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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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|classgenre=Lifestyle|summary=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 there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -"wikitable" cellpaddingbut I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. 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 problem. 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="15"''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''.

<!-- Mackay -->I've 'gardened' in a vague, 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. ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer. So, how did it stack up?}}{{Frontpage|-author=Sarah Wilson| styletitle="widthThis One Wild and Precious Life: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=3.5[[image:Mackay_Trials.jpg|leftgenre= Lifestyle|linksummary=https://wwwMy 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'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's 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 life we want – the best life that we could be living.amazon Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''.co Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.uk/gp/product/1524683094?ie|isbn=UTF8&tag1785633848}}{{Frontpage|isbn=thebookbag-21&linkCode1394159544|title=as2&campRecycling for Dummies|author=1634&creativeSarah Winkler|rating=5|genre=6738&creativeASINLifestyle|summary=1524683094]]''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.''

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Just chance you think that you're picking up As a book about what can go wrong in life for an itinerant sex worker just-post-WWII baby, I'd better explain exactly what it was that author Andrew Mackay did for thirty three years. A travelling prostitute is faced a worker who is employed by one company but his services are sold out to other countriesdilemma: reducing, usually at a substantial profit to the employing company reusing and a lot recycling is part of inconvenience to the employeemy DNA. Mackay was an engineer who knew all NEVER throw away anything that there was to be know about turbines and generators, might ''possibly'' come in handy now or if he didn't could soon be up to speed to the extent of being able to teach other people. Occasionally his skills were used in the UK, but frequently he was abroadfuture. Just every now and again he NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would be in those parts of serve the world which has the rest of us green with envy, but then there were those areas which feature heavily in the news and not in a good waypurpose. 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Her parents used their savings to give her this opportunity assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and called dropping it an investment in her futurethe kerbside bin. Now a qualified pharmacist Yes, married and with a child of her own, Tabitha looks back at her childhood and reflects I could go searching on the way her mother internet - and father raised herget conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible. And she gives their parenting top marks. [[Parenting through the Eyes of a Child: Memoirs of My Childhood by Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza|Full Review]]s}}<!-- Kyncl -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0760378134| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; textThe First-alignTime Gardener: center;"|Container Food Gardening[[image:Kyncl_Stream.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0753545926?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINauthor=0753545926]] Pamela Farley| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"5|==genre=[[Stream Punks by Robert Kyncl Home and Maany Peyvan]]===Family[[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category: Entertainment|Entertainment]] I watch quite a lot of YouTube. I play music videos when I want to listen to a particular song I donIf you't already have in my collection. I use ve ever thought how good it would be to find be able to pop out how to do things, with into the instruction videos they seem to have for pretty much anything. At the gym, I'll stick it on on my phone, prop it up on the cross trainer garden and watch pick some behind the scenes interviews with the cast of my favourite shows. And sometimes I'll treat it as if it is Netflix, to watch series with new episodes releasing every few days, exclusively on YouTube. Having fruit and vegetables for a new smart TV adds an extra, easy way to watch without having to plug in my laptop or squint at a small phone screen. So yes, I like YouTube and I use YouTube. But I didnmeal – but realised that you wouldn't know a whole lot about the site it until I read this book.[[Stream Punks by Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan|Full Review]] <!-- Way -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:History|History]] Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to the country in those days. Men had their coffee houses, but they were not places where women could or would be seen. Tea was introduced to England in the 17th century but it was not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the drink of choice for the nation. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Onlystart, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was is the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardensbook you need. 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Nicholson was thirteen ll water and fertilise them and saw you finish the 45rpm recording main part of the song in the window of the local music store and would have loved to be able to buy it but didn't have the money. Thirteen-year olds didn't in those days unless it was book with a birthday or Christmas and you couldn't get a part-time job until you were fifteenhandy section on troubleshooting. There would be a few of those badly-paid jobs before he finished his A levels and went to New York for three months. It's this trip which Nicholson feels turned him from being also a boy into a man and allowed him to see the bigger picturegood glossary.<br> So, is it any good?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow1398508632|title= Personal StereoThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating= 5

