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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lee Crutchley1454955546|title=How to Be Happy (or at least less sad): A Creative WorkbookSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=45

|summary=I gave up hoping for happiness many years ago and settled instead for enjoying contentment when it arrived and trying to make the most of it. 'Happiness' seemed to be rather like 'privileges' - something which you shouldnThis isn't expect as of righta diet book. Most of the The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' There was a time , not that long ago, when it works well, but just occasionally an extra boost was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high- a new approach - is neededfat content. Lee Crutchley has suffered from depression and he knows that this book is not Fat was the demon food which was going to help when youelevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. There're clinically depresseds a problem, but those of us who have been down though. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that road know that there are certain laybys where you stop and possibly turn aroundsound over the top? Well, it isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241201950</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Dawson1635866847|title=The Sty's the Limit: When Middle Age Gets MuckyLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|summary=Simon Dawson has met something he cannot beat. He can't come to terms with it either. It's called Getting Older: not strange, the things that make you ''immediately'getting older' which we all do day by day, but that moment when you realise feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''ve moved on to an entirely different stage in your life - and no one actually asked you if you wanted to go on , I visited the journey. For Simon itauthor's Middle Age that[https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's taken him by surprise: bits a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the body have stopped working as they ought to homepage. I don't eat cakes and he's realised desserts - but I wanted that if hecake viscerally. (There's going to look a recipe in the mirrorbook, bare-chested, then he shouldnwhich I't do m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it when he's standing next . Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a fit teenage boyproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409160858</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Swados0760381267|title=My Depression Verdura: A Picture BookLiving a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=43.5|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=If you have ever suffered from depression you'll find 'The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it very difficult to explain to other people how you're feeling'. You I're not feeling ve 'gardened'just in a little bit downvague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and I needed 'projects'rather than a general commitment to gardening. A treat or a dollop ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of positive thinking will not miraculously cure youvarying complexity seemed like the answer. You're definitely not swinging So, how did it stack up?}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the lead, but suffering from path back to connection in a legitimate illness fractured world|rating=3.5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which deserves 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'm lucky enough to be recognisedliving my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Elizabeth Swados Sarah Wilson is a long-term sufferer from severe depression: sheequally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's also a talented storyteller and has told words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the story of how depression feels for her - complete with drawingslife we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, which fill in those gaps which words can never fill for any sufferer from depressionI) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1609806042</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Alexander1394159544|title=Flirting With FrenchRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=4.5

|summary=I am not a bad linguist''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. I don’t tend A glass bottle will take up to struggle with languages too much1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, especially when the goal is communicative fluency rather than precise grammatical accuracyI faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and I’ve taught English as a foreign language recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in a handful the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of countries too'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, so I have some ideas suspected I was guilty of what does wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and doesn’t work with language acquisition dropping it in adultsthe kerbside bin. William Alexander is Yes, perhaps, not so lucky. An American with a longing to be a Frenchman, he is devoting himself to learning I could go searching on the lingo internet - and much more, and chronicles his efforts in this bookget conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649957</amazonuk>s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy Morin0760378134|title=13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't DoThe First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley

|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=When Amy Morin was just 26 If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and working as pick some fruit and vegetables for a psychologist and therapist her husband died suddenly, meal – but even whilst she was reeling from the shock she realised that there were things which she must you wouldn''not'' do. She knew that she must not develop a sense of entitlementt know where to start, feel resentment or succumb to self-pitythis is the book you need. That was ten years agoIt's comprehensive: since then Morin has remarried and worked with numerous patients using the principles which she applied you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to herself. Shegrow, what you's found 13 common habits which hold us back ll grow it in life (both containers and developed strategies to combat them. But the best thing which she makes clear is that mental strength is not about acting tough - for instancesoil), if where you've suffered a bereavementll put these containers, how you need to grieve - it's about having ll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the mental wherewithal to overcome lifebook with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's challengesalso a good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008105936</amazonuk> So, is it any good?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kemp1398508632|title=Caring for Shirley|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=John Kemp's wife, Shirley, suffered from dementia and loss of coordination and for eight years he was her full-time carer as she was unable to walk unaided (well, she ''could'' - but it was likely to result in a serious fall) and took care of all her most personal needs. Probably the most heart-breaking part of this is that Shirley didn't recognise John as her husband - apart from 'give us a kiss', the question 'where's John?' was usually the first which sprang to her lips in any situation. Although she could often have quite an affable disposition she was capable of kicking and biting when she was being 'encouraged' to do something which she didn't want to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479374245</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Wilderness Cure|author=Dr William Davis|title=Wheat Belly: The effortless health and weight-loss solution - no exercise, no calorie counting, no denialMo Wilde|rating=45

