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|summary=Back in 1965 we heard ''Mr Tambourine ManThis isn'' by the Byrds on the radio very regularlyt a diet book. Nicholson was thirteen and saw the 45rpm recording of the song in the window of the local music store and would have loved to be able to buy it but didnThe last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'t have the money. Thirteen-year olds didn't in those days unless  There was a time, not that long ago, when it was a birthday or Christmas and thought that sugary food was better for you couldn't get a partthan food with high-time job until you were fifteenfat content. There would be Fat was the demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a few of those badly-paid jobs before he finished his A levels and went to New York for three monthscarbohydrate, so good. ItThere's this trip which Nicholson feels turned him from being a boy into a man problem, though. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and allowed him to see cocaine. Does that sound over the bigger picturetop? Well, it isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524681822</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Moore1635866847|title=A Bientot...The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The news of Lavender Companion'', I visited the death author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shock: he was one slice of those people you knew would go chocolate cake on for everthe homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There was just one small glimmer of light 's a recipe in the sadness - book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the news that book and I was told to make a matter mess of days before his death he'd delivered it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the finished manuscript corners of his book, ''À bientôt…'', to his publisherspages. Just You suspect that smears of butter would not be a few months later a copy landed on my desk and problem. I didn't even bother to look as though I could resist reading it straight away'loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438610</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0760381267|title=My Psychosis StoryVerdura: A Story of Fear and Hope Through AdversityLiving a Garden Life|author=Emmanuel OwusuPerla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=43.5

|summary=''My Psychosis StoryThe most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''. I've ' recounts Emmanuel Owusugardened's journey into and eventually out in a vague, indefinite sort of psychosis. In late 2014, during way for more than half a visit home for Christmas, he found himself exhausted, anxious and unable to sleepcentury. Symptoms persisted I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and soon he was suffering from noise sensitivity and intense headaches. Various visits I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to A&E failed to diagnose a physical causegardening. Things deteriorated further and possible diagnoses of anxiety and post traumatic concussion were suggested. And ''stillVerdura'' things got worse. Eventually, Owusu's condition deteriorated so far that he was suffering from delusions with its promise of projects for both indoors and hallucinations. An ambulance was called and he was detained - sectioned - under outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the Mental Health Act in 2015answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524680559</amazonuk> So, how did it stack up?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Megan HineSarah Wilson|title= Mind of This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a Survivorfractured world|rating= 3.5

|summary=Megan Hine My favourite Mary Oliver line is probably the type of person one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that youline so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'd m lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want with you in a crisis situationto. Cool, calm and capable; this survival expert Sarah Wilson is equally at home in desert, mountain, tundra and jungle environmentslucky. She In her book that takes Oliver's navigated words as her way around some of title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the most inhospitable regions on source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the planet and survived to tell life we want – the talebest life that we could be living. But just what Her answer is it that makes some people more capable in a survival situation than others? Physical fitness? Bushcraft skills? Experience? Whilst all of these an unequivocal ''no, we are important, Hine argues that not''attitude. Don't care what you' is one of the most important factors in survival. In this bookre doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she examines how 's effing furious about the right mindset can mean the difference between life and death when isolated in the wildernessfact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473649285</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Ikin1394159544|title=The Kitchen Garden (Britain's Heritage Series)Recycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=45

|summary=I love visiting country houses, but you ''Recycling one ton of plastic can keep the interiors and the flower gardens - what interests me is the kitchen garden: seeing one which has been restored save up to its former glory is a real treat, as was 16.3 barrels of oil.'' 'Britain's Heritage: The Country GardenRecycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' when  If you send an apple core to landfill, it landed on my deskwill take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. There was no longer any need A glass bottle will take up to guess at the work that had been done1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: here was the history complete with glorious illustrations as well as some wonderful advertisementsreducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly''Canary Guanocome in handy now or in the future. For Greenhouse and garden. Perfectly cleanNEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. May Almost everything can be used by a lady.one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' is still making me giggle On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566884X</amazonuk>s