|summary= These tiny 'Object Lessons', It had been on the cards for a range of books while but it was the week-long consumer binge which are more like a long-form essay, explore often seemingly mundane items. ''Personal Stereo'' packs a lot pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of information into a small spaceeating only wild food. Split into three distinct sections: NoveltyThe end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, Normin a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and Nostalgia, a pandemic. 'Novelty' traces Wilde had a few advantages: the origin of the Sony Walkman, from its conception by two Japanese business men to it becoming area around her was a known habitat with a recognised entity on the streets variety of Americaterrains. 'Norm' follows on from the universal success of the personal stereo, relating this She had electricity which allowed her to the technology which it set the groundwork for, such as the ubiquitous proliferation of MP3s, the iPodrun a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and Smartphones, leading to the eventual downfall in the popularity of the Walkmanfuel. FinallyMost importantly, in she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'Nostalgia', Tuhus-Dubrow examines our need wild just to hark back to a simpler time, when the personal stereo seemed the height of freedomlive off its produce. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501322818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chit DubeyBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=21 Doors I May Be Wrong|rating=5|genre= Autobiography|summary= When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think 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 Happinessthis 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: Life Through Travel Experiences and MeditationA Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=4.5

|summary=I know that I'm not alone in having been brought up to ''achieve'', to look down on those There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had different (''lesser'a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, it would stuffed toys and the like: all the things which most children have been said) aims, but there comes a point in life when you wonder about abundance. The Boy's delight was in the point sense of order in his room: it allmade him feel happy. Do you need to keep on ''achieving'', As he grew up and if so, ''why''? Many years ago I had became a light-bulb moment when I realised that achieving more, having more moneyMan, his life became more material possessions didn't make me happy - complicated and surely the point of it all was to be ''happy''? Superficially that sounds very simple: live a life doing only what you want to do he dealt with this by getting bigger and pleasing yourself, but that doesn't bring happiness eitherbetter boxes. Chit Dubey believes that happiness is inside you Look carefully at the pictures and you just need to delve 'll see that one of them has a little deeper to find itpadlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1999838912</amazonuk>

<!-- Moore -->Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to 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 as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705[[image}}{{Frontpage|author=Richard Brook|title=Understanding Human Nature:Moore BientotA User's Guide to Life|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Lifestyle|linksummary=https://wwwI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the 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 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.amazons.cop.uk/gp/product/1782438610?ieis that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|isbn=UTF8&tag1800461682}}{{Frontpage|isbn=thebookbag-21&linkCode0753558378|title=as2&campEffortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=1634&creativeGreg McKeown|rating=6738&creativeASIN4.5|genre=1782438610]]Lifestyle|summary=''The marginal 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 company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and his job had little value. He made a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There is, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1523092734|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=[[A Bientot... by Roger Moore]]Eliza Van Cort|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)

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The news of Sometimes the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as reviewing gods are generous: at a great shock: he was one of those people you knew would go on for ever. There was just one small glimmer of light time when violence against women is much in the sadness news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - the news that this book is not a matter of days before his death he'd delivered how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the finished manuscript of his book, moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected'À bientôt…'. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to his publishersprove that they are big men. Just }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529109116|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''I want the image of a few months later British farmer to simply be that of a copy landed on my desk and person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I didndon't even bother think that is too much to look as though I could resist reading it straight awayask. [[A Bientot... by Roger Moore|Full Review]]<br>''

The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to 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 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 holiday to the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786495902|title=My Psychosis StoryThe Natural Health Service: A Story of Fear and Hope Through AdversityHow Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Emmanuel OwusuIsabel Hardman|rating=45

