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|isbn=1786495902
|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind
|author=Isabel Hardman
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Lauren Martin
|title=The Book of Moods
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary= I was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''great'' being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. I had spent the best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I'm happy to, but that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, and it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.
|isbn=1538733625
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008420386
|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong
|author=Elizabeth Day
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=What do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and - more importantly - they've been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You'll find the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1504321383
|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again
|author=Louisa Pateman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.
This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. 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. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1538731738
|title=Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life
|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Someone once said: it's not self-indulgence, it's therapy! I think they were talking about shopping, but it probably can be applied to most things. 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.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Sharon Blackie
|summary=Go on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people. Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a little bit of effort. Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the list.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1785785516
|summary=Manners maketh man, they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of conventions, some of which are ages old and other which have evolved over time. 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 with class or financial status: they're about getting the basics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the way.
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[[Time Now a qualified pharmacist, married and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richerwith a child of her own, Happier Days by James Wallman|Full Review]] <!-- James Atkinson -->Tabitha looks back at her childhood and reflects on the way her mother and father raised her. And she gives their parenting top marks.}}|-{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Mackay_Trials[[image:B07ML4Q55J.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07ML4Q55J/refTrials and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute|author=nosim?tagAndrew Mackay|rating=thebookbag-21]] 3.5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Business and Finance|summary===[[Home Workout Just chance you think that you're picking up a book about what can go wrong in life for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts an itinerant sex worker I'd better explain exactly what it was that author Andrew Mackay did for Long Term Weight Loss by James Atkinson]]=== [[image:4starthirty-three years.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] James Atkinson has all A travelling prostitute is a worker who is employed by one company but his services are sold out to other countries, usually at a substantial profit to the qualifications which you need in employing company and a workout instructor and he looks lot of inconvenience to the partemployee. He's been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years Mackay was an engineer who knew all that there was to be know about turbines and generators, or if he spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot didn't could soon be up to speed to me: he's been on the extent of being able to teach other sidepeople. There was a time when Occasionally his skills were used in the UK, but frequently he was overweight abroad. Just every now and not particularly strong. As a child again he was slow to develop. This means that he ''understands'' what it's like and he knows how his clients feel: it's much more helpful than would be in those parts of the twenty-something who was born super-fit world which has the rest of us green with envy, but then there were those areas which feature heavily in the news and with an attitude problemnot in a good way. 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Leah Hazard came to it after a career in television and ''Hard Pushed'' is the story of her career as a midwife - and the title tells more than one story.}}<!-- Stephen John Hartley -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0753552655| styletitle="widthTime and How to Spend It: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days[[image:1999811402.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1999811402/refJames Wallman|rating=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Lifestyle|summary===[[Painting Snails by Stephen John Hartley]]=== [[image:4Most things you can replace, but one of the things which you simply can't replace is time.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]Even though we know this, we fail to use what we have wisely. We have more leisure time, [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Itbut that's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails''not how it feels: originally I thought that as ita high value is put on how we spend our working hours, but there's loosely based around a year low value on an allotment it would be a lifestyle bookleisure. Unfortunately, but you're we now know how to work and not going how to get advice on what to plant when ''live'': we need to ''learn'' how to spend our leisure time wisely and where for James Wallman has taken on the best resultsonerous task of teaching us how to do this. The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'. 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As a child, he was slow to be the real passion of Hartleydevelop. This means that he ''understands''s life, but what it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for s like and he knows how his clients feel: it'doing s much more helpful than the impossible the hard way'? Yep twenty-something who was born super- that's the onefit and with an attitude problem. It's autobiography. [[Painting Snails by Stephen John Hartley|Full Review]]}}<!-- Charlotte Watts and Natalie Savona -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1999308719| styletitle="widthLive Forever Manual: 10%; verticalScience, ethics and companies behind the new anti-align: top; text-align: center;"|aging treatments[[image:1848993609.jpg|linkauthor=http://wwwAdrian Cull|rating=4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1848993609/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Lifestyle|summary===[[Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to Think live forever and Feel Well by Charlotte Watts that so far, it was working out OK. Time has passed though and Natalie Savona]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] although I thought I was getting 'm a cookbook: I liked the idea great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a series few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of recipes which would make me feel happybalance. For once this isn't It was time to look for a case of 'if it sounds too good to be truenew approach and as so often happens, it probably isthe reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. ' - it's a case of getting something which could change your life for Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the better new anti- for good ageing treatments'' seemed like the answer to my problems - rather only you get so much more than a quick fixjust 101 tips. [[Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well by Charlotte Watts and Natalie Savona}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]isbn=1847941834|title=Atomic Habits<!-- |author=James Clear -->|-rating=4.5| stylegenre=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|Lifestyle[[image:1847941834.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1847941834/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | stylesummary=I''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Atomic Habits by James Clear]]===ve said this before but there are some books that you seek out, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! ''Atomic Habits'' is in the last category.