|summary=Dr William Davis poses an interesting question: why is It had been on the cards for a while but it that people who are leading an active life was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of 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 eating a healthy diet are putting on weight despite all their best efforts? pandemic. He has Wilde had a simple and worrying answerfew advantages: wheat, which he argues increases blood sugar more than table sugarthe area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. The problem isn't restricted She had electricity which allowed her to weight gainrun a fridge, either: there's evidence to suggest that wheat affects psychosis freezer and autism toodehydrator. In fact She had a car - the more that you readand fuel. Most importantly, the more you'll wonder if thereshe had shelter: this was not a plan to 's an organ in the body which 'live'isn't'' adversely affected by wheatwild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008118922</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly Baxter Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the MediaI May Be Wrong|rating=35|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=I love magazines more than is socially acceptable, and I invariably read When the women’s ones, or the fitness ones, but yes, mainly those ones for females which insist on telling me how Dalai Lama adds his words to dress and actyour frontispiece, how I'm inclined to style hair in some areas and remove think it in others, doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds to have it all but still let men open doors for meyour book. I don’t really object to any of this – after allknow, I choose to keep subscribing – but I was still keen to having read this the bookin question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. And not just to check He knows (and at core so do I hadn’t been indoctrinated into forgetting ) that it was all a ruse matters very much how the rest of the world responds to make me buy stuffthis book, because it tells the truth as it is, in the early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784700436</amazonuk>1526644827

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Madsen Pirie1732898731|title=How to Win Every ArgumentThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese

|summary=When There was a book makes a promise on its cover, call me old fashioned but I’m kinda expecting it to deliver on this. So ''How to Win Every Argument'' has me thinking that I would read it and become an expert in proving I’m right all the time (even when I’m not)Boy who loved boxes. I was expecting the sort of hints and tips one could use to argue successfully that the Earth is flat, chocolate is He had a vegetable (cocoa is a plant) box for everything and Cheerleaders should rule the world. Simples.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147252912X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dr Gareth Moore|title=Clever Commuterhe was meticulous about storage: Puzzleshis parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, Tests stuffed toys and Problems to Solve on Your Journey|rating=3.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=The week before I reviewed this book I saw a newspaper article that said that so-called brain-training apps are a waste of time, that they merely replace what we should be doing anyway to keep our grey cells active (multi-tasking, observing, REAL LIFE etc). This is the puzzle book version of a brain training app, and so with like: all those electronic titles on the market it already had opposition, even before that news came things which most children have inabundance. But let The Boy's face it – who on earth would risk delight was in the science being wrong on this occasion? Surely this kind sense of book should be an inherently essential purchase?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433953</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Amelia Freer|title=Eat. Nourish. Glow.order in his room: 10 easy steps for losing weight, looking younger and feeling healthier|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Amelia Freer had struggled with her own health for a while and it reached a stage where she was waking made him feel happy. As he grew up feeling tired and groggybecame a Man, relying on ten cups a day of sugary tea to perk her up his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and her food was mainly processed convenience foodsbetter boxes. At Look carefully at the time she was working as a PA to Prince Charles pictures and loved the job but her busy life meant that she made automatic food choices without consideration of what they were doing to her health. It wasnyou't until she went to ll see a nutritionist that she realised what she had been doing and made the decision not only to change her diet, but to train to be one of them has a nutritionistpadlock.. The result is a busy practice - and this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000757990X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler1846276772|title=The Test BookEnd of Bias: 64 Tools to Lead You to SuccessHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell

