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|summary=Things change as you get older''This isn't a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book. As men – and particularly women – approach their late forties and early fifties they expect '' There was a time, not that there will be physical changeslong ago, some more permanent when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than others, but they're frequently taken by surprise by food with high-fat content. Fat was the mental changes demon food which occurwas going to elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Women expect that the menopause will bring the end of menstruation (some looking at this more gratefully than others Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good...) but fail to appreciate that they are moving into There's a different stage of their lifeproblem, though. Looked at positively this Sugar is addictive and can be hijack your brain in much the most fulfilling period of woman's lifecycle – same way as drugs like heroin and I doubt cocaine. Does that theresound over the top? Well, it isn's a husband who would object to that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0826423019</amazonuk>t.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Ackerman1635866847|title=One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and the Language of HealingTerry Barlin Vesci

|summary=Diane AckermanIt's husband, Paul Weststrange, had been in hospital for three weeks with a kidney infection and was just rejoicing in the fact things that make you ''immediately'' feel that he was to go home this is the next day. As Diane watched , Paul suffered a massive strokebook for you. Before I started reading ''The effects were catastrophic, but worst of allLavender Companion'', I visited the man who had been author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a brilliant wordsmith was robbed picture of his power a slice of speech chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and lost his extensive vocabularydesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. It (There's eight years since this happened and a recipe in the intervening years have been a constant battle to improve Paulbook, which I's speech m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and restore some joy I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to his lifefold down the corners of pages. There have been ups – and many downs – but despite a brain scan indicating You suspect that Paul might well smears of butter would not be a vegetable he has since his stroke written booksproblem. His vocabulary will never be back to what it was, but it remains impressive and, strangely enough, many of the words which he finds easiest to use are those which he encountered a number of years ago I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039307241X</amazonuk>

I'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?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eleanor BirneSarah Wilson|title=When Will I Sleep Through This One Wild and Precious Life: the Night? An A - Z of Babyhoodpath back to connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=When My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it comes you plan to parenting, do with your one wild and precious life?'' I have discovered get to love that a lot of people lieline so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this. '' They lie about sleep, about tantrums, about feeding and nappies I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the effects of a screaming newborn on your marriageway I want to. There are books galore, and Mummy blogs, and tweeters all happily proclaiming how marvellous it all Sarah Wilson is, first of all being pregnant, then giving birth, and then raising the babyequally lucky. ItIn her book that takes Oliver's all glowing skin and sunshine smiles and meeting friends for coffee. I quickly stopped reading anything baby-related when I was pregnant because I was sick words as a dog for 5 months, her title (though I had an awful labour and can't see that first year with my little girl was almost impossibly difficult and totally consumed with she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the horror of a non-sleeping babybest life that we could be living. NowHer answer is an unequivocal ''no, four and a half years on from giving birth and we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (mostlywe, I) sleeping all night long I felt able to open up this latest baby book, mainly because could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the title roused such familiar feelings in mefact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846684862</amazonuk>1785633848

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Bowring1394159544|title=Green Living GuideRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=4.5

|summary=The 'Green Living Guide' is a Magbook - so the format is like that Recycling one ton of a magazine - and although it initially seems a little expensive for something that looks just like a magazine you quickly find, on opening, that it contains an enormous amount of interesting and useful informationplastic can save up to 16. Even already determined eco-warriors should find something 3 barrels of interest in this wide-ranging guideoil.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232060</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Arianne Cohen|title=The Sex Diaries Project|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's often said 'there's nowt so queer as folk'. Surely this should be qualified as 'there's nowt so queer as folks' sex lives'. Arianne Cohen has made a major online database Recycling one ton of testimony paper can save 17 trees from people about their thoughts regarding sex - having it, not having it, having it with whom theybeing cut down.'re with, having it with those whom they're not with. And in every sense, the results can be exceedingly queer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091939356</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Vatsyayana|title=Kama Sutra|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''Kama Sutra''If you send an apple core to landfill, then.it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. What could I possibly say to introduce it that you don't already know or think you know?

