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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1454955546|title=A Piece of Danish HappinessSugarless|author=Sharmi AlbrechtsenNicole M Avena|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=''This isn't a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.''Sharmi Albrechtsen There was a true Hindutime, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-American princessfat content. Obsessed with shoes and handbags and designer labels, she saw status and wealth as Fat was the only route demon food which was going to happinesselevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. But she wasn't happy enough Sugar was a carbohydrate, no matter how much designer gear she ownedso good. And it wasn There't until 1997, when she married her second husband, s a Daneproblem, though. Sugar is addictive and relocated to Denmark, that she began to wonder if it was something lacking can hijack your brain in herself, rather than her possessions, much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that was at sound over the root of her problemstop? Well, it isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00EAINZM8</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Ashwell1635866847|title=Couture Prairie And Flea Market Treasures The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5

|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading 'Shabby Chic'The Lavender Companion' has always appealed to me', I visited the author's [https: it fits neatly with my views //www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on recyclingthe homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, upcycling which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and generally refusing I was told to replace anything which still looks good and has life left make a mess of it. Notes in itthe margins are sanctioned. Rachel Ashwell takes this to a whole new level, but her most glorious moment must have been when - on her regular yearly visit You get to fold down the flea markets corners of Round Top in Texas - she decided on a whim to buy The Outpost at Cedar Creek and she turned this into The Prairie, a group pages. You suspect that smears of buildings which butter would house her retail store and not be a B&B which exhibited some of her most treasured findsproblem. As she said herself, her cowboy boots, jeans and love of poetry in country music had come homeI ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782490434</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=Sarah Wilson|title=Very British ProblemsThis One Wild and Precious Life: Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at the path back to connection in a Time|author=Rob Templefractured world|rating=3.5|genre=HumourLifestyle|summary=Are My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you compelled plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to apologise multiple times a day – even when you are not at fault, or even love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to inanimate objects? Would you subject yourself be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to great inconvenience rather than confront someone who . Sarah Wilson is sitting in your reserved seat on a train? Have you been known 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 commit desperate acts in think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the search for your next cup of tea? If sobest 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 may (we, I) could be suffering from Very British Problemsdoing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751552593</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreview|title=How to Keep Calm and Carry On|author=Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Heart poundingAs a just-post-WWII baby, rapid breathingI faced a dilemma: reducing, dry mouth reusing and sweaty palms are just some recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the unpleasant symptoms associated with anxietypurpose. Anxiety affects us all at Almost everything can be used one more time or another in our lives and occurs in varying degrees of severity. For example, a little nervousness is par for any purchase must pass the course when a performer steps on stage in front test of a huge crowd, but on 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other end hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it in the spectrumkerbside bin. Yes, conditions such as OCD I could go searching on the internet - and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can leave sufferers paralysed with fearget conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0273777750</amazonuk>s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0760378134|title=Hospice VoicesThe First-Time Gardener: Lessons for Living at the End of LifeContainer Food Gardening|author=Eric LindnerPamela Farley|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyHome and Family|summary=If 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. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'Hospice Voicesll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you' tells ll water and fertilise them and you finish the stories main part of the last days of some fascinating people while it follows author Eric Lindner through his journey as book with a hospice volunteer and a crisis in his own daughterhandy section on troubleshooting. There's healthalso a good glossary. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442220597</amazonuk> So, is it any good?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Stark1398508632|title=High Sobriety: My Year Without BoozeThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=4.5

|summary=On It had been on the first cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of January 2011 Jill Stark woke up with the hangover from Helleating only wild food. She The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was no stranger perhaps not the best time to them: at thirty five she'd start, in a world where the normal sores had been binge drinking for more than twenty years exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was in the dubious position a known habitat with a variety of being the health reporter who wrote herself off at weekendsterrains. And by 'wrote herself off' I mean being seriously drunk on She had electricity which allowed her to run a very regular basisfridge, having consumed vast quantities of alcohol freezer and having regularly put herself in danger of serious illness, unwanted pregnancy dehydrator. She had a car - and assaultfuel. But on that first day in January Stark decided that Most importantly, she had shelter: this was going not a plan to ''live'' wild just to do something about it and the initial decision was that she would spend three months on the wagonlive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922247030</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Sex DiariesBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|authortitle=Arianne CohenI May Be Wrong

|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=As far as ‘doing what When the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it says on doesn't really matter how the tin’ goes, this rest of the world responds to your book is a good one. It’s I know, having read the diariesbook in question, plural, from people, plural, talking about their sex livesthat Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. But it’s not just the doing of the deed He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the sowing rest of the seedworld responds to this book, it’s also all because it tells the stuff that goes with being truth as it is, in a relationship or not being in one. The daydreams. The texts. The efforts made to secure a hook-up, if there’s not one waiting for you at homethe early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091939550</amazonuk>1526644827

