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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Mackay1454955546|title=Trials and Tribulations of a Travelling ProstituteSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=3.5

|summary=Just chance you think that you're picking up 'This isn't a diet book about what can go wrong in life for an itinerant sex worker I. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.''d better explain exactly what  There was a time, not that long ago, when it was thought that author Andrew Mackay did sugary food was better for thirty three yearsyou than food with high-fat content. 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 Fat was the demon food which was going to the employing company elevate your cholesterol and a lot of inconvenience to the employeecause heart disease. Mackay Sugar was an engineer who knew all that there was to be know about turbines and generatorsa carbohydrate, or if he didn't could soon be up to speed to the extent of being able to teach other peopleso good. Occasionally his skills were used in the UKThere's a problem, but frequently he was abroadthough. Just every now Sugar is addictive and again he would be can hijack your brain in those parts of much the world which has same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that sound over the rest of us green with envytop? Well, but then there were those areas which feature heavily in the news and not in a good wayit isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683094</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 24/11 -->Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=Parenting through the Eyes of a Child: Memoirs of My Childhood The Lavender Companion|author=Tabitha Ochekpe OmeizaJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza was brought up in Nigeria It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and came to Britain to study for her A levels when she was 18there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Her parents used their savings to give her this opportunity I don't eat cakes and called it an investment in her futuredesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Now (There's a qualified pharmacistrecipe in the book, married which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and with I was told to make a child mess of her own, Tabitha looks back at her childhood and reflects on it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the way her mother and father raised hercorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. And she gives their parenting top marks I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524682853</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way0760381267|title=Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series)Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=43.5

|summary=Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: ''The most important part of a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to garden is the country one who enjoys it''. I've 'gardened' in those days. Men had their coffee housesa vague, but they were not places where women could or would be seenindefinite sort of way for more than half a century. Tea was introduced to England in I know (most of) the 17th century basics but it was not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% life has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to 12½% gardening. ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and tea became the drink outdoors of choice for varying complexity seemed like the nation. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap ginanswer. OnlySo, where would this beverage be drunkhow did it stack up? 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445670011</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rebecca Tuhus-DubrowSarah Wilson|title= Personal StereoThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating= 3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= These tiny My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks 'Object Lessons', a range of books which are more like a long-form essay, explore often seemingly mundane items. What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?''Personal Stereo I get to love that line so much because my answer is '' packs a lot of information into a small spaceThis! Precisely this. '' Split into three distinct sections: Novelty, Norm, I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and Nostalgia, precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver'Noveltys words as her title (though I can' traces t see that she acknowledges the origin of source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the Sony Walkman, from its conception by two Japanese business men to it becoming a recognised entity on life we want – the streets of Americabest life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal 'Norm' follows on from the universal success of the personal stereono, relating this to the technology which it set the groundwork for, such as the ubiquitous proliferation of MP3s, the iPod, and Smartphones, leading to the eventual downfall in the popularity of the Walkmanwe are not''. Finally, in Don'Nostalgiat care what you're doing, Tuhus-Dubrow examines our need to hark back to a simpler timeshe thinks you (we, when I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the personal stereo seemed the height of freedomfact that we are not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1501322818</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chit Dubey1394159544|title=21 Doors to Happiness: Life Through Travel Experiences and MeditationRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=45

|summary=I know that I'm not alone in having been brought 'Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.''achieve '', to look Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down on those who had different (''lesser.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it would have been said) aimswill take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, but there comes I faced a point in life when you wonder about the point dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of it allmy DNA. Do you need to keep on NEVER throw away anything that might ''achievingpossibly'', and come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if so, ''why''? you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. Many years ago I had a light-bulb moment when I realised that achieving Almost everything can be used one more, having more money, more material possessions didn't make me happy - time and surely any purchase must pass the point test of it all was to be 'Is this absolutely essential?'happy''? Superficially On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that sounds very simple: live a life doing only what something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you want to do ) and pleasing yourself, but that doesn't bring happiness eitherdropping it in the kerbside bin. Chit Dubey believes that happiness is inside you Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and you just need to delve get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a little deeper to find itrecycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1999838912</amazonuk>s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan0760378134|title= Stream PunksThe First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating= 4.5|genre= LifestyleHome and Family|summary=Robert Kyncl is If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the Chief Business Officer of YouTube. He has written an exceptionally interesting book about YouTube garden and pick some fruit and his role within it. You donvegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't have know where to be in your late 40sstart, or this is the book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from Eastern Europewhy you should grow your own food, what you're going to identify with his childhood recollections of a time when there was nothing on TVgrow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and no other options for entertainment. Itsoil), where you's amazing ll put these containers, how far weyou've come – I still remember the hype around channel 5 appearing, ll water and now I have more channels than I could ever watch on Sky fertilise them and have both Netflix and Amazon Prime, and yet often choose you finish the free (ignoring main part of the adverts bit) alternative of YouTube insteadbook with a handy section on troubleshooting. Kyncl actually worked at Netflix and There''regular'' television toos also a good glossary. So, before coming over to YouTube, so he knows the industry well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753545926</amazonuk>is it any good?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholson1398508632|title=Mr Tambourine ManThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=3.5

