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|isbn=1786495902
|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind
|author=Isabel Hardman
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated 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 did.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Lauren Martin
|title=The Book of Moods
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary= I 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 ''great'' being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. I had spent the best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I'm happy to, but that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, and it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.
|isbn=1538733625
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008420386
|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong
|author=Elizabeth Day
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=What 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've all failed and - more importantly - they've been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You'll find the results of these discussions in ''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''.
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=I love visiting country housesManners maketh man, they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of conventions, but you can keep the interiors some of which are ages old and the flower gardens - what interests me is the kitchen garden: seeing one other which has been restored have evolved over time. Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to its former glory is a real treatBuckingham Palace, as was they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the basics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we'Britainre with family and friends, but it's Heritage: The Country Gardenbest if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners'' when it landed aims to help us on my deskthe way.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=Painting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4. There was no longer any need 5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It's very difficult to guess at the work classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that had been done: here was as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the history complete with glorious illustrations as well as some wonderful advertisementsbest results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'Canary Guano. For Greenhouse Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and gardenis now an A&E consultant (part-time). Perfectly clean I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. May There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be used by the real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a ladycategory for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It'' is still making me giggles an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566884X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview <!-- remove 7/7 -->Frontpage|authorisbn= Veronica M McNally1848993609|title= Cracking Good Mood Food: Unlock the Obesity CrisisPower of Diet to Think and Feel Well|author=Charlotte Watts and Natalie Savona|rating= 14.5|genre=LifestyleCookery|summary= Any weight-related book, whether one that considers issues from I thought I was getting a medical or sociological perspective, or one that provides advice on how to eat well or lose weight, whose opening pages feature ''fat people are basically insecure, unhappy people trapped inside very unattractive bodies'', ''Islamic people however are at an advantage as they do Ramadan and they are not overweight'', ''there is hope for overweight and obese people, but cookbook: I don’t see liked the idea of a way back for the clinically aid [sic] morbidly obeseseries of recipes which would make me feel happy. For once this isn't a case of ' and my personal favourite: ''as women’s hands are smooth and soft in many cases, females would be useful behind soldiers if it sounds too good to be there as assistants to men quickly reloading magazines of bullets speedilytrue, it probably is'- it', any such book needs to provide an awful lot s a case of valuable content in getting something which could change your life for the pages that follow to have better - for good - rather than a chance of redeeming itselfquick fix.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662003</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Will DarbyshireKyncl_Stream|title=This Modern Love Stream Punks|author=Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan|rating= 4.5|genre= LifestyleEntertainment|summary= Love is loveI watch quite a lot of YouTube. I play music videos when I want to listen to a particular song I don't already have in my collection. I use it to find out how to do things, but at with the instruction videos they seem to have for pretty much anything. At the same time love is changinggym, the way we find I'll stick iton on my phone, the way we express prop it, up on the way we walk away from things. You can change a Facebook status cross-trainer and tell watch some behind the entire world scenes interviews with the ins and outs cast of your relationshipmy favourite shows. And sometimes I'll treat it as if it is Netflix, you can meet people onlineto watch series with new episodes releasing every few days, you can conduct long distance relationships in much more real time than in the past when you had to rely exclusively on the postman to deliver your heartfelt, handwritten noteYouTube. This book, Having a compilation of letters and other contributionsnew smart TV adds an extra, explores what love is easy way to watch without having to plug in the 21st centurymy laptop or squint at a small phone screen. It's certainly international – there were 15So yes,000 submissions from over 100 countries – I like YouTube and I use YouTube. But I didn't know a whole lot about the site it's also touching, funny, frustrating and all those other thingsuntil I read this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784755168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura WilliamsOmeiza_Parenting|title=Grandpa Diet and DiabetesParenting through the Eyes of a Child: Memoirs of My Childhood|author=Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=Nick's Mum is an accident Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza was brought up in Nigeria and emergency nurse and life can get a bit hectic at times, particularly came to Britain to study for her A levels 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 cool18. Grandpa Her parents used their savings to be a bit of a rocker, you see, give her this opportunity 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 called it - it's there just an investment in caseher future. He does have Now a problem though qualified pharmacist, married and Mum explains it by saying that Grandpa has to eat with a child of her own, Tabitha looks back at her childhood and reflects on the right time every day because he has diabetesway her mother and father raised her. And she gives their parenting top marks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667641</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mackay_Trials|title=Trials and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute|author=Andrew Mackay|rating=3.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Just chance you think that you're picking up a book about what can go wrong in life for an itinerant sex worker I'd better explain exactly what it was that authorAndrew Mackay did for thirty-three years. A travelling prostitute is a worker who is employed by one company but his services are sold out to other countries, usually at a substantial profit to the employing company and a lot of inconvenience to the employee. Mackay was an engineer who knew all that there was to be know about turbines and generators, or if he didn't could soon be up to speed to the extent of being able to teach other people. Occasionally his skills were used in the UK, but frequently he was abroad. Just every now and again he would be in those parts of the world which has the rest of us green with envy, but then there were those areas which feature heavily in the news and not in a good way.