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{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Jankel -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1999731506It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1999731506/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Spiritual Atheist It was reinforced by Nick Seneca Jankel]]=== [[image:2starall those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]]  Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''Spiritual Atheist'' is a new without'bible' for the spiritual not the religious, according to the tagline. This is expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a taboo smashing book which solves the problem of modernity belief and explains how to it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice'spiritual technologist' who can live and love freely in 'spiritual fullness' without relying on a belief in god. Touching on everything from 'brain science' .}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1538731738|title=Simple Abundance: 365 Days to AI, Jankel offers a 'path to meaning', allowing us to move beyond consumerism towards an ethical life. [[Spiritual Atheist by Nick Seneca JankelBalanced and Joyful Life|Full Review]]author= Sarah Ban Breathnach <!-- Mackay -->|rating=5|-genre=Lifestyle| stylesummary="widthSomeone once said: 10%; vertical-align: top; textit's not self-align: center;"|[[image:Mackay_Trialsindulgence, it's therapy! I think they were talking about shopping, but it probably can be applied to most things.jpg|left In my case, it applies to writing about things because I want to, rather than because I can sell it or because I've got something to sell.}}{{Frontpage|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524683094?ieSharon Blackie|title=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=1524683094]]5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Biography|summary===[[Trials and Tribulations of I normally say that you can tell how much a Travelling Prostitute book means to me by Andrew Mackay]]=== [[image:3how many pages have corners turned down.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]]  Just chance you think that you 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. I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring're picking up a book 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about what can go wrong in life the third – but clichés exist for an itinerant sex worker a reason and I'd m not sure I can succinctly put it any better explain exactly what it was that author Andrew Mackay did for thirty three years. A travelling prostitute is a worker who is employed by one company but his services are sold out |isbn=1912836017}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1543987877|title=Learn to Love: Guide to other countries, usually at a substantial profit Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''Learn to the employing company and a lot of inconvenience Love: Guide to the employeeHealing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. Mackay was an engineer who knew all that there was to be know about turbines The two greatest emotions are love and grief and generators, or love is the opposite of grief: ''if he didnyou love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''t could soon be up to speed to the extent of being able to teach other people. Occasionally his skills were used in Your love relationships begin the UK, but frequently he was abroadmoment you're born and end only when you die. Just every now and again he would be in those parts of Whilst we all come into the world which has the rest of us green with envy, but then hoping to give and receive love there were those areas which feature heavily in the news and are many people for whom love is not in a good wayquite so simple. [[Trials Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and Tribulations this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the form of resignation is a Travelling Prostitute by Andrew Mackay|Full Review]]necessity.}} <!-- Omeiza -->{{Frontpage|-author=Michael Harris| styletitle="widthSolitude: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=5[[image:Omeiza_Parenting.jpg|left|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524682853?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524682853]] Lifestyle| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; textThis is not the book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-align: left;"|===[[Parenting through help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the Eyes of a Child: Memoirs mainstream, but it is not that at all. Instead of My Childhood by Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza]]=== [[image:4startelling us how, it is more about the ''why''.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be a natural part of our human life, [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza was brought up in Nigeria and came to Britain to study for her A levels when she was 18. Her parents used their savings to give her this opportunity why that matters. Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of that, and called it an investment eventually in her future. Now a qualified pharmacist, married and with a child the final chapter he talks about his own experience of her ownhaving deliberately sought it out, Tabitha looks back at her childhood but mostly he wanders down the alleys and reflects on the way her mother and father raised herby-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him. And she gives their parenting top marks. [[Parenting through the Eyes of a Child: Memoirs of My Childhood by Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza|Full Review]] <!-- Kyncl -->|-isbn=1847947662}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0753553236| styletitle="widthTiny Habits: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg[[image:Kyncl_Stream.