|summary=Back in 1965 we heard ''Mr Tambourine Man'' by It had been on the Byrds on cards for a while but it was the radio very regularlyweek-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. Nicholson The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was thirteen and saw perhaps not the 45rpm recording of the song best time to start, in a world where the window of the local music store normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and would have loved to be able to buy it but didn't have a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the moneyarea around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. Thirteen-year olds didn't in those days unless it was She had electricity which allowed her to run a birthday or Christmas fridge, freezer and you couldn't get a part-time job until you were fifteendehydrator. There would be She had a few of those badlycar -paid jobs before he finished his A levels and went to New York for three monthsfuel. It's Most importantly, she had shelter: this trip which Nicholson feels turned him from being was not a boy into a man and allowed him plan to ''live'' wild just to see the bigger picturelive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524681822</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roger MooreBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=A Bientot...I May Be Wrong|rating=45|genre=Autobiography|summary=The news of When the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shock: he was one of those people you knew would go on for ever. There was just one small glimmer of light in the sadness - the news that a matter of days before Dalai Lama adds his death hewords to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it doesn'd delivered t really matter how the finished manuscript rest of his the world responds to your book. I know, ''À bientôt…''having read the book in question, to his publishersthat Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. Just a few months later a copy landed on my desk He knows (and at core so do I didn't even bother ) that it matters very much how the rest of the world responds to look this book, because it tells the truth as though I could resist reading it straight awayis, in the early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782438610</amazonuk>1526644827

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1732898731|title=My Psychosis StoryThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Story of Fear and Hope Through AdversityChildren's Book for Adults|author=Emmanuel OwusuMichael Albanese |rating=4.5

|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn''My Psychosis Story'' recounts Emmanuel Owusut believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the like: all the things which most children have in abundance. The Boy's journey into and eventually out delight was in the sense of psychosisorder in his room: it made him feel happy. In late 2014, during As he grew up and became a visit home for ChristmasMan, his life became more complicated and he found himself exhausted, anxious dealt with this by getting bigger and unable to sleepbetter boxes. Symptoms persisted Look carefully at the pictures and soon he was suffering from noise sensitivity you'll see that one of them has a padlock...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and intense headaches. Various visits Society|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to A&E failed to diagnose which they suffer from it: it's simply a physical causepart of everyday life. Things deteriorated further and possible diagnoses of anxiety and post traumatic concussion were suggestedWhite men will always come first. And ''still'' things got worse The able will come before the disabled. Eventually Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. OwusuEven when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's condition deteriorated so far rare that he was suffering from delusions and hallucinationstheir views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. An ambulance was called It's personally appalling and he was detained - sectioned - under degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the Mental Health Act in 2015individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524680559</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Megan HineErling Kagge|title= Mind of a SurvivorWalking: One Step At A Time|rating= 5

|summary=Megan Hine Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is probably evidenced by the type number of person that you'd want pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with you in a crisis situationan apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. CoolIn my defence, calm and capable; I will say that as a reader of this survival expert type of book there is equally at home in desertsomething connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, mountainbut not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, tundra the North Pole and jungle environmentsthe summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. SheHowever, this isn's navigated her way around some t a travelogue about any of the most inhospitable regions on the planet and survived those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to tell the talewalk. But just what It is it that makes some people more capable in a survival situation than others? Physical fitness? Bushcraft skills? Experience? Whilst all plenitude of these are important, Hine argues that unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents'attitude'page and I haven' t counted. In small format paperback, each essay is one of the most important factors in survivalonly a few pages long. In this bookPerhaps then, she examines how the right mindset can mean the difference between life and death when isolated in the wildernessbetter thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473649285</amazonuk>0241357705

