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[[Category:New Reviews|Home and Family]]==Home and family==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roman Krznaric1454955546|title=The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to LiveSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena
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|genre=HistoryLifestyle|summary='How should we live?' asks author Roman Krznaric. To answer this ancient question, he looks to history. This isn'I believe that the future of the art of living can be found by gazing into the past', he says. Creating t a diet book which is as full of curiosities as a Renaissance 'Wunderkammer', he has a stab at the big questions: . love, belief, money, family, death. The result last thing anyone needs is a pot-pourri of delights which left this particular reader stimulated and invigoratedanother diet book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683939</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler1635866847|title=The Question BookLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|summary=Most of us have probably made at least one of those end-of-It's strange, the-year lists of things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the best booksbook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', albums and parties we have been to in I visited the previous twelve monthsauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. But can you, with some effort, locate the one you made in 1987? Have you ever constructed com/ website] and there's a graph picture of your ups and downs in a given period, and then decided to expand it by separating emotional, intellectual, sexual and financial aspects and colour coding them? Have you made a list slice of all your lovers, bosses or friends and then rated them from 1 to 10 chocolate cake on several dimensions each? Do you have one of the books homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that list cake viscerally. (There''100 things to do before you die'' or ''500 books to read s a recipe in your lifethe book, which I'' (m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and ticked off the ones you have done)? Did you ever spend I was told to make a whole evening and half mess of a night filling it. Notes in dubious 'personality' questionnaires on the Internet? Have you ever doodled something, decided margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that it beautifully expresses the deepest essence smears of your personality and then proceeded to draw such icons for all your friends? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685389</amazonuk>butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life
|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago
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|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Brian1394159544|title=Precious Babies: Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting after InfertilityRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler
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|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=There are lots of avenues ''Recycling one ton 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 plastic can leave behind, but it might seem callous save up to ask for help from other friends from your support network who themselves aren't yet pregnant16. This book aims to be a helpful guide that discusses everything from pregnancy to birth to parenting after birth in the light 3 barrels of your history with infertilityoil.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749954019</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Ackerman0760378134|title=One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Diane Ackerman's husband, Paul West, had been in hospital for three weeks with a kidney infection and was just rejoicing in the fact that he was to go home the next day. As Diane watched , Paul suffered a massive stroke. The effects were catastrophic, but worst of all, the man who had been a brilliant wordsmith was robbed of his power of speech and lost his extensive vocabulary. It's eight years since this happened and the intervening years have been a constant battle to improve Paul's speech and restore some joy to his life. There have been ups – and many downs – but despite a brain scan indicating that Paul might well be a vegetable he has since his stroke written books. 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.|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 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 tripsFirst-Time Gardener: “'Why embracing your own parenting style is best for you and your child,' as the cover has it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009192393X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewContainer Food Gardening|author=Eleanor Birne|title=When Will I Sleep Through the Night? An A - Z of BabyhoodPamela Farley|rating=4.5
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|summary=When If you've ever thought how good it comes would be to be able to parenting, I have discovered that a lot of people lie. They lie about sleep, about tantrums, about feeding pop out into the garden and nappies pick some fruit and the effects of vegetables for a screaming newborn on your marriage. There are books galoremeal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, and Mummy blogs, and tweeters all happily proclaiming how marvellous it all this is, first of all being pregnant, then giving birth, and then raising the babybook you need. It's all glowing skin comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers 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 monthssoil), where you'll put these containers, I had an awful labour how you'll water and that first year with my little girl was almost impossibly difficult fertilise them and totally consumed with you finish the horror main part of the book with a non-sleeping babyhandy section on troubleshooting. Now, four and There's also a half years on from giving birth and (mostly) sleeping all night long I felt able to open up this latest baby bookgood glossary. So, mainly because the title roused such familiar feelings in me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684862</amazonuk>is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Bartkowiak1529149800|title=NLP For TeensThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
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|genre=Home and Family
