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<!-- Mackay -->{{Frontpage[[image:Mackay_Trials.jpg|leftisbn=1454955546|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524683094?ieSugarless|author=UTF8&tagNicole M Avena|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode5|genre=as2&campLifestyle|summary=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524683094]]''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=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and 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 [[Trials 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 Tribulations 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 Prostitute by Andrew Mackay]]problem. I ''loved'' this book already.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760381267|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''.

[[imageI've 'gardened' in a vague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to gardening. ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer. So, how did it stack up?}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title=This One Wild and Precious Life:the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=3.5star5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.jpg|linkisbn=Category:{1785633848}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1394159544|title=Recycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle=5|genre=Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]] summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.''

Just chance you think that you're picking up a book about what can go wrong in life for an itinerant sex worker I'd better explain exactly what it was that author Andrew Mackay did for thirty three years. A travelling prostitute is a worker who is employed by Recycling one company but his services are sold out to other countries, usually at a substantial profit to the employing company and a lot ton of inconvenience to the employeepaper can save 17 trees from being cut down. Mackay was an engineer who knew all that there was to be know about turbines and generators, or if he didn't could soon be up to speed to the extent of being able to teach other people. Occasionally his skills were used in the UK, but frequently he was abroad. Just every now and again he would be in those parts of the world which has the rest of us green with envy, but then there were those areas which feature heavily in the news and not in a good way. [[Trials and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute by Andrew Mackay|Full Review]]<br>'

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===[[Parenting through the Eyes of As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a Childdilemma: Memoirs reducing, reusing and recycling is part of My Childhood by Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza]]=== [[image:4starmy DNA.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza was brought up NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in Nigeria and came to Britain to study for her A levels when she was 18the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. Her parents Almost everything can be used their savings to give her one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this opportunity absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and called dropping it an investment in her futurethe kerbside bin. Now a qualified pharmacist Yes, married and with a child of her own, Tabitha looks back at her childhood and reflects I could go searching on the way her mother internet - and father raised herget conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible. And she gives their parenting top marks. [[Parenting through the Eyes of a Child: Memoirs of My Childhood by Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza|Full Review]]s<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Kyncl -->|isbn=0760378134*[[image:Kyncl_Stream.jpg|left|linktitle=httpsThe First-Time Gardener://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0753545926?ieContainer Food Gardening|author=UTF8&tagPamela Farley|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0753545926]]5 ==|genre=[[Stream Punks by Robert Kyncl Home and Maany Peyvan]]===Family [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category: Entertainment|Entertainment]] I watch quite a lot of YouTube. I play music videos when I want If you've ever thought how good it would be to listen be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a particular song I donmeal – but realised that you wouldn't already have in my collection. I use it to find out how know where to do thingsstart, with this is the instruction videos they seem book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to have for pretty much anything. At the gymgrow, Iwhat you'll stick grow it on on my phonein (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, prop it up on the cross trainer how you'll water and fertilise them and watch some behind you finish the scenes interviews with main part of the cast of my favourite shows. And sometimes I'll treat it as if it is Netflix, to watch series book with new episodes releasing every few days, exclusively a handy section on YouTubetroubleshooting. Having There's also a new smart TV adds an extra, easy way to watch without having to plug in my laptop or squint at a small phone screengood glossary. So yes, I like YouTube and I use YouTube. But I didn't know a whole lot about the site is it until I read this book.[[Stream Punks by Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan|Full Review]]<br>any good?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way1398508632|title=Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series)The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45

|summary=Tea Gardens really began in London in It had been on the late 18th century: cards for a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras while but it was effectively a trip to the country in those daysweek-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. Men had their coffee housesThe end of November, but they were particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not places the best time to start, in a world where women could or would be seenthe normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Tea Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was introduced a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to England in the 17th century but it run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not until 1784 that a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.}}{{Frontpage|author=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=I May Be Wrong|rating=5|genre= Autobiography|summary= When the high duty was reduced from 119% Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to 12½% and tea became think it doesn't really matter how the drink rest of choice for the nationworld responds to your book. Until then I know, having read the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Onlybook in question, where that Lindeblad would this beverage be drunk? disagree with that thought. One answer was He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the pleasure gardens where rest of the fashionable went world responds to see and be seen: by this book, because it tells the mid 1600s tea was also being served truth as it is, in places such as Ranelagh Gardensthe early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445670011</amazonuk>1526644827

