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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1454955546|title=Sugarless|author=Andrew MackayNicole M Avena|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''This isn't a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' There was a time, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. There's a problem, though. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that sound over the top? Well, it isn't.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=Trials The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Tribulations Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=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 there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a Travelling Prostituteproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760381267|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago

|summary=Just chance you think that you're picking up 'The most important part of a book about what can go wrong in life for an itinerant sex worker garden is the one who enjoys it''. I'd better explain exactly what it was that author Andrew Mackay did ve 'gardened' in a vague, indefinite sort of way for thirty three yearsmore than half a century. A travelling prostitute is a worker who is employed by one company I know (most of) the basics but his services are sold out to other countries, usually at a substantial profit to the employing company life has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than a lot of inconvenience general commitment to the employeegardening. Mackay was an engineer who knew all that there was to be know about turbines ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and generators, or if he didn't could soon be up to speed to the extent outdoors of being able to teach other people. Occasionally his skills were used in varying complexity seemed like the UK, but frequently he was abroadanswer. Just every now and again he would be in those parts of the world which has the rest of us green with envySo, but then there were those areas which feature heavily in the news and not in a good way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683094</amazonuk>how did it stack up?

{{newreview <!-- remove 24/11 -->Frontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title=Parenting through This One Wild and Precious Life: the Eyes of path back to connection in a Child: Memoirs of My Childhood |author=Tabitha Ochekpe Omeizafractured world|rating=43.5|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza was brought up My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in Nigeria which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and came precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to Britain be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to study for . Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her A levels when book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she was 18pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her parents used their savings to give her this opportunity and called it answer is an investment in her futureunequivocal ''no, we are not''. Now a qualified pharmacist Don't care what you're doing, married and with a child of her ownshe thinks you (we, Tabitha looks back at her childhood and reflects on I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the way her mother and father raised her. And she gives their parenting top marksfact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524682853</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way1394159544|title=Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series)Recycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=45

|summary=Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: a trip ''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip landfill, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to the country in those daysdecompose. Men had their coffee housesA glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, but they were not places where women could or would be seenI faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. Tea was introduced to England NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in the 17th century but it was not until 1784 future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and tea became any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the drink other hand, I suspected I was guilty of choice for wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it in the nationkerbside bin. Until then Yes, I could go searching on the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gininternet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible. Only, where s}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760378134|title=The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would this beverage be drunk? One answer was to be able to pop out into the pleasure gardens garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the fashionable went book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to see grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and be seen: by you finish the main part of the mid 1600s tea was book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardensa good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445670011</amazonuk> So, is it any good?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow1398508632|title= Personal StereoThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating= 5

|summary= These tiny 'Object Lessons'It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a range world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of books terrains. She had electricity which are more like allowed her to run a longfridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car -form essayand fuel. Most importantly, explore often seemingly mundane items. she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''Personal Stereolive'' packs a lot of information into a small spacewild just to live off its produce. Split into three distinct sections: Novelty}}{{Frontpage|author=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, NormCaroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Nostalgia, 'Novelty' traces Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=I May Be Wrong|rating=5|genre= Autobiography|summary= When the origin of the Sony WalkmanDalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, from its conception by two Japanese business men I'm inclined to think it becoming a recognised entity on the streets of America. 'Normdoesn' follows on from t really matter how the universal success rest of the personal stereo, relating this world responds to the technology which it set the groundwork foryour book. I know, such as having read the ubiquitous proliferation of MP3s, the iPodbook in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (and Smartphones, leading to the eventual downfall in at core so do I) that it matters very much how the popularity rest of the Walkman. Finally, in 'Nostalgia', Tuhus-Dubrow examines our need world responds to hark back to a simpler timethis book, when because it tells the personal stereo seemed truth as it is, in the height of freedomearly 21st century. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1501322818</amazonuk>1526644827