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0753545926?ieLifestyle|summary=UTF8&tag=thebookbagGo on, admit it -21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0753545926]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Stream Punks by Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan]]=== [[image:4you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, [[:Category: Entertainment|Entertainment]] I watch quite a lot if only they would make just a little bit of YouTubeeffort. Or put another way, I play music videos when get cross with myself because I want forget to listen to a particular song do things or do some actions more than I don't already have in my collection. should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I use it never quite seem to find out how get to do things, grips with the instruction videos they seem to have concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for pretty much anythingfailing. At Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the gym, I'll stick it on on my phone, prop it up on the cross trainer and watch some behind the scenes interviews with the cast list.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785785516|title=Fucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Manners maketh man, they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of my favourite showsconventions, some of which are ages old and other which have evolved over time. And sometimes I'll treat it as Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if it is Netflixyou get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to watch series do with new episodes releasing every few days, exclusively on YouTubeclass or financial status: they're about getting the basics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. Having a new smart TV adds an extra Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, easy way to watch without having but it's best if we learn to plug in my laptop or squint at a small phone screen. So yes, I like YouTube distinguish between our public and private lives and I use YouTubeto act appropriately. But I didn ''Fucking Good Manners''t know a whole lot about aims to help us on the site it until I read this bookway.[[Stream Punks by Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan|Full Review]]}}<!-- Way -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1999811402| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Painting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley[[image:Way_Tea|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Autobiography|linksummary=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]]  | style="vertical-alignIt's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tea Gardens (Britainoriginally I thought that as it's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, [[:Category:History|History]] Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: a trip but you're not going to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip get advice on what to plant when and where for the country in those daysbest results. Men had their coffee houses, but they were not places where women could or The answer would be seen. Tea was introduced to England in something along the 17th century but lines of 'try it was not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the drink of choice for the nationsee'. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardensis now an A&E consultant (part-time). [[Tea Gardens (Britain I found out that there's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|Full Review]] <!-- Nicholson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Nicholson_Tambourinean 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.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524681822?ie=UTF8 There's a lot about rock &tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524681822]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's an autobiography.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848993609|title=Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well|author=[[Mr Tambourine Man by Nicholson]]=Charlotte Watts and Natalie Savona|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery [[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=CategoryI thought I was getting a cookbook:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Back in 1965 we heard ''Mr Tambourine Man'' by the Byrds on the radio very regularly. Nicholson was thirteen and saw I liked the 45rpm recording idea of the song in the window a series of the local music store and recipes which would have loved make me feel happy. For once this isn't a case of 'if it sounds too good to be able to buy true, it but didnprobably is't have the money. Thirteen-year olds didn't in those days unless it was a birthday or Christmas and you couldn't get s a part-time job until you were fifteen. There would be a few of those badlycase of getting something which could change your life for the better -paid jobs before he finished his A levels and went to New York for three monthsgood - rather than a quick fix. It's this trip which Nicholson feels turned him from being a boy into a man and allowed him to see the bigger picture.<br> <!-- Tuhus-Dubrow -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=Kyncl_Stream| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Stream Punks|author=Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan[[image:Dubrow_Stereo.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1501322818/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Entertainment| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Personal Stereo by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow]]=== [[image:5starI watch quite a lot of YouTube.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] These tiny I play music videos when I want to listen to a particular song I don'Object Lessons', a range of books which are more like a long-form essay, explore often seemingly mundane itemst already have in my collection. Personal Stereo packs a lot of information into a small space. Split into three distinct sections: NoveltyI use it to find out how to do things, Norm, and Nostalgiawith the instruction videos they seem to have for pretty much anything. At the gym, I'Novelty' traces the origin of the Sony Walkman, from its conception by two Japanese business men to ll stick it becoming a recognised entity on the streets of America. 