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[[Category:New Reviews|Home and Family]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=1454955546|title=Home and familySugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''This isn't a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.''__NOTOC__There was a time, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. There's a problem, though. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that sound over the top? Well, it isn't.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean M Twenge and W Keith Campbell1635866847|title=The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of EntitlementLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Twenge It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Campbell have been studying there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the rise in narcissism as a social trendhomepage. They are wellI don't eat cakes and desserts -qualified to commentbut I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, having worked since 1998 which I'm avoiding with social psychologist Roy Baumeister, who pioneered research some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in this fieldthe margins are sanctioned. At more than three hundred You get to fold down the corners of pages it. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved's rather weighty for the popular market at which it's aimed, but even if you only dip into this book, I think you'll take home their messagealready.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416575987</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Judy Bartkowiak|title=Be I've 'gardened' in a Happier Parent with NLP|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=Babiesvague, unlike new cars, don't come with indefinite sort of way for more than half a manualcentury. There are always plenty I know (most of people, each with their own unique advice, happy to stick an oar in on whatever parenting issues you're facing, ) the basics but life has changed and I have often found as needed 'projects' rather than a mum that Igeneral commitment to gardening. ''Verdura''m left confused with its promise of projects for both indoors and floundering, wondering which piece outdoors of conflicting advice is least likely to permanently damage my little ones! I've watched Supernanny. I've read about how to have a contented babyvarying complexity seemed like the answer. So seeing this book, with such a nice, positive title, I had to give how did it a go!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144411056X</amazonuk>stack up?

{{newreview|author=Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere|title=This is Not the End ''Recycling one ton of the Book;|rating=4paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=In many ways, the cover of my edition of this book is perfectly appropriate. Huge, bold serif script, with nothing but the typeface; a declamatory instance of the art in the most common of fonts, and that perfect semi-colon at the end of the book's name - proving that that itself is not the be-all and end-all. Buy this book, as you can, in electronic form, and you might see this cover for ten seconds at most, but it is so much part and parcel of what's within.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552450</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Simon Barnes|title=How If you send an apple core to be a BAD Birdwatcher|rating=4.5|genre=Home landfill, it will take between 6 months and Family|summary=''Look out of the window.''<br>''See a bird''<br>''Enjoy it.''<br>''Congratulations2 years to decompose. You are now a birdwatcherA glass bottle will take up to 1 million years.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720866</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Brett Cohen|title=Stuff Every Dad Should Know|rating=4|genre=Home As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and Family|summary=For an object lesson recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in how important the little things are, consider this book's titlefuture. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. This is not Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of those collections 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of trivia or whimsies for fathers to appear cool to their children wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (ten great variations on tag; 6,000 good records with which to ween your daughter off Justin Biebertoothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you), and dropping it's not that kind of knowledge on offerin the kerbside bin. Here instead is practical information Yes, I could go searching on rearing your own little thing, the internet - and in a quiet way this pocket diaryget conflicting advice -sized volume has the cojones to expect to stick around being useful for but what I needed was a generation, as it starts at budgeting for children in the first place, and goes from the actual birth to marrying them offrecycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745536</amazonuk>s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Smith0760378134|title=The Cambridge Shakespeare GuideFirst-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley

|summary=Does If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the world need another guide to Shakespearegarden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn's plays? There are plenty about and students these days have the added resource of the Internet t know where to get the basics. However, if it doesstart, then this is as good as any the book you will findneed. It's nicely written and beautifully clear and above allcomprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, succinct. In fact Iwhat you'm doing a disservice re going to Emma Smith already by terming grow, what you'll grow it a guide to his playsin (both containers and soil), because she also includes the poems and sonnets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>052114972X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Roman Krznaric|title=The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to Live|rating=5|genre=History|summary=where you'How should we live?' asks author Roman Krznaric. To answer this ancient questionll put these containers, he looks to history. how you'I believe that ll water and fertilise them and you finish the future main part of the art of living can be found by gazing into the past', he says. Creating a book which is as full of curiosities as with a Renaissance handy section on troubleshooting. There'Wunderkammer', he has s also a stab at the big questions: good glossary. loveSo, belief, money, family, death. The result is a pot-pourri of delights which left this particular reader stimulated and invigorated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683939</amazonuk>it any good?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Maushart1529149800|title=The Winter of Our DisconnectThings You Can Do: How One Family Pulled the Plug to Fight Climate Change and Lived to Tell/text/Tweet the TaleReduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows