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chit Dubey1732898731|title=21 Doors to HappinessThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: Life Through Travel Experiences and MeditationA Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=4.5

|summary=I know that I'm not alone in having been brought up to ''achieve'', to look down on those There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had different (''lesser'a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, it would stuffed toys and the like: all the things which most children have been said) aims, but there comes a point in life when you wonder about abundance. The Boy's delight was in the point sense of order in his room: it allmade him feel happy. Do you need to keep on ''achieving'', As he grew up and if so, ''why''? Many years ago I had became a light-bulb moment when I realised that achieving more, having more moneyMan, his life became more material possessions didn't make me happy - complicated and surely the point of it all was to be ''happy''? Superficially that sounds very simple: live a life doing only what you want to do he dealt with this by getting bigger and pleasing yourself, but that doesn't bring happiness eitherbetter boxes. Chit Dubey believes that happiness is inside you Look carefully at the pictures and you just need to delve 'll see that one of them has a little deeper to find itpadlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1999838912</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author= Robert Kyncl Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and Maany Peyvandegrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.}}{{Frontpage|author=Erling Kagge|title= Stream PunksWalking: One Step At A Time|rating= 4.5

|summary=Robert Kyncl Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the Chief Business Officer number of YouTube. He has written pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an exceptionally interesting apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book about YouTube and his role within itnot mine. You don't have to be in your late 40sIn my defence, or from Eastern Europe, to identify with his childhood recollections I will say that as a reader of this type of a time when book there was nothing on TVis something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, and no other options but not scribbles – for entertainment. It's amazing how far the latter we've come must buy our own copy – which I still remember the hype around channel 5 appearing, and now am about to do as soon as I have more channels than I could ever watch on Sky and have both Netflix and Amazon Primefinished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the North Pole and yet often choose the free (ignoring the adverts bit) alternative summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of YouTube those epic journeys, it is insteada thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. Kyncl actually worked at Netflix and It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents'regularpage and I haven'' television toot counted. In small format paperback, before coming over to YouTubeeach essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, so he knows the industry wellbetter thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0753545926</amazonuk>0241357705

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=NicholsonRichard Brook|title=Mr Tambourine ManUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating=34.5

|summary=Back in 1965 I am a firm believer that sometimes we heard ''Mr Tambourine Man'' by the Byrds on the radio very regularlychoose books, and sometimes books choose us. Nicholson was thirteen and saw the 45rpm recording In my case, this is one of the song in the window latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of the local music store and it interesting, but it would not have loved to be able to buy it but didn't have hit home' in the moneyway that it does now. Thirteen-year olds didn't in those days unless I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a birthday or Christmas and you couldnfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag't get a part-time job until you were fifteens u.s.p. There would be is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a few of those badly-paid jobs before he finished his A levels and went predisposition towards expecting to New York for three months. Itlike the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way''s this trip which Nicholson feels turned him from being a boy into ] – but also because it is a man and allowed him book I needed to see the bigger pictureread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524681822</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Moore0753558378|title=A Bientot...|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=The news of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shockEffortless: 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 his death he'd delivered the finished manuscript of his book, ''À bientôt…'', to his publishers. Just a few months later a copy landed on my desk and I didn't even bother Make It Easier to look as though I could resist reading it straight away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438610</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=My Psychosis Story: A Story of Fear and Hope Through AdversityDo What Matters|author=Emmanuel OwusuGreg McKeown|rating=4.5

|summary=''My Psychosis StoryThe marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative.'' recounts Emmanuel Owusu That's journey into and eventually out of psychosiswhat happened to Patrick McGinnis. In late 2014 It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked for, during a visit home for Christmasstruggling through, even when he found himself exhaustedwas ill, anxious and unable only to sleepfind that he was working for a bankrupt company. Symptoms persisted and soon His stock had fallen by 97%, he was suffering from noise sensitivity had lost his health and intense headacheshis job had little value. Various visits to A&E failed to diagnose He made a physical causebargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. Things deteriorated further He did survive and possible diagnoses of anxiety came through stronger - and post traumatic concussion richer. were suggested. And ''stillThere is, you see, a different way: '' great things got worseare not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break. Eventually, Owusu's condition deteriorated so far that he was suffering from delusions and hallucinations. An ambulance was called and he was detained - sectioned - under the Mental Health Act in 2015.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524680559</amazonuk>'