{{newreview <!Frontpage|isbn=0760378134|title=The First-- remove 7/7 -->Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author= Veronica M McNallyPamela Farley|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary. So, is it any good?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398508632|title= Cracking the Obesity CrisisThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating= 1.5

|summary= Any weightIt had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-related booklong consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, whether one that considers issues from a medical or sociological perspective, or one that provides advice on how particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to eat well or lose weightstart, whose opening pages feature ''fat people are basically insecurein a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, unhappy people trapped inside very unattractive bodies'', ''Islamic people however are at an advantage as they do Ramadan Brexit and they are not overweight''a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, ''there is hope for overweight freezer and obese people, but I don’t see dehydrator. She had a way back for the clinically aid [sic] morbidly obese'' car - and my personal favouritefuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''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 of bullets speedilylive'', any such book needs to provide an awful lot of valuable content in the pages that follow wild just to have a chance of redeeming itselflive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Will DarbyshireBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=This Modern Love I May Be Wrong|rating= 45|genre= LifestyleAutobiography|summary= Love is love, but at When the same time love is changingDalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, the way we find I'm inclined to think it, doesn't really matter how the way we express it, rest of the way we walk away from things. You can change a Facebook status and tell the entire world the ins and outs of responds to your relationshipbook. I know, you can meet people onlinehaving read the book in question, you can conduct long distance relationships in that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much more real time than in how the past when you had to rely on rest of the postman world responds to deliver your heartfelt, handwritten note. This this book, a compilation of letters and other contributionsbecause it tells the truth as it is, explores what love is in the early 21st century. It's certainly international – there were 15,000 submissions from over 100 countries – and it's also touching, funny, frustrating and all those other things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784755168</amazonuk>1526644827

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Williams1732898731|title=Grandpa Diet and Diabetes|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=NickThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Mum is an accident and emergency nurse and life can get a bit hectic at times, particularly when she has to arrange Book 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 - 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>}}{{newreviewAdults|author=Twigs Way|title=Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series)Michael Albanese |rating=4.5

|summary=Allotments came There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about originally from the enclosure of landstorage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, primarily for sheep pasture. Fearing that stuffed toys and the enclosures would leave peasants unable to feed themselves, Elizabeth I issued an act requiring like: all new cottages to the things which most children have four acres in abundance. The Boy's delight was in the sense of groundorder in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a Man, something which has been honoured his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by history than by Elizabeth's contemporariesgetting bigger and better boxes. It was Look carefully at the first in pictures and you'll see that one of them has a long line of legislation with that aim in mind - which largely failed to achieve their aimspadlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicos Nicolaou1846276772|title=The Anxiety-Elimination SystemEnd of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=Nick Nicolau suffered a major panic attack and was told by his doctor Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that he would need medication they may no longer even recognise the extent to control the attacks and that there wasnwhich they suffer from it: it't much more that he could do - apart that was, from going home to sleeps simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The next morning he had another attack which he could neither stop nor control and able will come before long was having panic attacks every day and developed generalised anxiety and phobiasthe disabled. After a great deal Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of work and research he discovered how to control his anxiety - and now he helps others to do the samewhite man. No one is born with Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a chemical imbalance in part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the brain and genes do not determine behaviour. The proof of individuals on the efficacy receiving end of his system is that through the course of a particularly challenging life event - his divorce - he didnbias but it't slip back into inappropriate anxietys not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667412</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Akon Margaret KaluErling Kagge|title=Eat With PleasureWalking: One Step At A Time|rating=35|genre=Lifestyle|summary=When you think about Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a certified nutrition coach you probably imagine someone who book is going evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to be very strict with you about what you should or shouldn't be eatingthe Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. You visualise someone who In my defence, I will insist say that you eat worthy as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (and probably tasteless) food and completely avoid those foods provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, 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 really lovewhy). Gone will be  Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the bar of chocolate North Pole and possibly even the mug summit of coffee which gets you going in the morningEverest. He knows a thing or two about walking. It was particularly refreshing and something However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a relief thoughtful exploration of what it means to encounter Akon Margaret Kalu - certified nutrition coach and food blogger at [http://wwwwalk.therealakonIt is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking.co.uk www.therealakon.co.uk]. SheThere is no 'contents's outspoken. She believes that the occasional treat does you no harm so long as you donpage and I haven't make it a regular habitcounted. In fact you're better having a smallformat paperback, occasional, indulgent snack than resisting and finally giving into cravings and ''binging''each essay is only a few pages long. In other wordsPerhaps then, she lives in the real world with the rest better thought of us imperfect beingsas a meditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524676942</amazonuk>0241357705