|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=The title of Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the book intrigued meextent to which they suffer from it: it''s simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The Test Book'' and able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the offer preserve of sixty four tools which would lead me to successthe white man. IEven when those who wouldn'm happy with where my life is but it struck me that only t pass the medical become a fool doesn't see room for improvement - and besides, part of an organisation it's a slim bookrare that their views are heard, ideal for popping into a bag or pocket for those waiting room momentsthat their concerns are acknowledged. It was only 's personally appalling and degrading for the reputation individuals on the receiving end of the authors - and the value of their earlier books - which made me realise that this wasnbias but it't going to be a light-hearted series of 'tests' such as those favoured by some magazines and newspapers. For s not just the most part these individuals who are serious, well-established tests used by professionalsnegatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125320X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Digital InfernoErling Kagge|authortitle=Paul LevyWalking: One Step At A Time|rating=45|genre=Lifestyle|summary=You Those who have read my reviews before will know that how it goes. You have much I loved a pressing job that requires your immediate attentionbook is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, but decide to treat yourself so let me start this one with an apology to a five minute tea break surfing the internet. One link leads to another and before you know Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it, was your short tea break has swallowed up a whole hourbook not mine. Or maybe you are at an important meeting and you feel the phone vibrate in your pocketIn my defence, signalling an incoming text. Is it rude to check your messages when your full attention should really be elsewhere? If you feel I will say that meaningful communication with the family has been replaced with as a glut reader of this type of hastily-typed xbook there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'sll allow creased corners, LOLs and emoticons, this book may be just what but 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 needwhy). ''Digital Inferno'' aims  Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to help its readers reclaim their place in the digital world South Pole, the North Pole and gain mastery over all the summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those pieces epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of tech that seem what it means to demand so much walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There 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 usas a meditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905570740</amazonuk>0241357705

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Making of HomeRichard Brook|authortitle=Judith FlandersUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life

|summary=In 1900 I am a young girl in a strange land told the people around her firm believer that she had decided she no longer wanted to live in their lovely countrysometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, but would much rather return to this is one of the ‘drylatter. Not so very long ago, grey’ place she if I had come fromacross this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because there I was ‘no place like home’likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. The girl was Dorothyis that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, while so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the people around her were the citizens of Oz book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – and, yes, but also because it was all fictionis a book I needed to read, the creation of author L. Frank Baum. Nevertheless he had put into words something which many people deeply felt but had not yet expressedright now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848877986</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0753558378|title=The Bookshop BookEffortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Jen CampbellGreg McKeown

|summary=I love a good bookshop. ''The smellmarginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the feel of an old bookshopcompany he worked for, struggling through, and the wonderful feeling even when you chance upon he was ill, only to find that he was working for a book that appeals to youbankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and his job had little value. They may be He made a dying breed in bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some placeschanges. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There is, you see, but Jen Campbell has written a fantastic book that celebrates the bookshop and different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who love themalmost break.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472116666</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Poundstone1523092734|title=How A Women's Guide to Predict the Unpredictable: The Art of Outsmarting Almost EveryoneClaiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=45|genre=ReferencePolitics and Society|summary=William Poundstone believes ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that we are all every woman needs in the business of predictingher life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, whether it be something as minor as playing rockformer CMO, paper, scissors Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to pay a bar bill though live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to anticipating how live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the housing or stock markets reviewing gods are going to move. Nowgenerous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, I'm not particularly competitive - if whatever it is means 'A Women'thats Guide to Claiming Space'' much by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to someone else then I'd rather let them have it be clear - so this book didnis not a 't appeal how to me on the basis of doing better than someone elsedisable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but I was interested in discussion at the moment seems to be about how it might women can be possible ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to predict what is going rise above this, to happenbe people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. SoIf all women did this, care those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to predict how it stacked up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780744072</amazonuk>prove that they are big men.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Waddell1529109116|title=Who Do You Think You Are?Call Me Red: The Genealogy HandbookA Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson

|genre=ReferenceLifestyle|summary=''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much to ask.'' The celebrity genealogy programme stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''Who Do You Think You Are?his'' celebrates its 10th anniversary this yearfamily have farmed for generations. The makers, Wall He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to Wall Media, were fortunate enough what he really wants to ride do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the ripple Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family tree fascination, helping holiday to turn it into the hobbyist tidal wave that remains todayLake District. For those not familiar with She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the formatkudos of her original intention, each episode allows us she knew that she wanted to accompany be a household name as they discover secrets, scandals and surprises about an ancestor or twoshepherd. Thus we arenWith the determination that you't only entertained; we're encouraged to delve into our own pastsll soon realise is an essential part of her, BBC TV publications acting as tutor and motivator via this handy little reference guideshe set about achieving her ambition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849908249</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynne Martin1786495902|title=Home Sweet AnywhereThe Natural Health Service: How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the WorldNature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=45|genre=TravelLifestyle|summary=Lynne and Tim Martin had known each other decades ago but when we meet them they've only been married for Isabel Hardman suffered a short timetrauma which she chooses not to share. There's just one thing though She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health- theycare professionals're not ready to settle down, despite jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the fact that theytime by 're what might be called keeping going'upper middle aged'. Their roots are in the US - both have adult children there and : the Martins have a house in California - but they want next day she went to travel and not just as tourists. They want work to see cover the budget, next there was the world as EU referendum, the locals see it political party leadership contests and to experience what then it's like to live therewas party conference season. Lynne describes them as not being wealthy, but they decide One night she had to sell their home, invest the money be sedated and become 'returned hometo begin long-free'term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00J0CRNKE</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The ConversationsLauren Martin|authortitle=Olivia FaneThe Book of Moods