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Megan Hine1523092734|title= Mind of a SurvivorA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating= 5|genre= LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=Megan Hine is probably the type of person ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that you'd want with you every woman needs in a crisis situationher life. Cool, calm Again and again and capable; this survival expert is equally at home in desertagain.'' (Alma Derricks, mountainformer CMO, tundra and jungle environments. SheCirque du Soleil RSD) ''s navigated her way around some To claim space is to live the life of the most inhospitable regions on the planet choosing unapologetically and survived bravely. It is to tell live the talelife you've always wanted. But just what '' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is it that makes some people more capable much in a survival situation than others? Physical fitness? Bushcraft skills? Experience? Whilst all of these are importantthe news, Hine argues that ''attitudeA Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' is one of the most important factors in survivalby Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. In Now - to be clear - this bookis not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, she examines but discussion at the moment seems to be about how the right mindset women can mean the difference between life and death when isolated in the wildernessbe ''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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473649285</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Ikin1529109116|title=The Kitchen Garden (BritainCall Me Red: A Shepherd's Heritage Series)Journey|author=Hannah Jackson|rating=4.5

|summary=''I love visiting country houses, but you can keep want the interiors and image of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the flower gardens - what interests me nation. I don't think that is the kitchen garden: seeing one which has been restored too much to its former glory is a real treat, as ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his''Britainfamily have farmed for generations. He's Heritageprobably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: The Country Gardenhe knows that he'll be a farmer. It' when it landed on my desks not always the case though. There Hannah Jackson was no longer any need to guess at born and brought up on the work that had been doneWirral: here she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was the history complete with glorious illustrations as well as some wonderful advertisementstwenty although she'd always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist'Canary Guanoand she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake District. For Greenhouse She saw a lamb being born and garden. Perfectly clean. May , although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be used by a ladyshepherd. With the determination that you'' ll soon realise is still making me gigglean essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566884X</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 7/7 -->Frontpage|authorisbn= Veronica M McNally1786495902|title= Cracking the Obesity CrisisThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating= 1.5

|summary= Any weight-related book, whether one Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that considers issues from a medical or sociological perspectivefriend who does know, or one that provides advice on how to eat well or lose weight, whose opening pages feature burst into tears and health-care professionals''fat people are basically insecure, unhappy people trapped inside very unattractive bodies'', ''Islamic people however are jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at an advantage as they do Ramadan and they are not overweightthe time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, ''next there is hope for overweight and obese peoplewas the EU referendum, but I don’t see a way back for the clinically aid [sic] morbidly obese'' political party leadership contests and my personal favourite: ''as women’s hands are smooth then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and soft in many cases, females would be useful behind soldiers returned home to be there as assistants begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to men quickly reloading magazines of bullets speedily'', any such this book needs to provide an awful lot of valuable content in : 2020 was the year when the pages that follow to have a chance of redeeming itselfbins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Will DarbyshireLauren Martin|title=This Modern Love The Book of Moods|rating= 45|genre= Lifestyle|summary= Love is loveI was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, but at the same time love is changingand because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the way we find itword ''great'' being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, the way we express it, the way we walk away from thingsthrough clenched teeth. You can change a Facebook status and tell the entire world I had spent the ins and outs best part of your relationshipa rainy, you can meet people online, you can conduct long distance relationships in much more real time than windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the past when you had to rely rescue rib, on the postman to deliver your heartfelt, handwritten note. This book, a compilation of letters and other contributions, explores what love is standby in the 21st centurycase anyone who was racing needed support. It's certainly international – there were 15a volunteer duty we all do during the year,000 submissions from over 100 countries – and itnormally I's also touchingm happy to, funnybut that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, frustrating and it all those other thingscame 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784755168</amazonuk>1538733625

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Williams0008420386|title=Grandpa Diet and DiabetesFailosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day

|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=NickWhat 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 Mum is an accident and emergency nurse podcast to discuss their failures and how life can get a bit hectic at times, particularly when she has to arrange worked out for someone to look after Nick and his twin sister Emmathem afterwards. One day in You'll find the school holidays Grandpa had the pleasure results of looking after the kids these discussions in ''Failosophy''}}{{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 Nick thought this fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was coolbrought up to believe. Grandpa used It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be a bit of a rocker, you see, and thatbest for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the sort of music he always has playinghandsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. He might have a stick but Nick sure that he doesnFew girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without't really need it - it's there just in casethe expectation that they will marry and have children. He does have It was a problem though belief and Mum explains it by saying would be many years before Louisa would conclude that Grandpa has to eat at the right time every day because he has diabetes''a belief is a choice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667641</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way1538731738|title=Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series)Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=45