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Ward1732898731|title=Out of OfficeThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: Work Where You Like and Achieve MoreA Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=34.5

|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn'Imbibe coffee t believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and become imbued with an entrepreneurial spirit' would be an apt summary of the gist of 'Out of Office' by Chris Ward. If you choose to read like: all the book, be prepared to receive inspiration rather than practical instruction on how to build an empire, if anythingthings which most children have in abundance. This is not to discredit The Boy's delight was in the book; sense of order in his room: it is attractively designedmade him feel happy. As he grew up and became a Man, full of fundraising event photos his life became more complicated and company founder portraits, motivational quotes he dealt with this by getting bigger and brief enthusiastic testimonies of better boxes. Look carefully at the interviewees featured. But in terms pictures and you'll see that one of content, it doesn’t offer substantial advice on how to make that leap from the office cubicle – them has a context quite heavily vilified by Ward – to the existence of the creatively liberated mover and shakerpadlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957612303</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter1846276772|title=The Norm ChroniclesEnd of Bias: Stories and numbers about dangerHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5

|summary=I'd like you Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to meet Norm. Hewhich they suffer from it: it's an absolutely average kind of guy, thirty one years old, 5'9”, simply a touch over thirteen stone and he works a thirty-nine hour week with the occasional treat part of a bar of milk chocolateeveryday life. Oh, and he's ambivalent about Marmite - couldn't care one way or the other - can take it or leave itWhite men will always come first. In ''The Norm Chronicles'' we hear able will come before the story of his life and disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the lives preserve of his friends Prudence (the name tells you what you need to know) and Kelvin, white man. Even when those whowouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's a dare-devilrare that their views are heard, hard-living kind of guythat their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the story of individuals on the hazards they face - some real and some imagined - in every aspect receiving end of their lives. And along with these stories are the bias but it''real'' facts about s not just the reality of the risks they takeindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686202</amazonuk>

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 walk. 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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon DawsonRichard Brook|title=Pigs in CloverUnderstanding Human Nature: Or How I Accidentally Fell in Love with the Good A User's Guide to Life

|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Simon Dawson really had no intention of leading I am a life firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of self-sufficiency - he accidentally fell into the beginnings latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it at a New Yearinteresting, but it would not have 'hit home's Eve party which in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was a little too noisy for him likely to be completely certain what give it was he was agreeing toa favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. But even then is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there was no need for it is a predisposition towards expecting to go too far. After alllike the book, this maneven if it doesn's heart was in London and he was an estate agent - a member of the profession whose place at the top of the opprobrium ladder was only made wobbly after a serious PR campaign on behalf of journalists and politicians. But his wife was determined t always turn out that she couldnway''t stand being ] – but also because it is a property solicitor any longer and so they sold their flat in London and rented a property on Exmoor and Simon began a weekly commute - weekends in Devon and most of the week in Londonbook I needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780285019</amazonuk>1800461682

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Naomi Schillinger0753558378|title=Veg StreetEffortless: Grow Your Own CommunityMake It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeown

|summary=As a child Naomi Schillinger helped her parents to grow fruit and vegetables in their South London garden and the urge to grow resurfaced when she had her own property. It wasn't just the ''growing'' which she rememberedThe marginal return of working harder was, in fact, but the negative.''sharing That'' of the produce and sense of community which went with its what happened to Patrick McGinnis. Soon after starting It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to grow food the company he worked for herself she , struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for a prime mover in getting whole streets involved in growing fruit bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and vegetables in their front gardenshis job had little value. He made a bargain with God; if he survived, making the most of recycled materials he would make some changes. He did survive and free seeds came through stronger - and compostricher. When weThere is, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.''re constantly urged to reduce food miles what could be better than growing your food (quite literally) on your own doorstep?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721129</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish1523092734|title=How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will TalkA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort

|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=Many parents, it seems, go through life in ''She brings a constant state of feud. Not with each other, necessarily, but with their children. Their small, beloved bundles of joy turn into obstreperous toddlers, defiant prehug-kick-schoolers, angry schoolchildren or morose teens. Parents find themselves caught up thunderclap that every woman needs in arguments, advice, failed attempts at consolationher life... Again and again and then may resort to punishment of some kindagain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848123094</amazonuk>}}'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)

