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|summary= These tiny 'Object Lessons', This isn't a range of books which are more like a long-form essay, explore often seemingly mundane itemsdiet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book. ''Personal Stereo'' packs  There was a lot of information into a small space. Split into three distinct sections: Noveltytime, Norm, and Nostalgianot that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. 'Novelty' traces Fat was the origin of the Sony Walkman, from its conception by two Japanese business men demon food which was going to it becoming elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a recognised entity on the streets of Americacarbohydrate, so good. There'Norm' follows on from the universal success of the personal stereos a problem, relating this to though. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the technology which it set the groundwork for, such same way as the ubiquitous proliferation of MP3s, the iPod, drugs like heroin and Smartphones, leading to cocaine. Does that sound over the eventual downfall in the popularity of the Walkman. top? FinallyWell, in it isn'Nostalgia', Tuhus-Dubrow examines our need to hark back to a simpler time, when the personal stereo seemed the height of freedomt. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501322818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=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 - but 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=Chit Dubey0760381267|title=21 Doors to HappinessVerdura: Living a Garden Life Through Travel Experiences and Meditation|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=43.5

|summary=I know that I'm not alone in having been brought up to 'The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it'achieve'. I', to look down on those who had different (''lesserve 'gardened'in a vague, it would have been saidindefinite sort of way for more than half a century. I know (most of) aims, the basics but there comes a point in life when you wonder about the point of it all. Do you need to keep on ''achieving'', has changed and if so, 'I needed 'whyprojects''? Many years ago I had rather than a light-bulb moment when I realised that achieving more, having more money, more material possessions didn't make me happy - and surely the point of it all was general commitment to be gardening. ''happyVerdura''? Superficially that sounds very simple: live a life doing only what you want to do with its promise of projects for both indoors and pleasing yourself, but that doesn't bring happiness eitheroutdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer. Chit Dubey believes that happiness is inside you and you just need to delve a little deeper to find So, how did it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1999838912</amazonuk>stack up?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robert Kyncl and Maany PeyvanSarah Wilson|title= Stream PunksThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating= 43.5

|summary=Robert Kyncl My favourite Mary Oliver line is the Chief Business Officer of YouTube. He has written an exceptionally interesting book about YouTube one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and his role within itprecious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this. You don't have ' I'm lucky enough to be in your late 40s, or from Eastern Europe, living my one wild and precious life the way I want to identify with his childhood recollections of a time when there was nothing on TV, and no other options for entertainment. It Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's amazing how far words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether wereally ''are've come ' living the life we want – I still remember the hype around channel 5 appearing, and now I have more channels than I best life that we could ever watch on Sky and have both Netflix and Amazon Primebe living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, and yet often choose the free (ignoring the adverts bit) alternative of YouTube instead. Kyncl actually worked at Netflix and we are not''regular. Don't care what you' television toore doing, before coming over to YouTubeshe thinks you (we, so he knows I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the industry wellfact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0753545926</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholson1394159544|title=Mr Tambourine ManRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=3.5

|summary=Back in 1965 we heard ''Mr Tambourine ManRecycling 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. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' by come in handy now or in the Byrds on future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the radio very regularlypurpose. Nicholson was thirteen Almost everything can be used one more time and saw any purchase must pass the 45rpm recording test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the song in the window other hand, I suspected I was guilty of the local music store wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and would have loved to be able to buy dropping it but didn't have in the moneykerbside bin. ThirteenYes, I could go searching on the internet -year olds didn't in those days unless it was a birthday or Christmas and you couldn't get a partconflicting advice -time job until you were fifteen. There would be but what I needed was a few of those badly-paid jobs before he finished his A levels and went to New York for three monthsrecycling bible. It's this trip which Nicholson feels turned him from being a boy into a man and allowed him to see the bigger picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524681822</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Moore0760378134|title=A Bientot...The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=The news of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shock: he was one of those people If you knew 've ever thought how good it would go on be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for ever. There was just one small glimmer of light in the sadness - the news a meal – but realised that a matter of days before his death heyou wouldn'd delivered t know where to start, this is the finished manuscript of his bookyou need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'À bientôt…ll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you', to his publishersll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. Just There's also a few months later a copy landed on my desk and I didn't even bother to look as though I could resist reading good glossary. So, is it straight away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438610</amazonuk>any good?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=My Psychosis Story: A Story of Fear and Hope Through AdversityThe Wilderness Cure|author=Emmanuel OwusuMo Wilde|rating=45

