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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0753558378
|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters
|author=Greg McKeown
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative.''
That's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and his job had little value. He made a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There is, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.''}}{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn=1523092734|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE''She brings a hug-kick->thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)
Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529109116
|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey
|author=Hannah Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much to ask.''
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=I know that I'm not alone in having been brought up to ''achieve''What do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, to look down on those who had different (''lesser''Meera Syal, it would Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have been said) aims, but there comes a point in life when you wonder about the point of it common? They've all. Do you need failed and - more importantly - they've been willing to keep appear on Elizabeth Day''achieving'', s podcast to discuss their failures and if so, ''why''? how life worked out for them afterwards. Many years ago I had a light-bulb moment when I realised that achieving more, having more money, more material possessions didnYou't make me happy - and surely ll find the point results of it all was to be these discussions in ''happyFailosophy''? 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1999838912</amazonuk>
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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''.}}{{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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sharon Blackie|title=If Women Rose Rooted|rating=5|genre= Biography|summary= I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. 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' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a reason and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.<br>|isbn=1912836017}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1543987877|title=My Psychosis StoryLearn to Love: A Story Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''Learn to Love: Guide to 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 Fear grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin the moment you're born and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the world hoping to give and Hope Through Adversityreceive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - 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|author=Emmanuel OwusuMichael Harris|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''My Psychosis Story'' recounts Emmanuel Owusu's journey into and eventually out of psychosisThis is not the book I was expecting it to be. In late 2014, during a visit home for Christmas, he found himself exhausted, anxious and unable For some reason I expected it to sleep. Symptoms persisted and soon he was suffering from noise sensitivity and intense headaches. Various visits be another self-help manual on how to A&E failed find calm, how to diagnose a physical causestep outside the mainstream, but it is not that at all. Things deteriorated further and possible diagnoses Instead of anxiety and post traumatic concussion were suggested. And telling us how, it is more about the ''stillwhy'' things got worse. Eventually, OwusuHarries examines how we's condition deteriorated so far re eroding solitude, which used to be a natural part of our human life, and why that matters. Of course he was suffering from delusions talks about how some people have found solitude and hallucinations. An ambulance was called what has come of that, and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he was detained wanders down the alleys and by- sectioned - under the Mental Health Act in 2015ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524680559</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Megan Hine0753553236|title= Mind of a SurvivorTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating= 5|genre= Lifestyle|summary=Megan Hine is probably the type of person that Go on, admit it - you'd want with re not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you in a crisis situation) habits which seem to annoy other people. Cool Other people, calm and capable; this survival expert is equally at home in desertof course, mountainare sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, tundra and jungle environmentsif only they would make just a little bit of effort. She's navigated her Or put another way around , I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some of the most inhospitable regions on the planet actions more than I should and survived no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to tell get to grips with the taleconcepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. But just what is it that makes some people more capable in a survival situation than others? Physical fitness? Bushcraft skills? Experience? Whilst all Lack of these are important, Hine argues that ''attitude'' willpower is one of another burden to add to the most important factors in survivallist. In this book, she examines how the right mindset can mean the difference between life and death when isolated in the wilderness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473649285</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Ikin1785785516|title=The Kitchen Garden (Britain's Heritage Series)Fucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=I love visiting country housesManners maketh man, but you can keep the interiors they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of conventions, some of which are ages old and the flower gardens - what interests me is the kitchen garden: seeing one other which has been restored have evolved over time. Manners are not about how much to its former glory is a real treattip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, as was ''Britain's Heritagethey have nothing to do with class or financial status: The Country Garden they'' when it landed on my desk. There was no longer any need re about getting the basics right before we try to guess at the work that had been done: here was the history complete deal with glorious illustrations as well as some wonderful advertisementsmore difficult matters. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but it'Canary Guano. For Greenhouse s best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and garden. Perfectly cleanto act appropriately. May be used by a lady.'' is still making me giggleFucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566884X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview <!-- remove 7/7 -->Frontpage|authorisbn= Veronica M McNally1999811402|title= Cracking the Obesity CrisisPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating= 14.5|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary= Any weight-related book, whether one It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that considers issues from as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a medical or sociological perspectivelifestyle book, or one that provides but you're not going to get advice on how what to eat well or lose weight, whose opening pages feature plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'fat people are basically insecure. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, unhappy people trapped inside very unattractive bodiesfinally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you', ll ever glean from ''Islamic people however are at an advantage as they do Ramadan and they are not overweightCasualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley'there is hope for overweight and obese peoples life, but I don’t see it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a way back category for 'doing the clinically aid [sic] morbidly obeseimpossible 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=Charlotte Watts and my personal favouriteNatalie Savona|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=I thought I was getting a cookbook: I liked the idea of a series of recipes which would make me feel happy. For once this isn't a case of 'as women’s hands are smooth and soft in many cases, females would be useful behind soldiers if it sounds too good to be there as assistants to men quickly reloading magazines of bullets speedilytrue, it probably is'- it', any such book needs to provide an awful lot s a case of valuable content in getting something which could change your life for the pages that follow to have better - for good - rather than a chance of redeeming itselfquick fix.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662003</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Will DarbyshireKyncl_Stream|title=This Modern Love Stream Punks|author=Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan|rating= 4.5|genre= LifestyleEntertainment|summary= Love is loveI watch quite a lot of YouTube. I play music videos when I want to listen to a particular song I don't already have in my collection. I use it to find out how to do things, but at with the instruction videos they seem to have for pretty much anything. At the same time love is changinggym, the way we find I'll stick iton on my phone, the way we express prop it, up on the way we walk away from things. You can change a Facebook status cross-trainer and tell watch some behind the entire world scenes interviews with the ins and outs cast of your relationshipmy favourite shows. And sometimes I'll treat it as if it is Netflix, you can meet people onlineto watch series with new episodes releasing every few days, you can conduct long distance relationships in much more real time than in the past when you had to rely exclusively on the postman to deliver your heartfelt, handwritten noteYouTube. This book, Having a compilation of letters and other contributionsnew smart TV adds an extra, explores what love is easy way to watch without having to plug in the 21st centurymy laptop or squint at a small phone screen. It's certainly international – there were 15So yes,000 submissions from over 100 countries – I like YouTube and I use YouTube. But I didn't know a whole lot about the site it's also touching, funny, frustrating and all those other thingsuntil I read this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784755168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura WilliamsOmeiza_Parenting|title=Grandpa Diet and DiabetesParenting through the Eyes of a Child: Memoirs of My Childhood|author=Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=Nick's Mum is an accident Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza was brought up in Nigeria and emergency nurse and life can get a bit hectic at times, particularly came to Britain to study for her A levels when she has was 18. Her parents used their savings to arrange for someone to look after Nick give her this opportunity and his twin sister Emmacalled it an investment in her future. One day in the school holidays Grandpa had the pleasure Now a qualified pharmacist, married and with a child of looking after her own, Tabitha looks back at her childhood and reflects on the kids way her mother and Nick thought this was coolfather raised her. And she gives their parenting top marks. Grandpa used to be a bit }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Mackay_Trials|title=Trials and Tribulations of a rocker, Travelling Prostitute|author=Andrew Mackay|rating=3.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Just chance you see, and think thatyou's the sort of music he always has playing. He might have re picking up a stick but Nick sure that he doesnbook about what can go wrong in life for an itinerant sex worker I't really need d better explain exactly what it was that author Andrew Mackay did for thirty- it's there just in casethree years. He does have A travelling prostitute is a problem though 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 Mum explains it by saying a lot of inconvenience to the employee. Mackay was an engineer who knew all that Grandpa has 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 eat at teach other people. Occasionally his skills were used in the right time UK, but frequently he was abroad. Just every day because now and again he would be in those parts of the world which has diabetesthe rest of us green with envy, but then there were those areas which feature heavily in the news and not in a good way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667641</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way1529104432X|title=Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series)The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You|author=Rob Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Allotments