{{newreview|author=Hilly Janes|title=Latte or Cappuccino: 125 Decisions That Will Change Your Life|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=I must admit that my immediate reaction when I saw the title ''Latte or Cappuccino?'' was that a filter coffee would be very pleasant, particularly with a shortbread biscuit. But it's not a book about coffee but rather about choices we encounter which could make a real difference To claim space is to our lives. You see one coffee has 150 calories and live the other just 90 life of choosing unapologetically and over the weeks and months that decision can mean substantial weight gain - or lossbravely. There are 125 of these relatively minor questions which can have real impact, particularly when It is to live the life you add them all up've always wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843175584</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Daniel Smith|title=How to Think Like SherlockSometimes the reviewing gods are generous: Improve Your Powers of Observationat a time when violence against women is much in the news, Memory and Deduction|rating=3''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Whether you Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it're a fan of the original Conan Doyle novelss something far more effective, have enjoyed but discussion at the recent film and television representations of Sherlock Holmes or if, like me, the name always conjures up the image of Basil Rathbone you'll moment seems to be impressed by the way that Holmes about how women can reason and deducebe ''protected''. YouI've probably wished always thought that you were capable of some of the mental acrobatics which he performs. Much of his prowess is down women need to being a fictional character (of course) but it is possible rise above this, to improve your powers of observationbe people who don't need protection, memory and deduction by exercising your brainpeople who claim their own space. Daniel Smith has some suggestions If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to get us startedbe used to prove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179539</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Gilpin1529109116|title=Mindfulness for Black Dogs and Blue DaysCall Me Red: Finding a Path Through DepressionA Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson|rating=34.5

|summary=Richard Gilpin is a counsellor, cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and mindfulness instructor. He's also suffered from depression since his teens and is well aware 'I want the image of just how debilitating it can a British farmer to simply bethat of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. In I don'Mindfulness and Black Dogs' ( a nod t think that is too much to Churchill who referred to his depression as his black dog) he shares his own experiences with the illness and offers insights as to how a sufferer can find a way through the weight which descends upon themask. He looks particularly at how ''mindfulness'' can help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907332928</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Nick Coleman|title=The Train in stereotypical farmer was probably born on the Nightland where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: A Story of Music and Loss|rating=4he knows that he'll be a farmer.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Picture It's not always the scenariocase though. You have 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 been passionate about music, with a catholic taste which embraces classical, soul and heavy rock with had a bit deep love of everything in betweenanimals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' and your job is that of an arts and music journalist. In your mid-forties you wake up one morning she was well on her way to find your whole world achieving this when her life changed overnight by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing Losson a family holiday to the Lake District. It has She saw a devastating effect on your balance when subjected to any kind of soundlamb being born and, whether it is an aeroplane overheadalthough 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the roar kudos of the crowd at her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a football match, or shepherd. With the music which determination that you once adored with every fibre 'll soon realise is an essential part of your being. Your head is filled with tinnitusher, like a very poorly-tuned radio which lacks an off switchshe set about achieving her ambition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093576</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Coyle1786495902|title=The Little Book of TalentNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=45

|summary=When you want - or need - Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to master share. She says that a new skill you'll be told to practicefriend who does know, but thereburst into tears and health-care professionals's not always a lot of advice around on ''howjaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going' : the next day she went to practice. Sometimes it's that hint about how work to practice more effectivelycover the budget, how to approach next there was the skill from a different direction which makes all EU referendum, the differencepolitical party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. Daniel Coyle has fifty two tips - most of which can One night she had to be applied sedated and returned home to just about everything from improving your golf swing begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to success in this book: 2020 was the year when the business world. The tips are short - all fifty two are covered in about a hundred and twenty pages - easily read and simple to put into practicebins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946798</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KiteLauren Martin|title=Real Life: One Woman's Guide to Love, Men and Other Everyday DisastersThe Book of Moods|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=We're used to thinking about career women who have it all: the high-flyer who goes home to her husbandI was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, children and immaculate house to plan their next holiday and their social life. We might not know these people - but everything seems to tell us that theybecause sarcasm doesn're t always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''theregreat''being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. WhatI had spent the best part of a rainy, though, of windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the single womanrescue rib, no longer on standby in the first flush of youth (thatcase anyone who was racing needed support. It's probably nineteena volunteer duty we all do during the year, these days) who struggles just and normally I'm happy to keep going? What of , but that day the woman who struggles to keep the ''boiler'' going weather was miserable and who is tempted to kidnap the television repairman I was miserable, and tie him it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the bed because she's convinced website that the television will stop working the moment he goes?we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780331916</amazonuk>1538733625

