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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="widthIt wasn't unkind: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1999731506it 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 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.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|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Spirituality It was a belief and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] ''Spiritual Atheistit would be many years before Louisa would conclude that '' a belief is a new choice'bible' for the spiritual not the religious, according .}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1538731738|title=Simple Abundance: 365 Days to the tagline. This is a taboo smashing book which solves the problem of modernity Balanced and explains how to be a Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Someone once said: it'spiritual technologists not self-indulgence, it' who s therapy! I think they were talking about shopping, but it probably can live and love freely in 'spiritual fullness' without relying on a belief in godbe applied to most things. Touching on everything from 'brain science' In my case, it applies to AI, Jankel offers a 'path writing about things because I want to meaning', allowing us rather than because I can sell it or because I've got something 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|left|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524683094?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524683094]]Biography| stylesummary="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've finished reading the one I're picking up a book about what can go wrong in life for an itinerant sex worker ve borrowed. Iwant to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing'd better explain exactly what – although it was that author Andrew Mackay did for thirty three years. A travelling prostitute is a worker who is employed by one company definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but his services are sold out to other countries, usually at clichés exist for a substantial profit to the employing company reason and a lot of inconvenience to the employeeI'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better. 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 |isbn=1912836017}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1543987877|title=Learn to speed Love: Guide to the extent of being able Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''Learn to Love: Guide to teach other people. Occasionally his skills were used in the UK, but frequently he was abroadHealing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. Just every now The two greatest emotions are love and grief and again he would be in those parts of the world which has the rest love is the opposite of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us green with envy, but then there were those areas which feature heavily in ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin the news moment you're born and not in a good wayend only when you die. [[Trials Whilst we all come into the world hoping to give and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute by Andrew Mackay|Full Review]] <!receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments -sometimes repeating the same mistakes - Omeiza -->|and this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the form of resignation is a necessity.}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Michael Harris|[[imagetitle=Solitude:Omeiza_Parenting.jpgIn Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|leftrating=5|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 future. Now a qualified pharmacist, married and with a child of her own, Tabitha looks back at her childhood and reflects on out, but mostly he wanders down the way her mother alleys 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]]isbn=1847947662}}<!-- Kyncl -->{{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 if only they would make just a lot 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 phonelist.}}{{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 conventions, prop it up on the cross trainer and watch some behind the scenes interviews with the cast of my favourite showswhich 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 but it's best if we learn to watch without having distinguish between our public and private lives and to plug in my laptop or squint at a small phone screenact appropriately. So yes, I like YouTube and I use YouTube. But I didn ''Fucking Good Manners''t know a whole lot about aims to help us on the site it until I read this book.[[Stream Punks by Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan|Full Review]]way.}}{{Frontpage<!-- Way -->|isbn=1999811402|-title=Painting Snails| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Stephen John Hartley|[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co4.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Autobiography|summary===[[Tea Gardens (BritainIt's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[imagevery difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'':4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]originally I thought that as it's 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 nationand see'. 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="verticalroll, 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 -align: top; text-align: left;"|that's the one. It's an autobiography.}}{{Frontpage|isbn===[[Mr Tambourine Man by Nicholson]]===1848993609 [[image:3.5star.jpg|linktitle=CategoryGood Mood Food:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LifestyleUnlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Travelauthor=Charlotte Watts and Natalie Savona|Travel]]rating=4.5|genre=CookeryBack in 1965 we heard ''Mr Tambourine Man'' by the Byrds on the radio very regularly. Nicholson was thirteen and saw |summary=I thought I was getting a cookbook: 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 to be able to buy it but didnmake me feel happy. For once this isn't have the money. Thirteen-year olds didna case of 't in those days unless if it sounds too good to be true, it was a birthday or Christmas and you couldnprobably is't get a part-time job until you were fifteen. There would be it's a few case of those badlygetting 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 Nostalgia, 'Novelty' traces with the origin of the Sony Walkman, from its conception by two Japanese business men instruction videos they seem to have for pretty much anything. At the gym, I'll stick it becoming a recognised entity on the streets of America. 'Norm' follows on from the universal success of the personal stereomy phone, relating this to the technology which prop it set up on the groundwork for, such as the ubiquitous proliferation of MP3s, the iPod, cross-trainer and Smartphones, leading to watch some behind the eventual downfall in scenes interviews with the popularity cast 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 a simpler timewatch series with new episodes releasing every few days, when the personal stereo seemed the height of freedomexclusively on YouTube. [[Personal Stereo by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow|Full Review]] <!-- Moore -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moore BientotHaving 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.