529149800|title=Passing the 11+ with NLPThings You Can Do: NLP Strategies for Supporting Your 11 Plus StudentHow to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows

|summary=The 11+ process is nerve-wracking for parents We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and children alike most of them stood and many parents find it difficult watched, unable to know how best to help their childthink of anything they could do. Over-enthusiastic intervention can make a child more nervous The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and conscious that there's a lot at stake, whilst leaving the child flying back to get on with it can well make drop them into the child feel that their success or failure doesn't matter to youfire. It's also important that any preparation is built up in a steady way and The animals laughed: what good was that it leaves the child feeling confident of their successdoing. 'Passing 'I'm doing the 11+ with NLPbest I can'' , said the hummingbird. And that, really, is a dual purpose book: there are the strategies for giving your child self-esteem, focus and concentration along with only way that we will solve the other skills needed to pass and then there are details problem of the type climate change – by each of questions your child will face in the examus doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685731</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Warmsley1849767009|title=Make, Mend, Bake, Save and Shine!It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=LifestyleFor Sharing|summary=A slim, slither This could have been one of a book with a big title. those books which 'preaches to the choir'Green': the only people who' is the mantra on most pages, as well as tips on how to waste less - whether ll buy it's food, clothes or water from are the tap. This book has a universal message. How to waste less. There people who know that nudity is a nice introduction by seventysomething Barbara Walmsley, aka OK and the charity [http://www.oxfam.org.uk/ Oxfamones who 's] 'know'Green Granny.'' Certainly catchy but will that it catch on? When I was delving inside the first couple of pages looking for the writer's name (shameful will avoid it's not on like they avoid the front cover) I discovered hot-and-bothered person in the phrase ''Printed And Bound In Chinasupermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But.'' 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 much, but now Rosie Haines makes it's not into something 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 in front of their Sky TV with their supermarket-own curry struggling to fill the void left by a regular take awaybook about not wearing clothes. What we all need is It's a return to the good old days, when life was simpler celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and people happier, the days when you didn't need to clear half an hour in your diary to navigate the olive aisle of the supermarket, every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and when you ate what was fresh and local, not because it was cheap or you were in the moodmarkings. They're fine. In fact, but because it was all they had're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521121</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha McElhone1504321383|title=After You: Letters of LoveSingle, and LossAgain, 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 43Again, 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>}} {{newreviewAgain|author=Joanna Simmons and Jay Curtis|title=The Aargh to Zzzz of Parenting: An Alternative GuideLouisa Pateman

|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary='All in all, having kids is an intense rollercoaster ride. It plunges up and down, and there’s lots of screaming and vomiting involved.' So that pretty much sums it up. Advertised as: 'a comprehensively unhelpful, advice-free look at lifeYou can', the authors talk about Antecedents t be happy and Behaviour, without (fortunately) going too deeply into the Consequences of several dozen baby-related topicsfulfilled on your own. But this definitely isn’t the rocket science of You are not complete until you find a parenting manual, 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 themselvesman''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408626X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Chris Barnardo|title=DadcandoThis was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: Build, Make, Do ... it was simply the Best Way to Spend Quality Time with Your Kids|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=The ideas adults in this book originated her life advising her as a [http://wwwto what they thought would be best for her.dadcando 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.co.uk/ website] Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that Chris Barnardo set up for divorced they will marry and separated fathers to help them spend quality time with their have children Now he. It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''s written a book that although aimed at single fathers belief is equally as useful for married dads, and mums too or grandparents or carers to inspire crafty ideas of things to make with kidsa choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652011</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tess DalyGraff_Find|title=The Baby Diaries: Memories, Milestones and MisadventuresFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff

|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=One When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of the many side effects handwritten notes from his journal, he didn't take much notice of pregnancy seems to be the need to read everything you can get your hands on about pregnancy and babiesit. I know that when pregnant with my daughter I trawled the library for any baby books they had, scoured At 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 who was pregnant too or who already had children. This book is aiming to be a sort age of catch-all for pregnancy obsessives I think24, as itGraff didn's a mix t realise the gravity of pregnancy and birth advice and information alongside of Tess Daly's memories from her pregnancies with her two daughtersthe pages he was holding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935164</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evany ThomasGoodland_Worth|title=The Secret Language of Sleep: A CoupleIt's Guide to the Thirty-nine PositionsWorth a Try|author=Nicola Goodland|rating=34

|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 habitshow Nicola Goodland introduces her book, or in order to change yourself alter things having reflected on the contents here – with the help as they suggest of ''It's Worth a ceiling-mounted camcorder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1932416471</amazonuk>}}Try'':