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline IkinRichard Brook|title=The Kitchen Garden (BritainUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Heritage Series)Guide to Life|rating=4.5

|summary=I love visiting country housesam a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, but you can keep the interiors and the flower gardens - what interests me sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the kitchen garden: seeing one which has been restored to its former glory is a real treatlatter. Not so very long ago, as was if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'Britainhit home's Heritage: The Country Garden'' when in the way that it landed on my deskdoes now. There I believe it came to me not just because I was no longer any need likely to guess at the work that had been done: here was the history complete with glorious illustrations as well as some wonderful advertisements. give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag'Canary Guanos u. For Greenhouse and gardens. Perfectly cleanp. May be used by is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a lady.predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is still making me gigglea book I needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144566884X</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreview <!-- remove 7/7 -->Frontpage|authorisbn= Veronica M McNally0753558378|title= Cracking the Obesity CrisisEffortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeown|rating= 14.5

|summary= 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 ''fat people are basically insecureThe marginal return of working harder was, unhappy people trapped inside very unattractive bodies''in fact, negative.''Islamic people however are at an advantage as they do Ramadan and they are not overweight 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, ''there is hope only to find that he was working for overweight 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 obese peoplecame through stronger - and richer. There is, but I don’t you see , a different way back for the clinically aid [sic] morbidly obese'' and my personal favourite: ''as women’s hands great things are smooth and soft in many casesnot reserved for those who bleed, females would be useful behind soldiers to be there as assistants to men quickly reloading magazines of bullets speedilyfor those who almost break.'', any such book needs to provide an awful lot of valuable content in the pages that follow to have a chance of redeeming itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Will Darbyshire1523092734|title=This Modern Love A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating= 45|genre= LifestylePolitics and Society|summary= Love ''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) ''To claim space is love, but at to live the same time love life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is changing, to live the way we find it, life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the way we express it, the way we walk away from things. You can change reviewing gods are generous: at 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 time when violence against women is much more real time than in the past when you had news, ''A Women's Guide to rely on the postman Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to deliver your heartfelt, handwritten note. This be clear - this book, is not a compilation of letters and other contributions'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, explores what love is in but discussion at the 21st centurymoment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. It I's certainly international – there were 15ve always thought that women need to rise above this,000 submissions from over 100 countries – and itto be people who don's also touchingt need protection, funnypeople who claim their own space. If all women did this, frustrating and all those other thingsfew 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784755168</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Williams1529109116|title=Grandpa Diet and Diabetes|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=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 sure that he doesn't really need it - itCall Me Red: A Shepherd'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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667641</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewJourney|author=Twigs Way|title=Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series)Hannah Jackson|rating=4.5

|summary=Allotments came about originally from ''I want the enclosure image of land, primarily for sheep pasture. Fearing a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the enclosures would leave peasants unable to feed themselves, Elizabeth nation. I issued an act requiring all new cottages don't think that is too much to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have four acres of ground, something which has been honoured more by history than by Elizabethfarmed for generations. He's contemporariesprobably 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 first in Lake District. She saw a long line lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of legislation with her original intention, she knew that aim in mind - which largely failed she wanted to achieve their aimsbe a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicos Nicolaou1786495902|title=The Anxiety-Elimination SystemNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=45

|summary=Nick Nicolau Isabel Hardman suffered a major panic attack trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and was told health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by his doctor that he would need medication 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to control cover the attacks and that budget, next there wasn't much more that he could do - apart that wasthe EU referendum, from going home to sleep. The next morning he had another attack which he could neither stop nor control the political party leadership contests and before long then it was having panic attacks every day and developed generalised anxiety and phobiasparty conference season. After a great deal of work One night she had to be sedated and research he discovered how returned home to control his anxiety begin long- and now he helps others term sick leave. That was what brought me to do this book: 2020 was the same. No one is born with a chemical imbalance in year when 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 anxietybins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667412</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Akon Margaret KaluLauren Martin|title=Eat With PleasureThe Book of Moods|rating=35

|summary=When you think about I was in a certified nutrition coach you probably great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine someone who is going to be very strict the word ''great'' being delivered with you about what you should or shouldn't be eating. You visualise someone who will insist that you eat worthy (an eye roll and probably tasteless) food and completely avoid those foods which you really lovea sigh, through clenched teeth. Gone will be I had spent the bar best part of chocolate and possibly even a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the mug of coffee which gets you going water at our local sailing club in the morningrescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It was particularly refreshing and something of 's a relief to encounter Akon Margaret Kalu - certified nutrition coach volunteer duty we all do during the year, and food blogger at [http://www.therealakon.co.uk www.therealakon.co.uk]. Shenormally I's outspoken. She believes m happy to, but that day the occasional treat does you no harm so long as you don't make weather was miserable and I was miserable, and it all came to a regular habithead that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". In fact you're better having a small, occasional, indulgent snack than resisting and finally giving into cravings and ''binging''Wow. In other words, she lives in the real world with the rest of us imperfect beingsI had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524676942</amazonuk>1538733625