|summary=I need no encouragement to start talking. Leave me alone with someone and was in a great mood when I will find something to talk to them aboutfirst learnt of this book, in whatever language. I’ve dated people I’ve met by talking to them on aeroplanesand because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, hablaring español imagine the word ''great'' being delivered with them in evening classesan eye roll and a sigh, chatting to them onlinethrough clenched teeth. I’ve made friends at I had spent the gymbest part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the shop floorwater at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during a day’s IT system trainingthe year, people and normally I still keep in touch with. So you might think 'm happy to, but that day the last thing weather was miserable and I need is a book of conversation starterswas miserable, and yet in it all came to a way that’s what this is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581981</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Flowerpot Farm: A First Gardening Activity Book|author=Lorraine Harrison|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=With head that evening when I noticed on the demand website that we had been thanked for us to eat seemingly more fruit our time as "Dave and vegetables every day, the world of grow-your-own is backwife". Wow. Why buy from the supermarket when you can release the kids into the garden to graze like cattle? However, before you do I had never needed this, perhaps you should pick up a book like ‘Flowerpot Farm’ by Lorraine Harrison and Faye Bradley which will show them how to create their own fruit, veg and flower garden no matter how small a space they have to work withmore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782400818</amazonuk>1538733625

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008420386|title=He TextedFailosophy: The Ultimate Guide to Decoding GuysA handbook for when things go wrong|author=Lisa Winning and Carrie Henderson-McDermottElizabeth Day

|summary=This bookWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, despite the titleMeera Syal, is about Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and - more than textingimportantly - they've been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. It is about You'll find the whole digital world results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Single, Again, and how guys Again, and gals interact within it (Companies’ House stalkerage aside)Again|author=Louisa Pateman|rating=4. From how long to wait to text back, to how to respond to friend requests 5|genre=Autobiography|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to do with believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the power when you’re unleashed on his Facebook wall, this book promises adults in her life advising her as to provide hilarious and essential advice on how what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to navigate be brought up ''without'' the perplexing world expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is trouser-shapeda choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892071</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Hanson1538731738|title=The Bluffer's Guide Simple Abundance: 365 Days to Etiquette (Bluffer's Guides)a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach

|summary=If you ask people what they fear most in any social situation most will tell you that Someone once said: it's not knowing how to behave. self-indulgence, it's therapy! They'll be fine I think they were talking about the basicsshopping, but it's those little niceties - how probably can be applied to introduce yourselfmost things. In my case, what it applies to ask for as an aperitif, how writing about things because I want to address someone, for instance which rather than because I can suddenly reveal you as a parvenu. William Hanson gives us a quick trip through the essentials in a book which is very readable and - in places - hilariously funnysell it or because I've got something to sell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909937002</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John JacksonSharon Blackie|title=A Little Piece of England: A tale of self-sufficiencyIf Women Rose Rooted

|genre=LifestyleBiography|summary=Here at Bookbag we're great fans of John JacksonI normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. We loved his [[Tales for Great Grandchildren by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|Tales for Great Grandchildren]] ''and'' [[Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology by John Jackson and Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini|Brahma Dreaming: Legends from Hindu Mythology]] so it was something Perhaps an even greater measure of a treat impact is setting out to meet buy my own copy before I've finished reading the author on his own ground, so to speakone I've borrowed. Originally published as I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful'A Bucket of Nuts and a Herring Net: The Birth of a Spare-Time Farm'inspiring' this is actually Jackson's first book and thirtylife-five years later wechanging're delighted that – although it's been republished in hardback complete with is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the original black-third – but clichés exist for a reason and-white illustrations by Val BiroI'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909661031</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1543987877|title=MastermindLearn to Love: How Guide to Think Like Sherlock HolmesHealing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Maria KonnikovaDr Thomas Jordan|rating=34.5

