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

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

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[[imageAs a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma:4starreducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA.jpg|link=Category 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 purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this 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 dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.s}}{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:AutobiographyFrontpage|isbn=0760378134|Autobiography]], [[title=The First-Time Gardener:Category:LifestyleContainer Food Gardening|Lifestyle]]author=Pamela Farley|rating=5Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza was brought up in Nigeria |genre=Home and came Family|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be to Britain be able to study pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for her A levels when she was 18a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. Her parents used their savings It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to give her this opportunity and called grow, what you'll grow it an investment in her future. Now a qualified pharmacist(both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, married how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a child of her own, Tabitha looks back at her childhood and reflects handy section on the way her mother and father raised hertroubleshooting. And she gives their parenting top marks There's also a good glossary. [[Parenting through the Eyes of a Child: Memoirs of My Childhood by Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza|Full Review]]<br> So, is it 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 Lessons', There was a range of books which are more like Boy who loved boxes. He had a long-form essay, explore often seemingly mundane items. ''Personal Stereo'box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn' packs a lot of information into a small space. t believe their luck! Split into three distinct sections: Novelty, NormIt began with art supplies, stuffed toys and Nostalgia, the like: all the things which most children have in abundance. The Boy'Novelty' traces s delight was in the origin sense of the Sony Walkman, from its conception by two Japanese business men to order in his room: it becoming a recognised entity on the streets of Americamade him feel happy. 'Norm' follows on from the universal success of the personal stereoAs he grew up and became a Man, relating his life became more complicated and he dealt with this to the technology which it set the groundwork for, such as the ubiquitous proliferation of MP3s, the iPod, by getting bigger and Smartphones, leading to the eventual downfall in the popularity of the Walkmanbetter boxes. Finally, in Look carefully at the pictures and you'Nostalgia', Tuhus-Dubrow examines our need to hark back to ll see that one of them has a simpler time, when the personal stereo seemed the height of freedompadlock... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501322818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chit Dubey1846276772|title=21 Doors to HappinessThe End of Bias: Life Through Travel Experiences and MeditationHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=I know that I'm Anyone who is not alone an able, white man understands bias in having been brought up that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it''achieve'', to look down on those who had different (''lesser'', it would have been said) aims, but there comes s simply a point in part of everyday life when you wonder about . White men will always come first. The able will come before the point of it alldisabled. Do you need to keep on ''achieving''Jobs, and if sopromotions, ''why''? higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Many years ago I had a light-bulb moment Even when I realised that achieving more, having more money, more material possessions didnthose who wouldn't make me happy - and surely pass the point medical become a part of an organisation it all was to be ''happy''? Superficially s rare that sounds very simple: live a life doing only what you want to do and pleasing yourselftheir views are heard, but that doesn't bring happiness eithertheir concerns are acknowledged. Chit Dubey believes that happiness is inside you It's personally appalling and you degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just need to delve a little deeper to find itthe individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1999838912</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robert Kyncl and Maany PeyvanErling Kagge|title= Stream PunksWalking: One Step At A Time|rating= 4.5

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

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

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

<!That's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and his job had little value. He made a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger -- Moore -->[[imageand richer. There is, you see, a different way:Moore Bientot''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.jpg''}}{{Frontpage|leftisbn=1523092734|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782438610?ieA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=UTF8&tagEliza Van Cort|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode5|genre=as2&campPolitics and Society|summary=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782438610]]''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)

===[[A Bientot''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.. by Roger Moore]]===''

[[imageSometimes the reviewing gods are generous:4starat a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk.jpg|link=Category 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. 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.}}{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Frontpage|isbn=1529109116|title=Call Me Red:Category:AutobiographyA Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Entertainmentrating=4.5|Entertainment]], [[:Category:genre=Lifestyle|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.''

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 She saw a few months later 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]]