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth PearsonRichard Brook|title=Say Yes Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to New Opportunities!Life|rating=4.5

|summary=Ruth Pearson was deputy head of her school I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and was studying for a Masters degree when she suffered an emotional breakdown as a result sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the stresses of the joblatter. The breakdown was Not so severe that she was afraid to return to the classroomvery long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but rather than sitting back and letting it would not have 'hit home' in the circumstances overwhelm her she allowed what had happened way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to become give it a catalyst which would help her to change her life. In favourable review [ ''Say Yes to New Opportunitiesfull disclosure The Bookbag'' she shares what she learned from the experiences u.s.p. To come back from this situation requires strengthis that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, honesty and so there is a sense of purposepredisposition towards expecting to like the book, all of which Pearson demonstrates quite clearly throughout this even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a bookI needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524676616</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0753558378|title=Confessions of Modern WomenEffortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Spadge WhittakerGreg McKeown

|summary=She's back! Huzzah! Do you remember when Spadge Whittaker [[Braver Than Britain'The marginal return of working harder was, Occasionally by Spadge Whittaker|faced her (and our) deepest fears]]? We loved the way she did that. EXCEPT FOR THE SPIDERSin fact, negative. ''

This timeThat'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, Spadge has turned her attention even when he was ill, only to what it means to be 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 modern woman in twentybargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger -first centuryand richer. There is, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, digital Britainfor those who almost break. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429912</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1523092734|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Dixe WillsEliza 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) ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. 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 prove that they are big men.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529109116|title=Tiny CampsitesCall Me Red: 80 Perfect Little Places to PitchA Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson

|genre=TravelLifestyle|summary=''I've often been put off want the idea image of camping by the thought a British farmer to simply be that of large, soul-less campsites, often populated by people a person who want is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much to party late into ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the nightland where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. I He's probably grown up without giving much prefer camping thought as to mean something - what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a feeling 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 somewhere specialborn and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of being able her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be at one with naturea shepherd. But With the trouble determination that you'll soon realise isan essential part of her, where do you find these gems? Well, ''Tiny Campsites'' will provide you with eighty perfect little places to pitch your tentshe set about achieving her ambition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749578483</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Redress1786495902|title=Dress (with) senseThe Natural Health Service: The Practical Guide to a Conscious ClosetHow Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel 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 Gains|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=I don't often begin a book by telling you what it ''isn't'' but in this case I think it's important. If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking Learn to shed a few pounds then you won't get the best out of this book. You'll find some good advice about diet, but I'm afraid that much of it is going to go over your head. Of course you could always take up a sport seriously... On the other hand, if you ''are'' a serious sportsman then you could find that the advice in ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up Love: Guide to the next level of performance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463493X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHealing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Laura Slater|title=Hollywood Beauty: Vintage SecretsDr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5

|summary=I have vivid memories from my youth of seeing the Hollywood beauties on the television or at the cinema and wishing that ''ILearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' could look like that and - of course, no matter how I tried, I never couldis a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. The look two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of Marilyn Monroegrief: ''if you love'', Rita HayworthDr Thomas Jordan tells us, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Ava Gardner and Sofia Loren always eluded me''you will inevitably grieve''. To Your love relationships begin with, I lacked knowledge. Despite being reasonably petite my oblong face was never going to look anything like Audrey Hepburnthe moment you'sre born and end only when you die. I lacked quite a few of Brigitte Bardot's attributes too. Gradually, I realised that developing my own style was Whilst we all come into the best way world hoping to go, but I'll confess that give and receive love there are still ''elements'' of many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the stars' looks which I'd love to copysame mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. That's where ''Vintage Secrets: Hollywood Beauty'' comes For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, inthe form of resignation is a necessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655083</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yuchi YangMichael Harris|title=A Food Guide to Lowering Blood PressureSolitude: 6 Simple StepsIn Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=45

|summary=Yuchi Yang has been a registered dietitian for over twenty years and she's allowing us This is not the benefit of her knowledge book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help us manual on how to find calm, how to reduce our blood pressure ''without'' taking medicationstep outside the mainstream, although she does stress but it is not that if you at all. Instead of telling us how, it is more about the ''arewhy'' taking medication you shouldn't stop doing so without consulting your doctor. You can reduce your BP in six stepsHarries examines how we're eroding solitude, which are actually used to be a lot simpler than they soundnatural part of our human life, and why that matters. Does it work? Yes Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of that, it does: I've been eating this way for more than two years and I've gone from eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having 'very worrying' blood pressure readings to getting a smile when they're taken deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and being told that my BP is perfectly normal by- and ways that's without taking medication of any sorthis thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1539803422</amazonuk>1847947662