}}{{Frontpage[[image:4.5star.jpg|linkisbn=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science1527230783|Popular Science]], [[title=Keep Your Health and Fitness For Life:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] IDon've said this before but there are some books that you seek out, some books that you stumble across and some books t Let Age Be A Barrier|author=Stuart Roberts|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=My birth certificate might suggest a higher figure, but I know that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! I'm only 42. ''Atomic Habits'' is I learned a long time ago that I could retain that feeling by keeping my life in the last categorybalance. [[Atomic Habits by James Clear|Full Review]] <!-- Stuart Roberts -->|-| style="width This meant eating sensibly, getting quality sleep and having regular exercise which I enjoyed. There was an added bonus too: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1527230783.jpg|link=http://www.amazonI was juggling four chronic conditions and living this way meant that I could keep three of them in the background.co Then a silly misstep meant that the hip problem flared up.uk/dp/1527230783/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Keep Your Health The only way I could get more than an hour or two asleep was to take pain relief and Fitness For Life: Donthe duodenal ulcer started to complain. Because I was masking symptoms I didn't Let Age Be A Barrier by Stuart Roberts]]===dare to exercise - and the black dog of depression prowled along behind me.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1720812675|title=Beyond Thought[[image:4.5star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{Chris Dhladhla|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle=4|genre=Lifestyle]] My birth certificate might suggest a higher figure, but I know that I|summary=Have you ever felt trapped by your own thoughts? That your mind is so busy processing what'm only 42. I learned s going on in the world around you that you just can't catch a long time ago moment and simply ''be''? Or that I could retain that feeling by keeping my life the outside world just won't stop pressing in balance. This meant eating sensibly, getting quality sleep and having regular exercise which I enjoyed. There was upon an added bonus too: I was juggling four chronic conditions and living this way meant inner life that I could keep three of them in the background. Then a silly mis-step 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. [[Keep Your Health and Fitness For Life: Don't Let Age Be A Barrier by Stuart Roberts|Full Review]] <!-- Dhladhla -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1720812675.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1720812675/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Beyond Thought by Chris Dhladhla]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] 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 simply ''be''? Or that the outside world just won't stop pressing in upon an inner life that you'd like to be more peaceful? [[Beyond Thought by Chris Dhladhla|Full Review]] <!-- Watson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0993454682.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993454682/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Dominic Watson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Even with a birthday fast approaching, I'm still a bit young to be reading about retirement. My next life change in the pipeline will be a big one, and it does involve leaving the 9 to 5 behind for a yacht and the silky blue waters of the Caribbean, but only for a year, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still to come. Also, I like work. My job is interesting, I get to travel, what we do matters and it's not badly rewarded. So no, I'm not planning to retire just yet. But as the premise of this book is about planning (and if not now, then when?) I was still intrigued. [[Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Dominic Watson|Full Review]] <!-- Jankel -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1999731506.jpg|link=http://www.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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] ''Spiritual Atheist'' is a new 'bible' for the spiritual not the religious, according to the tagline. This is a taboo smashing book which solves the problem of modernity and explains how 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' to AI, Jankel offers a 'path to meaning', allowing us to move beyond consumerism towards an ethical life. [[Spiritual Atheist by Nick Seneca Jankel|Full Review]] <!-- Mackay -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mackay_Trials.jpg|left|link=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 a Travelling Prostitute by Andrew Mackay]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] 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 travelling prostitute is a worker who is employed by one company but his services are sold out to other countries, usually at a substantial profit to the employing company and a lot of inconvenience to the employee. Mackay was an engineer who knew all that there was to be know about turbines and generators, or if he didn't could soon be up to speed to the extent of being able to teach other people. Occasionally his skills were used in the UK, but frequently he was abroad. Just every now and again he would be in those parts of the world which has the rest of us green with envy, but then there were those areas which feature heavily in the news and not in a good way. [[Trials and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute by Andrew Mackay|Full Review]] <!-- Omeiza -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Omeiza_Parenting.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524682853?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524682853]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Parenting through the Eyes of a Child: Memoirs of My Childhood by Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[: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 and called 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 the way her mother and father raised her. 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 -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kyncl_Stream.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 and Maany Peyvan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category: Entertainment|Entertainment]] I watch quite a lot of YouTube. I play music videos when I want to listen to a particular song I don't already have in my collection. I use it to find out how to do things, with the instruction videos they seem to have for pretty much anything. At 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 of my favourite shows. And sometimes I'll treat it as if it is Netflix, to watch series with new episodes releasing every few days, exclusively on YouTube. Having 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.[[Stream Punks by Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan|Full Review]] <!-- Way -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tea Gardens (Britain'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 in the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to the country in those days. Men had their coffee houses, 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 the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the drink of choice for the nation. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was 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 Gardens. [[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|Full Review]] <!-- Nicholson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Nicholson_Tambourine.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524681822?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524681822]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Mr Tambourine Man by Nicholson]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{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 the 45rpm recording of the song in the window of the local music store and would have loved to be able to buy it but didn't have the money. Thirteen-year olds didn't in those days unless 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 for three months. Ityou's this trip which Nicholson feels turned him from being a boy into a man and allowed him d like to see the bigger picture.<br>be more peaceful?}}