|summary=NLP For Teens is part 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 Engaging NLP series river and began taking tiny amounts of water and is a follow-on from NLP for Childrenflying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. Many a parent has been tempted to leave home when their children are teenagers; difficult as it is for ''I'm doing the parents itbest I can's a traumatic time for ', said the teens and anything which makes it a little easier hummingbird. And that, really, is to be applauded particularly when the changes only way that we will come from solve the teens rather than being imposed problem of climate change – by the parenteach of us doing what we can, however small that might be. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685901</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Andrews1849767009|title=The Ultimate Guide It Isn't Rude to Bicycle Maintenancebe Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyFor Sharing|summary=This book seemed like could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the answer to my husbandchoir's prayers. I: the only people who've had a beautiful Gary Fisher urban bike for about ten years, but shamefully, I can count on ll buy it are the fingers of one hand people who know that nudity is OK and the number of times Iones who ''know'' that it've even cleaned s shameful will avoid it. Welllike they avoid the hot-and-used it certainly bothered person in the supermarket who is, but I must confess coughing fit to leaving all the maintenance to aforementioned husbandbust. But... Having conceded that in this day and age I ought to be Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more independent that that, I dived into this than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with great expectations for a fairer future …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232362</amazonuk>disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Lezano1504321383|title=Getting Started in DSLR PhotographySingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman
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|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=The magazine-style layout of this 'magbook' (an ugly, but apt, term for the format) lends itself particularly well to the subject in hand, not least as the glossy pages beautifully illustrate the effects on the photographs that the publishers are showing. It's published by the team at 'Digital SLR Photography' magazine and it reads like a collection of the most useful articles published therein, particularly for the novice to SLR photography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232877</amazonuk>}} {{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 You 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 be happy and that it leaves the child feeling confident of their successfulfilled on your own. 'Passing the 11+ with NLP' is a dual purpose book: there You 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=Make, Mend, Bake, Save and Shine!|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=A slim, slither of not complete until you find a book with a big title. man''Green'' 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 book has a universal message. How 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 China.'' Defeating the message?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846013674</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha McElhoneGraff_Find|title=After You: Letters of Love, and Loss, to a Husband and FatherFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff
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|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=What would you do if, without warning, your brilliant, loving, superman partner died from When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a catastrophic heart event at the untimely age plastic folder of 43handwritten notes from his journal, leaving you with two young boys and a third on the way? Most he didn't take much notice of us would probably reach for it. At the Valium and book a very long course age of counseling. But Natascha McElhone couldn24, Graff didn'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 realise the basis gravity of 'After You'the pages he was holding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919098</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanna Simmons and Jay CurtisGoodland_Worth|title=The Aargh to Zzzz of Parenting: An Alternative GuideIt's Worth a Try|author=Nicola Goodland|rating=4.5
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|summary='All in all, having kids This is an intense rollercoaster ride. It plunges up and downhow Nicola Goodland introduces her book, and there’s lots of screaming and vomiting involved.' So that pretty much sums it up. Advertised as: 'It's Worth a comprehensively unhelpful, advice-free look at lifeTry'', the authors talk about Antecedents and Behaviour, without (fortunately) going too deeply into the Consequences of several dozen baby-related topics. But this definitely isn’t the rocket science of 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 themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408626X</amazonuk>}}:
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tess DalyHigashida_Fall|title=The Baby DiariesFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: Memories, Milestones A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and MisadventuresDavid Mitchell|rating=3.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=One of Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The Reason I Jump''. The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the many side effects workings 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 hadautistic mind, scoured as told from the internet nightly for due date calendarsunique perspective of a teenager with non-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, week or by week guides tracing letters on the palm of a transcriber. Despite this slow and baby name dictionaries. I also became an obsessive baby-watcherlaborious method of writing, interested he has published several books in any celebrity baby news his native Japan and willing manages to speak give public presentations to anyone 'normal' that I met who was pregnant too or who already had childrenraise awareness of his condition. This book is aiming Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to be a sort of catch-all for pregnancy obsessives I think, Naoki as it's a mix of pregnancy young adult in his 20s and birth advice and information alongside of Tess Daly's memories from her pregnancies with her two daughtersexplains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935164</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evany ThomasBialik_Girling|title=The Secret Language of Sleep: A Couple's Guide to the Thirty-nine PositionsGirling Up|author=Mayim Bialik|rating=34.5
