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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 It was reinforced by all 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.amazon.co.uk/dp/1999731506/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Spiritual Atheist by Nick Seneca Jankel]]=== [[image:2star Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children.jpg It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1538731738|linktitle=CategorySimple Abundance:{{{365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:=5|genre=Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[summary=Someone once said:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] it's not self-indulgence, it'Spiritual Atheist'' is a new 'bible' for the spiritual not the religiouss therapy! I think they were talking about shopping, according but it probably can be applied to the taglinemost things. This is a taboo smashing book which solves the problem of modernity and explains how In my case, it applies to writing about things because I want to be a 'spiritual technologist' who can live and love freely in 'spiritual fullness' without relying on a belief in god. Touching on everything from 'brain science, rather than because I can sell it or because I' ve got something to AI, Jankel offers a 'path to meaning', allowing us to move beyond consumerism towards an ethical lifesell. [[Spiritual Atheist by Nick Seneca Jankel|Full Review]]}}<!-- Mackay -->{{Frontpage|-author=Sharon Blackie| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"If Women Rose Rooted|rating=5[[image:Mackay_Trials.jpg|leftgenre= Biography|linksummary=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524683094?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524683094]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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're picking up a book about what can go wrong in life for an itinerant sex worker ve finished reading the one I'd better explain exactly what it was that author Andrew Mackay did for thirty three yearsve borrowed. A travelling prostitute I 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 worker who is employed by one company but his services are sold out to other countries, usually at a substantial profit reason and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|isbn=1912836017}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1543987877|title=Learn to the employing company and a lot of inconvenience Love: Guide to the employee. Mackay was an engineer who knew all that there was Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''Learn to Love: Guide to be know about turbines and generators, or Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of grief: ''if he didnyou love't could soon be up to speed to ', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin the extent of being able to teach other people. Occasionally his skills were used in moment you're born and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the UK, but frequently he was abroad. Just every now world hoping to give and again he would be in those parts of receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the world which has the rest of us green with envysame mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, but then there were those areas which feature heavily in the news and not in form of resignation is a good waynecessity. [[Trials and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute by Andrew Mackay|Full Review]] <!-- 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 mainstream, but it is not that at all. Instead of telling us how, it is more about the ''why''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be a Child: Memoirs natural part of My Childhood by Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza]]=== [[image:4starour human life, and why that matters.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of that, [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza was brought up and eventually 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 the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it an investment in her futureout, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him. Now a qualified pharmacist, married and with a child of her own|isbn=1847947662}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0753553236|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Go on, Tabitha looks back at her childhood and reflects on the way her mother and father raised heradmit it - you're not quite perfect. And she gives their parenting top marks You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people. [[Parenting through the Eyes Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a Child: Memoirs little bit of My Childhood by Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza|Full Review]] <!-- Kyncl -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kyncl_Streameffort.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0753545926?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0753545926]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Stream Punks by Robert Kyncl Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and Maany Peyvan]]=== [[image:4no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts.5star I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing.jpg|link=Category: Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the list.}}{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LifestyleFrontpage|Lifestyle]], [[:Category: Entertainmentisbn=1785785516|Entertainment]]title=Fucking Good Manners|author=Simon GriffinI watch quite |rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Manners maketh man, they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a lot set of conventions, some of YouTube. I play music videos when I want to listen to a particular song I don't already which are ages old and other which have in my collectionevolved over time. I use it to find out Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do things, with class or financial status: they're about getting the instruction videos they seem basics right before we try to have for pretty much anythingdeal with more difficult matters. At the gym, I Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we'll stick it on on my phonere with family and friends, prop but it up on the cross trainer 's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and watch some behind the scenes interviews with the cast of my favourite showsto act appropriately. And sometimes I ''Fucking Good Manners''ll treat it as if it is Netflix, to watch series with new episodes releasing every few days, exclusively aims to help us on YouTubethe way. Having a new smart TV adds an extra, easy way }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=Painting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It's very difficult to watch without having to plug in my laptop or squint at a small phone screen. So yes, classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I like YouTube and I use YouTube. But I didn't know thought that as it's loosely based around a whole lot about the site year on an allotment it until I read this would be a lifestyle book.