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|summary=Ruth Pearson was deputy head of her school and was studying for ''This isn't a Masters degree when she suffered an emotional breakdown as a result of the stresses of the jobdiet book. The breakdown last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' There was a time, not that long ago, when it was so severe thought that she sugary food was afraid to return to the classroom, but rather better for you than sitting back and letting food with high-fat content. Fat was the circumstances overwhelm her she allowed what had happened demon food which was going to become elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a catalyst which would help her to change her lifecarbohydrate, so good. In There''Say Yes to New Opportunities'' she shares what she learned from s a problem, though. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the experiencesame way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. To come back from this situation requires strengthDoes that sound over the top? Well, honesty and a sense of purpose, all of which Pearson demonstrates quite clearly throughout this bookit isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=Confessions of Modern WomenThe Lavender Companion|author=Spadge WhittakerJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|summary=SheIt's back! Huzzah! Do strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you remember when Spadge Whittaker . Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [[Braver Than Britainhttps://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, Occasionally by Spadge Whittaker|faced her (which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and our) deepest fears]]? We loved I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the way she did corners of pages. You suspect thatsmears of butter would not be a problem. EXCEPT FOR THE SPIDERS I ''loved'' this book already.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760381267|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''.

This timeI've 'gardened' in a vague, Spadge indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. I know (most of) the basics but life has turned her attention changed and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to what gardening. ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer. So, how did it means to be a modern woman in twenty-first century, digital Britain. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429912</amazonuk>stack up?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dixe WillsSarah Wilson|title=Tiny CampsitesThis One Wild and Precious Life: 80 Perfect Little Places the path back to Pitchconnection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=TravelLifestyle|summary=My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I've often been put off m lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the idea of camping by the thought of large, soul-less campsites, often populated by people who way I want to party late into the night. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I much prefer camping to mean something - a feeling of being somewhere special, of being able can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be at one with natureliving. But the trouble Her answer isan unequivocal ''no, where do you find these gems? Well, we are not''Tiny Campsites. Don't care what you' will provide re doing, she thinks you with eighty perfect little places to pitch your tent(we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749578483</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Redress1394159544|title=Dress (with) sense: The Practical Guide to a Conscious ClosetRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=4.5

|summary=Not too long ago I didn't have any problems with clothes'Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. They were A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just about all black and -post-WWII baby, I wore them until they dropped off my back - faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and then I used what I could recycling is part of the material for other purposesmy DNA. I had this lovely little clothes shop in Ilkley (it says NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'Oxfam' over come in handy now or in the door) when I needed to restockfuture. Clothes were simpleNEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. Then Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I encountered the lovely [[:Category:Numba Pinkerton|Numba Pinkerton]] and suddenly suspected I had colour in my lifewas guilty of wishcycling: not all of it could assuming that something must be had from Oxfam. Sometimes recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I might even be buying ''new'' clothesm looking at you) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yes, I needed help could go searching on the internet - and more get conflicting advice, because it really isn't as simple as just walking into the nearest department store- but what I needed was a recycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292779</amazonuk>s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Elizabeth Blackburn and Dr Elissa Epel0760378134|title=The Telomere EffectFirst-Time Gardener: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, LongerContainer Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley

|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=I have lived my life determined not 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'ages comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you': I see nothing aspirational in the dependence of old agere going to grow, whether what you'll grow it be on other peoplein (both containers and soil), government in all its forms or the NHS. Iwhere you'm prepared to ll put effort into this: itthese containers, how you's not ll water and fertilise them and you finish the cosmetic image main part of youth I seek, but rather the ability to do as I do now - running book with a business, regularly walking for miles in our glorious countryside and enjoying life - for as long as possiblehandy section on troubleshooting. So far itThere's working outalso a good glossary. So, but what else could I do and ''why'' does this work for some people and not for othersis it any good?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297609238</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Weatherhogg1398508632|title=Living With DepressionThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45