|summary=''My Psychosis Story'' recounts Emmanuel Owusu's journey It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into and eventually out beginning her year of psychosiseating only wild food. In late 2014 The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, during in a visit home for Christmas, he found himself exhaustedworld where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, anxious Brexit and unable to sleepa pandemic. Symptoms persisted and soon he Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was suffering from noise sensitivity and intense headachesa known habitat with a variety of terrains. Various visits to A&E failed She had electricity which allowed her to diagnose run a physical causefridge, freezer and dehydrator. Things deteriorated further She had a car - and possible diagnoses of anxiety and post traumatic concussion fuel. were suggested. And Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''stilllive'' things got worse. Eventually, Owusu's condition deteriorated so far that he was suffering from delusions and hallucinations. An ambulance was called and he was detained - sectioned - under the Mental Health Act in 2015wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524680559</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Megan HineBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title= Mind of a SurvivorI May Be Wrong|rating= 5|genre= LifestyleAutobiography|summary=Megan Hine is probably When the type of person that youDalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'd want with you in a crisis situation. Cool, calm and capable; this survival expert is equally at home in desert, mountain, tundra and jungle environments. Shem inclined to think it doesn's navigated her way around some t really matter how the rest of the most inhospitable regions on the planet and survived world responds to tell your book. I know, having read the tale. But just what is it that makes some people more capable book in a survival situation than others? Physical fitness? Bushcraft skills? Experience? Whilst all of these are importantquestion, Hine argues that ''attitude'' is one Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of the most important factors in survival. In world responds to this book, she examines how because it tells the right mindset can mean the difference between life and death when isolated truth as it is, in the wildernessearly 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473649285</amazonuk>1526644827

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Ikin1732898731|title=The Kitchen Garden (BritainBoy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Heritage Series)Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=4.5

|summary=I love visiting country houses, but you can keep the interiors There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and the flower gardens - what interests me is the kitchen garden: seeing one which has been restored to its former glory is a real treat, as he was ''Britain's Heritagemeticulous about storage: The Country Garden'his parents probably couldn' when it landed on my desk. t believe their luck! There was no longer any need to guess at It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the work that had been donelike: here was all the history complete with glorious illustrations as well as some wonderful advertisementsthings which most children have in abundance. The Boy''Canary Guanos delight was in the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happy. For Greenhouse As he grew up and became a Man, his life became more complicated and garden. Perfectly cleanhe dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. May be used by Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one of them has a ladypadlock..'' is still making me giggle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566884X</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 7/7 -->Frontpage|authorisbn= Veronica M McNally1846276772|title= Cracking the Obesity CrisisThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating= 14.5|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary= Any weight-related bookAnyone who is not an able, whether one white man understands bias in that considers issues they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a medical or sociological perspectivepart of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, or one that provides advice on how to eat well or lose weightpromotions, whose opening pages feature higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it'fat people s rare that their views are basically insecureheard, unhappy people trapped inside very unattractive bodies'', ''Islamic people however that their concerns are at an advantage as they do Ramadan and they are not overweight'', 'acknowledged. It'there is hope for overweight s personally appalling and obese people, but I don’t see a way back degrading for the clinically aid [sic] morbidly obese'' and my personal favourite: ''as women’s hands are smooth and soft in many cases, females would be useful behind soldiers to be there as assistants to men quickly reloading magazines individuals on the receiving end of bullets speedilythe bias but it'', any such book needs to provide an awful lot of valuable content in s not just the pages that follow to have a chance of redeeming itselfindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Will DarbyshireErling Kagge|title=This Modern Love Walking: One Step At A Time|rating= 45

|summary= Love Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is love, but at evidenced by the same time love is changingnumber of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the way we find Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot itwas your book not mine. In my defence, the way we express I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided itis subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the way latter we walk away from thingsmust buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). You can change  Erligg Kagge is a Facebook status and tell Norwegian explorer who has walked to the entire world South Pole, the ins North Pole and outs the summit of your relationship, you can meet people online, you can conduct long distance relationships in much more real time than in the past when you had to rely on the postman to deliver your heartfelt, handwritten noteEverest. He knows a thing or two about walking. This bookHowever, this isn't a compilation travelogue about any of letters and other contributionsthose epic journeys, explores it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what love it means to walk. It is in the 21st centurya plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. ItThere is no 'contents's certainly international – there were 15,000 submissions from over 100 countries – page and itI haven's also touchingt counted. In small format paperback, funnyeach essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, frustrating and all those other thingsbetter thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784755168</amazonuk>0241357705