[[Stream Punks by Robert Kyncl , but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and Maany Peyvan|Full Review]] <!-- Way -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Way_Teawhere for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8 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 is now an A&tag=thebookbagE consultant (part-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tea Gardens (Britaintime). I found out that there's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:History|History]] Tea Gardens really began in London an awful lot more to what goes on in the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a trip lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the country in those days. Men had their coffee housesreal passion of Hartley's life, but they were not places where women could or would be seen. Tea was introduced to England in the 17th century but it was not until 1784 that didn't actually fit into the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the drink of choice entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the nation. Until then impossible the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where would this beverage be drunkhard way'? One answer was Yep - that's the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardensone. [[Tea Gardens (Britain It's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|Full Review]]an autobiography.}}<!-- Nicholson -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1848993609| styletitle="widthGood Mood Food: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well|author=Charlotte Watts and Natalie Savona[[image:Nicholson_Tambourine|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Cookery|linksummary=httpsI thought I was getting a cookbook://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524681822?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbagI liked the idea of a series of recipes which would make me feel happy. For once this isn't a case of 'if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' -21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524681822]]it's a case of getting something which could change your life for the better - for good - rather than a quick fix.}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Kyncl_Stream|title=Stream Punks|author=Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan|rating==[[Mr Tambourine Man by Nicholson]]===4.5[[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LifestyleEntertainment|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 the 45rpm recording of the song in the window of the local summary=I watch quite a lot of YouTube. I play music store and would have loved videos when I want to be able listen to buy it but didna particular song I don't already have the moneyin my collection. Thirteen-year olds didn't in those days unless I use it was a birthday or Christmas and you couldn't get a part-time job until you were fifteen. There would be a few of those badly-paid jobs before he finished his A levels and went to New York find out how to do things, with the instruction videos they seem to have for three monthspretty much anything. ItAt the gym, I's this trip which Nicholson feels turned him from being a boy into a man ll stick it on on my phone, prop it up on the cross-trainer and allowed him to see watch some behind the scenes interviews with the bigger picturecast of my favourite shows.<br> <!-- Tuhus-Dubrow -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dubrow_StereoAnd sometimes I'll treat it as if it is Netflix, to watch series with new episodes releasing every few days, exclusively on YouTube.jpg|link=http://wwwHaving a new smart TV adds an extra, easy way to watch without having to plug in my laptop or squint at a small phone screen. So 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/dp/1501322818/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-alignOmeiza_Parenting|title=Parenting through the Eyes of a Child: top; text-align: left;"Memoirs of My Childhood|author=Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=[[Personal Stereo by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow]]=== [[image:5starTabitha Ochekpe Omeiza was brought up in Nigeria and came to Britain to study for her A levels when she was 18.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] These tiny 'Object Lessons', Her parents used their savings to give her this opportunity and called it an investment in her future. Now a range of books which are more like a long-form essayqualified pharmacist, explore often seemingly mundane items. Personal Stereo packs married and with a lot child of information into a small space. Split into three distinct sections: Novelty, Normher own, Tabitha looks back at her childhood and Nostalgia, 'Novelty' traces the origin of the Sony Walkman, from its conception by two Japanese business men to it becoming a recognised entity reflects on the streets of Americaway her mother and father raised her. 'Norm' follows on from the universal success of the personal stereo, relating this to the technology which it set the groundwork for, such as the ubiquitous proliferation of MP3s, the iPod, and Smartphones, leading to the eventual downfall in the popularity of the WalkmanAnd she gives their parenting top marks. Finally, in 'Nostalgia', Tuhus-Dubrow examines our need to hark back to a simpler time, when the personal stereo seemed the height of freedom. [[Personal Stereo by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow|Full Review]] <!-- Moore -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=Mackay_Trials| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Trials and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute|author=Andrew Mackay[[image:Moore Bientot.