For all that Kama Sutra isAs a just-post-WWII baby, it's no longer I faced a guide to the art dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of pleasuremy DNA. It NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly's a fascinating historical document, and undoubtedly influential, but it's very much of its come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of its society. Try to follow all its suggestions and at best you'd never get laid again; at worstIs this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, you'll I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be up on a rape charge within a week. recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I''After sending m looking at you) and dropping it in the nurse's daughter awaykerbside bin. Yes, he takes I could go searching on the girl's maidenhead while she is alone, asleep internet - and out of her sensesget conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible...'') |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846141095</amazonuk>s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Shilling0760378134|title=The Stranger in the MirrorFirst-Time Gardener: A Memoir of Middle AgeContainer Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley

|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=Middle-aged women disappearIf you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. They are not see on televisionIt's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, their lives do not appear what you'll grow it in newspapers(both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the legions main part of novels that are written each year rarely feature them. At least, that is what the author Jane Shilling believes as she wakes up aged 47 to find the narrative of her contemporaries and their lives which she has been reading about and living in parallel book with since leaving university has vanished. She looks in the mirror and sees a face she does not recognisehandy section on troubleshooting. Even with There's also a punishing regime of early bed, no alcohol and litres of water, it refuses to regain its youthful bloomgood glossary. So she decides to take a magnifying glass to this particular moment in time, this journey between youth and old age.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701181001</amazonuk>is it any good?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jacques Bonnet, James Salter and Sian Reynolds1398508632|title=Phantoms on the BookshelvesThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=3.5

|summary=Translated from French this beautifully presented little book takes It had been on the cards for a while but it was the reader week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into homes boasting book collectionsbeginning 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 world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, large Brexit and smalla pandemic. Studded Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with succinct a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and appropriate quotations such as 'there is no better reason for fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not reading 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 Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds to your book than . I know, having read the book in question, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. He knows (and at core so do I) that it' by Anthony Burgessmatters very much how the rest of the world responds to this book, because it tells the truth as it is, in the early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906694583</amazonuk>1526644827

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandy Donaghy1732898731|title=The Longest JourneyBoy Who Loved Boxes: Nine Keys to Health, Wealth and HappinessA Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese

|summary=How many self-help books have you read where the ideas all seem very good, but theyThere was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn've not been tested in the fire, so to speak? t believe their luck! The end result seems goodIt began with art supplies, but you suspect that stuffed toys and the starting point wasn't ''like: all'' that disadvantageous and more to the point, the cynic inside you wonders if the motivation for writing the book was financial gainthings which most children have in abundance. Has it made you shy away from such books? Now, I want you to drop the cynicism, because what we have here is a book thatThe Boy's written from delight was in the heart and not the wallet and the only motivation sense of order in writing his room: it was to help peoplemade him feel happy. Unusual? Yup; it is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1425161065</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Roy Vickery|title=Garlands, Conkers As he grew up and Mother-Die: British and Irish Plant-Lore|rating=5|genre=History|summary=For many centuriesbecame a Man, plants have not only had practical uses as food, remedies, textiles his life became more complicated and dyes, but have also symbolic he dealt with this by getting bigger and folkloric meaning in many different culturesbetter boxes. The term ''plant-lore'' has been coined to describe the profusion of Look carefully at the customs pictures and beliefs associated with plants, and this book gathers together many you'll see that one of the plant-lore traditions of Britain and Irelandthem has a padlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441101950</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cindy M Meston and David Buss1846276772|title=Why Women Have SexThe End of Bias: Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell

|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Many many years agoAnyone who is not an able, a white man who was far too young understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to be 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 fustydisabled. Jobs, dusty RE teacher he was shaping to bepromotions, asked my best friend and I why we were each having sex with our girlfriendshigher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even aged fifteen I thought something along when those who wouldn't pass the lines medical become a part of an organisation it'wells rare that their views are heard, if he doesnthat their concerns are acknowledged. It't know by now, he never will', s personally appalling and listed that it was great fun, a very enjoyable sensation, showed an appetite degrading for the relationship, and that sex proved individuals on the receiving end of the ultimate in bonding - how much closer, to be blunt, could you be to someone than actually inside them? Ibias but it'll come clean now and admit said girlfriend was s not real, but several have been since, and I have had heaps of fun finding out how - and perhaps why - women have sex. I was never to know, until now, there just the individuals who are 237 reasons for itnegatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546639</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Karen Wilkin|title=Elegant Enigmas: The Art Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of Edward Gorey|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=IEverest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn'm all in favour t a travelogue about any of Edward Gorey becoming a bigger namethose epic journeys, especially here in the UK, where his output it is certainly less lauded than in his native USAinstead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. Itis a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 's evident from the brightcontents' page and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, glossy each essay is only a few pages here that he was an extraordinary talentlong. Polymath and know-all in real lifePerhaps then, in his ink drawings he can show the complexity better thought of someone like Dore, while using his draughtsmanship to pen macabre whimsy, like as a meditation rather than an old-fashioned love-child of Mervyn Peake and Edward Learessay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0764948040</amazonuk>0241357705

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbara WarmsleyRichard Brook|title=Make, Mend, Bake, Save and Shine!Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5

|summary=A slimI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, slither this is one of a the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book with a big title. I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'Greenhit home'' is in the mantra on most pages, as well as tips on how way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to waste less - whether give ita favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's food, clothes or water from the tapu. This book has a universal messages. How to waste lessp. There is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a nice introduction by seventysomething Barbara Walmsleypredisposition towards expecting to like the book, aka the charity [http://www.oxfam.org.uk/ Oxfameven if it doesn's] t always turn out that way''Green Granny.'' Certainly catchy ] – but will also because it catch on? When is a book I was delving inside the first couple of pages looking for the writer's name (it's not on the front cover) I discovered the phrase ''Printed And Bound In Chinaneeded to read, right now.'' Defeating the message?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846013674</amazonuk>1800461682

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Dawson0753558378|title=The Self-Sufficiency BibleEffortless: Window Boxes Make It Easier to Smallholdings - Hundreds of Ways to Become Self-SufficientDo What Matters|author=Greg McKeown|rating=4.5

|summary=''The recent financial crises have taken people by surprise and instead marginal return of trying to ride the problem out and then get back to our oldworking harder was, profligate ways we've looked at how we can live more sustainably and less expensively. Thrift is the new black and many people are taking pride in not spending moneyfact, negative. I might take issue with whether or not Simon Dawson's book should be called a ''bible'' which suggests a completeness which is doesn't seem to exhibit, but it's an excellent starting point for those wanting to become more self-sufficient. It also has the recipe for a chocolate sponge which takes just five minutes to make – and that takes a lot of beating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906787689</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Evany Thomas|title=The Secret Language of Sleep: A CoupleThat's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. It's Guide no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the Thirty-nine Positions|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=This volume takes the premise company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that the positions in which couples sleep together are an insight into their private mindhe was working for a bankrupt company. ThereforeHis stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and his job had little value. He made a bargain with the help of the line drawings of 39 (apparently all of THE 39) positionsGod; if he survived, one might see where one is going wronghe would make some changes. It’s a chicken He did survive and came through stronger - and egg situation where richer. There is, you might learn you’re with the wrong bed partnersee, and change either them or your nocturnal habitsa different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, or in order to change yourself alter things having reflected on the contents here – with the help as they suggest of a ceiling-mounted camcorderfor those who almost break.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1932416471</amazonuk>''