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura WilliamsRichard Brook|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 to arrange for someone 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 - itUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's there just in case. He does have a problem though and Mum explains it by saying that Grandpa has Guide to eat at the right time every day because he has diabetes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667641</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Twigs Way|title=Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series)Life|rating=4.5

|summary=Allotments came about originally from the enclosure of landI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, primarily for sheep pastureand sometimes books choose us. Fearing that In my case, this is one of the enclosures would leave peasants unable to feed themselveslatter. Not so very long ago, Elizabeth if I had come across this book I issued an act requiring all new cottages to 'd have four acres skimmed it, found some of groundit interesting, something which has been honoured more by history than by Elizabethbut 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 contemporariesu.s. It was p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the first in book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a long line of legislation with that aim in mind - which largely failed book I needed to achieve their aimsread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicos Nicolaou0753558378|title=The Anxiety-Elimination SystemEffortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeown|rating=4.5

|summary=Nick Nicolau suffered a major panic attack and ''The marginal return of working harder was told by his doctor , in fact, negative.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. It's no exaggeration to say that he would need medication devoted his life to control the attacks and that there wasn't much more that company he worked for, struggling through, even when he could do - apart that wasill, from going home only to sleepfind that he was working for a bankrupt company. The next morning His stock had fallen by 97%, he had another attack which he could neither stop nor control lost his health and before long was having panic attacks every day and developed generalised anxiety and phobiashis job had little value. After He made a great deal of work bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. He did survive and research he discovered how to control his anxiety came through stronger - and now he helps others to do the samericher. No one There is born with , you see, a chemical imbalance in the brain and genes do different way: ''great things are not determine behaviourreserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break. The proof of the efficacy of his system is that through the course of a particularly challenging life event - his divorce - he didn't slip back into inappropriate anxiety.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667412</amazonuk>'

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Akon Margaret Kalu1523092734|title=Eat With PleasureA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=35|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=When you think about ''She brings 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 eatinghug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. You visualise someone who will insist that you eat worthy (Again and probably tasteless) food again and completely avoid those foods which you really loveagain. Gone will be '' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the bar life of chocolate choosing unapologetically and possibly even bravely. It is to live the mug of coffee which gets life you going 've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the morningnews, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. It was particularly refreshing and something of Now - to be clear - this book is not a relief 'how to encounter Akon Margaret Kalu - certified nutrition coach and food blogger at [httpdisable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual://www.therealakon.co.uk www.therealakon.co.uk]. Sheit's outspokensomething far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. She believes I've always thought that the occasional treat does you no harm so long as you women need to rise above this, to be people who don't make it a regular habitneed protection, people who claim their own space. In fact you're better having a smallIf all women did this, occasional, indulgent snack than resisting and finally giving into cravings and ''binging''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. In other words, she lives in the real world with the rest of us imperfect beings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676942</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Pearson1529109116|title=Say Yes to New Opportunities!|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Ruth Pearson was deputy head of her school and was studying for a Masters degree when she suffered an emotional breakdown as a result of the stresses of the job. The breakdown was so severe that she was afraid to return to the classroom, but rather than sitting back and letting the circumstances overwhelm her she allowed what had happened to become a catalyst which would help her to change her life. In ''Say Yes to New OpportunitiesCall Me Red: A Shepherd'' she shares what she learned from 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 book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676616</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Confessions of Modern Womens Journey|author=Spadge WhittakerHannah Jackson

|summary=She's back! Huzzah! Do you remember when Spadge Whittaker [[Braver Than Britain, Occasionally by Spadge Whittaker|faced her (and our) deepest fears]]? We loved 'I want the way she did image of a British farmer to simply be thatof a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. EXCEPT FOR THE SPIDERS I don't think that is too much to ask. ''

This timeThe 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, Spadge has turned whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her attention life changed on a family holiday to what it means 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 modern woman in twenty-first centuryshepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, digital Britainshe set about achieving her ambition. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429912</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dixe Wills1786495902|title=Tiny CampsitesThe Natural Health Service: 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>}}{{newreviewHow Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Redress|title=Dress (with) sense: The Practical Guide to a Conscious ClosetIsabel Hardman|rating=4.5

|summary=Not too long ago I didn't have any problems with clothesIsabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. They were just about all black She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and I wore them until they dropped off my back health- and then I used what I could of the material for other purposescare professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. I had Hardman dealt with this lovely little clothes shop in Ilkley (it says at the time by 'Oxfamkeeping going' over : the door) when I needed next day she went to work to restock. Clothes were simple. Then I encountered cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the lovely [[:Category:Numba Pinkerton|Numba Pinkerton]] political party leadership contests and suddenly I had colour in my life: not all of then it could be was party conference season. One night she had from Oxfam. Sometimes I might even to be buying ''new'' clothessedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I needed help and more advice, because it really isn't as simple as just walking into the nearest department storedid.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292779</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr Elizabeth Blackburn and Dr Elissa EpelLauren Martin|title=The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, LongerBook of Moods