|summary=Psychologist Maria Konnikova seems ''Learn to Love: Guide to have Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather ambitious aims regarding her new than a bookabout love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''Mastermindyou will inevitably grieve'' . She plans Your love relationships begin the moment you're born and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the world hoping to teach her readers how to think like Sherlock Holmesgive and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Anyone who has read Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the adventures of the world’s most famous detective will have no doubt marvelled at his uncanny powers of analysis same mistakes - and observationthis eventually becomes resignation. Can a book really unlock For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the power form of the mind and turn average-Joe into resignation is a master of deduction?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085786727X</amazonuk>necessity.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chip Heath and Dan HeathMichael Harris|title=DecisiveSolitude: How to Make Better Decisions In Pursuit of a Singular Life in Life and Worka Crowded World

|genre=Business and FinanceLifestyle|summary=This is not the book I don't have a problem with making decisionswas expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to find calm, probably because I've always tended how to step outside the view mainstream, but it is not that it's better to make a decision and get on with life than haver and waste time in limboat all. With a few notable exceptions Instead of telling us how, itis more about the 's served me well, but when 'why'Decisive'. Harries examines how we' appeared on my desk it struck me that there could re eroding solitude, which used to be advantages to improving the quality a natural part of the decisions tooour human life, and why that matters. The Heath brothers Of course he talks about how some people have a good history found solitude and what has come of collaborating on such subjects that, and delivering books which open eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the mindalleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847940862</amazonuk>1847947662

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0753553236|title=Tiny Habits: The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves Small Changes That Change Everything|author=Stephen GroszB J Fogg

|summary=I usually review fictionGo on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people. For that reason alone Other people, I knew that reviewing this particular book of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would be make just a challengelittle bit of effort. Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I was attracted never quite seem to it get to grips with the concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for many reasons; I thought it would give me a window into many situations failing. Lack of which I know little or nothingwillpower is another burden to add to the list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099549034</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Hadfield|title=Change One Thing|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summaryisbn=On the face of it the principle is simple: just change one thing for a better life. Of course it's not that simple. Working on the basis that the longest journey starts with a single step Sue Hadfield looks at the disillusionment which is a by-product of our work-driven life and guides us towards the steps we'll need to take to pull ourselves out of what's not so much a rut as a pit of despair on occasions. Changing one thing is just the beginning, but as she points out, it can be what's needed to kick-start the whole process - to a better way of our current life or a whole new life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857084607</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=How to Win: The Argument, the Pitch, the Job, the Race|author=Dr Rob Yeung|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Looking for a sure-fire way to intimidate the competition during a job interview? Just sit in the waiting room perusing the oh, so subtly titled ''How to Win'', with the book tilted at the optimum angle to allow everyone to see the bold heading on the cover. Of course, if more than one candidate is reading the same book, difficulties may ensue...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857084291</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1785785516|title=The Mistress ContractFucking Good Manners|author=She and HeSimon Griffin|rating=34

|summary='Women feel Manners maketh man, they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a reluctance to talk about those things set of conventions, some of which are ages old and other which should be mysterioushave evolved over time.' WellManners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, not all of them. they have nothing to do with class or financial status: This line – and I wonthey't say who says it – is a quote from a large audio archive of re about getting the thoughts of a most unusual couplebasics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. College Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, they split apart then got back together, and ended up having an affair. Until she decided to formalise but it in a momentary flash of, well, something, saying she would cede all 's best if we learn to his every sexual distinguish between our public and housework wishes if he would cater for her financially private lives and with a place to liveact appropriately. Nowhere did that small contract say that they would open up themselves ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to public scrutiny with recordings of their conversations, over a restaurant table or in bed or a car having a tete-a-tete, but they soon did – and these small pages are help us on the resulting bookway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=Dedicated to...: The Forgotten Friendships, Hidden Stories and Lost Loves found in Second-hand BooksPainting Snails|author=W B GooderhamStephen John Hartley

|summary=Sharmi Albrechtsen was It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a true Hindu-American princess. Obsessed with shoes and handbags and designer labelsyear on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, she saw status but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and wealth as where for the only route to happinessbest results. But she wasn The answer would be something along the lines of 't happy enough, no matter how much designer gear she owned. And try it wasnand see't until 1997. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, when she married her second husbanddid an engineering apprenticeship, became a Danebusker, finally got into medical school and relocated to Denmark, is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I found out that she began there's an awful lot more to wonder if it was something lacking what goes on in herself, rather a Major Trauma Centre than her possessionsyou'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that was at isn't really what the root book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of her problemsHartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EAINZM8</amazonuk>