[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]]
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|author=Rosie O'Hara
|title=No More Bingo Dresses: Using NLP to cope with breast cancer and other people
|rating=2.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=I'd love to meet Rosie O'Hara. She sounds like a full-on, earthy lady who has more than a few tales to tell about her life to date. Rosie is a professional neuro-linguistic programming trainer in the Highlands of Scotland, and has already published an NLP-based self-help book. At the beginning of 2009, a routine mammogram turned up 'a little breast cancer'. Rosie set out in her very direct and determined way to put the cancer in its rightful place as a challenge in her life rather than a defining disaster and this feisty diary is the result.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218347</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anthony T DeBenedet and Lawrence Cohen
|summary=Whether you're married or single, the dumpeé or the dumper, at one time or another, we've all had to deal with the trials and tribulations of the dreaded break up. Whether you're thinking of leaving, have just ended a relationship, or are still trying to recover from the one that got away, Denise Cullington's ''Breaking Up Blues'' is a self-help guide to coping with the bitterness and rage, emotional emptiness and endless depression that can come along with it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0415455472</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Sanders
|title=Juggle! Rethink Work, Reclaim your Life
|rating=2.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''Juggle!'' - says the title - ''Rethink work, reclaim your life''. Wonderful - it seems like just the right book for someone like me: having a decent 9-to-5 job, but still wondering whether it is the best possible place to be. Aren't we all told in school we have hidden talents and one could achieve brilliance if only one used them?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906465371</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Victoria Moore
|title=How to Drink
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=A friend who saw me reading this book was moved to ask if I really needed the advice and was quite surprised when I explained that it was about the whole range of liquid intake from the humble glass of warm water (try it – it's wonderful first thing in the morning) to rare spirits costing hundreds of pounds a bottle. It's completely unpreachy with not a word about how much liquid you should be taking in each day to how few units you should be consuming each week. It's about getting the best (which isn't always the most expensive) and enjoying it – and most importantly, enjoying a drink when that's the drink you want.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847080200</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Judy Heminsley
|title=Work From Home
|rating=4
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Judy Heminsley has worked from home both as en employee and running her own businesses. She is now a professional advisor to homeworkers and ''Work From Home'' distils her experience into a practical guide for all who are considering work from home.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184528335X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ruth Binney
|title=The Allotment Experience
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=There have been allotment gardens in the UK and other European countries since the late 18th century, with numbers in the UK reaching a peak of 1.5 million plots around the time of World War I and nearly the same number during World War II. Numbers then fell, reaching 600,000 by the late 1960s. Increased interest in green issues from the 1970s only slowed the decline, and by 1997 the number of plots in use was around 265,000. More recently, there has been a resurgence of interest as the notion of food miles and "slow food" has come to the fore, let alone the rising costs of food. In 2008, The Guardian reported that 330,000 people held an allotment, whilst 100,000 were on waiting lists. My interest in this book stems from the fact that we are already keen back (and front) garden vegetable growers and are shortly to join an allotment waiting list ourselves.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905862261</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Peacock
|title=Patio Produce
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It's surprising how many people dismiss the idea of growing at least some of their own fruit and vegetables in the mistaken belief that they'll need to have an allotment or at the very least a sizeable vegetable patch of the type which is simply not possible in many modern gardens or because they're living in a city rather than a village. Paul Peacock sets out to prove that this needn't be the case – with the proof of this particular pudding being the fact that he lives in Manchester.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905862288</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lynda Gratton
|title=Glow: How You Can Radiate Energy, Innovation and Success
|rating=4
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Have you ever read a self-help book and found that simply reading the first chapter tells you all you need to know about any wisdom contained therein? Well, fortunately with ''Glow'' by Lynda Gratton – that's not the case. While its essential principles are neatly summarised in the first chapter, the remaining chapters, packed with pleasantly jargon-free examples, are well worth reading for anyone interested in improving their working life, forming empowering networks and thinking creatively.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273723871</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Brian
|title=The Complete Guide to IVF
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Each year some forty thousand cycles of IVF – in vitro fertilisation – are carried out in the UK and something like a million worldwide. About two hundred thousand IVF babies are born annually with some twelve thousand of those in the UK according to a recent article I read on a BBC site. Fertility expert Kate Brian has followed her [[The Complete Guide to Female Fertility by Kate Brian|Complete Guide to Female Fertility]], which we loved, with another indispensable guide – this time to IVF.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909706</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ali Valenzuela
|title=Weighing It Up
|rating=3
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Although never having had an eating disorder myself, I have been interested in them since I was young. I was a competitive gymnast and that is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now I'm a mother of three teenage daughters, I worry about the subject from a whole new angle, especially as one of them is a size 6-8 and idolises those super-skinny celebrities.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anna Paterson
|title=Anorexic
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It might seem strange and somewhat ironic that an obese woman is reviewing a book on anorexia. But it is a topic I have always found interesting. Despite my being at the opposite end of the weight scale to Anna Paterson, I could empathise with some of the things she felt.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0952921529</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark Gungor
|title=Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=This book is based upon Mark Gungor's highly successful seminar, Laugh Your Way To A Better Marriage. However, it is best to get one thing straight to begin with: Mark is a very funny guy, but, as he admits, this book is not at all about laughing your way to a better marriage. It encourages laughter, and he has a good time laughing about various issues, but if you thought this was going to be a philosophy based upon laughter, then you've been a little misled by the title.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416536051</amazonuk>
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