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=I have lived my life determined not to was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''agegreat'': being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. I see nothing aspirational in had spent the dependence best part of old agea rainy, whether it be windy weekend afternoon out on other peoplethe water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, government on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all its forms or do during the NHS. year, and normally I'm prepared happy to put effort into this: it's not , but that day the cosmetic image of youth weather was miserable and I seekwas miserable, but rather the ability and it all came to do as a head that evening when I do now - running a business, regularly walking noticed on the website that we had been thanked for miles in our glorious countryside time as "Dave and enjoying life - for as long as possiblewife". Wow. So far it's working out, but what else could I do and ''why'' does had never needed this work for some people and not for others?book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297609238</amazonuk>1538733625

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Weatherhogg0008420386|title=Living With DepressionFailosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day

|summary=Nick Weatherhogg has been diagnosed as suffering from severe depression. Many of you will be nodding wisely What do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and thinking that you know how he feels: but there are two points he wants to make here. Andrew Scott have in common? You They''don't'' know how he feels. This is ''his'' depression ve all failed and only he knows what it feels like - if hemore importantly - they's able ve been willing to think or express how heappear on Elizabeth Day's feeling. The other point is that there's a big difference between ''feeling'' depressed podcast to discuss their failures and ''being'' depressed - ''fepression'' and ''bepression'' as he terms how life worked out for themafterwards. HeYou's right: I've been there. My feelings, my experience will have been different, but I do know that it was hellish. He describes ll find the experience as results of these discussions in ''a mental state in which your brain regularly and consistently lies to you.Failosophy''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524663662</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 12/1 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Jo Bird1504321383|title=Web to SuccessSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman

|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=[[:Category:Jo Bird|Jo Bird]] (illustrator, designer and… errr''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''. .wall tattooist) had a lightbulb moment about positive thinking, self-improvement and success This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. The road to an improved self isnIt wasn't linear unkind: it was simply the adults in a 'change this thing and her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all will be fine' way; itthose fairy tales where the girl (she's a web that connects and intersects several paths and subjects usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can be summarised under three headingslive happily ever after. All successful people (socially as much as professionally) know about self-awareness, personal development Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and emotional awarenesshave children. After having It was a shot at principles of self-improvement herself, Jo shares the fruit of her experience across belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a wealth of fields to make one heck of belief is a self-help bookchoice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152466622X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Ellen Guiney1538731738|title=Vietnamese VoicesSimple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=3.5

|summary=Mary Ellen Guiney has been diagnosed at various times with schizophrenia and biSomeone once said: it's not self-polar disorder. indulgence, it's therapy! The resulting treatment of choice is the conventional western medicine approach and drug regimens that brought with them unpleasant side-effectsI think they were talking about shopping, but it probably can be applied to most things. Determined to find a better way of symptom controlIn my case, using her biochemical background, Mary Ellen begins it applies to investigate alternative eastern medicine and therapies in addition writing about things because I want to looking at the effect of nutrition and exercise. The results are here: this is Mary Ellen, rather than because I can sell it or because I's story written in her own wordsve got something to sell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524663123</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick MbayaSharon Blackie|title= My Brain Is Out Of ControlIf Women Rose Rooted|rating= 45|genre= Home and FamilyBiography|summary=Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as I normally say that you can tell how much a consultant psychiatrist, husband and fatherbook means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. His career was going well and he enjoyed making ill people better Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the one I've borrowed. His marriage was solid I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the first two and fulfilling only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a reason and his two children were exploring their potential, often through the uplifting power of music. Life was good. But then..I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524636649</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan S Lee1543987877|title=Lean GainsLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5|genre=SportLifestyle|summary=I don't often begin 'Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book by telling about love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of grief: ''if you what it love''isn, Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, 't'you will inevitably grieve' but in this case I think it's important. If Your love relationships begin the moment you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking to shed a few pounds then born and end only when you won't get the best out of this bookdie. You'll find some good advice about diet, but I'm afraid that much of it Whilst we all come into the world hoping to give and receive love there are many people for whom love is going to go over your headnot quite so simple. Of course you could always take up a sport seriously..Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. On For people who are making the other handsame mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, if you ''are'' a serious sportsman then you could find that the advice in ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the next level form of performanceresignation is a necessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463493X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura SlaterMichael Harris|title=Hollywood BeautySolitude: Vintage SecretsIn Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=45

