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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Beard1454955546|title=It's A Don's LifeSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Professor Mary Beard, feisty Cambridge classics don, keeps an eye open for architectural detail wherever she goes''This isn't a diet book. Even on holiday, she notices the changing urban landscape and records interesting parallels with ancient cities in her sparky blog The last thing anyone needs is another diet book. She is engaged in writing '' There was a detailed history of Pompeii and suddenly realisestime, whilst perambulating the backstreets of the Mexican city of Oaxacannot that long ago, when it was thought that this is exactly what Pompeii must have been likesugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. She observes Fat was the low rise shops, dirt tracks across dusty streets demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and the close juxtaposition of rich and poorcause heart disease. Impressive portals of grand residential properties tower above humble workshops Sugar was a carbohydrate, and this prompts her into imaginative reconstructionso good. In her blog There's a problem, from which this intriguing book though. Sugar is culled, she tells us about just how Oaxacan encourages her to ponder again addictive and can hijack your brain in much the curious cart ruts of Pompeiisame way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. She even finds walls splashed with political slogans Does that are just like Roman ''dipinti''. Indeed, here in Mexico, sound over the local library displays an edifying message in Spanish which originates in Cicero's speech in his Pro Archiatop? Well, it isn''Science and letters are the nourishment of youth and the diversion of old aget.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682517</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Aaron Carroll and Dr Rachel Vreeman1635866847|title=Don't Swallow Your GumThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''BANGimmediately'''. That's feel that this is the sound of copious urban myths being shot downbook for you. Before I started reading '''BANGThe Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Thatcom/ website] and there's the sound a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the old wives slamming the door, as their tales get revealed as baselesshomepage. I don'''CLICK'''t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. That(There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the noise lots book and I was told to make a mess of ill-informed websites make as they it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get closed to fold downthe corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. All noises come due to I ''loved'' this brilliant bookalready.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043369</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0760381267
|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life
|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago
|rating=3.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''.
I've 'gardened' in a vague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to gardening. ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer. So, how did it stack up?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luca Turin Sarah Wilson|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=3.5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and Tania Sanchez precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|isbn=1785633848}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1394159544|title=Perfumes: The A - Z GuideRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. The only thing that could be conceivably better than reading ''PerfumesRecycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' would be to read it while sampling the scents it reviews, but even without the olfactory component, ''PerfumesRecycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' is a delight: Turin (a lyrical scientist) and Sanchez ( If you send an analytically enthusiastic collector) not only treat perfume creation as high artapple core to landfill, but turn perfume criticism into an art form (or at least a sophisticated genre of writing) tooit will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681278</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian Johnson 0760378134|title=Rockers and RollersThe First-Time Gardener: An Automotive Autobiography Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=3.5|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=Brian Johnson will probably go down as one of If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the luckiest men in showbiz. He had garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a brief moment of glory in meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the early 70s as vocalist with Geordie, a Tyneside version of Slade, who had three Top 40 hits and then fell on hard timesbook you need. After It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going back to the day jobgrow, a chance call invited him to go what you'll grow it in (both containers and audition for AC/DCsoil), whose vocalist Bon Scott had suddenly died. Three decades laterwhere you'll put these containers, not only have how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the group held main part of the book with a handy section on to their loyal fanbase, but one of their albums, according to an online source, is second only to Michael Jacksontroubleshooting. There's ''Thriller'' in terms of global salesalso a good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155424</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James May1398508632|title=Car Fever: Dispatches From Behind The WheelWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=NowIt had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, way back when I particularly in Central Scotland was youngerperhaps not the best time to start, and watched TV in a lotworld where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, I am sure I remember Top Gear as being Brexit and a consumer programmepandemic. How times changeWilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. These days I am sure they destroy more cars than they reviewShe had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and the three main people from the show are approaching superstar status, with their amenable personalities, awkward wardrobe choices dehydrator. She had a car - and trenchant laddish charmsfuel. They've sprung their media entities from out of the studioMost importantly, into other TV programmes, and the world of journalism, with chatty columns in the broadsheets allowing them free rein she had shelter: this was not a plan to witter to their heart's