|summary=Back in early 2009 Susan Maushart - We begin with a single mother of three teenagers - came to telling story. All the conclusion that birds and animals fled when the family plugged into their workstations, TVs, DVD players, iPods forest fire took hold and gaming consoles at the expense most of normal relationshipsthem stood and watched, or what we’ll come unable to call Real Lifethink of anything they could do. She included herself in this - her relationship with her iPhone was about The tiny hummingbird flew to the strongest she had outside river and began taking tiny amounts of her children - water and she decided flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that something drastic had to be donedoing. So began ''I'm doing the winter of our disconnect - six months without screens of any descriptionbest I can'', mobile phones or listening devices in said the homehummingbird. You think that’s not enough of a shock to And that, really, is the system? Nor did Susan - she started off with two weeks without any power in only way that we will solve the homeproblem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668465X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler1849767009|title=The Question BookIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleFor Sharing|summary=Most of us This could have probably made at least been one of those end-of-the-year lists of the best books, albums and parties we have been which 'preaches to in the previous twelve months. But can you, with some effort, locate choir': the one you made in 1987? Have you ever constructed a graph of your ups and downs in a given period, and then decided to expand only people who'll buy it by separating emotional, intellectual, sexual are the people who know that nudity is OK and financial aspects and colour coding them? Have you made a list of all your lovers, bosses or friends and then rated them from 1 to 10 on several dimensions each? Do you have one of the books that list ones who ''100 things to do before you dieknow'' or that it''500 books s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to read in your lifebust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It'' (s a celebration of bodies: bodies large and ticked off the ones you have done)? Did you ever spend a whole evening small and half of a night filling in dubious every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They'personalityre fine. In fact, they' questionnaires on the Internet? Have you ever doodled something, decided that it beautifully expresses the deepest essence of your personality and then proceeded to draw such icons for all your friends? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685389</amazonuk>re wonderful.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Cockburn and Henry Cockburn1504321383|title=Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia. a Father Single, Again, and Again, and Son's StoryAgain|author=Louisa Pateman

|summary=In February 2002 Patrick Cockburn was in Kabul, reporting to The Independent ''You can't be happy and fulfilled on the fall of the Taliban. While he was there he called his wife Jan at home in England, and was shocked to learn that their 20-year-old elder son Henry had been rescued by fishermen after coming close to death while swimming, fully clothed, in the icy waters of the Newhaven estuaryyour own. The police had decided that he was a danger to himself, and he was now in You are not complete until you find a mental hospitalman''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377033</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Kate Brian|title=Precious BabiesThis was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting after Infertility|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=There are lots of avenues of support it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those dealing with infertility, but what happens if you do finally get pregnant? Youfairy tales where the girl (she're still dealing with s usually fairly young) is rescued by the scars, both emotional and physical handsome prince who then marries her so that infertility they can leave behind, but it might seem callous live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to ask for help from other friends from your support network who themselves arenbe brought up ''without''t yet pregnantthe expectation that they will marry and have children. This book aims to It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a helpful guide that discusses everything from pregnancy to birth to parenting after birth in the light of your history with infertilitybelief is a choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749954019</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve RoudGraff_Find|title=The Lore of the Playground: The Children's World - Then and NowFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=43.5|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=Like many reviewers of the hardback edition, I thoroughy enjoyed reading this book, a nostalgic excursion into my own childhood games and rhymes. ItWhen Ben Graff's quite fun to identify the regional context grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of childhood lore. It cleared up for mehandwritten notes from his journal, as a South-East Londoner, the exact nature he didn't take much notice of a hitherto mysterious game called tagit. If you have already delved into At the classic ''The Lore and Language age of Schoolchildren24, Graff didn'' by Iona and Peter Opie (1959), you might find this book adds little for a general readership. For t realise the specialist, I'm sure this book will take its rightful place in gravity of the scholarly literature on childhood culturepages he was holding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099505274</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy BartkowiakGoodland_Worth|title=So YouIt've Passed Your Driving Test... What Now? Advanced Driving Skills For Young Driverss Worth a Try|author=Nicola Goodland