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Siri Hustvedt0008420386|title=Living, Thinking, LookingFailosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day

|summary='LivingWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, ThinkingNigel Slater, Looking' is a collection of essays by Siri Hustvedt whichEmeli Sandé, she claimsMeera Syal, are linked by an abiding curiosity about what it means Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and - more importantly - they've been willing to be human. In these essays she examines who we are appear on Elizabeth Day's podcast to discuss their failures and how we got that waylife worked out for them afterwards.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444732633</amazonuk> You'll find the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brett Cohen1504321383|title=Stuff Every Dad Should Know|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=For an object lesson in how important the little things are, consider this book's title. This is not one of those collections of trivia or whimsies for fathers to appear cool to their children (ten great variations on tag; 6,000 good records with which to ween your daughter off Justin Bieber)Single, it's not that kind of knowledge on offer. Here instead is practical information on rearing your own little thingAgain, and in a quiet way this pocket diary-sized volume has the cojones to expect to stick around being useful for a generation, as it starts at budgeting for children in the first placeAgain, and goes from the actual birth to marrying them off.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745536</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAgain|author=Mary Beard|title=All in a Don's DayLouisa Pateman|rating=4.5

|summary=Mary Beard's latest collection, 'All in a DonYou can's Day', of her assembled blog pieces from 2009 t be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until the end of 2011, covers similar concerns to her previous selection, [[Ityou find a man's A Don's Life by Mary Beard|It's a Don's Life]]. Professor Beard is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and became Classics Professor at there in 2004. She is also an expert in Roman laughter, an interest which she fully indulges in the pages of her TLS blog. In her latest collection she bemoans the parlous current state of both Education and the Academy, and makes witty observations on matters as various as television chefs, what and how to visit in Rome and the art and worth of completing references in an age when only positive things may be said about postgraduate job-seekers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685362</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Olga Levancuka|title=How This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to Be Selfish (and Other Uncomfortable Advice)|rating=3believe.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= Itwasn's strange how you come to read a particular book. A couple of days ago I t unkind: it was chatting simply the adults in her life advising her as to a dog-walking friend who retired about a year agowhat they thought would be best for her. He'd been surprised to find that the main problem in retirement It was one which he hadn't anticipated: reinforced by all his life hethose fairy tales where the girl (she'd had to account for himself to somebody else and now he was struggling to discover what it was s usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that ''he'' wanted to dothey can live happily ever after. Then I found myself chatting Few girls are lucky enough to Olga Levancucka, author of be brought up ''How To Be Selfishwithout'' - but she seemed like one of the most unselfish people I'd ever metexpectation that they will marry and have children. There It was a book here waiting to belief and it would be read!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468115987</amazonuk>many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Matousek1538731738|title=When You're Falling, DiveSimple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=4.5

|summary=You never quite know what life is going to serve up next and even the happiest moments or saddest news can be turned around in a heartbeat. For the author Mark Matousek his down was learning he was HIV positiveSomeone once said: it's not self-indulgence, while his upit's therapy! I think they were talking about shopping, a while later, was being informed that but it wasn’t quite the death sentence originally imposed and that he had quite a bit of life leftprobably can be applied to most things. In this book he looks at how you can find the good in the bad ormy case, it applies to writing about things because I want to quote the subtitle, the keys to rather than because I can sell it or because I'Using your pain ve got something to transform your life'. The art of survival is an intriguing one. The same scale of trauma affects different people in different ways and this book seeks to draw on the wisdom of those who triumph in the face of adversity to share what they know and inspire the same behaviour in ussell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848504926</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen FrenchSharon Blackie|title=The Hidden Geometry of LifeIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=2.5|genre=Spirituality and ReligionBiography|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'The Hidden Geometry of Life'inspiring' aims to explore the esoteric and often mystical meanings contained in 'life-changing'shapes and patterns [that] represent ideas – although it is definitely the first two and distil only time will tell about the essence of reality''. This mystical angle was a little bit of a unpleasant surprise third – but clichés exist for this reader. I should have had a better look at Karen French's Amazon pages reason and previous work, but I was attracted by an exciting-sounding title, attractive cover and and references to author's artm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780281080</amazonuk>1912836017