|summary=Allotments came Someone once said: it's not self-indulgence, it's therapy! I think they were talking about originally from the enclosure of landshopping, primarily for sheep pasturebut it probably can be applied to most things. Fearing that the enclosures would leave peasants unable In my case, it applies to feed themselves, Elizabeth writing about things because I issued an act requiring all new cottages want to have four acres of ground, something which has been honoured more by history rather than by Elizabethbecause I can sell it or because I's contemporaries. It was the first in a long line of legislation with that aim in mind - which largely failed ve got something to achieve their aimssell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicos NicolaouSharon Blackie|title=The AnxietyIf 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-Elimination Systemchanging' – 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.|isbn=1912836017}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1543987877|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5

|summary=Nick Nicolau suffered ''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a major panic attack book about love. The two greatest emotions are love and was told by his doctor that he would need medication to control grief and love is the attacks and that there wasnopposite of grief: ''if you love''t much more that he could do - apart that was, from going home to sleepDr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. The next morning he had another attack which he could neither stop nor control Your love relationships begin the moment you're born and before long was having panic attacks every day end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the world hoping to give and developed generalised anxiety and phobiasreceive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. After a great deal of work and research he discovered how to control his anxiety Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and now he helps others to do this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the same. No one is born with a chemical imbalance mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the brain and genes do not determine behaviour. The proof form of the efficacy of his system resignation is that through the course of a particularly challenging life event - his divorce - he didn't slip back into inappropriate anxietynecessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667412</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Akon Margaret KaluMichael Harris|title=Eat With PleasureSolitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=35

|summary=When you think about a certified nutrition coach you probably imagine someone who This is going not the book I was expecting it to be very strict with you about what you should or shouldn't . For some reason I expected it to be eating. You visualise someone who will insist another self-help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the mainstream, but it is not that you eat worthy (and probably tasteless) food and completely avoid those foods which you really loveat all. Gone will be the bar Instead of chocolate and possibly even telling us how, it is more about the mug of coffee which gets you going in the morning. It was particularly refreshing and something of a relief to encounter Akon Margaret Kalu - certified nutrition coach and food blogger at [http://www.therealakon.co.uk www.therealakon.co.uk]. She's outspoken. She believes that the occasional treat does you no harm so long as you don't make it a regular habitwhy''. In fact youHarries examines how we're better having eroding solitude, which used to be a small, occasionalnatural part of our human life, indulgent snack than resisting and finally giving into cravings and ''binging''why that matters. In other wordsOf course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of that, she lives and eventually in the real world with final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the rest of us imperfect beingsalleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524676942</amazonuk>1847947662

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Pearson0753553236|title=Say Yes to New Opportunities!Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=45

|summary=Ruth Pearson was deputy head 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 her school and was studying for course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a Masters degree when she suffered an emotional breakdown as a result little bit of the stresses of the jobeffort. The breakdown was so severe that she was afraid Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to return to the classroom, but rather do things or do some actions more than sitting back I should and letting the circumstances overwhelm her she allowed no matter how I try to make what had happened seem to become a catalyst which would help her be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to change her life. In ''Say Yes get to New Opportunities'' she shares what she learned from grips with the experienceconcepts. To come back from this situation requires strength, honesty I constantly fail and a sense then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of purpose, all of which Pearson demonstrates quite clearly throughout this bookwillpower is another burden to add to the list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785785516|title=Confessions of Modern WomenFucking Good Manners|author=Spadge WhittakerSimon Griffin|rating=4.5

|summary=She's back! Huzzah! Do you remember when Spadge Whittaker [[Braver Than BritainManners maketh man, Occasionally they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by Spadge Whittaker|faced her (a set of conventions, some of which are ages old and our) deepest fears]]? We loved 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 way she did thatbasics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. EXCEPT FOR THE SPIDERS.  This time Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, Spadge has turned her attention but it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to what it means act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to be a modern woman in twenty-first century, digital Britainhelp us on the way. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429912</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dixe Wills1999811402|title=Tiny Campsites: 80 Perfect Little Places to PitchPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley

|genre=TravelAutobiography|summary=It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally Ithought that as it've often been put off s loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the idea of camping by best results. The answer would be something along the thought lines of large'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, soul-less campsitesdid an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, often populated by people who want to party late finally got into the nightmedical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I much prefer camping found out that there's an awful lot more to mean something - what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a feeling of being somewhere speciallot about rock & roll, of being able which seems to be at one with naturethe real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. But Did we have a category for 'doing the trouble is, where do you find these gemsimpossible the hard way'? Well, ''Tiny CampsitesYep - that's the one. It' will provide you with eighty perfect little places to pitch your tents an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749578483</amazonuk>