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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.''
The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical1786495902|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-aligncare professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': top; textthe 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-alignterm sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: left;2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.}}{{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}}{{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''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=[[Spiritual Atheist by Nick Seneca Jankel]]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''.
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary= Any weight-related bookManners maketh man, whether one that considers issues from they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a medical or sociological perspectiveset of conventions, some of which are ages old and other which have evolved over time. Manners are not about how much to tip or one that provides advice on how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to eat well do with class or lose weightfinancial 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, whose opening pages feature but it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners''fat people are basically insecure, unhappy people trapped inside aims to help us on the way.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=Painting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It's very unattractive bodiesdifficult to classify '', Painting Snails''Islamic people however are at an advantage : originally I thought that as they do Ramadan and they are not overweight'it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you''there is hope for overweight re not going to get advice on what to plant when and obese people, but I don’t see a way back where for the clinically aid [sic] morbidly obese'best results. The answer would be something along the lines of ' try it and my personal favourite: 'see'. Then I considered popular science as women’s hands are smooth Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and soft in many cases, females would be useful behind soldiers to be is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I found out that there as assistants 's an awful lot more to men quickly reloading magazines of bullets speedilywhat goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', any such but that isn't really what the book needs 's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to provide an awful lot be the real passion of valuable content in Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the pages that follow to entertainment genre either. Did we have a chance of redeeming itselfcategory for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662003</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Will Darbyshire1848993609|title=This Modern Love Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well|author=Charlotte Watts and Natalie Savona|rating= 4.5|genre= LifestyleCookery|summary= Love is love, but at I thought I was getting a cookbook: I liked 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 idea of a Facebook status and tell the entire world the ins and outs series 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 noterecipes which would make me feel happy. This book, For once this isn't a compilation case of letters and other contributions'if it sounds too good to be true, explores what love it probably 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 thingsa case of getting something which could change your life for the better - for good - rather than a quick fix.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784755168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Kyncl_Stream|title=Stream Punks|author=Laura WilliamsRobert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Omeiza_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 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 cool18. Grandpa Her parents used their savings to be a bit of a rocker, you see, give her this opportunity and that's the sort of music he always has playing. He might have a stick but Nick sure that he doesn't really need called it - it's there just an investment in caseher future. He does have Now a problem though qualified pharmacist, married and Mum explains it by saying that Grandpa has to eat with a child of her own, Tabitha looks back at her childhood and reflects on the right time every day because he has diabetesway her mother and father raised her. And she gives their parenting top marks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667641</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mackay_Trials|title=Trials and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute|author=Andrew Mackay|rating=3.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=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 authorAndrew 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=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. }}