|summary=This is not the book I have vivid memories from my youth of seeing the Hollywood beauties on the television or at the cinema and wishing that ''was expecting it to be. For some reason I'' could look like that and expected it to be another self- of coursehelp manual on how to find calm, no matter how I triedto step outside the mainstream, I never couldbut it is not that at all. The look Instead of Marilyn Monroetelling us how, Rita Hayworth, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Ava Gardner and Sofia Loren always eluded meit is more about the ''why''. To begin withHarries examines how we're eroding solitude, I lacked knowledge. Despite being reasonably petite my oblong face was never going which used to look anything like Audrey Hepburn's. I lacked quite be a few natural part of Brigitte Bardot's attributes tooour human life, and why that matters. Gradually Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of that, I realised that developing my and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own style was the best way to goexperience of having deliberately sought it out, but I'll confess mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that there are still ''elements'' of the stars' looks which I'd love to copy. That's where ''Vintage Secrets: Hollywood Beauty'' comes inhis thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0859655083</amazonuk>1847947662

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuchi Yang0753553236|title=A Food Guide to Lowering Blood PressureTiny Habits: 6 Simple StepsThe Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=45

|summary=Yuchi Yang has been a registered dietitian for over twenty years and she's allowing us the benefit of her knowledge to help us to reduce our blood pressure ''without'' taking medicationGo on, although she does stress that if admit it - you ''are'' taking medication you shouldn't stop doing so without consulting your doctorre not quite perfect. You can reduce your BP in six stepsstill have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people. Other people, of course, are actually sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a lot simpler than they soundlittle bit of effort. Does it work? YesOr put another way, it does: I've been eating this way for get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than two years I should and no matter how I've gone from having 'very worrying' blood pressure readings try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to getting a smile when they're taken grips with the concepts. I constantly fail and being told that my BP then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is perfectly normal - and that's without taking medication of any sortanother burden to add to the list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1539803422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Long1785785516|title=The Mock OlympianFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin

|genre=SportLifestyle|summary=Manners maketh man, they say. It started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a book as part set of his birthday present. It was ''Time Out's'' guide to the history conventions, some of the Olympics which are ages old and it covered each of the summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896other which have evolved over time. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all the running Michael didManners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, he'd probably they have run in most of the Olympic cities. nothing to do with class or financial status: Although Long had done a goodly number of runs, bike rides and triathlons hethey'd only competed in two of re about getting the twenty three cities - London and Athensbasics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. Now most of us would Of course we all have left it at thatmore relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but thatit's not the Michael Long you're going best if we learn to come distinguish between our public and private lives and to know and loveact appropriately. He saw it as a ''challengeFucking Good Manners'' and what's more he blogged about it and then wrote this bookaims to help us on the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662887</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Numba Pinkerton1999811402|title=The No Black ProjectPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley

|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=I donIt's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails't like shopping for clothes, but there's no valid reason why. : originally Ithought that as it'm smalls loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but reasonably slim - a size 10 petite usually fits me perfectly - and Iyou'm lucky re not going to be able get advice on what to afford to buy whatever clothes I wantplant when and where for the best results. The trouble is that I lack answer would be something along the confidence to know what is going to suit me lines of 'try it and to be honest itsee's very difficult to get excited about a trip which will almost certainly end up with another pair of smart black trousers and a matching top. Then I never feel that I look particularly good in blackconsidered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, but I've resorted to it because it can usually take me anywhere finally got into medical school and is unlikely to cause offencenow an A&E consultant (part-time). So, how did I feel when I was given found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a copy of Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''The No Black ProjectCasualty''? Well, to be honest, I felt a little scaredbut that isn't really what the book's about...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1533506957</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Short|title=101 Things To Do When You There're Not Drinking|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=If you're thinking s a lot about giving up alcohol long termrock & roll, short term or for Dry January then you might which seems to be wondering if itthe real passion of Hartley's going to leave one helluva hole in your social life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. You might be thinking about what youDid we have a category for 'll do with the time you normally spend out socialising (just having a quick one before you get doing the train home...) as well as impossible the time you spend recovering from having had ''justhard way'? Yep - that' s the one too many the night before. Sunday mornings will loom large as uncharted and largely unknown territory. Robert Short has a few answers for you - well 101 of them in fact - in a pocket-size book which should give you some inspirationIt's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722877</amazonuk>