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow1732898731|title= Personal StereoThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating= 4.5

|summary= These tiny 'Object LessonsThere was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, a range of books stuffed toys and the like: all the things which are more like a long-form essay, explore often seemingly mundane itemsmost children have in abundance. The Boy''Personal Stereo'' packs a lot s delight was in the sense of information into a small spaceorder in his room: it made him feel happy. Split into three distinct sections: Novelty, NormAs he grew up and became a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and Nostalgia, better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'Novelty' traces the origin ll see that one of the Sony Walkman, from its conception by two Japanese business men to it becoming them has a recognised entity on the streets padlock...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of AmericaBias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4. 'Norm' follows on from the universal success of 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 personal stereo, relating this extent to the technology which they suffer from it set the groundwork for, such as the ubiquitous proliferation : it's simply a part of MP3s, everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the iPoddisabled. Jobs, and Smartphonespromotions, leading to higher salaries are the eventual downfall in the popularity preserve of the Walkmanwhite man. Finally, in Even when those who wouldn'Nostalgiat pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, Tuhus-Dubrow examines our need to hark back to a simpler time, when that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the personal stereo seemed individuals on the height receiving end of freedomthe bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501322818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chit DubeyErling Kagge|title=21 Doors Walking: One Step At A Time|rating=5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but 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, the North Pole and the summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to Happinesswalk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705}}{{Frontpage|author=Richard Brook|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life Through Travel Experiences and Meditation|rating=4.5

|summary=I know am a firm believer that I'm not alone in having been brought up to ''achieve''sometimes we choose books, to look down on those who had different (''lesser''and sometimes books choose us. In my case, it would have been said) aims, but there comes a point in life when you wonder about this is one of the point of it alllatter. Do you need to keep on ''achieving''Not so very long ago, and if so, ''why''? Many years ago I had a light-bulb moment when come across this book I realised that achieving more'd have skimmed it, having more moneyfound some of it interesting, more material possessions didnbut it would not have 'hit home't make me happy - and surely in the point of way that it does now. I believe it all came to me not just because I was likely to be give it a favourable review [ ''happyfull disclosure The Bookbag''? Superficially s u.s.p. is that sounds very simple: live people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a life doing only what you want predisposition towards expecting to do and pleasing yourselflike the book, but that even if it doesn't bring happiness either. Chit Dubey believes always turn out that happiness way'' ] – but also because it is inside you and you just need to delve a little deeper book I needed to find itread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1999838912</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicholson0753558378|title=Mr Tambourine ManEffortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeown|rating=34.5

|summary=Back ''The marginal return of working harder was, in 1965 we heard fact, negative.''Mr Tambourine Man That's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. It' by s no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the Byrds on the radio very regularlycompany he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for a bankrupt company. Nicholson was thirteen and saw the 45rpm recording of the song in the window of the local music store 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 have loved to be able to buy it but didn't have the moneymake some changes. ThirteenHe did survive and came through stronger -year olds didn't in those days unless it was a birthday or Christmas and you couldn't get a part-time job until you were fifteenricher. There would be is, you see, a few of different way: ''great things are not reserved for those badly-paid jobs before he finished his A levels and went to New York who bleed, for three monthsthose who almost break. It's this trip which Nicholson feels turned him from being a boy into a man and allowed him to see the bigger picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524681822</amazonuk>'

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===[[Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A BientotWomen'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. by Roger Moore]] 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.}}{{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.''