{{newreview|author=Norah Vincent|title=Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''Voluntary Madness'' To claim space is journalist Norah Vincent's account of her visits to three mental health facilities in America. The first is an urban, public hospital that houses mainly homeless, psychotic patients, many live the life of whom are addicted to drugschoosing unapologetically and bravely. In this hospital, the doctors are overworked and jaded and medication It is always the answer. Soon, the author finds that her latent depression (which led her to do live the book in the first place) is returning. The process of being institutionalised breaks her sense of self-worth down astonishingly fast. Indeed, she suggests that it is the lack of autonomy in institutional life, even for those patients who voluntarily commit themselves, that makes it so hard for them to rebuild independent lives when they finally leave the institutionyou've always wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513439</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Jean Hannah Edelstein |title=Himglish and FemaleseSometimes the reviewing gods are generous: Why at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women Don't Get Why Men Dons 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''t Get Them|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Men aren. I't Martian and ve always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't hail from Venusneed protection, people who claim their own space. We're If all Earthlings apparently; which seems like progress of a sort. Even so women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we still have trouble understanding each other because we speak different languages – Himglish and Femalese. Luckily Jean Hannah Edelstein is fluent in both and has written this light hearted volume are not just an easy target to be used to define the problem and translateprove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848091729</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jaki Scarcello1529109116|title=Fifty and FabulousCall Me Red: The Best Years of a WomanA Shepherd's LifeJourney|author=Hannah Jackson|rating=34.5

|summary=When you open a package and find a bright pink book which proudly proclaims 'Fifty and Fabulous: 'I want the best years image of a woman's life' you can be forgiven for wondering if this is going British farmer to simply be another that of those books which recommends strenuous exercise regimes, strict diets and just a little nip and tuck under person who is proudly employed in feeding the chinnation. Personally, my heart sank because, er, well, Idon'm no longer fiftyt think that is too much to ask. Were my fabulous years behind me?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906787603</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Keith Hern|title=Bangers and Mash|rating=4The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations.5|genre=Home and Family|summary=Keith Hern found a small lump in his neck and when the results of the tests came through he tried He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to put the appointment off as what he had something more pressing really wants to do, but : he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the doctor was insistentcase though. He knew then that he 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 cancera deep love of animals. The lump in his neck Her original intention wasthat she would become 'Dr Jackson, in fact, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a secondary tumour with family holiday to the primary being in the back of his tongueLake District. But for She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the secondary tumour the discovery kudos of the primary might have been too late for successful treatmenther original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. Keith takes us through With the discovery determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of his cancerher, his reactions to the diagnosis, his treatment and the titular meal of bangers and mash – the first solid food which he had attempted for some timeshe set about achieving her ambition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312772</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Susan Ostler|title=Flirt Diva - For Women Who Want to be Bold and Sassy and have a Fabulous Life!|rating=4Frontpage|genreisbn=Lifestyle1786495902|summary=There are lots of timetabled books on the market, that promise to transform everything from your employability to the size of your thighs in a certain number of weeks, if you commit to their programme, and this book is really just another one to add to the 'scheduled self-improvement' pile. Except we're not talking here about dropping a dress size in time for Christmas, or sailing through that oh-so-important interview to land the job of your dreams...for this book is a 6 week guide to ''Getting Loved Up'' that promises to put its participants (and as you'll learn, you're more than a mere reader with this title) on the fast track to romance. Gosh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312799</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Mary Beard|title=It's A Don's LifeIsabel Hardman

|summary=Professor Mary Beard, feisty Cambridge classics don, keeps an eye open for architectural detail wherever Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she goeschooses not to share. Even on holidayShe says that a friend who does know, she notices the changing urban landscape burst into tears and records interesting parallels with ancient cities health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in her sparky blogdisbelief. She is engaged in writing a detailed history of Pompeii and suddenly realises, whilst perambulating Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the backstreets of next day she went to work to cover the Mexican city of Oaxacanbudget, that this is exactly what Pompeii must have been like. She observes next there was the low rise shopsEU referendum, dirt tracks across dusty streets and the close juxtaposition of rich political party leadership contests and poorthen it was party conference season. Impressive portals of grand residential properties tower above humble workshops, One night she had to be sedated and this prompts her into imaginative reconstructionreturned home to begin long-term sick leave. In her blog, from which That was what brought me to this intriguing book is culled, she tells us about just how Oaxacan encourages her to ponder again : 2020 was the curious cart ruts of Pompeii. She even finds walls splashed with political slogans that are just like Roman ''dipinti''. Indeed, here in Mexico, the local library displays an edifying message in Spanish which originates in Cicero's speech in his Pro Archia, ''Science and letters are year when the nourishment of youth and the diversion of old agebins went out more often than I did.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682517</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr Aaron Carroll and Dr Rachel VreemanLauren Martin|title=Don't Swallow Your GumThe Book of Moods