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Pearson0008420386|title=Say Yes to New Opportunities!Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day

|summary=Ruth Pearson was deputy head of her school What do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and was studying for a Masters degree when she suffered an emotional breakdown as a result of the stresses of the job. Andrew Scott have in common? The breakdown was so severe that she was afraid They've all failed and - more importantly - they've been willing to return appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to the classroom, but rather than sitting back discuss their failures and letting the circumstances overwhelm her she allowed what had happened to become a catalyst which would help her to change her how lifeworked out for them afterwards. In You'll find the results of these discussions in 'Say Yes to New Opportunities'Failosophy'' she shares what she learned from the experience. To come back from this situation requires strength, honesty and a sense of purpose, all of which Pearson demonstrates quite clearly throughout this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Confessions of Modern WomenSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Spadge WhittakerLouisa Pateman

|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=She's back! Huzzah! Do you remember when Spadge Whittaker [[Braver Than Britain, Occasionally by Spadge Whittaker|faced her ('You can't be happy and our) deepest fears]]? We loved the way she did thatfulfilled on your own. EXCEPT FOR THE SPIDERS You are not complete until you find a man''.

This time, Spadge has turned was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in her attention 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 means to would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a modern woman in twenty-first century, digital Britainchoice''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429912</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dixe Wills1538731738|title=Tiny CampsitesSimple Abundance: 80 Perfect Little Places to Pitch|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=I've often been put off the idea of camping by the thought of large, soul-less campsites, often populated by people who want 365 Days to party late into the night. I much prefer camping to mean something - a feeling of being somewhere special, of being able to be at one with nature. But the trouble is, where do you find these gems? Well, ''Tiny Campsites'' will provide you with eighty perfect little places to pitch your tent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749578483</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBalanced and Joyful Life|author=Redress|title=Dress (with) sense: The Practical Guide to a Conscious ClosetSarah Ban Breathnach|rating=4.5

|summary=Not too long ago I didnSomeone once said: it's not self-indulgence, it't have any problems with clothes. s therapy! They I think they were just talking about all black and I wore them until they dropped off my back - and then I used what I could of the material for other purposes. I had this lovely little clothes shop in Ilkley (shopping, but it says 'Oxfam' over the door) when I needed probably can be applied to restock. Clothes were simplemost things. Then I encountered the lovely [[:Category:Numba Pinkerton|Numba Pinkerton]] and suddenly I had colour in In my life: not all of case, it could be had from Oxfam. Sometimes applies to writing about things because I might even be buying ''new'' clothes. I needed help and more advicewant to, rather than because I can sell it really isnor because I't as simple as just walking into the nearest department storeve got something to sell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292779</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr Elizabeth Blackburn and Dr Elissa EpelSharon Blackie|title=The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, LongerIf Women Rose Rooted

|genre=Popular ScienceBiography|summary=I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have lived corners turned down. Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my life determined not to ''ageown copy before I've finished reading the one I': I see nothing aspirational in the dependence of old age, whether it be on other people, government in all its forms or the NHSve borrowed. I'm prepared want to put effort into this: itavoid clichés like 's not the cosmetic image of youth I seek, but rather the ability to do as I do now - running a business, regularly walking for miles in our glorious countryside and enjoying life - for as long as possible. So far itpowerful's working out, but what else could I do and 'inspiring'why'life-changing' does this work – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for some people a reason and I'm not for others?sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297609238</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Weatherhogg1543987877|title=Living With DepressionLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5

|summary=Nick Weatherhogg has been diagnosed as suffering from severe depression. Many of you will be nodding wisely and thinking that you know how he feels''Learn to Love: but there are two points he wants Guide to make here. You ''don'tHealing Your Disappointing Love Life'' know how he feels. This is ''his'' depression and only he knows what it feels like - if he's able to think or express how he's feelinga book about love relationships rather than a book about love. The other point two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is that therethe opposite of grief: 's a big difference between 'if you love'feeling', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ' depressed and 'you will inevitably grieve'being'' depressed - ''fepression'. Your love relationships begin the moment you' re born and ''bepression'' as he terms themend only when you die. He's right: I've been Whilst we all come into the world hoping to give and receive love thereare many people for whom love is not quite so simple. My feelingsSome people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, my experience will have been differentself-preservation, but I do know that it was hellish. He describes in the experience as ''form of resignation is a mental state in which your brain regularly and consistently lies to younecessity.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524663662</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 12/1 -->Frontpage|author=Jo BirdMichael Harris|title=Web to SuccessSolitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=4.5