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|summary=This volume takes the premise book arrived on my desk to cries of ''Amy Farrah Fowler's written a book?'' or ''No, that the positions in which couples sleep together are an insight into their private mind's Blossom'' depending on your generation. ThereforeMayim Bialik is or was both, with the help of the line drawings of 39 (apparently all of THE 39) positionscourse, but in addition to being a well-known sitcom actress, one might see where one she is going wrong. It’s also a chicken neuroscientist (and egg situation where you might learn you’re with the wrong bed partneronly PhD on The Big Bang Theory, and change either them or your nocturnal habitsexcept for the characters). Aimed at teenagers, or in order to change yourself alter things having reflected this book focuses on the contents here – with the help growing up as they suggest of a ceilinggirl, or ''Girling up'' if you will, and what it means to transition from school girl to grown-mounted camcorderup, via that hideous detour of teenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1932416471</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fraser's AutographsMattinson_Puppy|title=Collect Autographs: An Illustrated Guide to Collecting and Investing in AutographsChoosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=Internet dating is no longer the new taboo it once was. These daysIf you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, whatever type of person you arethought about getting a puppy, and whatever type of person you're looking really ought to meet, you can take your pick from any number read this book. Too many people are carried away in the heat of sites. Yes, even the moment and 'Guardian' readers can log on and look for love specifically with, erm, other must'Guardian' readershave a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the consequences. To do so, they just They then have to click through to live with the problems which 'Guardian Soulmates', which is probably no different from might'Match.com' have been avoided for a decade or more. The puppy and the adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be able to accommodate his needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. She doesn'Datingdirect', though might count t try to talk you out of getting a larger proportion of sandal wearing hippies among its membersparticular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the facts and allows you to make your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265202X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jethro AdlingtonRaskin_Grow|title=Online TherapyGrow: Reading Between the LinesA Family Guide to Growing Fruit and Veg|author=Ben Raskin|rating=45
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|summary=You can get most things online these days I worried when I looked at this book: ''Grow'', it said, ''A family guide to growing fruit and even therapy is becoming more widely available on the internetveg''. It might seem like Why did it worry me? Well, it's a simple step to take but many of mere 48 pages and the signals beyond the spoken word are not available to the online therapist. cover says that it includes ''Games, stickers and MORE!'' In a face-I have weighty tomes which don't completely cover what I need to-face situation body language is an added form of communication know about growing fruit and even small changes in skin tone can give clues as veg, so wasn't this going to state of mind. fall a little short? In a situation where these clues are not available Well, itdoesn's essential to make the most of ''t - not at all'' the clues offered by the written word.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312748</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith HernMcgrath_Camping|title=Bangers and MashCamping With Kids|author=Simon McGrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=Keith Hern found When my daughter was young it used to be joked that if a small lump child asked on his fifth birthday to go camping and you told him that he could in five years' time, he'd be there on his neck tenth birthday, all kitted up and when the results of the tests came through he tried ready to put go. These days the appointment off as he had something discussions - and delaying tactics - are more pressing likely to do, but the doctor was insistentbe about technology - and mobiles in particular. He knew then Whilst it's wonderful that he had cancer. The lump in his neck was, in factchildren do embrace technology, a secondary tumour with it shouldn't be at the primary being expense of getting out 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 cancerfresh air, his reactions to the diagnosis, his treatment and the titular meal being free of bangers screens and mash – having an adventure - preferably with all the first solid food which he had attempted for some timefamily doing it ''together''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312772</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donna BlinstonWilliams_Son|title=Make New YearMy Son's Resolutions and Keep Them Using NLPNot Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures|author=John Williams|rating=23.5
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|summary=It's coming In 2012, stand-up comedian John Williams was encouraged by his work colleagues to that time write a show charting his experiences as the parent of year again – you know itan autistic boy. After registering the domain name: ''My Son's the one where you make resolutions about going on Not Rainman,'' he also decided to write a diet, getting more exercise, stopping smoking or losing weightblog to share his funny anecdotes and experiences. If they last After a week into the New Year youshaky start ('re probably doing well – and then you're left with I had a feeling handful of failurefollowers. Donna Blinston offers advice on how to make your resolutions and how to keep Three of them – were my brothers''), the blog eventually went viral as it increased in popularity with parents who felt a connection with John and I needed this advice as much as 'The Boy'. This book fills in some of the gaps in the next couch potatostory, starting with 'The Boy's' early childhood and ending, appropriately, on his thirteenth birthday when he suddenly became 'The Teen'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312845</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vyvyen BrendonMbaya_Brain|title=Prep School Children: A Class Apart Over Two CenturiesMy Brain Is Out Of Control|author=Patrick Mbaya