|summary=I was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''BANGgreat'''. That's the sound of copious urban myths being shot downdelivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. '''BANG'''. That's I had spent the sound best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the old wives slamming water at our local sailing club in the doorrescue rib, as their tales get revealed as baselesson standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I''CLICK'''. That's m happy to, but that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, and it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the noise lots of ill-informed websites make website that we had been thanked for our time as they get closed down"Dave and wife". All noises come due to Wow. I had never needed this brilliant bookmore.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141043369</amazonuk>1538733625

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez 0008420386|title=PerfumesFailosophy: The A - Z Guidehandbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day|rating=54

|summary=WonderfulWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, wonderfulAlain de Botton, wonderful. The only thing that could be conceivably better than reading 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'Perfumesve been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You' would be to read it while sampling ll find the scents it reviews, but even without the olfactory component, results of these discussions in ''PerfumesFailosophy'' is a delight: Turin (a lyrical scientist) and Sanchez (an analytically enthusiastic collector) not only treat perfume creation as high art, but turn perfume criticism into an art form (or at least a sophisticated genre of writing) too. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681278</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Clarkson1504321383|title=Driven to DistractionSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman

|summary=Brian Johnson will probably go down as one of the luckiest men in showbiz. He had a brief moment of glory in the early 70s as vocalist with Geordie, a Tyneside version of Slade, who had three Top 40 hits ''You can't be happy and then fell fulfilled on hard timesyour own. After going back to the day job, You are not complete until you find a chance call invited him to go and audition for AC/DC, whose vocalist Bon Scott had suddenly died. Three decades later, not only have the group held on to their loyal fanbase, but one of their albums, according to an online source, is second only to Michael Jackson's ''Thrillerman'' in terms of global sales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155424</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=James May|title=Car FeverThis was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: Dispatches From Behind The Wheel|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Now, way back when I it was younger, and watched TV a lot, I am sure I remember Top Gear simply the adults in her life advising her as being a consumer programmeto what they thought would be best for her. How times change. These days I am sure they destroy more cars than they review, and It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the three main people from girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the show are approaching superstar status, with their amenable personalities, awkward wardrobe choices and trenchant laddish charmshandsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. TheyFew girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without''ve sprung their media entities from out of the studio, into other TV programmes, expectation that they will marry and the world of journalism, with chatty columns in the broadsheets allowing them free rein to witter to their heart's desirehave children. And here, in one grandiloquent volume, It was a belief and in time for Christmas, are it would be many of James Mayyears before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''s desires.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994533</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Mabey 1538731738|title=Wild Cooking|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=It's become fashionable now Simple Abundance: 365 Days to make do, to cut back - even for those who have no need to do so. Conspicuous consumption is frowned upon and thriftiness is the new black, so ''Wild Cooking'', previously published in hardback as ''The New English Cassoulet'' is going to appeal to the mood of the moment with its approach of 'busking in the kitchen' a Balanced and making do. Some of it might seem a little extreme – I really can't imagine that I will ever slow cook a Peking Duck in front of a fan heater simply because it might as well cook the food whilst it's heating the room – but I love the idea of using a glut to make broad bean hummus, or even of gathering up vegetables which have been left when the field has been harvested.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099522969</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewJoyful Life|author=Deirdre Bounds|title=Fulfilled: A Personal Revolution in Seven Steps Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=45