desire. And here, in one grandiloquent volume, and in time for Christmas, are many of James May's desireslive'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994533</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard Mabey Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Wild CookingI May Be Wrong|rating=45|genre=CookeryAutobiography|summary=It's become fashionable now When the Dalai Lama adds his words to make doyour frontispiece, I'm inclined to cut back - even for those who have no need think it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds to do soyour book. Conspicuous consumption is frowned upon and thriftiness is I know, having read the new blackbook in question, so ''Wild Cooking'', previously published in hardback as ''The New English Cassoulet'' is going to appeal to the mood of the moment that Lindeblad would disagree with its approach of 'busking in the kitchen' that thought. He knows (and making at core so do. Some of it might seem a little extreme – I really can't imagine ) that I will ever slow cook a Peking Duck in front it matters very much how the rest of a fan heater simply the world responds to this book, because it might tells the truth as well cook the food whilst it's heating the room – but I love the idea of using a glut to make broad bean hummusis, or even of gathering up vegetables which have been left when in the field has been harvestedearly 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099522969</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deirdre Bounds1732898731|title=FulfilledThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Personal Revolution in Seven Steps Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Dierdre Bounds' life was at rock bottom when she There was introduced to the Twelve Step Plan used by Alcoholics Anonymous and within a matter of years she Boy who loved boxes. He had built an internet business into an award-winning organisation a box for everything and sold it to a FTSE 100 companyhe was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the like: all the things which most children have in abundance. SheThe Boy's adapted delight was in the twelve steps to produce her personal revolution sense of order in seven stepshis room: it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one of them has a padlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273725521</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Ford and Daniela Drake1846276772|title=Smart Girls Marry MoneyThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=34.5|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=If your friend told you Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that she'd fallen for a gorgeous man – they were deeply in love and getting married as soon as possible – may no longer even recognise the probability is that youextent to which they suffer from it: it'd be delighted for hers simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. On The able will come before the other hand if she said that she'd met a man whom she thought was disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the best she was likely to meet and on preserve of the basis that he was wealthy she was planning to marry him, what would you think? white man. Does Even when those who wouldn't pass the word medical become a part of an organisation it''gold-digger'' spring to mind? Are you horrified? Wells rare that their views are heard, think again as it just might be that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the second solution could be receiving end of the one that leaves your friend in bias but it's not just the best positionindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762435178</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Erling Kagge
|title=Walking: One Step At A Time
|rating=5
|genre= Lifestyle
|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (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 why).
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane HaynesRichard Brook|title=Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am?Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=This is I am a remarkable bookfirm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. It gives an insight into In my case, this is one of the process of psychotherapylatter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, both from the theoretical point found some of view andit interesting, more significantly, from actual conversations and sessions but it would not have 'hit home' in the consulting roomway that it does now. Jane Haynes takes us through her own development as I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a client (although she doesnfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag't like s u.s.p. is that word) in her people chose their own self-discovery and therapy sessionsbooks rather than getting them randomly, and then into some of her consulting sessions after she qualifies as so there is a therapist. Ipredisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn've t always thought of this kind of thing as very American, turn out that way'' ] – but this also because it is a book is entirely BritishI needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845299728</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0753558378
|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters
|author=Greg McKeown
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative.''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1523092734
|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space
|author=Eliza Van Cort
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)
''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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Sanders1529109116|title=Juggle! Rethink Work, Reclaim your LifeCall Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson|rating=24.