'Norm' follows on from my phone, prop it up on the universal success of cross-trainer and watch some behind the personal stereo, relating this to scenes interviews with the technology which it set the groundwork for, such as the ubiquitous proliferation cast of MP3s, the iPod, and Smartphones, leading to the eventual downfall in the popularity of the Walkmanmy favourite shows. Finally, in 'NostalgiaAnd sometimes I'll treat it as if it is Netflix, Tuhus-Dubrow examines our need to hark back to watch series with new episodes releasing every few days, exclusively on YouTube. Having a simpler timenew smart TV adds an extra, when the personal stereo seemed the height of freedom. [[Personal Stereo by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow|Full Review]] <!-- Moore -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moore Bientoteasy way to watch without having to plug in my laptop or squint at a small phone screen.jpg|left|link=https://wwwSo yes, I like YouTube and I use YouTube. But I didn't know a whole lot about the site it until I read this book.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782438610?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782438610]]}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-alignOmeiza_Parenting|title=Parenting through the Eyes of a Child: left;"Memoirs of My Childhood|author=Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=[[A BientotTabitha Ochekpe Omeiza was brought up in Nigeria and came to Britain to study for her A levels when she was 18.Her parents used their savings to give her this opportunity and called it an investment in her future.. by Roger Moore]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}Now a qualified pharmacist, married and with a child of her own, Tabitha looks back at her childhood and reflects on the way her mother and father raised her. And she gives their parenting top marks.}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography{{Frontpage|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Entertainmentisbn=Mackay_Trials|Entertainment]], [[:Category:Lifestyletitle=Trials and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute|Lifestyle]]author=Andrew MackayThe news of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shock: he was one of those people you knew would go on for ever|rating=3. There was just one small glimmer of light in the sadness - the news 5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Just chance you think that you're picking up a matter of days before his death hebook about what can go wrong in life for an itinerant sex worker I'd delivered the finished manuscript of his book, ''À bientôt…'', to his publishersbetter explain exactly what it was that author Andrew Mackay did for thirty-three years. Just A travelling prostitute is a few months later a copy landed on my desk and I didn't even bother worker who is employed by one company but his services are sold out to other countries, usually at a substantial profit to look as though I could resist reading it straight away. [[A Bientot... by Roger Moore|Full Review]] <!-- Dubey -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dubey_21the employing company and a lot of inconvenience to the employee.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1999838912/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[21 Doors 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 Happiness: Life Through Travel Experiences and Meditation by Chit Dubey]]=== [[image:4starthe extent of being able to teach other people.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] I know that I'm not alone Occasionally his skills were used in the UK, but frequently he was abroad. Just every now and again he would be in having been brought up to ''achieve''those parts of the world which has the rest of us green with envy, to look down on but then there were those who had different (''lesser'', it would have been said) aims, but there comes areas which feature heavily in the news and not in a point in life when you wonder about the point of it allgood way. Do you need to keep on ''achieving'', and if so, ''why''? Many years ago I had a light-bulb moment when I realised that achieving more, having more money, more material possessions didn't make me happy - and surely the point of it all was to be ''happy''? Superficially that sounds very simple: live a life doing only what you want to do and pleasing yourself, but that doesn't bring happiness either. Chit Dubey believes that happiness is inside you and you just need to delve a little deeper to find it. [[21 Doors to Happiness: Life Through Travel Experiences and Meditation by Chit Dubey|Full Review]] <!-- Owusu -->|-| style}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529104432X|title="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Owusu_Psychosis.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524680559/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Psychosis Story: A Story of Fear and Hope Through Adversity by Emmanuel Owusu]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] ''My Psychosis Story'' recounts Emmanuel Owusu's journey into and eventually out of psychosis. In late 2014, during a visit home for Christmas, he found himself exhausted, anxious and unable to sleep. Symptoms persisted and soon he was suffering from noise sensitivity and intense headaches. Various visits to A&E failed to diagnose a physical cause. Things deteriorated further and possible diagnoses of anxiety and post traumatic concussion were suggested. And ''still'' things got worse. Eventually, Owusu's condition deteriorated so far that he was suffering from delusions and hallucinations. An ambulance was called and he was detained - sectioned - under the Mental Health Act in 2015. [[My Psychosis Story: A Story of Fear and Hope Through Adversity by Emmanuel Owusu|Full Review]] <!-- Hine -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hine_Mind.