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Twigs Way1529104432X|title=Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series)The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You|author=Rob Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Allotments came about originally from the enclosure of land, primarily for sheep pasture. Fearing The curse put on reviewers is that the enclosures would leave peasants unable we get to feed themselves, Elizabeth I issued an act requiring all new cottages read through a book which is really better dipped into or read gradually and thoughts allowed to have four acres be provoked. And so it was with ''The Art of ground, something which has been honoured more by history than by ElizabethNoticing''s contemporaries. It was 's a simple premise: the first in a long line pace of modern life and rapidity of legislation with technological advances means that aim in mind - which largely failed we are constantly overwhelmed and distracted. Rob Walker wants us to be able to steal our attention back. He gives us his thoughts on various areas of our lives and then provides 131 exercises to achieve their aimshelp us recover our attention.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicos Nicolaou1786331608|title=The Anxiety-Elimination SystemHard Pushed: A Midwife's Story|author=Leah Hazard
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Nick Nicolau suffered Over the past few years, we've had a major panic attack and was told rash (sorry - no pun intended) of books by his doctor that he would need medication to control medical practitioners. Doctors have been at the forefront, but ''Hard Pushed'' is the attacks and that there wasnfirst book I't much more that he could do - apart that was, from going home to sleepve seen by a midwife. The next morning he had another attack which he could neither stop nor control It's an unusual profession in that it's one of the few callings within the medical system where most of the patients are healthy and before long was having panic attacks every day the only one where one person comes into the system and developed generalised anxiety and phobias(for the most part) more than one goes out. After a great deal of work and research he discovered how It's an amazing thing to be able to control his anxiety do - and now he helps others to do escort new life into the sameworld - and an enormous responsibility. No one is born with Leah Hazard came to it after a chemical imbalance career in the brain television and genes do not determine behaviour. The proof of the efficacy of his system ''Hard Pushed'' is that through the course story of her career as a particularly challenging life event midwife - his divorce - he didn't slip back into inappropriate anxietyand the title tells more than one story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667412</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Akon Margaret Kalu0753552655|title=Eat With PleasureTime and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days|author=James Wallman|rating=34
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=When Most things you think about 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 eating. You visualise someone who will insist that you eat worthy (and probably tasteless) food and completely avoid those foods which you really love. Gone will be the bar can replace, but one of chocolate and possibly even the mug of coffee things which gets you going in the morningsimply can't replace is time. It was particularly refreshing and something of a relief Even though we know this, we fail to encounter Akon Margaret Kalu - certified nutrition coach and food blogger at [http://www.therealakon.co.uk www.therealakon.co.uk]use what we have wisely. SheWe have more leisure time, but that's outspoken. She believes that the occasional treat does you no harm so long as you donnot how it feels: a high value is put on how we spend our working hours, but there't make it s a regular habitlow value on leisure. In fact you're better having a smallUnfortunately, occasional, indulgent snack than resisting and finally giving into cravings we now know how to work and not how to ''live'': we need to ''binginglearn''. In other words, she lives in the real world with how to spend our leisure time wisely and James Wallman has taken on the rest onerous task of teaching us imperfect beingshow to do this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676942</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth PearsonB07ML4Q55J|title=Say Yes to New Opportunities!Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss|author=James Atkinson
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Ruth Pearson was deputy head of her school James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and he looks the part. He's been actively involved in the health and was studying fitness arena for a Masters degree when she suffered an emotional breakdown more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a result of the stresses member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he's been on the jobother side. The breakdown There was so severe that she a time when he was afraid to return to the classroom, but rather than sitting back overweight and letting the circumstances overwhelm her she allowed what had happened to become not particularly strong. As a catalyst which would help her child, he was slow to change her lifedevelop. In This means that he ''Say Yes to New Opportunitiesunderstands'' she shares what she learned from it's like and he knows how his clients feel: it's much more helpful than the experience. To come back from this situation requires strength, honesty twenty-something who was born super-fit and a sense of purpose, all of which Pearson demonstrates quite clearly throughout this bookwith an attitude problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676616</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1999308719|title=Confessions of Modern WomenLive Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Spadge WhittakerAdrian Cull
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=SheFor many years now I's backve (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. ''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-ageing treatments'' seemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1847941834|title=Atomic Habits|author=James Clear|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek out, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! Huzzah! Do you remember when Spadge Whittaker [[Braver Than Britain ''Atomic Habits'' is in the last category.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1527230783|title=Keep Your Health and Fitness For Life: Don't Let Age Be A Barrier|author=Stuart Roberts|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=My birth certificate might suggest a higher figure, Occasionally but I know that I'm only 42. I learned a long time ago that I could retain that feeling by Spadge Whittakerkeeping my life in balance. This meant eating sensibly, getting quality sleep and having regular exercise which I enjoyed. There was an added bonus too: I was juggling four chronic conditions and living this way meant that I could keep three of them in the background. Then a silly misstep meant that the hip problem flared up. The only way I could get more than an hour or two asleep was to take pain relief and the duodenal ulcer started to complain. Because I was masking symptoms I didn't dare to exercise - and the black dog of depression prowled along behind me.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1720812675|title=Beyond Thought|author=Chris Dhladhla|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|faced her (summary=Have you ever felt trapped by your own thoughts? That your mind is so busy processing what's going on in the world around you that you just can't catch a moment and our) deepest fears]]simply ''be''? We loved Or that the way she did outside world just won't stop pressing in upon an inner life that. EXCEPT FOR THE SPIDERS. you'd like to be more peaceful?}}