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www3.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782438610?ie5|genre=UTF8&tagBusiness and Finance|summary=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782438610]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 author Andrew Mackay did for thirty-three years. A Bientot... travelling prostitute is a worker who is employed by Roger Moore]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]], [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] The news of one company but his services are sold out to other countries, usually at a substantial profit to the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as employing company and a great shock: he was one lot of those people you knew would go on for everinconvenience to the employee. There Mackay was just one small glimmer of light in the sadness - the news an engineer who knew all that a matter of days before his death there was to be know about turbines and generators, or if hedidn'd delivered t could soon be up to speed to the finished manuscript extent of being able to teach other people. Occasionally his bookskills were used in the UK, ''À bientôt…'', to his publishersbut frequently he was abroad. Just a few months later a copy landed on my desk and I didn't even bother to look as though I could resist reading it straight away. [[A Bientotevery 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... by Roger Moore|Full Review]]}}<!-- Dubey -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1529104432X| styletitle="widthThe Art of Noticing: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Rediscover What Really Matters to You|author=Rob Walker[[image:Dubey_21.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1999838912/ref4|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Lifestyle| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[21 Doors The curse put on reviewers is that we get to Happiness: Life Through Travel Experiences read through a book which is really better dipped into or read gradually and Meditation by Chit Dubey]]=== [[image:4starthoughts allowed to be provoked. And so it was with ''The Art of Noticing''.jpg|link=Category It's a simple premise:{{{ratingthe pace of modern life and rapidity of technological advances means that 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 help us recover our attention.}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle{{Frontpage|isbn=1786331608|title=Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story|Lifestyle]]author=Leah Hazard|rating=4I know that I'm not alone in having been brought up to |genre=Lifestyle|summary=Over the past few years, we've had a rash (sorry - no pun intended) of books by medical practitioners. Doctors have been at the forefront, but ''achieveHard Pushed'', to look down on those who had different (is the first book I've seen by a midwife. It'lessers an unusual profession in that it'', it would have been said) aims, but there comes a point in life when you wonder about s one of the few callings within the point medical system where most of it all. Do you need to keep on ''achieving'', the patients are healthy and if so, the only one where one person comes into the system and (for the most part) more than one goes out. It''why''? Many years ago I had a lights an amazing thing to be able to do -bulb moment when I realised that achieving more, having more money, more material possessions didn't make me happy to escort new life into the world - and surely the point of it all was an enormous responsibility. Leah Hazard came to be it after a career in television and ''happyHard Pushed''? Superficially that sounds very simple: live is the story of her career as a life doing only what you want to do midwife - and pleasing yourself, but that doesn't bring happiness eitherthe title tells more than one story. Chit Dubey believes that happiness is inside you }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0753552655|title=Time and you just need How 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="widthSpend It: 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 to eat at the right time every day because he has diabetes. [[Grandpa Diet and Diabetes by Laura Williams|Full Review]] <!-- Way -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Way_Allotments.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445665700/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Allotments came about originally from the enclosure of land, primarily for sheep pasture. Fearing that the enclosures would leave peasants unable to feed themselves, Elizabeth I issued an act requiring all new cottages to have four acres of ground, something which has been honoured more by history than by Elizabeth's contemporaries. It was the first in a long line of legislation with that aim in mind - which largely failed to achieve their aims. [[Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|Full Review]] <!-- Nicolau -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Nicolaou_Anxiety.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524667412/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Anxiety-Elimination System by Nicos Nicolaou]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Nick Nicolau suffered a major panic attack and was told by his doctor that he would need medication to control the attacks and that there wasn't much more that he could do - apart that was, from going home to sleep. The next morning he had another attack which he could neither stop nor control and before long was having panic attacks every day and developed generalised anxiety and phobias. After a great deal of work and research he discovered how to reverse and beat his anxiety - and now he helps others to do the same. No one is born with a chemical imbalance in the brain and genes do not determine behaviour. The proof of the efficacy of his system is that through the course of a particularly challenging life event - his divorce - he didn't slip back into inappropriate anxiety. [[The Anxiety-Elimination System by Nicos Nicolaou|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING FROM BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreview7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days|author=Akon Margaret Kalu|title=Eat With PleasureJames 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]]