|summary=''My Psychosis Story'' recounts Emmanuel Owusu's journey into and eventually out of psychosis. In late 2014, during Isabel Hardman suffered a visit home for Christmas, he found himself exhausted, anxious and unable trauma which she chooses not to sleepshare. Symptoms persisted and soon he was suffering from noise sensitivity and intense headaches. Various visits to A&E failed to diagnose She says that a physical cause. Things deteriorated further friend who does know, burst into tears and possible diagnoses of anxiety and post traumatic concussion were suggestedhealth-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. And Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going'still'' things got worse. Eventually: the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, Owusu's condition deteriorated so far that he the political party leadership contests and then it was suffering from delusions party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and hallucinationsreturned home to begin long-term sick leave. An ambulance That was called and he what brought me to this book: 2020 was detained - sectioned - under the Mental Health Act in 2015year when the bins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524680559</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Megan HineLauren Martin|title= Mind The Book of a SurvivorMoods|rating= 5|genre= Lifestyle|summary=Megan Hine is probably I was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the type of person that youword ''great''d want being delivered with you in an eye roll and a crisis situationsigh, through clenched teeth. CoolI had spent the best part of a rainy, calm and capable; this survival expert is equally windy weekend afternoon out on the water at home our local sailing club in desertthe rescue rib, mountain, tundra and jungle environmentson standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. SheIt's navigated her way around some of a volunteer duty we all do during the most inhospitable regions on the planet year, and survived normally I'm happy to tell , but that day the tale. But just what is weather was miserable and I was miserable, and it that makes some people more capable in all came to a survival situation than others? Physical fitness? Bushcraft skills? Experience? Whilst all of these are important, Hine argues head that ''attitude'' is one of evening when I noticed on the most important factors in survivalwebsite that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. In I had never needed this book, she examines how the right mindset can mean the difference between life and death when isolated in the wildernessmore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473649285</amazonuk>1538733625

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Ikin0008420386|title=The Kitchen Garden (Britain's Heritage Series)Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day

|summary=I love visiting country housesWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, but you can keep the interiors Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and the flower gardens - what interests me is the kitchen garden: seeing one which has more importantly - they've been restored willing to its former glory is a real treat, as was ''Britainappear on Elizabeth Day's Heritage: The Country Garden'' when it landed on my deskpodcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. There was no longer any need to guess at You'll find the work that had been done: here was the history complete with glorious illustrations as well as some wonderful advertisements. results of these discussions in ''Canary Guano. For Greenhouse and garden. Perfectly clean. May be used by a lady.Failosophy'' is still making me giggle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566884X</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 7/7 -->Frontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author= Veronica M McNallyLouisa Pateman|rating=4.5|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 believe. It wasn't unkind: 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 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 ''without'' the 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 a choice''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1538731738|title= Cracking the Obesity CrisisSimple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating= 1.5

|summary= Any weightSomeone once said: it's not self-related book, whether one that considers issues from a medical or sociological perspectiveindulgence, or one that provides advice on how to eat well or lose weight, whose opening pages feature it''fat people are basically insecure, unhappy people trapped inside very unattractive bodies'', ''Islamic people however are at an advantage as s therapy! I think they do Ramadan and they are not overweight'', ''there is hope for overweight and obese peoplewere talking about shopping, but I don’t see a way back for the clinically aid [sic] morbidly obese'' and it probably can be applied to most things. In my personal favourite: ''as women’s hands are smooth and soft in many casescase, females would be useful behind soldiers it applies to be there as assistants writing about things because I want to men quickly reloading magazines of bullets speedily, rather than because I can sell it or because I'', any such book needs to provide an awful lot of valuable content in the pages that follow ve got something to have a chance of redeeming itselfsell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Will DarbyshireSharon Blackie|title=This Modern Love If Women Rose Rooted|rating= 45|genre= LifestyleBiography|summary= Love is love, but at the same time love is changing, the way we find it, the way we express it, the way we walk away from things. You I normally say that you can change a Facebook status and tell the entire world the ins and outs of your relationship, you can meet people online, you can conduct long distance relationships in how much more real time than in the past when you had to rely on the postman a book means to deliver your heartfelt, handwritten noteme by how many pages have corners turned down. This book, a compilation Perhaps an even greater measure of letters and other contributions, explores what love impact is in setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the 21st centuryone I've borrowed. It I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing's certainly international – there were 15,000 submissions from over 100 countries although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a reason and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it's also touching, funny, frustrating and all those other thingsany better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784755168</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Williams1543987877|title=Grandpa Diet and Diabetes|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Nick's Mum is an accident and emergency nurse and life can get a bit hectic at times, particularly when she has Learn to arrange for someone Love: Guide to look after Nick and his twin sister Emma. One day in the school holidays Grandpa had the pleasure of looking after the kids and Nick thought this was cool. Grandpa used to be a bit of a rocker, you see, and that's the sort of music he always has playing. He might have a stick but Nick sure that he doesn't really need it - it's there just in case. He does have a problem though and Mum explains it by saying that Grandpa has to eat at the right time every day because he has diabetes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667641</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHealing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Twigs Way|title=Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series)Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5