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''Juggle!I want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much to ask.'' - says The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the title - land where ''his''family have farmed for generations. He'Rethink work, reclaim your lifes 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. Wonderful - it seems like just Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the right book for someone like meWirral: having 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 decent 9-family holiday to-5 jobthe Lake District. She saw a lamb being born and, but still wondering whether it is although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the best possible place kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to bea shepherd. Aren With the determination that you't we all told in school we have hidden talents and one could achieve brilliance if only one used them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906465371</amazonuk>ll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria Moore 1786495902|title=The Natural Health Service: How to DrinkNature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=A Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who saw me reading does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this book was moved at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to ask if I really needed cover the advice and was quite surprised when I explained that it budget, next there was about the whole range of liquid intake from EU referendum, the humble glass of warm water (try political party leadership contests and then it – it's wonderful first thing in the morning) was party conference season. One night she had 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 sedated and returned home to how few units you should be consuming each weekbegin long-term sick leave. It's about getting the best (which isn't always That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the most expensive) and enjoying it – and most importantly, enjoying a drink year when that's the drink you wantbins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847080200</amazonuk>
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|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=There have been allotment gardens I was in the UK a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and other European countries since because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the late 18th century, word ''great'' being delivered with numbers in the UK reaching an eye roll and a peak of 1sigh, through clenched teeth.5 million plots around I had spent the time best part of World War I and nearly the same number during World War II. Numbers then fella rainy, reaching 600,000 by windy weekend afternoon out on the late 1960s. Increased interest water at our local sailing club in green issues from the 1970s only slowed the declinerescue rib, and by 1997 the number of plots on standby in use case anyone who was around 265,000racing needed support. More recently, there has been It's a resurgence of interest as volunteer duty we all do during the notion of food miles year, and "slow food" has come normally I'm happy to the fore, let alone but that day the rising costs of food. In 2008weather was miserable and I was miserable, The Guardian reported and it all came to a head that 330,000 people held an allotment, whilst 100,000 were evening when I noticed on waiting lists. My interest in this book stems from the fact website that we are already keen back (had been thanked for our time as "Dave and front) garden vegetable growers and are shortly to join an allotment waiting list ourselveswife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905862261</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Peacock0008420386|title=Patio ProduceFailosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=ItWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They's surprising how many people dismiss the idea of growing at least some of their own fruit ve all failed and vegetables in the mistaken belief that - more importantly - they'll need ve been willing 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 theyappear on Elizabeth Day're living in a city rather than a villages podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. Paul Peacock sets out to prove that this neednYou't be ll find the case – with the proof results of this particular pudding being the fact that he lives these discussions in Manchester.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905862288</amazonuk>''Failosophy''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1504321383
|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again
|author=Louisa Pateman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Brian1538731738|title=The Complete Guide Simple Abundance: 365 Days to IVFa Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach
|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. Someone once said: it's not self-indulgence, it's therapy! About two hundred thousand IVF babies are born annually with some twelve thousand of those in the UK according I think they were talking about shopping, but it probably can be applied to a recent article I read on a BBC sitemost things. Fertility expert Kate Brian has followed her [[The Complete Guide In my case, it applies to Female Fertility by Kate Brian|Complete Guide writing about things because I want to Female Fertility]], which we loved, with another indispensable guide – this time rather than because I can sell it or because I've got something to IVFsell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909706</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali ValenzuelaSharon Blackie|title=Weighing It UpIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=35|genre=LifestyleBiography|summary=Although never having had I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. Perhaps an eating disorder myself, even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I have been interested in them since 've finished reading the one I was young've borrowed. I was want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a competitive gymnast reason and that is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now I'm a mother of three teenage daughters, not sure 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 celebritiescan succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Paterson1543987877|title=AnorexicLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It might seem strange and somewhat ironic that an obese woman ''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is reviewing a book on anorexiaabout love relationships rather than a book about love. But it The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is a topic I have always found interestingthe opposite of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. Despite my being at Your love relationships begin the opposite moment you're born and end of only when you die. Whilst we all come into the weight scale world hoping to Anna Patersongive and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, I could empathise with some in the form of the things she feltresignation is a necessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0952921529</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark GungorMichael Harris|title=Laugh Your Way to Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Better MarriageCrowded World|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=This is not the book is based upon Mark Gungor's highly successful seminar, Laugh Your Way To A Better MarriageI was expecting it to be. However, For some reason I expected it is best to get one thing straight be another self-help