{{newreview|author=Fraser's Autographs|title=Collect Autographs: An Illustrated Guide 'I wanted to Collecting and Investing in Autographs|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=There must be many write this kind of us who have at one time had an autograph book or something because when I was a young woman, ladies and gents told me that they suffered from abuse of the some kind as children and asked friends, relations or even celebrities only found the courage to talk about it as adults. Maybe this book can deter children from becoming future abusers and stop abuse so it goes away for good.'do something', written to celebrities in the hope of obtaining a personally signed picture, or even waited patiently at a stage door after a play or concert eagerly clutching a theatre programme, record or CD sleeve and pen in hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597525</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sonali FernandoHigashida_Fall|title=Soul MatesFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: True Stories A Young Man's Voice From The World the Silence of Online DatingAutism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell|rating=2.5

|summary=Internet dating is no longer Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the new taboo international best-seller ''The Reason I Jump''. The book was popular because it once was. These days, whatever type gave a rare glimpse into the workings of person you arethe autistic mind, and whatever type of person you're looking to meet, you can take your pick as told from any number the unique perspective of sitesa teenager with non-verbal autism. YesNaoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, even 'Guardian' readers can log or by tracing letters on the palm of a transcriber. Despite this slow and look for love specifically withlaborious method of writing, erm, other 'Guardian' readers. To do so, they just have he has published several books in his native Japan and manages to click through give public presentations to 'Guardian Soulmates', which is probably no different from 'Matchraise awareness of his condition.com' or 'Datingdirect', though might count Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to Naoki as a larger proportion of sandal wearing hippies among its membersyoung adult in his 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265202X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jethro AdlingtonBialik_Girling|title=Online Therapy: Reading Between the LinesGirling Up|author=Mayim Bialik|rating=4.5

|summary=You can get most things online these days and even therapy is becoming more widely available This book arrived on my desk to cries of ''Amy Farrah Fowler's written a book?'' or ''No, that's Blossom'' depending on the internetyour generation. It might seem like a simple step to take Mayim Bialik is or was both, of course, but many of the signals beyond the spoken word are not available in addition to the online therapist. In being a face-towell-face situation body language known sitcom actress, she is an added form of communication also a neuroscientist (and even small changes in skin tone can give clues the only PhD on The Big Bang Theory, except for the characters). Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as to state of mind. In a situation where these clues are not available itgirl, or 's essential to make the most of 'Girling up'all'' the clues offered by the written wordif you will, and what it means to transition from school girl to grown-up, via that hideous detour of teenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312748</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith HernMattinson_Puppy|title=Bangers and MashChoosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson

|summary=Keith Hern found If you have ever, for even a small lump fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to read this book. Too many people are carried away in his neck and when the results heat of the tests came through he tried to put the appointment off as he had something more pressing to do, but moment and ''must'' have a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the doctor was insistentconsequences. He knew They then that he had cancer. The lump in his neck was, in fact, a secondary tumour have to live with the primary being in the back of his tongue. But for the secondary tumour the discovery of the primary problems which ''might '' have been too late avoided for successful treatmenta decade or more. Keith takes us through The puppy and the discovery of adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be able to accommodate his cancer, his reactions needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. She doesn't try to talk you out of getting a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the diagnosis, his treatment and the titular meal of bangers facts and mash – the first solid food which he had attempted for some timeallows you to make your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312772</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donna BlinstonRaskin_Grow|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 ChildrenGrow: 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 Guide to such schools when the horrors were well-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>}} {{newreview|author=Loose Women|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 Growing Fruit and feels as if she sat down with a group of friends for the evening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444700154</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewVeg|author=Gill Hines and Alison Baverstock|title=It's Not Fair! Parenting the Bright and Challenging ChildBen Raskin

|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>

 {{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

|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>

 {{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=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 it'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 when I heard a book was coming out, I definitely wanted to read it! But would the fun and camaraderie so obvious on the telly really be able to translate to the written word?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340918454</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeffrey Dean|title=The Fight of Your Life|rating=45

|summary=This book is a wakeIn 2012, stand-up callcomedian John Williams was encouraged by his work colleagues to write a show charting his experiences as the parent of an autistic boy. Jeffrey Dean wrote After registering the domain name: ''My Son's Not Rainman,'' he also decided to write a blog to share his funny anecdotes and experiences. After a shaky start (''I had a handful of followers. Three of them were my brothers''), the blog eventually went viral as it so that increased in popularity with parents can understand who felt a connection with John and 'The Boy'. This book fills in some of the gaps in the difficult world that their teens may have to face everydaystory, starting with 'The Boy's' early childhood and through this understandingending, they will be motivated to help their teens to surviveappropriately, on his thirteenth birthday when he suddenly became 'The Teen'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1601421109</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark DiaconoMbaya_Brain|title=Veg Patch: River Cottage Handbook No 4My Brain Is Out Of Control|author=Patrick Mbaya

|summary=At Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a time when the climate is changing consultant psychiatrist, husband and the economy appears to be heading south the thought of being able to produce your own vegetables is very temptingfather. Forget about food miles His career was going well and consider instead how few minutes there can be between harvesting your vegetables he enjoyed making ill people better. His marriage was solid and the cooking process. Don't worry about pesticides fulfilling and residues as you'll know exactly what's been fed to your food. Mark Diaconohis two children were exploring their potential, head gardener on often through the hallowed ground uplifting power 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 Handbooksmusic. Life was good. But then...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595348</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John KayAllingham_Beloved|title=The Long Beloved Old Age and the Short of What to Do About it: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who ArenMargery Allingham't in s the IndustryRelay|author=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones

|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>

 {{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

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate BrianEhrlin_Rabbit|title=The Complete Guide to Female FertilityRabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep|author=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin

|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>

{{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]]