|summary=Nick Weatherhogg has It had been diagnosed as suffering from severe depressionon the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. Many The end of you will be nodding wisely November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and thinking that you know how he feels: but there are two points he wants to make herea pandemic. You ''don't'' know how he feelsWilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. This is ''his'' depression She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and only he knows what it feels like - if he's able to think or express how he's feelingdehydrator. The other point is that there's She had a big difference between ''feeling'' depressed and ''being'' depressed car - ''fepression'' and ''bepression'' as he terms themfuel. HeMost importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to 's right: I've been there. My feelings, my experience will have been different, but I do know that it was hellish. He describes the experience as live''a mental state in which your brain regularly and consistently lies wild just to youlive off its produce.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524663662</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 12/1 -->Frontpage|author=Jo BirdBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Web I May Be Wrong|rating=5|genre= Autobiography|summary= When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to Successthink it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds to your book. I know, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of the world responds to this book, because it tells the truth as it is, in the early 21st century.|isbn=1526644827}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1732898731|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese

|summary=[[:Category:Jo Bird|Jo Bird]] (illustrator, designer and… errrThere was a Boy who loved boxes.. .wall tattooist) He had a lightbulb moment box for everything and he was meticulous about positive thinkingstorage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, self-improvement stuffed toys and successthe like: all the things which most children have in abundance. The road to an improved self isnBoy't linear s delight was in the sense of order in a 'change this thing and all will be fine' way; his room: it's a web that connects and intersects several paths and subjects that can be summarised under three headingsmade him feel happy. All successful people (socially as much as professionally) know about self-awarenessAs he grew up and became a Man, personal development his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and emotional awarenessbetter boxes. After having a shot Look carefully at principles of self-improvement herself, Jo shares the fruit of her experience across a wealth of fields to make pictures and you'll see that one heck of them has a self-help bookpadlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152466622X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Ellen Guiney1846276772|title=Vietnamese VoicesThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=34.5|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=Mary Ellen Guiney has been diagnosed at various times with schizophrenia and bi-polar disorderAnyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The resulting treatment able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of choice is the conventional western medicine approach and drug regimens that brought with them unpleasant side-effectswhite man. Determined to find Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a better way part of symptom controlan organisation it's rare that their views are heard, using her biochemical background, Mary Ellen begins to investigate alternative eastern medicine that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and therapies in addition to looking at degrading for the individuals on the effect receiving end of nutrition and exercise. The results are here: this is Mary Ellenthe bias but it's story written in her own wordsnot just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524663123</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick MbayaErling Kagge|title= My Brain Is Out Of ControlWalking: One Step At A Time|rating= 45|genre= Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=Dr Patrick Mbaya Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was enjoying life your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as a consultant psychiatristreader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, husband and fatherbut not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). His career was going well  Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the North Pole and he enjoyed making ill people betterthe summit of Everest. His marriage was solid and fulfilling and his He knows a thing or two children were exploring their potentialabout walking. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, often through the uplifting power it is instead a thoughtful exploration of musicwhat it means to walk. Life was goodIt is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. But thenThere is no 'contents' page and I haven't counted.In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long.Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524636649</amazonuk>0241357705

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan S LeeRichard Brook|title=Lean Gains|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=I don't often begin a book by telling you what it ''isn't'' but in this case I think itUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's important. If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking to shed a few pounds then you won't get the best out of this book. You'll find some good advice about diet, but I'm afraid that much of it is going to go over your head. Of course you could always take up a sport seriously... On the other hand, if you ''are'' a serious sportsman then you could find that the advice in ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up Guide to the next level of performance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463493X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Laura Slater|title=Hollywood Beauty: Vintage SecretsLife|rating=4.5

|summary=I have vivid memories from am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my youth case, this is one of seeing the Hollywood beauties on the television or at the cinema and wishing that latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'Ihit home'' could look like in the way that and - of course, no matter how it does now. I tried, I never could. The look of Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Ava Gardner and Sofia Loren always eluded believe it came to me. To begin with, not just because I lacked knowledge. Despite being reasonably petite my oblong face was never going likely to look anything like Audrey Hepburngive it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag'su. I lacked quite a few of Brigitte Bardot's attributes too. Gradually, I realised p. is that developing my people chose their own style was books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the best way to gobook, but Ieven if it doesn'll confess t always turn out that there are still way''elements'' of the stars' looks which ] – but also because it is a book I'd love needed to copy. That's where ''Vintage Secrets: Hollywood Beauty'' comes inread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0859655083</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuchi Yang0753558378|title=A Food Guide Effortless: Make It Easier to Lowering Blood Pressure: 6 Simple StepsDo What Matters|author=Greg McKeown|rating=4.5