manual on how to find calm, how to begin with: Mark is a very funny guystep outside the mainstream, but, as he admits, this book it is not that at all about laughing your way to a better marriage. It encourages laughter Instead of telling us how, and he has a good time laughing it is more about various issuesthe ''why''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, but if you thought this was going which used to be a philosophy based upon laughternatural part of our human life, then you've been a little misled by the titleand why that matters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416536051</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rosalind Penfold|title=Dragonslippers: This is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=So, a five star book where we can predict the entire plot, Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and at times foretell just what people in it say. It's a damning indictment has come of things that that is even possible. This book lives by its subtitle – ''this is what an abusive relationship looks like''. Rosalind meets a man who seems nigh-on perfect – they seem to fall in love with ease, and she gets on very well with his four children from an earlier marriage. Then odd occurrences start to happen – eventually in the final chapter he declares her work getting in talks about his wayown experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he possibly drinks a bit too much, he sees flirting in her shopwanders down the alleys and by-talk with other men. And things escalate and escalate, and – you know every stage. She suffers a guilt trip, before suffering physical violence, discovering affairs, getting back with ways that his thinking about this lost art led him, then finding the right kind of help.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007216882</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Brampton0753553236|title=Shoot the Damn DogTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=ThereGo on, admit it - you's a stigma attached to mental illnessre not quite perfect. If you You still have cancer those odd, quirky even loveable (to you can tell the world about it and expect its sympathy) habits which seem to annoy other people. If you have depression it's seen as Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a character flaw and one about which you had best keep quietlittle bit of effort. Or put another way, pull yourself together I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get on to grips with things the way that normal people have toconcepts. And it's this cloak of shame I constantly fail and secrecy which has the dual effect of pushing people further into depression and dissuading them from seeking the help which they so desperately needthen I get cross with myself for failing. Sally Brampton has set out Lack of willpower is another burden to add to blast away this stigma by telling her own storythe list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747572453</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glenn Harrold1785785516|title=Look Young, Live Longer: The Secret to Changing Your Life and Slowing the Ageing Process Fucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=I was really intrigued Manners maketh man, they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by the title a set of conventions, some of therapist Glenn Harrold's book ''Look Young which are ages old and Live Longer''other which have evolved over time. Could it be possible that a book could deliver on such a huge promise? Having been feeling more than a little jaded lately, I was willing Manners are not about how much to give it a try.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075288610X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Brian|title=The Complete Guide tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Female Fertility|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's tempting to say that every woman over the age of puberty should Buckingham Palace, they have access nothing to Kate Briando with class or financial status: they's 'The Complete Guide re about getting the basics right before we try to Female Fertility'deal with more difficult matters. The truth is that they should Of course we all have their own copies more relaxed manners when we're with family and they should read the book until friends, but it's dog-eared best if we learn to distinguish between our public and falling apart, because I really canprivate lives and to act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners''t think of a better aims to help us on the way to understand why some women are more fertile than others or some women have difficulty in conceiving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749927925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania Glyde1999811402|title=Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking And LivedPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I suspect thought that Ias it'm like s loosely based around a lot of people who enjoy alcohol year on an allotment it would be a regular basis: therelifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see's . Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a nagging guilt busker, finally got into medical school and suspicion that you might have a problemis now an A&E consultant (part-time). Equally, I found out that there's St Augustine's approach an awful lot more to what goes on in a sin: Major Trauma Centre than you're determined to do something about itll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but not just yetthat isn't really what the book's about. SoThere's a lot about rock & roll, when which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn'Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking And Lived'' dropped through t actually fit into the letterbox on Saturday morning I wondered if this was a message from a higher authorityentertainment genre either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686555</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marisa Peer |title=You Can Be Thin: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting... Forever |rating=4.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=After having my baby just over two years ago, I Did we have found it quite a category for 'doing the impossible the hard to shed way'? Yep - that's the weight which seemed to be sticking aroundone. I used to be quite thin before having him, so to suddenly go up a dress size was a bit of a shock. I It'm quite a petite person so even just a few extra pounds shows unfortunately. I decided I had to get rid of the weight, and so I turned to this book sent to me by The Bookbags an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441394</amazonuk>
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