|summary=[[:Category:Jo Bird|Jo Bird]] (illustrator, designer and… errrThis is not the book I was expecting it to be.. .wall tattooist) had a lightbulb moment about positive thinking, For some reason I expected it to be another self-improvement and successhelp manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the mainstream, but it is not that at all. The road to an improved self isnInstead of telling us how, it is more about the ''t linear in a why'change this thing and all will be fine' way; it. Harries examines how we's re eroding solitude, which used to be a web that connects natural part of our human life, and intersects several paths and subjects why that can be summarised under three headingsmatters. All successful Of course he talks about how some people (socially as much as professionally) know about self-awareness, personal development have found solitude and emotional awareness. After having a shot at principles what has come of self-improvement herselfthat, Jo shares and eventually in the fruit of her final chapter he talks about his own experience across a wealth of fields to make one heck of a selfhaving deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-help bookways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>152466622X</amazonuk>1847947662

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Ellen Guiney0753553236|title=Vietnamese VoicesTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=3.5

|summary=Mary Ellen Guiney has been diagnosed at various times with schizophrenia and biGo on, admit it -polar disorderyou're not quite perfect. The resulting treatment of choice is the conventional western medicine approach and drug regimens that brought with them unpleasant side-effectsYou still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people. Determined to find a better way Other people, of symptom controlcourse, using her biochemical backgroundare sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, Mary Ellen begins to investigate alternative eastern medicine and therapies in addition to looking at the effect if only they would make just a little bit of nutrition and exerciseeffort. The results are here: this is Mary Ellen's story written in her own words.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524663123</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patrick Mbaya|title= My Brain Is Out Of Control|rating= 4|genre= Home and Family|summary=Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a consultant psychiatristOr put another way, husband and father. His career was going well I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and he enjoyed making ill people better. His marriage was solid and fulfilling and his two children were exploring their potential, often through the uplifting power of music. Life was good. But then...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524636649</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan S Lee|title=Lean Gains|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=no matter how I don't often begin a book by telling you try to make what it ''isn't'' but in this case seem to be quite monumental changes I think it's importantnever quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking to shed a few pounds I constantly fail and then you won't I get the best out of this bookcross with myself for failing. You'll find some good advice about diet, but I'm afraid that much Lack of it willpower is going another burden to go over your head. Of course you could always take up a sport seriously... On the other hand, if you ''are'' a serious sportsman then you could find that the advice in ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up add to the next level of performancelist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463493X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Slater1785785516|title=Hollywood Beauty: Vintage SecretsFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin

|summary=I have vivid memories from my youth of seeing the Hollywood beauties on the television or at the cinema and wishing that ''I'' could look like that and - of course, no matter how I triedManners maketh man, I never couldthey say. The look It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of Marilyn Monroeconventions, Rita Hayworth, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Ava Gardner some of which are ages old and Sofia Loren always eluded meother which have evolved over time. To begin 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, I lacked knowledge. class or financial status: Despite being reasonably petite my oblong face was never going they're about getting the basics right before we try to look anything like Audrey Hepburn'sdeal with more difficult matters. I lacked quite a few of Brigitte BardotOf course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but it's attributes too. Gradually, I realised that developing my own style was the best way if we learn to go, but I'll confess that there are still ''elements'' of the stars' looks which I'd love distinguish between our public and private lives and to copyact appropriately. That's where ''Vintage Secrets: Hollywood BeautyFucking Good Manners'' comes inaims to help us on the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655083</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuchi Yang1999811402|title=A Food Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure: 6 Simple StepsPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=Yuchi Yang has been a registered dietitian for over twenty years and sheIt's allowing us the benefit of her knowledge very difficult to help us to reduce our blood pressure classify ''Painting Snails'without': originally I thought that as it' taking medications loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, although she does stress that if but you 're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'are'' taking medication you shouldntry it and see't stop doing so without consulting your doctor. You can reduce your BP in six stepsThen I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, which are actually became a lot simpler than they soundbusker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). Does it work? Yes, it does: Ifound out that there've been eating this way for s an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than two years and Iyou've gone ll ever glean from having 'very worrying' blood pressure readings Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to getting be the real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a smile when theycategory for 'doing the impossible the hard way're taken and being told that my BP is perfectly normal ? Yep - and that's without taking medication of any sortthe one. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1539803422</amazonuk>