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|summary=''Prep School Children'' is Vyvyen Brendon's second collection (''Children of the Raj'' Dr Patrick Mbaya was the first). It explores the pupil experience, using primary sources like weekly letters homeenjoying life as a consultant psychiatrist, memoirs husband and interviews, father. His career was going well and less immediate material such as fiction, school magazines and headmasters' biographieshe enjoyed making ill people better. I came to the book with some questions: what His marriage 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 solid and fulfilling and his two children to such schools when the horrors were well-knownexploring their potential, many often through the uplifting power of the dads presumably having survived the experience themselvesmusic. Life was good. But then...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847062873</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tad TulejaAllingham_Beloved|title=A Dictionary of Foreign Words Beloved Old Age and What to Do About it: Margery Allingham's the Relay|author=Margery Allingham and PhrasesJulia Jones|rating=34.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=Take We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a look at novelist from the cover design golden age of this bookcrime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and you'd be mistaken for thinking this excellent plotting. Her last completed book was not 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 honestnovel but ''The Relay'', a combined account of caring for this is a dictionary book firstthree elderly relatives, for reference(Em, Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as to how other people might achieve a browser good old age for their relatives. Margery died in 1966 and ''The Relay'' was never published in the trivia buff secondform in which it was written.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089562</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Loose WomenRodgers_Peace|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 Peace of the celebrity faces. The women are universally warm-hearted and supportiveMind: there will be many a lonely woman who reads this book and feels as if she sat down with a group A Book of friends Calm for the evening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444700154</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBusy Mums|author=Gill Hines and Alison Baverstock|title=It's Not Fair! Parenting the Bright and Challenging ChildGeorgina Rodgers|rating=53
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|summary=I like parenting books. So, even though my sons are now young adults, I looked forward to reading The promise of a new book about raising children. I'm bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, in touch with many parents with children of all agesthe title, and am always interested in reading current recommendationsmy job description (busy mum... The subtitle of this book iswell, that'Parenting the bright s just one of my jobs!) and challenging child'that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to find, peace of mind. When I saw ithave to say, I wondered if it would be similar was looking forward to the American book 'Raising your Spirited Child' (by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka) which I found extremely useful when some insightful revelations into changing my sons were youngerlife. Spirited children are defined as those who are intenseI think the problem, sensitivehowever, perceptive, persistent and energetic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749940468</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lucy Mangan |title=My Family and Other Disasters|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Not living was quickly apparent in the UK means that we don't have British newspapers. Even when we lived in Englandlike a busy mum, we never bought ''The Guardian''who is trying to wear a hundred masks at the same time, so I had never actually heard and carry out a multitude of Lucy Mangan before being sent roles, this book. Thatisn't entirely sure what it's probably not a bad thingtrying to be, since I began the book - a collection of her Guardian columns - without any preconceptionswith everything from poetry and colouring to mindfulness and recipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852651244</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane BrocketEhrlin_Rabbit|title=Ripping Things to DoThe Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep|author=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin
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|summary=Like most avid readersRoger the Rabbit wanted to fall asleep, I donbut somehow he couldn't remember the time before there were books. We were brought up with books. There are family tales of my father as a child eating his breakfast with one hand, while trying to tie his shoelaces with the other and still contriving to read at the same timeno matter how hard he tried. They were a poor family, and books werenIt wasn't that he didn't just expensive, they were valuable. They were dear, in every sense of do much during the word. Likewise my mother remembers her early school-years when every day ended with a chapter from one of , because he did but sometimes he was so tired that he could fall asleep on the classicsswings. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393066010</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Brian|title=The Complete Guide One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger 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 see Uncle Yawn, who had 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 notice outside his house saying I read on a BBC site. Fertility expert Kate Brian has followed her [[The Complete Guide can make anyone fall asleep and once Roger went home (it was actually quite difficult for him to Female Fertility by Kate Brian|Complete Guide get there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to Female Fertility]], which we loved, with another indispensable guide – this time to IVFbed and fell asleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909706</amazonuk>
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