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 Bientot... by Roger Moore]]=== [[image:4starTabitha 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:Autobiography|Autobiography]]Her parents used their savings to give her this opportunity and called it an investment in her future. Now a qualified pharmacist, [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]], [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] The news of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as married and with a great shock: he was one child of those people you knew would go her own, Tabitha looks back at her childhood and reflects on for everthe way her mother and father raised her. There was just one small glimmer of light in the sadness - the news that a matter And she gives their parenting top marks.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Mackay_Trials|title=Trials and Tribulations of days before his death he'd delivered the finished manuscript of his book, ''À bientôt…'', to his publishersa Travelling Prostitute|author=Andrew Mackay|rating=3. 5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Just chance you think that you're picking up a few months later a copy landed on my desk and book about what can go wrong in life for an itinerant sex worker I didn't even bother to look as though I could resist reading d better explain exactly what it straight away. [[was that author Andrew Mackay did for thirty-three years. A Bientot... travelling prostitute is a worker who is employed by Roger Moore|Full Review]] <!-- Dubey -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dubey_21one 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.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 Happiness: Life Through Travel Experiences and Meditation by Chit Dubey]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] I know that I'm not alone in having been brought up speed to ''achieve'', the extent of being able to look down on those who had different (''lesser'', it would have been said) aimsteach other people. Occasionally his skills were used in the UK, but there comes a point frequently he was abroad. Just every now and again he would be in life when you wonder about those parts of the world which has the point rest of it all. Do you need to keep on ''achieving'', us green with envy, but then there were those areas which feature heavily in the news 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 not in a good way.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529104432X|title=The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You|author=Rob Walker|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=The curse put on reviewers is that we get to read through a book which is really better dipped into or read gradually and thoughts allowed to be provoked. And so it was with ''happyThe Art of Noticing''? . Superficially that sounds very It's a simplepremise: live a the pace of modern life doing only what you want to do and pleasing yourself, but rapidity of technological advances means that doesn't bring happiness eitherwe are constantly overwhelmed and distracted. Chit Dubey believes that happiness is inside you and you just need Rob Walker wants us to delve a little deeper be able to find itsteal our attention back. [[21 Doors He gives us his thoughts on various areas of our lives and then provides 131 exercises to Happiness: Life Through Travel Experiences and Meditation by Chit Dubey|Full Review]]help us recover our attention.}}<!-- Owusu -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1786331608| styletitle="widthHard Pushed: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"A Midwife's Story|author=Leah Hazard[[image:Owusu_Psychosis.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524680559/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Lifestyle|summary===[[My Psychosis Story: A Story Over the past few years, we've had a rash (sorry - no pun intended) of Fear and Hope Through Adversity books by Emmanuel Owusu]]=== [[image:4starmedical practitioners.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]  Doctors have been at the forefront, but ''My Psychosis StoryHard Pushed'' recounts Emmanuel Owusuis the first book I've seen by a midwife. It's journey into and eventually out of psychosis. In late 2014, during a visit home for Christmas, he found himself exhausted, anxious an unusual profession in that it's one of the few callings within the medical system where most of the patients are healthy and unable to sleep. Symptoms persisted and soon he was suffering from noise sensitivity the only one where one person comes into the system and intense headaches(for the most part) more than one goes out. Various visits It's an amazing thing to A&E failed be able to diagnose a physical cause. Things deteriorated further and possible diagnoses of anxiety and post traumatic concussion do - to escort new life into the world - and an enormous responsibility. were suggested. And Leah Hazard came to it after a career in television and ''stillHard Pushed'' things got worse. Eventually, Owusu's condition deteriorated so far that he was suffering from delusions and hallucinations. An ambulance was called is the story of her career as a midwife - and he was detained - sectioned - under the Mental Health Act in 2015title tells more than one story. [[My Psychosis Story: A Story of Fear and Hope Through Adversity by Emmanuel Owusu|Full Review]]}}{{Frontpage<!-- Hine -->|isbn=0753552655|-title=Time and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"James Wallman|rating=4[[image:Hine_Mind.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473649285/refLifestyle|summary=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Mind Most things you can replace, but one of a Survivor by Megan Hine]]=== [[image:5starthe things which you simply can't replace is time. Even though we know this, we fail to use what we have wisely.jpg|link=Category We have more leisure time, but that's not how it feels:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Megan Hine a high value is probably the type of person that youput on how we spend our working hours, but there'd want with you in s a crisis situationlow value on leisure. Cool Unfortunately, calm we now know how to work and capable; this survival expert is equally at home in desert, mountain, tundra and jungle environments. Shenot how to ''live'': we need to 's navigated her way around some of the most inhospitable regions 'learn'' how to spend our leisure time wisely and James Wallman has taken on the planet and survived onerous task of teaching us how to tell the taledo this. 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B07ML4Q55J|title=Home Workout for Beginners: 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]] <!-- Kalu -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kalu_Eat.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524676942/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Eat With Pleasure by Akon Margaret Kalu]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] When 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 of chocolate and possibly even the mug of coffee which gets you going in the morning. It was particularly refreshing and something of a relief to encounter Akon Margaret Kalu - certified nutrition coach and food blogger at [http://www.therealakon.co.uk www.therealakon.co.uk]. She's outspoken. She believes that the occasional treat does you no harm so long as you don't make it a regular habit. In fact you're better having a small, occasional, indulgent snack than resisting and finally giving into cravings and ''binging''. In other words, she lives in the real world with the rest of us imperfect beings. 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