|summary=Keith Hern found a small lump in his neck and when the results of the tests came through he tried to put the appointment off as he had something more pressing to do, but the doctor was insistent. He knew then that he had cancer. The lump in his neck was, in fact, a secondary tumour with the primary being in the back of his tongue. But for the secondary tumour the discovery of the primary might have been too late for successful treatment. Keith takes us through the discovery of his cancer, his reactions to the diagnosis, his treatment and the titular meal of bangers and mash – the first solid food which he had attempted for some time.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312772</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Donna Blinston
|title=Make New Year's Resolutions and Keep Them Using NLP
|rating=2
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=It's coming up to that time of year again – you know it's the one where you make resolutions about going on a diet, getting more exercise, stopping smoking or losing weight. If they last a week into the New Year you're probably doing well – and then you're left with a feeling of failure. Donna Blinston offers advice on how to make your resolutions and how to keep them – and I needed this advice as much as the next couch potato.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312845</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Vyvyen Brendon
|title=Prep School Children: A Class Apart Over Two Centuries
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=''Prep School Children'' is Vyvyen Brendon's second collection (''Children of the Raj'' was the first). It explores the pupil experience, using primary sources like weekly letters home, memoirs and interviews, and less immediate material such as fiction, school magazines and headmasters' biographies. I came to the book with some questions: what was it like to be a boarder at a prep school? What difference did a prep school education make to life as an adult? Why parents might send their children to such schools when the horrors were well-known, many of the dads presumably having survived the experience themselves.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847062873</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tad Tuleja
|title=A Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases
|rating=3
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=Take a look at the cover design of this book, and you'd be mistaken for thinking this was a trivia compendium for all those foreign words that have taken part in our English language since whenever they crossed over from their original homes. But the title is definitely honest, for this is a dictionary book first, for reference, and a browser for the trivia buff second.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089562</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Loose Women
|title=Here Come the Girls
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=This is the second volume by the panelists from that nice ITV series, ''Loose Women''. Just as promised on the cover, this book is an entertaining night with the girls. It turns out that they're just like us. The faces are already familiar and even if you don't know them yet, with nine contributors, you'll soon find a like-minded woman behind one of the celebrity faces. The women are universally warm-hearted and supportive: there will be many a lonely woman who reads this book and feels as if she sat down with a group of friends for the evening.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444700154</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gill Hines and Alison Baverstock
|title=It's Not Fair! Parenting the Bright and Challenging Child
|rating=5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=I like parenting books. So, even though my sons are now young adults, I looked forward to reading a new book about raising children. I'm in touch with many parents with children of all ages, and am always interested in reading current recommendations.
The subtitle of this book is, 'Parenting the bright and challenging child'. When I saw it, I wondered if it would be similar to the American book 'Raising your Spirited Child' (by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka) which I found extremely useful when my sons were younger. Spirited children are defined as those who are intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent and energetic.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749940468</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lucy Mangan
|title=My Family and Other Disasters
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Not living in the UK means that we don't have British newspapers. Even when we lived in England, we never bought ''The Guardian'', so I had never actually heard of Lucy Mangan before being sent this book. That's probably not a bad thing, since I began the book - a collection of her Guardian columns - without any preconceptions.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852651244</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jane Brocket
|title=Ripping Things to Do
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Right from the very moment I opened the envelope this book was delivered in, I had the distinct feeling this would be a real gem of a book, and how right I was. Though, initially, I was reminded of the Iggulden brothers' ''Dangerous Book for Boys'' series, this book has a very different ethos, even though the subject matter overlaps somewhat unavoidably making it bear comparison.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980966</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Maria Tatar
|title=Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
|rating=3
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=Like most avid readers, I don't remember the time before there were books. We were brought up with books. There are family tales of my father as a child eating his breakfast with one hand, while trying to tie his shoelaces with the other and still contriving to read at the same time. They were a poor family, and books weren't just expensive, they were valuable. They were dear, in every sense of the word. Likewise my mother remembers her early school-years when every day ended with a chapter from one of the classics.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393066010</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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