|summary=Dierdre BoundsSomeone once said: it' life was at rock bottom when she was introduced to the Twelve Step Plan used by Alcoholics Anonymous and within a matter of years she had built an internet business into an awards not self-winning organisation and sold indulgence, it's therapy! I think they were talking about shopping, but it probably can be applied to a FTSE 100 companymost things. SheIn my case, it applies to writing about things because I want to, rather than because I can sell it or because I's adapted the twelve steps ve got something to produce her personal revolution in seven stepssell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273725521</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth Ford and Daniela DrakeSharon Blackie|title=Smart Girls Marry MoneyIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleBiography|summary=If your friend told you that she'd fallen for a gorgeous man – they were deeply in love and getting married as soon as possible – the probability is I normally say that you'd be delighted for her. On the other hand if she said that she'd met can tell how much a man whom she thought was the best she was likely book means to meet and on the basis that he was wealthy she was planning to marry him, what would you think? me by how many pages have corners turned down. Does the word ''gold-digger'' spring to mind? Are you horrified? Well, think again as it just might be that the second solution could be the one that leaves your friend in the best position.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762435178</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tracey Whitmore |title=How to Write Perhaps an Impressive CV and Cover Letter: A Comprehensive Guide for the UK Job Seeker|rating=1.5|genre=Business and Finance |summary=Back home in the UK after a stint abroad, and job hunting for the first time in years, this book even greater measure of impact is a rather timely addition setting out to buy my shelvesown copy before I've finished reading the one I've borrowed. Having spent the last year and a bit teaching English, I also want to avoid clichés like to think I know a little about grammar and general language use. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the author of this book, and while it's all very well advising readers that powerful' 'inspiring'first impressions really do count'life-changing', this carries less weight than – although it should when you notice the dubious grammar in is definitely the first line of two and only time will tell about the introduction, third – but clichés exist for a reason and in virtually every chapter which followsI'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845283651</amazonuk>1912836017

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Haynes1543987877|title=Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am?Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan

|summary=This ''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a remarkable bookabout love relationships rather than a book about love. It gives an insight into The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the process opposite of psychotherapygrief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, both from ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin the theoretical point of view moment you're born and, more significantly, from actual conversations end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the world hoping to give and sessions in receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the consulting roomsame mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. Jane Haynes takes us through her own development as a client (although she doesn't like that word) in her own For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-discovery and therapy sessionspreservation, and then into some in the form of her consulting sessions after she qualifies as resignation is a therapist. I've always thought of this kind of thing as very American, but this book is entirely Britishnecessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299728</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Denise Cullington Michael Harris|title=Breaking Up BluesSolitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=45

|summary=Whether you're married or singleThis is not the book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the dumpeé or the dumpermainstream, but it is not that at one time or another, we've all had to deal with the trials and tribulations of the dreaded break up. Whether you're thinking Instead of leavingtelling us how, have just ended a relationship, or are still trying to recover from it is more about the one that got away, Denise Cullington's 'why'Breaking Up Blues'. Harries examines how we' is re eroding solitude, which used to be a self-help guide to coping with the bitterness and ragenatural part of our human life, emotional emptiness and endless depression why that can matters. Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come along with of that, and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought itout, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0415455472</amazonuk>1847947662

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Sanders0753553236|title=Juggle! Rethink Work, Reclaim your Life|rating=2.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''Juggle!'' - says the title - ''Rethink work, reclaim your life''. Wonderful - it seems like just the right book for someone like meTiny Habits: having a decent 9-to-5 job, but still wondering whether it is the best possible place to be. Aren't we all told in school we have hidden talents and one could achieve brilliance if only one used them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906465371</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Small Changes That Change Everything|author=Victoria Moore |title=How to DrinkB J Fogg

|summary=A friend who saw me reading this book was moved to ask if I really needed the advice and was Go on, admit it - you're not quite surprised when I explained that it was about the whole range of liquid intake from the humble glass of warm water perfect. You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (try it – it's wonderful first thing in the morningto you) habits which seem to rare spirits costing hundreds annoy other people. Other people, of pounds course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a bottlelittle bit of effort. It's completely unpreachy Or put another way, I get cross with not a word about myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how much liquid you should I try to make what seem to be taking in each day quite monumental changes I never quite seem to how few units you should be consuming each weekget to grips with the concepts. It's about getting the best (which isn't always the most expensive) I constantly fail and enjoying it – and most importantly, enjoying a drink when that's then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the drink you wantlist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847080200</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Heminsley 1785785516|title=Work From Home|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Judy Heminsley has worked from home both as en employee and running her own businesses. She is now a professional advisor to homeworkers and ''Work From Home'' distils her experience into a practical guide for all who are considering work from home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184528335X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFucking Good Manners|author=Ruth Binney|title=The Allotment ExperienceSimon Griffin