|summary=Yuchi Yang has been a registered dietitian for over twenty years and she's allowing us the benefit 'The marginal return of her knowledge to help us to reduce our blood pressure working harder was, in fact, negative.''without That's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. It' taking medications no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, although she does stress only to find that if you ''are'' taking medication you shouldn't stop doing so without consulting your doctorhe was working for a bankrupt company. You can reduce your BP in six stepsHis stock had fallen by 97%, which are actually he had lost his health and his job had little value. He made a lot simpler than they soundbargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. Does it work? YesThere is, it doesyou see, a different way: I've been eating this way 'great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for more than two years and I've gone from having 'very worryingthose who almost break.' blood pressure readings to getting a smile when they're taken and being told that my BP is perfectly normal - and that's without taking medication of any sort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1539803422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Long1523092734|title=The Mock OlympianA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=45|genre=SportPolitics and Society|summary=It started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him 'She brings a book as part of his birthday presenthug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again. It was ''Time Out(Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) 's'' guide To claim space is to live the history life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the Olympics and it covered each of life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the summer Olympics reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Sarahnews, ''A Women's boyfriend James commented that with all the running Michael did, heGuide to Claiming Space''d probably have run in most of the Olympic citiesby Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Although Long had done Now - to be clear - this book is not a goodly number of runs, bike rides and triathlons he'd only competed in how to disable your attacker with two of the twenty three cities - London and Athens. Now most of us would have left simple jabs' manual: it at that's something far more effective, but that's not discussion at the Michael Long youmoment seems to be about how women can be 're going to come to know and love. He saw it as a 'protected'challenge'. I' and whatve always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don's more he blogged about it and then wrote t need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this book, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662887</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Numba Pinkerton1529109116|title=The No Black ProjectCall Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson

|summary=I don't like shopping for clothes, but there's no valid reason whyI want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. Idon'm small, but reasonably slim - a size 10 petite usually fits me perfectly - and I'm lucky to be able to afford t think that is too much to buy whatever clothes I wantask. '' The trouble is that I lack stereotypical farmer was probably born on the confidence land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to know what is going to suit me and he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be honest ita farmer. It's very difficult to get excited about not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a trip which will almost certainly end up with another pair deep love of smart black trousers and a matching topanimals. I never feel Her original intention was that I look particularly good in blackshe would become 'Dr Jackson, but Iwhale scientist've resorted and she was well on her way to it because it can usually take me anywhere and is unlikely achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to cause offencethe Lake District. SoShe saw a lamb being born and, how did I feel when I was given a copy of although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer'The No Black Project''? Welllacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be honest, I felt a little scaredshepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1533506957</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Short1786495902|title=101 Things To Do When You're Not DrinkingThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=45

|summary=If you're thinking about giving up alcohol long termIsabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, short term or for Dry January then you might be wondering if itburst into tears and health-care professionals's going to leave one helluva hole jaws have sagged in your social lifedisbelief. You might be thinking about what you'll do Hardman dealt with this at the time you normally spend out socialising (just having a quick one before you get by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the train home...) as well as budget, next there was the time you spend recovering from having had ''just'' one too many EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night before. Sunday mornings will loom large as uncharted she had to be sedated and largely unknown territoryreturned home to begin long-term sick leave. Robert Short has a few answers for you - well 101 of them in fact - in a pocket-size That was what brought me to this book which should give you some inspiration: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722877</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tonia VojtkofskyLauren Martin|title=Keep Your Brain Stronger for LongerThe Book of Moods|rating=45

|summary=On the front I was in a great mood when I first learnt of the this book it says that our brains need a well-rounded workout just like our bodies. A decade or two ago I wouldn, and because sarcasm doesn't have given very much thought to this - my body always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''andgreat'' my brain seemed to get all the workout they needed without me adding to their burdensbeing delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, but close on the beginning of my eighth decade I've noticed somethingthrough clenched teeth. I keep losing words: nothing major, you know, but this morning I couldn't remember had spent the name best part of a flower which I hadn't seen since this time last year - until about half an hour laterrainy, whenwindy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, of course it on standby in case anyone who was no longer relevantracing needed support. When youIt're young you dons a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I't worry about what you'll suffer from in old age. As you get older you develop dreads m happy to, but that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, and one of it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the biggest website that we had been thanked for people who are still hale our time as "Dave and hearty is that they'll develop dementiawife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780722842</amazonuk>1538733625