|summary=Allotments came ''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about originally from love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the enclosure opposite of landgrief: ''if you love'', primarily for sheep pastureDr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. Fearing that Your love relationships begin the enclosures would leave peasants unable to feed themselves, Elizabeth I issued an act requiring moment you're born and end only when you die. Whilst we all new cottages come into the world hoping to have four acres of ground, something which has been honoured more by history than by Elizabeth's contemporariesgive and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. It was For people who are making the first same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the form of resignation is a long line of legislation with that aim in mind - which largely failed to achieve their aimsnecessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicos NicolaouMichael Harris|title=The Anxiety-Elimination SystemSolitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=45

|summary=Nick Nicolau suffered a major panic attack and This is not the book I was told by his doctor that he would need medication expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to control the attacks and that there wasn't much more that he could do be another self- apart that washelp manual on how to find calm, from going home how to sleepstep outside the mainstream, but it is not that at all. The next morning he had another attack which he could neither stop nor control and before long was having panic attacks every day and developed generalised anxiety and phobiasInstead of telling us how, it is more about the ''why''. After Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be a great deal natural part of work our human life, and research why that matters. Of course he discovered talks about how to control his anxiety - some people have found solitude and what has come of that, and now he helps others to do the same. No one is born with a chemical imbalance eventually in the brain and genes do not determine behaviour. The proof final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the efficacy of his system is alleys and by-ways that through the course of a particularly challenging life event - his divorce - he didn't slip back into inappropriate anxietythinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524667412</amazonuk>1847947662

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Akon Margaret Kalu0753553236|title=Eat With PleasureTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=35

|summary=When Go on, admit it - you think about a certified nutrition coach you probably imagine someone who is going to be very strict with you about what you should or shouldn't be eatingre not quite perfect. You visualise someone who will insist that still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you eat worthy (and probably tasteless) food and completely avoid those foods habits which you really loveseem to annoy other people. Gone will be the bar Other people, of chocolate and possibly even the mug course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a little bit of coffee which gets you going in the morningeffort. It was particularly refreshing and something of a relief Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to encounter Akon Margaret Kalu - certified nutrition coach do things or do some actions more than I should and food blogger at [http://www.therealakon.co.uk www.therealakon.co.uk]. She's outspoken. She believes that the occasional treat does you no harm so long as you don't matter how I try to make it a regular habitwhat seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. In fact you're better having a small, occasional, indulgent snack than resisting I constantly fail and finally giving into cravings and ''binging''then I get cross with myself for failing. In other words, she lives in the real world with Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the rest of us imperfect beingslist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676942</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Pearson1785785516|title=Say Yes to New Opportunities!Fucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin

|summary=Ruth Pearson was deputy head of her school and was studying for Manners maketh man, they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a Masters degree when she suffered an emotional breakdown as a result set of the stresses conventions, some of the jobwhich are ages old and other which have evolved over time. The breakdown was so severe that she was afraid Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to return Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the classroombasics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but rather than sitting back it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and letting the circumstances overwhelm her she allowed what had happened to become a catalyst which would help her to change her lifeact appropriately. In ''Say Yes to New OpportunitiesFucking Good Manners'' she shares what she learned from aims to help us on the experience. To come back from this situation requires strength, honesty and a sense of purpose, all of which Pearson demonstrates quite clearly throughout this bookway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=Confessions of Modern WomenPainting Snails|author=Spadge WhittakerStephen John Hartley

|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=SheIt's back! Huzzah! Do very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you remember 're not going to get advice on what to plant when Spadge Whittaker [[Braver Than Britainand where for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, Occasionally by Spadge Whittaker|faced her finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (and ourpart-time) deepest fears]]? We loved . 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 ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley'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 she did '? Yep - that's the one. EXCEPT FOR THE SPIDERS It's an autobiography. }}

This time, Spadge has turned her attention Move on to what it means to be a modern woman in twenty-first century, digital Britain. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429912</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dixe Wills|title=Tiny Campsites: 80 Perfect Little Places to Pitch|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=I've often been put off the idea of camping by the thought of large, soul-less campsites, often populated by people who want to party late into the night. I much prefer camping to mean something - a feeling of being somewhere special, of being able to be at one with nature. But the trouble is, where do you find these gems? Well, ''Tiny Campsites'' will provide you with eighty perfect little places to pitch your tent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749578483</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Literary Fiction Reviews]]