|summary=There have been allotment gardens in the UK and other European countries since the late 18th centuryManners maketh man, with numbers in the UK reaching they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a peak set of 1.5 million plots around the time conventions, some of World War I which are ages old and nearly the same number during World War IIother which have evolved over time. Numbers then fell Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, reaching 600,000 by they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the late 1960sbasics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. Increased interest in green issues from the 1970s only slowed the decline Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and by 1997 the number of plots in use was around 265,000. More recently, there has been a resurgence of interest as the notion of food miles private lives and "slow food" has come to the fore, let alone the rising costs of foodact appropriately. In 2008, The Guardian reported that 330,000 people held an allotment, whilst 100,000 were ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on waiting lists. My interest in this book stems from the fact that we are already keen back (and front) garden vegetable growers and are shortly to join an allotment waiting list ourselvesway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905862261</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Peacock1999811402|title=Patio ProducePainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=It's surprising how many people dismiss the idea of growing at least some of their own fruit and vegetables in the mistaken belief very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that theyas it'll need to have s loosely based around a year on an allotment or at the very least it would be a sizeable vegetable patch of the type which is simply not possible in many modern gardens or because theylifestyle book, but you're living in a city rather than a villagenot going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. Paul Peacock sets out to prove that this needn't The answer would be something along the case – with the proof lines of this particular pudding being the fact that he lives in Manchester'try it and see'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905862288</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lynda Gratton|title=Glow: How You Can Radiate Energy Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, Innovation finally got into medical school and Success|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Have you ever read a selfis now an A&E consultant (part-help book and time). I found out that simply reading the first chapter tells there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you all you need to know about any wisdom contained therein? Well, fortunately with 'll ever glean from ''GlowCasualty'' by Lynda Gratton – , but thatisn't really what the book's not the caseabout. While its essential principles are neatly summarised in the first chapter There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the remaining chapters, packed with pleasantly jargon-free examples, are well worth reading for anyone interested in improving their working real passion of Hartley's life, forming empowering networks and thinking creatively.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273723871</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Brian|title=The Complete Guide to IVF|rating=5|but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre=Lifestyle|summary=Each year some forty thousand cycles of IVF – in vitro fertilisation – are carried out in the UK and something like a million worldwide. About two hundred thousand IVF babies are born annually with some twelve thousand of those in the UK according to a recent article I read on a BBC siteeither. Fertility expert Kate Brian has followed her [[The Complete Guide to Female Fertility by Kate Brian|Complete Guide to Female Fertility]], which Did we loved, with another indispensable guide – this time to IVF.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909706</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ali Valenzuela|title=Weighing It Up|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Although never having had an eating disorder myself, I have been interested in them since I was young. I was a competitive gymnast and category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now I'm a mother of three teenage daughters, I worry about s the subject from a whole new angle, especially as one of them is a size 6-8 and idolises those super-skinny celebrities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anna Paterson|title=Anorexic|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary= It might seem strange and somewhat ironic that 's an obese woman is reviewing a book on anorexia. But it is a topic I have always found interesting. Despite my being at the opposite end of the weight scale to Anna Paterson, I could empathise with some of the things she feltautobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0952921529</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Mark Gungor|title=Laugh Your Way Move on to a Better Marriage|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=This book is based upon Mark Gungor's highly successful seminar, Laugh Your Way To A Better Marriage. However, it is best to get one thing straight to begin with: Mark is a very funny guy, but, as he admits, this book is not at all about laughing your way to a better marriage. It encourages laughter, and he has a good time laughing about various issues, but if you thought this was going to be a philosophy based upon laughter, then you've been a little misled by the title.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416536051</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Literary Fiction Reviews]]