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]], [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] The news of stereotypical farmer was probably born on the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as a great shockto what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was one of those people you knew would go born and brought up on for ever. There was just one small glimmer of light in the sadness - the news that Wirral: she'd never set foot on a matter of days before his death hecommercial farm until she was twenty although she'd delivered the finished manuscript always had a deep love of his bookanimals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist''À bientôt…'', and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to his publishersthe Lake District. Just a few months later She saw a copy landed on my desk lamb being born and I didn, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer't even bother lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to look as though I could resist reading it straight away. [[A Bientot.be a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition. by Roger Moore|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786495902|title=My Psychosis StoryThe Natural Health Service: A Story of Fear and Hope Through AdversityHow Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Emmanuel OwusuIsabel Hardman|rating=45

|summary=''My Psychosis Story'' recounts Emmanuel Owusu's journey into and eventually out of psychosis. In late 2014, during Isabel Hardman suffered a visit home for Christmas, he found himself exhausted, anxious and unable trauma which she chooses not to sleepshare. Symptoms persisted and soon he was suffering from noise sensitivity and intense headaches. Various visits to A&E failed to diagnose She says that a physical cause. Things deteriorated further friend who does know, burst into tears and possible diagnoses of anxiety and post traumatic concussion were suggestedhealth-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. And Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going'still'' things got worse. Eventually: the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, Owusu's condition deteriorated so far that he the political party leadership contests and then it was suffering from delusions party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and hallucinationsreturned home to begin long-term sick leave. An ambulance That was called and he what brought me to this book: 2020 was detained - sectioned - under the Mental Health Act in 2015year when the bins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524680559</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Megan HineLauren Martin|title= Mind The Book of a SurvivorMoods|rating= 5|genre= Lifestyle|summary=Megan Hine is probably 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 type of person that youword ''great''d want being delivered with you in an eye roll and a crisis situationsigh, through clenched teeth. CoolI had spent the best part of a rainy, calm and capable; this survival expert is equally windy weekend afternoon out on the water at home our local sailing club in desertthe rescue rib, mountain, tundra and jungle environmentson standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. SheIt's navigated her way around some of a volunteer duty we all do during the most inhospitable regions on the planet year, and survived normally I'm happy to tell , but that day the tale. But just what is weather was miserable and I was miserable, and it that makes some people more capable in all came to a survival situation than others? Physical fitness? Bushcraft skills? Experience? Whilst all of these are important, Hine argues head that ''attitude'' is one of evening when I noticed on the most important factors in survivalwebsite that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. In I had never needed this book, she examines how the right mindset can mean the difference between life and death when isolated in the wildernessmore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473649285</amazonuk>1538733625

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Ikin0008420386|title=The Kitchen Garden (Britain's Heritage Series)Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day

|summary=I love visiting country housesWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, but you can keep the interiors 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 the flower gardens - what interests me is the kitchen garden: seeing one which has more importantly - they've been restored willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to its former glory is a real treat, as was discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You'll find the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''Britain}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary='s Heritage: The Country Garden'You can' when it landed t be happy and fulfilled on my deskyour own. There You are not complete until you find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was no longer any need brought up to guess at the work that had been donebelieve. It wasn't unkind: here it was simply the history complete with glorious illustrations adults in her life advising her as well as some wonderful advertisementsto what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she''Canary Guanos usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. For Greenhouse Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and garden. Perfectly cleanhave children. May It was a belief and it would be used by many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a lady.choice'' is still making me giggle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566884X</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 7/7 -->Frontpage|authorisbn= Veronica M McNally1538731738|title= Cracking the Obesity CrisisSimple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating= 1.5

|summary= Any weightSomeone once said: it's not self-related book, whether one that considers issues from a medical or sociological perspectiveindulgence, or one that provides advice on how to eat well or lose weight, whose opening pages feature it''fat people are basically insecure, unhappy people trapped inside very unattractive bodies'', ''Islamic people however are at an advantage as s therapy! I think they do Ramadan and they are not overweight'', ''there is hope for overweight and obese peoplewere talking about shopping, but I don’t see a way back for the clinically aid [sic] morbidly obese'' and it probably can be applied to most things. In my personal favourite: ''as women’s hands are smooth and soft in many casescase, females would be useful behind soldiers it applies to be there as assistants writing about things because I want to men quickly reloading magazines of bullets speedily, rather than because I can sell it or because I'', any such book needs to provide an awful lot of valuable content in the pages that follow ve got something to have a chance of redeeming itselfsell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Will DarbyshireSharon Blackie|title=This Modern Love If Women Rose Rooted|rating= 45|genre= LifestyleBiography|summary= Love is love, but at the same time love is changing, the way we find it, the way we express it, the way we walk away from things. You I normally say that you can change 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 how much more real time than in the past when you had to rely on the postman a book means to deliver your heartfelt, handwritten noteme by how many pages have corners turned down. This book, a compilation Perhaps an even greater measure of letters and other contributions, explores what love impact is in setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the 21st centuryone I've borrowed. It I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing's certainly international – there were 15,000 submissions from over 100 countries 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's also touching, funny, frustrating and all those other thingsany better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784755168</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Williams1543987877|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 Learn to arrange for someone Love: Guide 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 - it'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>}}{{newreviewHealing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Twigs Way|title=Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series)Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5