|summary=It's always struck me that the most difficult time for young drivers This is that period just after they pass their driving test. Someone has told you that youhow Nicola Goodland introduces her book, 're an OK driver, right? 'It'Buts Worth a Try'' you: 're out there, all on your own, without anyone to explain those odd things which you still haven't come across or I wanted to be the extra pair write this kind of eyes. You've got book because when I was a sense young woman, ladies and gents told me that they suffered from abuse of freedom, but somehow some kind as children and only found the courage to talk about it's a little bit ''daunting''. Judy Bartkowiak offers something a little bit differentas adults. It's not another Maybe this book about road signs, driving etiquette can deter children from becoming future abusers and stopping distances – stop abuse so it's some ideas goes away 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 toogood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218371</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony T DeBenedet and Lawrence CohenHigashida_Fall|title=The Art Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Roughhousing: Good Old Fashioned Horseplay Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and Why Every Kid Needs It David Mitchell|rating=45

|summary=Rather than running around outdoors, going for bike rides and building dens, lots of children nowadays end up spending hours watching TV or playing computer games. Play times in school are often very regimented and in some schools certain games like Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller 'British Bulldog' and 'Leapfrog' and even The Reason I Jump'Tag' have even been banned. Children are discouraged The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, as told from physical play, for fear that they will hurt themselves and also through the fear that those responsible for them will find themselves facing unique perspective of a lawsuit if someone does get hurtteenager with non-verbal autism. 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 risksNaoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, or experience by tracing letters on the palm of a few bumps and bruises and learn to get up and carry on, then they will lack vital life skills for their future adult livestranscriber.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594744874</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Diane Ackerman|title=One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, Despite this slow and the Language laborious method of Healing|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Diane Ackerman's husbandwriting, Paul West, had been he has published several books in hospital for three weeks with a kidney infection his native Japan and was just rejoicing in the fact that he was manages to give public presentations 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 raise awareness of speech and lost his extensive vocabularycondition. It's eight years since this happened and the intervening years have been Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to Naoki as a constant battle to improve Paul's speech young adult in his 20s and restore some joy to explains how his perspectives on life. There have been ups – and many downs – but despite a brain scan indicating that Paul might well be a vegetable he has changed since writing 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 agofirst book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039307241X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oliver JamesBialik_Girling|title=How Not To F*** Them Girling Up|author=Mayim Bialik

|summary=Child psychologist Oliver James can be relied This book arrived on my desk to fight his corner, whether itcries of ''Amy Farrah Fowler's about affluent society written a book?'' or toxic parents. Now he puts the first three years of life under the microscope and argues equally vehemently ''No, that parents need to identify their own needs accurately and build their children's care into a Blossom'good enough' frameworkdepending on your generation. Mayim Bialik is or was both, of course, but in order addition to being a well-known sitcom actress, she is also a neuroscientist (and the only PhD on The Big Bang Theory, except for the whole family to flourishcharacters). He's Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as a controversial figure whose interest in parenting goes back to his own childhood (yesgirl, youor ''ve guessed it, his parents where psychoanalysts). He argues the case for modifying childcare decisions to accord with parenting styles while avoiding working mumsGirling up' guilt trips: “'Why embracing your own parenting style is best for if you will, and your childwhat it means to transition from school girl to grown-up,' as the cover has itvia that hideous detour of teenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009192393X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eleanor BirneMattinson_Puppy|title=When Will I Sleep Through Choosing the Night? An A - Z of BabyhoodPerfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson

|summary=When it comes to parentingIf you have ever, I have discovered that for even a lot of people lie. They lie about sleepfleeting moment, thought about tantrumsgetting a puppy, about feeding and nappies and the effects of a screaming newborn on your marriageyou really ought to read this book. There Too many people are books galore, carried away in the heat of the moment and Mummy blogs, ''must'' have a particular breed and tweeters all happily proclaiming how marvellous it all is, first of all being pregnant, then giving birth, and then raising go ahead without any thought about the babyconsequences. ItThey then have to live with the problems which ''might's all glowing skin and sunshine smiles and meeting friends ' have been avoided for coffeea decade or more. I quickly stopped reading anything baby-related when I was pregnant because I was sick as a The puppy and the adult dog for 5 months, I had also has to live with an awful labour and that first year with owner who might not be able to accommodate his needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my little girl was almost impossibly difficult and totally consumed with the horror of a nongo-sleeping babyto author on matters dog related: she talks sense. Now, four and She doesn't try to talk you out of getting a half years on from giving birth particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the facts and (mostly) sleeping all night long I felt able allows you to open up this latest baby book, mainly because the title roused such familiar feelings in memake your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684862</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy BartkowiakRaskin_Grow|title=NLP For TeensGrow: A Family Guide to Growing Fruit and Veg|author=Ben Raskin|rating=45