came about originally from the enclosure of land, primarily for sheep pasture. Fearing The curse put on reviewers is that the enclosures would leave peasants unable we get to feed themselves, Elizabeth I issued an act requiring all new cottages read through a book which is really better dipped into or read gradually and thoughts allowed to have four acres be provoked. And so it was with ''The Art of ground, something which has been honoured more by history than by ElizabethNoticing''s contemporaries. It was 's a simple premise: the first in a long line pace of modern life and rapidity of legislation with technological advances means that aim in mind - which largely failed we are constantly overwhelmed and distracted. Rob Walker wants us to be able to steal our attention back. He gives us his thoughts on various areas of our lives and then provides 131 exercises to achieve their aimshelp us recover our attention.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicos Nicolaou1786331608|title=The Anxiety-Elimination SystemHard Pushed: A Midwife's Story|author=Leah Hazard
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Nick Nicolau suffered Over the past few years, we've had a major panic attack and was told rash (sorry - no pun intended) of books by his doctor that he would need medication to control medical practitioners. Doctors have been at the forefront, but ''Hard Pushed'' is the attacks and that there wasnfirst book I't much more that he could do - apart that was, from going home to sleepve seen by a midwife. The next morning he had another attack which he could neither stop nor control It's an unusual profession in that it's one of the few callings within the medical system where most of the patients are healthy and before long was having panic attacks every day the only one where one person comes into the system and developed generalised anxiety and phobias(for the most part) more than one goes out. After a great deal of work and research he discovered how It's an amazing thing to be able to control his anxiety do - and now he helps others to do escort new life into the sameworld - and an enormous responsibility. No one is born with Leah Hazard came to it after a chemical imbalance career in the brain television and genes do not determine behaviour. The proof of the efficacy of his system ''Hard Pushed'' is that through the course story of her career as a particularly challenging life event midwife - his divorce - he didn't slip back into inappropriate anxietyand the title tells more than one story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667412</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Akon Margaret Kalu0753552655|title=Eat With PleasureTime and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days|author=James Wallman|rating=34
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=When Most things you think about a certified nutrition coach you probably imagine someone who is going to be very strict with you about what you should or shouldn't be eating. You visualise someone who will insist that you eat worthy (and probably tasteless) food and completely avoid those foods which you really love. Gone will be the bar can replace, but one of chocolate and possibly even the mug of coffee things which gets you going in the morningsimply can't replace is time. It was particularly refreshing and something of a relief Even though we know this, we fail to encounter Akon Margaret Kalu - certified nutrition coach and food blogger at [http://www.therealakon.co.uk www.therealakon.co.uk]use what we have wisely. SheWe have more leisure time, but that's outspoken. She believes that the occasional treat does you no harm so long as you donnot how it feels: a high value is put on how we spend our working hours, but there't make it s a regular habitlow value on leisure. In fact you're better having a smallUnfortunately, occasional, indulgent snack than resisting and finally giving into cravings we now know how to work and not how to ''live'': we need to ''binginglearn''. In other words, she lives in the real world with how to spend our leisure time wisely and James Wallman has taken on the rest onerous task of teaching us imperfect beingshow to do this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676942</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth PearsonB07ML4Q55J|title=Say Yes to New Opportunities!Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss|author=James Atkinson
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Ruth Pearson was deputy head of her school James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and he looks the part. He's been actively involved in the health and was studying fitness arena for a Masters degree when she suffered an emotional breakdown more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a result of the stresses member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he's been on the jobother side. The breakdown There was so severe that she a time when he was afraid to return to the classroom, but rather than sitting back overweight and letting the circumstances overwhelm her she allowed what had happened to become not particularly strong. As a catalyst which would help her child, he was slow to change her lifedevelop. In This means that he ''Say Yes to New Opportunitiesunderstands'' she shares what she learned from it's like and he knows how his clients feel: it's much more helpful than the experience. To come back from this situation requires strength, honesty twenty-something who was born super-fit and a sense of purpose, all of which Pearson demonstrates quite clearly throughout this bookwith an attitude problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676616</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1999308719|title=Confessions of Modern WomenLive Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments|author=Spadge WhittakerAdrian Cull
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=SheFor many years now I's back! Huzzah! Do you remember when Spadge Whittaker [[Braver Than Britainve (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, Occasionally by Spadge Whittaker|faced her (it was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was time to look for a new approach and our) deepest fears]]? We loved as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the way she did thatbook I needed. EXCEPT FOR THE SPIDERS ''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. }}