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Long0753553236|title=Tiny Habits: The Mock Olympian|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=It started with an idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him a book as part of his birthday present. It was ''Time Out's'' guide to the history of the Olympics and it covered each of the summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all the running Michael did, he'd probably have run in most of the Olympic cities. Although Long had done a goodly number of runs, bike rides and triathlons he'd only competed in two of the twenty three cities - London and Athens. Now most of us would have left it at that, but that's not the Michael Long you're going to come to know and love. He saw it as a ''challenge'' and what's more he blogged about it and then wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662887</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSmall Changes That Change Everything|author=Numba Pinkerton|title=The No Black ProjectB J Fogg|rating=4.5

|summary=I donGo on, admit it - you't like shopping for clothesre not quite perfect. You still have those odd, but there's no valid reason whyquirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people. I'm smallOther people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, but reasonably slim - if only they would make just a size 10 petite usually fits me perfectly - and little bit of effort. Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I'm lucky to be able to afford forget to buy whatever clothes do things or do some actions more than I want. The trouble is that should and no matter how I lack the confidence try to know make what is going to suit me and seem to be honest it's very difficult quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get excited about a trip which will almost certainly end up to grips with another pair of smart black trousers and a matching topthe concepts. I never feel that constantly fail and then I look particularly good in black, but I've resorted to it because it can usually take me anywhere and is unlikely to cause offenceget cross with myself for failing. So, how did I feel when I was given a copy Lack of ''The No Black Project''? Well, willpower is another burden to add to be honest, I felt a little scared..the list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1533506957</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Short1785785516|title=101 Things To Do When You're Not DrinkingFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin

|summary=If you're thinking about giving up alcohol long termManners maketh man, short term or for Dry January then you might be wondering they say. It certainly makes life easier if it's going to leave one helluva hole in your social lifeeverybody abides by a set of conventions, some of which are ages old and other which have evolved over time. You might be thinking Manners are not about what how much to tip or how you'll should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the time you normally spend out socialising (just having a quick one basics right before you get the train homewe try to deal with more difficult matters. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to act appropriately..) as well as the time you spend recovering from having had ''justFucking Good Manners'' one too many aims to help us on 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 inspirationway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722877</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tonia Vojtkofsky1999811402|title=Keep Your Brain Stronger for Longer|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=On the front of the book it says that our brains need a well-rounded workout just like our bodies. A decade or two ago I wouldn't have given very much thought to this - my body ''and'' my brain seemed to get all the workout they needed without me adding to their burdens, but close on the beginning of my eighth decade I've noticed something. I keep losing words: nothing major, you know, but this morning I couldn't remember the name of a flower which I hadn't seen since this time last year - until about half an hour later, when, of course it was no longer relevant. When you're young you don't worry about what you'll suffer from in old age. As you get older you develop dreads and one of the biggest for people who are still hale and hearty is that they'll develop dementia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722842</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPainting Snails|author=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones|title=Beloved Old Age and What to Do About it: Margery Allingham's the RelayStephen John Hartley

|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=We remember [[It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'':Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a novelist from the golden age of crimeyear on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, perhaps but you're not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing going to get advice on what to plant when and excellent plottingwhere for the best results. Her last completed book was not a novel but ''The Relayanswer 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 combined account of caring for three elderly relativesbusker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (Em, Maud and Gracepart-time) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as to how other people might achieve a good old age for their relatives. Margery died I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in 1966 and a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''The RelayCasualty'' was never published in , but that isn't really what the form in which it was writtenbook's about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262296</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jack Pendarvis|title=Cigarette Lighter (Object Lessons)|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summary=I have There's a favourite cigarette lighter. That sentence may become more strange lot about rock & roll, which seems to you when you consider be the fact that I have never smoked. I donreal passion of Hartley't know how s life, but I got it as a freebie donkeydidn's years ago, and I loved its curvy bronzed lines, and t actually fit into the fact that I had to click down on a button instead of rub against a flint-wheel to light itentertainment genre either. I optimistically took it with me at uni in case I found Did we have a girl good enough to be with even though she smoked (which took almost another twenty years, but category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's a different story) – therefore I was carrying something so evidently not a match as a potential match-maker. Later, its semi-art deco styling made it perfect for a play I was in once, after which it dried upthe one. Now itIt's more or less a paperweightan autobiography. But if I can imbue such personal relevance in a bleeding fag lighter, just think what all of culture can do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307363</amazonuk>