|summary=Allotments came ''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about originally from love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the enclosure opposite of landgrief: ''if you love'', primarily for sheep pastureDr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. Fearing that Your love relationships begin the enclosures would leave peasants unable to feed themselves, Elizabeth I issued an act requiring moment you're born and end only when you die. Whilst we all new cottages come into the world hoping to have four acres of ground, something which has been honoured more by history than by Elizabeth's contemporariesgive and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. It was For people who are making the first same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the form of resignation is a long line of legislation with that aim in mind - which largely failed to achieve their aimsnecessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicos NicolaouMichael Harris|title=The Anxiety-Elimination SystemSolitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=45

|summary=Nick Nicolau suffered a major panic attack and This is not the book I was told by his doctor that he would need medication expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to control the attacks and that there wasn't much more that he could do be another self- apart that washelp manual on how to find calm, from going home how to sleepstep outside the mainstream, but it is not that at all. The next morning he had another attack which he could neither stop nor control and before long was having panic attacks every day and developed generalised anxiety and phobiasInstead of telling us how, it is more about the ''why''. After Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be a great deal natural part of work our human life, and research why that matters. Of course he discovered talks about how to control his anxiety - some people have found solitude and what has come of that, and now he helps others to do the same. No one is born with a chemical imbalance eventually in the brain and genes do not determine behaviour. The proof final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the efficacy of his system is alleys and by-ways that through the course of a particularly challenging life event - his divorce - he didn't slip back into inappropriate anxietythinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524667412</amazonuk>1847947662

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Akon Margaret Kalu0753553236|title=Eat With PleasureTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=35

|summary=When Go on, admit it - 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 eatingre not quite perfect. You visualise someone who will insist that still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you eat worthy (and probably tasteless) food and completely avoid those foods habits which you really loveseem to annoy other people. Gone will be the bar Other people, of chocolate and possibly even the mug course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a little bit of coffee which gets you going in the morningeffort. It was particularly refreshing and something of a relief Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to encounter Akon Margaret Kalu - certified nutrition coach do things or do some actions more than I should 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 matter how I try to make it a regular habitwhat seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. In fact you're better having a small, occasional, indulgent snack than resisting I constantly fail and finally giving into cravings and ''binging''then I get cross with myself for failing. In other words, she lives in the real world with Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the rest of us imperfect beingslist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676942</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Pearson1785785516|title=Say Yes to New Opportunities!Fucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin

|summary=Ruth Pearson was deputy head of her school and was studying for Manners maketh man, they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a Masters degree when she suffered an emotional breakdown as a result set of the stresses conventions, some of the jobwhich are ages old and other which have evolved over time. The breakdown was so severe that she was afraid Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to return Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the classroombasics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but rather than sitting back it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and letting the circumstances overwhelm her she allowed what had happened to become a catalyst which would help her to change her lifeact appropriately. In ''Say Yes to New OpportunitiesFucking Good Manners'' she shares what she learned from aims to help us on 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 bookway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1999811402|title=Confessions of Modern WomenPainting Snails|author=Spadge WhittakerStephen John Hartley

|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=SheIt's back! Huzzah! Do very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you remember 're not going to get advice on what to plant when Spadge Whittaker [[Braver Than Britainand where for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, Occasionally by Spadge Whittaker|faced her finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (and ourpart-time) deepest fears]]? We loved . I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way she did '? Yep - that's the one. EXCEPT FOR THE SPIDERS It's an autobiography. }}

This time, Spadge has turned her attention Move on to what it means to be a modern woman in twenty-first century, digital Britain. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429912</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dixe Wills|title=Tiny Campsites: 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 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>}}[[Newest Literary Fiction Reviews]]