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473649285/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Mind of a Survivor by Megan Hine]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Megan Hine is probably the type of person that you'd want with you in a crisis situation. Cool, calm and capable; this survival expert is equally at home in desert, mountain, tundra and jungle environments. She's navigated her way around some of the most inhospitable regions on the planet and survived to tell the tale. But just what is it that makes some people more capable in a survival situation than others? Physical fitness? Bushcraft skills? Experience? Whilst all of these are important, Hine argues that ''attitude'' is one of the most important factors in survival. In this book, she examines how the right mindset can mean the difference between life and death when isolated in the wilderness. [[Mind of a Survivor by Megan Hine|Full Review]] <!-- Ikin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ikin_Kitchen.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/144566884X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Kitchen Garden (Britain's Heritage Series) by Caroline Ikin]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] I love visiting country houses, but you can keep the interiors and the flower gardens - what interests me is the kitchen garden: seeing one which has been restored to its former glory is a real treat, as was ''Britain's Heritage: The Country Garden'' when it landed on my desk. There was no longer any need to guess at the work that had been done: here was the history complete with glorious illustrations as well as some wonderful advertisements. ''Canary Guano. For Greenhouse and garden. Perfectly clean. May be used by a lady.'' is still making me giggle. [[The Kitchen Garden (Britain's Heritage Series) by Caroline Ikin|Full Review]] <!-- McNally -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mcnally_Cracking.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524662003/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Cracking the Obesity Crisis by Veronica M McNally]]=== [[image:1.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Any weight-related book, whether one that considers issues from a medical or sociological perspective, or one that provides advice on how to eat well or lose weight, whose opening pages feature such as controversial statements as: ''fat people are basically insecure, unhappy people trapped inside very unattractive bodies'', or ''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 I don’t see a way back for the clinically aid [sic] morbidly obese'' or my personal favourite: ''as women’s hands are smooth and soft in many cases, females would be useful behind soldiers to be there as assistants to men quickly reloading magazines of bullets speedily'', any such book needs to provide an awful lot of valuable content in the pages that follow to have a chance of redeeming itself. [[Cracking the Obesity Crisis by Veronica M McNally|Full Review]] <!-- Darbyshire -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Darbyshire_Modern.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784755168/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[This Modern Love by Will Darbyshire]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Love is love, but at the same time love is changing, the way we find it, the way we express it, the way we walk away from things. You can change a Facebook status and tell the entire world the ins and outs of your relationship, you can meet people online, you can conduct long distance relationships in much more real time than in the past when you had to rely on the postman to deliver your heartfelt, handwritten note. This book, a compilation of letters and other contributions, explores what love is in the 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. [[This Modern Love by Will Darbyshire|Full Review]] <!-- Williams -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Williams_Grandpa.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524667641/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Grandpa Diet and Diabetes by Laura Williams]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Nick's Mum is an accident and emergency nurse and life can get a bit hectic at times, particularly when she has to arrange for someone to look after Nick and his twin sister Emma. One day in the school holidays Grandpa had the pleasure of looking after the kids and Nick thought this was cool. Grandpa used to be a bit of a rocker, you see, and that's the sort of music he always has playing. He might have a stick but Nick's 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 The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to eat at the right time every day because he has diabetes. [[Grandpa Diet and Diabetes by Laura Williams|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING FROM BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreviewYou|author=Twigs Way|title=Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series)Rob Walker

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicos Nicolaou1786331608|title=The Anxiety-Elimination SystemHard Pushed: A Midwife's Story|author=Leah Hazard

|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>

{{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

|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>

{{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

|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 experiencetwenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999308719|title=Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was working out OK. To come back from this situation requires strength, honesty Time has passed though and although I'm a sense 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 purposebalance. It was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, all of which Pearson demonstrates quite clearly throughout this the reviewing gods brought me the bookI 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1847941834|title=Confessions of Modern WomenAtomic Habits|author=Spadge WhittakerJames Clear

|summary=SheI's backve 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|faced her (rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|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?}}

This time, Spadge has turned her attention Move on to what it means to be a modern woman in twenty-first century, digital Britain. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429912</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Literary Fiction Reviews]]