|summary=NLP For Teens is part of the Engaging NLP series I worried when I looked at this book: ''Grow'', it said, ''A family guide to growing fruit and is a follow-on from NLP for Childrenveg''. Many a parent has been tempted to leave home when their children are teenagers; difficult as Why did it is for the parents worry me? Well, it's a traumatic time for mere 48 pages and the teens cover says that it includes ''Games, stickers and anything MORE!'' I have weighty tomes which makes it don't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and veg, so wasn't this going to fall a little easier is to be applauded particularly when the changes will come from the teens rather than being imposed by the parentshort? Well, it doesn't - not at all. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685901</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy AndrewsMcgrath_Camping|title=The Ultimate Guide to Bicycle MaintenanceCamping With Kids|author=Simon McGrath

|summary=This book seemed like the answer When my daughter was young it used to my husband's prayers. I've had be joked that if a beautiful Gary Fisher urban bike for about ten child asked on his fifth birthday to go camping and you told him that he could in five years' time, but shamefully, I can count he'd be there on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've even cleaned it. Well-used it certainly ishis tenth birthday, but I must confess to leaving all the maintenance kitted up and ready to aforementioned husbandgo. Having conceded that in this day These days the discussions - and age I ought delaying tactics - are more likely to be more independent that about technology - and mobiles in particular. Whilst it's wonderful thatchildren do embrace technology, it shouldn't be at the expense of getting out in the fresh air, I dived into this book being free of screens and having an adventure - preferably with great expectations for a fairer future …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232362</amazonuk>all the family doing it ''together''.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel LezanoWilliams_Son|title=Getting Started in DSLR PhotographyMy Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures|author=John Williams|rating=43.5

|summary=The magazineIn 2012, stand-style layout up comedian John Williams was encouraged by his work colleagues to write a show charting his experiences as the parent of this an autistic boy. After registering the domain name: 'magbook' My Son's Not Rainman,'' he also decided to write a blog to share his funny anecdotes and experiences. After a shaky start (an ugly, but apt''I had a handful of followers. Three of them were my brothers''), term for the format) lends itself particularly well to blog eventually went viral as it increased in popularity with parents who felt a connection with John and 'The Boy'. This book fills in some of the subject gaps in handthe story, not least as the glossy pages beautifully illustrate the effects on the photographs that the publishers are showing. Itstarting with 'The Boy's published by the team at 'Digital SLR Photography' magazine early childhood and it reads like a collection of the most useful articles published thereinending, appropriately, particularly for the novice to SLR photographyon his thirteenth birthday when he suddenly became 'The Teen'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232877</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Bartkowiak and Carolyn FitzpatrickMbaya_Brain|title=Passing the 11+ with NLP: NLP Strategies for Supporting Your 11 Plus StudentMy Brain Is Out Of Control|author=Patrick Mbaya

|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 Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a child more nervous and conscious that there's a lot at stakeconsultant psychiatrist, 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 husband and that it leaves the child feeling confident of their successfather. '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=Make, Mend, Bake, Save 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 His career was going 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>}} {{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 he enjoyed making ill 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 it's not so much about saving money as it is about survivingbetter. Actually, maybe it always was, but the Guiding Association thought a jolly piggy bank His marriage 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 away. What we all need is a return to the good old days, when life was simpler solid 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, fulfilling and when you ate what was fresh and local, not because it was cheap or you his two children were in the mood, but because it was all they had.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521121</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Natasha McElhone|title=After You: Letters of Loveexploring their potential, 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 often through the Valium and book a very long course uplifting power of counselingmusic. But Natascha McElhone couldn't because she Life was already stretched, juggling a busy transatlantic career as an actress as well as caring for her sparky young familygood. Coping as a single parent left no spare time for self-indulgence; within months she had a new baby as wellBut then. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanna Simmons and Jay CurtisAllingham_Beloved|title=The Aargh Beloved Old Age and What to Zzzz of ParentingDo About it: An Alternative GuideMargery Allingham's the Relay|author=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones

|summary='All in allWe remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a novelist from the golden age of crime, having kids is an intense rollercoaster rideperhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and excellent plotting. It plunges up and down, and there’s lots of screaming and vomiting involved.Her last completed book was not a novel but '' So that pretty much sums it up. Advertised as: The Relay'a comprehensively unhelpful, advice-free look at life', 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 combined account of a misery memoircaring for three elderly relatives, rather a blackly comic gallop round pragmatic parenthood(Em, instantly recognizable by anyone who’s been through the mill themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408626X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Barnardo|title=Dadcando: Build, Make, Do ... the Best Way Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as to Spend Quality Time with Your Kids|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=The ideas in this book originated as how other people might achieve a [http://wwwgood old age for their relatives.dadcando.co.uk/ website] that Chris Barnardo set up for divorced Margery died in 1966 and separated fathers to help them spend quality time with their children Now he's 'The Relay'' was never published in the form in which it was 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852652011</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tess DalyRodgers_Peace|title=The Baby DiariesPeace of Mind: Memories, Milestones and Misadventures|rating=3.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=One of the many side effects of pregnancy seems to be the need to read everything you can get your hands on about pregnancy and babies. I know that when pregnant with my daughter I trawled the library for any baby books they had, scoured the internet nightly for due date calendars, week by week guides and baby name dictionaries. I also became an obsessive baby-watcher, interested in any celebrity baby news and willing to speak to anyone 'normal' that I met who was pregnant too or who already had children. This book is aiming to be a sort A Book of catch-all Calm for pregnancy obsessives I think, as it's a mix of pregnancy and birth advice and information alongside of Tess Daly's memories from her pregnancies with her two daughters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935164</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBusy Mums|author=Evany Thomas|title=The Secret Language of Sleep: A Couple's Guide to the Thirty-nine PositionsGeorgina Rodgers

|summary=This volume takes The promise of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, in the premise title, my job description (busy mum...well, that the positions in which couples sleep together are an insight into their private 's just one of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to find, peace of mind. ThereforeI have to say, with I was looking forward to some insightful revelations into changing my life. I think the help of the line drawings of 39 (apparently all of THE 39) positionsproblem, however, was quickly apparent in that like a busy mum, one might see where one who is going wrong. It’s trying to wear a chicken and egg situation where you might learn you’re with hundred masks at the wrong bed partnersame time, and change either them or your nocturnal habitscarry out a multitude of roles, or in order this book isn't entirely sure what it's trying to change yourself alter things having reflected on the contents here – be, with the help as they suggest of a ceiling-mounted camcordereverything from poetry and colouring to mindfulness and recipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1932416471</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fraser's AutographsEhrlin_Rabbit|title=Collect Autographs: An Illustrated Guide to Collecting and Investing in Autographs|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=There must be many of us who have at one time had an autograph book or something of the kind as children and asked friends, relations or even celebrities to '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>}} {{newreview|author=Sonali Fernando|title=Soul Mates: True Stories From The World of Online Dating|rating=2.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=Internet dating is no longer the new taboo it once was. These days, whatever type of person you are, and whatever type of person you're looking to meet, you can take your pick from any number of sites. Yes, even 'Guardian' readers can log on and look for love specifically with, erm, other 'Guardian' readers. Rabbit Who Wants 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 of sandal wearing hippies among its members.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265202X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFall Asleep|author=Jethro Adlington|title=Online Therapy: Reading Between the LinesCarl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin|rating=45

|summary=You can get most things online these days and even therapy is becoming more widely available on Roger the internetRabbit wanted to fall asleep, but somehow he couldn't, no matter how hard he tried. It might seem like a simple step to take wasn't that he didn't do much during the day, because he did but many of sometimes he was so tired that he could fall asleep on the signals beyond the spoken word are not available swings. One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to the online therapist. In see Uncle Yawn, who had a face-notice outside his house saying I can make anyone fall asleep and once Roger went home (it was actually quite difficult for him to-face situation body language is an added form of communication and even small changes in skin tone can give clues get there as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to state of mind. In a situation where these clues are not available it's essential to make the most of ''all'' the clues offered by the written wordbed and fell asleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312748</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Keith Hern|title=Bangers and Mash|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=Keith Hern found a small lump in his neck and when the results of the tests came through he tried Move on to put the appointment off as he had something more pressing to do, but the doctor was insistent. He knew then that he had cancer. The lump in his neck was, in fact, a secondary tumour with the primary being in the back of his tongue. But for the secondary tumour the discovery of the primary might have been too late for successful treatment. Keith takes us through the discovery of his cancer, his reactions to the diagnosis, his treatment and the titular meal of bangers and mash – the first solid food which he had attempted for some time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312772</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Horror Reviews]]