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones0008420386|title=Beloved Old Age and What to Do About it: Margery Allingham's the Relay|rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=We remember [[:CategoryFailosophy:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a novelist from the golden age of crime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and excellent plotting. Her last completed book was not a novel but ''The Relay'', a 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 good old age A handbook for their relatives. Margery died in 1966 and ''The Relay'' was never published in the form in which it was written.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262296</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewwhen things go wrong|author=Jack Pendarvis|title=Cigarette Lighter (Object Lessons)Elizabeth Day|rating=34

|summary=I What do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have a favourite cigarette lighter. in common? That sentence may become They've all failed and - more strange to you when you consider the fact that I have never smoked. I don't know how but I got it as a freebie donkeyimportantly - they's years ago, and I loved its curvy bronzed lines, and the fact that I had ve been willing to click down appear on a button instead of rub against a flint-wheel to light it. I optimistically took it with me at uni in case I found a girl good enough to be with even though she smoked (which took almost another twenty years, but thatElizabeth Day's a different story) – therefore I was carrying something so evidently not a match as a potential match-maker. Later, its semi-art deco styling made it perfect podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for a play I was in once, after which it dried upthem afterwards. Now itYou's more or less a paperweight. But if I can imbue such personal relevance ll find the results of these discussions in a bleeding fag lighter, just think what all of culture can do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307363</amazonuk>''Failosophy''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Pyne1504321383|title=Bookshelf (Object Lessons)Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman

|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=Could ''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you imagine find a whole book dedicated man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to a single lump of wood, or a few sections of metal? believe. I canIt wasn't assume unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be great – with or without said item being best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''an object with physical, historical and psychological componentswithout''. But shove some distorted tree by-products on to said wood or metal, the expectation that they will marry and lo and behold you have a bookshelfchildren. Now youIt was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''re talking – but could you even now imagine a whole book dedicated to it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307320</amazonuk>belief is a choice''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Georgina Rodgers1538731738|title=Peace of MindSimple Abundance: A Book of Calm for Busy Mums365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=35

|summary=The promise of a book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There Someone once said: it is's not self-indulgence, in the title, my job description (busy mum...well, thatit's just one of my jobstherapy!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to I think they were talking about shopping, but it probably can be trying applied to find, peace of mindmost things. I have to sayIn my case, I was looking forward it applies to some insightful revelations into changing my life. writing about things because I think the problem, however, was quickly apparent in that like a busy mum, who is trying want to wear a hundred masks at the same time, and carry out a multitude of roles, this book isn't entirely sure what rather than because I can sell itor because I's trying to be, with everything from poetry and colouring ve got something to mindfulness and recipessell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473635519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Merinda D'ApranoSharon Blackie|title= The Essential Guide to Your Prep School Journey (Head Teacher in Your Pocket)If Women Rose Rooted|rating= 4.5|genre= LifestyleBiography|summary= As I normally say that you might can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have gathered from the title, ''The Essential Guide corners turned down. Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to Your Prep School Journeybuy my own copy before I'' is pitched at parents who intend on using the private sector to educate their children. And clearly, these are the parents who will benefit most from ve finished reading the bookone I've borrowed. However, there is a great deal of general advice within its pages which will prove helpful even I want to parents whose children will be travelling through the state sector. So if this is you, don't discount this book immediately. Such advice includes avoid clichés like 'powerful'Why is reading so important?'inspiring', ''How can I promote a brave learner?'life-changing' – although it is definitely the first two and ''Is only time will tell about the internet safe third – but clichés exist for my child?a reason and I'' - you m not sure I can see that these are universally applicable topics and topics that all parents appreciate advice aboutsuccinctly put it any better. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993550304</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H Shepard1543987877|title=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of WisdomLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5