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Neill1543987877|title=Feel Happy NowLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5

|summary=''Feel Happy NowLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a dummy’s guide to happiness written by an NLP expert who Paul McKenna has dubbed 'book about love relationships rather than a book about love. The finest success coach in two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the worldopposite of grief: ''if you love''. What makes this book stand out, perhapsDr Thomas Jordan tells us, is ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin the way moment you're born and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the complexity world hoping to give and receive love there are many people for whom love is done away with, not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and everything is broken down to an accessible level without being too patronizingthis eventually becomes resignation. Its expert concepts presented For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in layman speak and the result form of resignation is a highly readable and accessible book regardless of your belief in the subjectnecessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848504942</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon OxfordMichael Harris|title=Make Yourself Immune to Heart AttackSolitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=45

|summary=The older you get, This is not the more likely book I was expecting it is that you will suffer from to be. For some form of heart disease or even die from reason I expected it. Many deaths occur without warning in people who are apparently healthy to be another self- so help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the mainstream, but it's is not something that you can wait to be diagnosed and plan on doing something about at that stageall. Whatever your age thereInstead of telling us how, it is more about the 's a real possibility that you can make a significant improvement in your health 'why'and'. Harries examines how we' improve the quality re eroding solitude, which used to be a natural part of your our human life, and why that matters. I came to read this book because family members Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of my generation were suffering ''severe'' heart problems that, and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it was a wakeout, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-up call ways that was impossible to ignorehis thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907629319</amazonuk>1847947662

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha0753553236|title=Tiny Habits: The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your CareerSmall Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=4.5

|summary=In decades gone byGo on, educated workers in many industries 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 course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could view their careers as an elevator – rising through the ranks so easily correct, if only they would make just a little bit of a company before stepping aside and settling into a comfortable retirementeffort. In today's vastly different job market Or put another way, I get cross with much less loyalty from both employers myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and employees, your career is more likely no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to follow grips with the model of some promotions mixed in with frequent sideways moves to other companies concepts. I constantly fail and perhaps even completely different industries. Time, then, I get cross with myself for a new guide failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to how add to handle your employment prospectsthe list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184794079X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Watts and Anna Magee1785785516|title=The De-Stress Diet: The Revolutionary Lifestyle Plan for a Calmer, Slimmer YouFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin

|summary=Most people will recognise that excessive stress is not good for youManners maketh man, they say. It's the cause certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of depressionconventions, high blood pressuresome of which are ages old and 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, skin problems and insomnia - they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they're about getting the basics right before we try to name just a few problems from a very long listdeal with more difficult matters. ThereOf course we all have more relaxed manners when we's also mounting evidence that chronic stress is responsible for excessive weight gain re with family and not just because therefriends, but it's a tendency (er, yes, I can testify best if we learn to this...) distinguish between our public and private lives and to turn to comfort eatingact appropriately. Too many stress hormones in the body encourage fat storage - particularly in that ''obviousFucking Good Manners'' and very-hard-aims to-shift area around help us on the middle. The aim of the De-Stress Diet is to bring about a slimmer, calmer person with a better quality of lifeway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848507798</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others1999811402|title=The Library BookPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley

|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I had better begin by saying thought that I had as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a vested interest in liking this lifestyle book since , but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'. Then I am considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a chartered librarian myself busker, finally got into medical school and so am wholeheartedly is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in support of saving our nationa Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's public librariesabout. But you donThere't need 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 librarian to enjoy this bookcategory for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It is rich with anecdotes from some wonderful writers and makes a pleasant read whether you're keen to save libraries or nots an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250057</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Francesca Beauman|title=Shapely Ankle Preferr'd: A History of the Lonely Hearts Advertisement|rating=5|genre=History|summary=You might think the Lonely Hearts ad a trivial matter. You might think it should appear in lower case and not be capitalised, but you'd be in disagreement with Ms Beauman, who gives a big L and a big H Move on to it every time she writes of it in her survey of its history. What's more, she gets to write about a lot more than just the contents of the adverts in this brilliant book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009951334X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Roman Krznaric|title=The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to Live|rating=5|genre=History|summary='How should we live?' asks author Roman Krznaric. To answer this ancient question, he looks to history. 'I believe that the future of the art of living can be found by gazing into the past', he says. Creating a book which is as full of curiosities as a Renaissance 'Wunderkammer', he has a stab at the big questions: love, belief, money, family, death. The result is a pot-pourri of delights which left this particular reader stimulated and invigorated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683939</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Literary Fiction Reviews]]