|summary=For a Bear of Very Little Brain Winnie-the-Pooh talks an awful lot of sense and we should be honoured that he's chosen 'Learn to share with us Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a few of his wise wordsbook about love. You see, occasionally (well, an awful lot of the time, if we're honest) we look for wisdom in the wrong places The two greatest emotions are love and forget about those who have a very simple approach to life grief and who may well have discovered love is the secret opposite of happiness. Poohgrief: ''if you love''s take on life is very simple and none the worse for that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts|title=One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Have you ever worked at a task and found your mind wandering to something else? Do you find yourself breaking off what Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''youwill inevitably grieve''re doing to answer an email? . Do you try to multitask, thinking that Your love relationships begin the moment you're being more efficient? Do born and end only when you have far too much to attend to, to complete and nowhere near enough time to do it all? You do? Me toodie. You need this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137551909</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Thomas W Hodgkinson and Hubert van den Bergh|title= How Whilst we all come into the world hoping to Sound Cultured |rating= 4|genre= Lifestyle|summary= Sometimes it can be hard to run with the big dogs, give and while I know the names to drop in my field of work, some wider cultural references can pass me by. This receive love there are many people for whom love is especially true for those from before my time and not quite so I was delighted to find icons from all decades simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and centuries featured in this bookeventually becomes resignation. Badged as '' For people who are making the 250 names that intellectuals love to drop into conversation'' this book features quotes and biographical titbits covering big names from every sector – sciencesame mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the arts, philosophyform of resignation is a necessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848319304</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony CrabbeMichael Harris|title=BusySolitude: How to Thrive In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World of Too Much

|summary=Serendipity often brings you This is not the book I was expecting it to the important booksbe. Recently For some reason I heard myself say expected it to be another self-help manual on how to a friend: ''I'm far too busy find calm, how to do some step outside the mainstream, but it is not that at all. Instead of telling us how, it is more about the important stuff''why''. It pulled me up short: there was definitely something wrong here - and then I had the opportunity Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to listen to an audio download be a natural part of ''Busy'' our human life, and why that matters. Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and I knew what has come of that , and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it was something I ''had'' to do out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and take notice of if I was to stop going ''backwards''. Because by-ways that was what I was doinghis thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B01727ER84</amazonuk>1847947662

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Kelly and Jonathan Pugh0753553236|title=Walking on SunshineTiny Habits: 52 The Small Steps to HappinessChanges That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=45

|summary=How would Go on, admit it - you like 52 tips on how to be happier? 're not quite perfect. No this isn't an offer to sign up You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to a dodgy website - it's a small book which you could pop into a bag and ) habits which will give you tipsseem to annoy other people. Other people, tools and positive idea about how you can make your life happierof course, less complicated and more fulfilling. Open it at randomare sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if that's what you feel like doing, or work your way through it reading one tip per week - only they're helpfully divided into the four seasons - and savour would make just a couple little bit of pages of elegant writing which will give you something to think about or something positive effort. Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do (things or not do - if you see some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I mean)never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722524</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ilka Heinemann|title=101 Things to do Instead of Playing on Your Phone|rating= 5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= There's a great joke I constantly fail and then I saw online recentlyget cross with myself for failing. One cartoon person says Lack of willpower is another burden to the other, ''What's your favourite position in bed?'' and the other replies ''Closest add to the plug so I can still use my phone while it's charging''. It's funny because it's truelist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178072246X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brene Brown1785785516|title=Rising StrongFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin

|summary=This is Brené Brown's fourth book. Like Elizabeth GilbertManners maketh man, she is well known for her TED talkthey say. As It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a professor at the University set of conventions, some of Houstonwhich are ages old and other which have evolved over time. Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, she has spent they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the last 13 years working basics right before we try to deal with peoplemore difficult matters. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we's stories. Such a qualitative approach, based on anecdote re with family and experiencefriends, is relatively rare in the social sciences but certainly makes her work more accessible it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to laymenact appropriately. Her books fall into the ''Fucking Good Manners''self-aims to help' arena, but without any of us on the negative connotations of that term. Here she makes her research relevant to everyday life by weaving in pop culture references and telling stories from her family and professional lifeway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091955033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lee Crutchley1999811402|title=How to Be Happy (or at least less sad): A Creative WorkbookPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I gave up hoping for happiness many years ago thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and settled instead where for enjoying contentment when it arrived and trying to make the most of itbest results. 'Happiness' seemed to The answer would be rather like something along the lines of 'privilegestry it and see' - something which you shouldn't expect as of right. Most of the time it works wellThen I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, but just occasionally did an extra boost - engineering apprenticeship, became a new approach busker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part- is neededtime). Lee Crutchley has suffered I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from depression and he knows ''Casualty'', but that this isn't really what the book is not going 's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to help when yoube the real passion of Hartley're clinically depresseds life, but those of us who it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have been down a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that road know that there are certain laybys where you stop and possibly turn around's the one. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241201950</amazonuk>