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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roy Vickery1454955546|title=Garlands, Conkers and Mother-Die: British and Irish Plant-LoreSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena
|rating=5
|genre=HistoryLifestyle|summary=For many centuries''This isn't a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'' There was a time, plants have not only had practical uses as 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, remedies, textiles which was going to elevate your cholesterol and dyescause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, but have also symbolic and folkloric meaning in many different culturesso good. The term ''plant-lore' There' has been coined to describe the profusion of the customs and beliefs associated with plantss a problem, though. Sugar is addictive and this book gathers together many of can hijack your brain in much the plant-lore traditions of Britain same way as drugs like heroin and Irelandcocaine. Does that sound over the top? Well, it isn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441101950</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cindy M Meston and David Buss1635866847|title=Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge (The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Everything in Between)Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=IIt'm all in favour of Edward Gorey becoming a bigger names strange, especially here in the UK, where his output things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is certainly less lauded than in his native USAthe book for you. ItBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's evident from a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the bright, glossy pages here that he was an extraordinary talenthomepage. Polymath I don't eat cakes and knowdesserts -all but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in real lifethe 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 his ink drawings he can show the complexity margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of someone like Dore, while using his draughtsmanship to pen macabre whimsy, like an old-fashioned love-child pages. You suspect that smears of Mervyn Peake and Edward Learbutter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0764948040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Warmsley0760381267|title=Make, Mend, Bake, Save and Shine!Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=43.5
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|summary=A slim, slither of a book with a big title. ''Green'' is the mantra on The most pages, as well as tips on how to waste less - whether it's food, clothes or water from the tap. This book has important part of a universal message. How to waste less. There garden is a nice introduction by seventysomething Barbara Walmsley, aka the charity [http://www.oxfam.org.uk/ Oxfam's] ''Green Granny.'' Certainly catchy but will it catch on? When I was delving inside the first couple of pages looking for the writer's name (one who enjoys it's not on the front cover) I discovered the phrase ''Printed And Bound In China.'' Defeating the message?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846013674</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Dawson|title=The Self-Sufficiency Bible: Window Boxes to Smallholdings - Hundreds of Ways to Become Self-Sufficient|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=The recent financial crises have taken people by surprise and instead of trying to ride the problem out and then get back to our old, 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 money. 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>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Norah VincentSarah Wilson|title=Voluntary MadnessThis One Wild and Precious Life: My Year Lost and Found the path back to connection in the Loony Bina fractured world
|rating=3.5
|genre=Lifestyle|summary=My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''Voluntary MadnessWhat is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is journalist Norah Vincent's account of her visits 'This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to three mental health facilities in America. The first Sarah Wilson is an urban, public hospital that houses mainly homeless, psychotic patients, many of whom are addicted to drugsequally lucky. In this hospital, the doctors are overworked and jaded and medication is always the answer. Soon, the author finds her book that takes Oliver's words as her latent depression title (which led her though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to do think about whether we really ''are'' living the book in life we want – the first place) best life that we could be living. Her answer is returningan unequivocal ''no, we are not''. The process of being institutionalised breaks her sense of self-worth down astonishingly fast. Indeed Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she suggests that it is 's effing furious about the lack of autonomy in institutional life, even for those patients who voluntarily commit themselves, fact that makes it so hard for them to rebuild independent lives when they finally leave the institutionwe are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099513439</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Hannah Edelstein 1394159544|title=Himglish and Femalese: Why Women Don't Get Why Men Don't Get ThemRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=45
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|summary=Men aren't Martian and women don't hail from VenusRecycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16. We're all Earthlings apparently; which seems like progress 3 barrels of a sortoil. Even so 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 to define the problem and translate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848091729</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Beard0760378134|title=It's A Don's LifeThe First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley
|rating=5
|genre=LifestyleHome and Family|summary=Professor Mary Beard, feisty Cambridge classics don, keeps an eye open for architectural detail wherever she goes. Even on holiday, she notices If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the changing urban landscape garden and records interesting parallels with ancient cities in her sparky blog. She is engaged in writing pick some fruit and vegetables for a detailed history of Pompeii and suddenly realisesmeal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, whilst perambulating the backstreets of the Mexican city of Oaxacan, that this is exactly what Pompeii must have been like. She observes the low rise shops, dirt tracks across dusty streets and the close juxtaposition of rich and poor. Impressive portals of grand residential properties tower above humble workshops, and this prompts her into imaginative reconstruction. In her blog, from which this intriguing book is culled, she tells us about just how Oaxacan encourages her to ponder again the curious cart ruts of Pompeiiyou need. She even finds walls splashed with political slogans that are just like Roman It's comprehensive: you'dipintill cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'. Indeed, here ll grow it in Mexico(both containers and soil), the local library displays an edifying message in Spanish which originates in Cicerowhere you's speech in his Pro Archiall put these containers, how you''Science ll water and fertilise them and letters are you finish the nourishment main part of youth and the diversion of old agebook with a handy section on troubleshooting. There''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682517</amazonuk>s also a good glossary. So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Aaron Carroll and Dr Rachel Vreeman1398508632|title=Don't Swallow Your GumThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary='''BANG'''. That's It had been on the cards for a while but it was the sound week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of copious urban myths being shot downeating only wild food. '''BANG'''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, Brexit and a pandemic. That's Wilde had a few advantages: the sound area around her was a known habitat with a variety of the old wives slamming the doorterrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, as their tales get revealed as baselessfreezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'CLICK'''. That's the noise lots of ill-informed websites make as they get closed down. All noises come due wild just to this brilliant booklive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043369</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luca Turin Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Tania Sanchez Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=Perfumes: The A - Z GuideI 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. 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 matters 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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1732898731
|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults
|author=Michael Albanese
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Wonderful, wonderful, wonderfulThere was a Boy who loved boxes. The only thing that could be conceivably better than reading He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn''Perfumes'' would be to read it while sampling t believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the scents it reviews, but even without like: all the olfactory component, ''Perfumesthings which most children have in abundance. The Boy'' is a s delightwas in the sense of order in his room: Turin (it made him feel happy. As he grew up and became a lyrical scientist) Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and Sanchez (an analytically enthusiastic collector) not only treat perfume creation as high art, but turn perfume criticism into an art form (or better boxes. Look carefully at least the pictures and you'll see that one of them has a sophisticated genre of writing) toopadlock... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681278</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Clarkson1846276772|title=Driven to DistractionThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell
|rating=4.5
|genre=EntertainmentPolitics and Society|summary=Jeremy ClarksonAnyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's middle name ought to be ''Marmite''simply a part of everyday life. You really do either love him or hate himWhite men will always come first. I am in The able will come before the first campdisabled. I think he is brilliantly funnyJobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. He is. He makes me laugh. Out loud. And like many women Even when those who watch Top Gear, (well, those that donwouldn't watch pass the medical become a part of an organisation it because they 's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are strangely – ''bizarrely'' - attracted to James May – I am '''not''' - or because they want to mother The Hamster – I do '''not''') I find Jeremy Clarkson hilariousacknowledged. And I donIt't think you have to like cars to see s personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the appeal either! I mean, receiving end of the columns within bias but it''Driven To Distraction'' occasionally start ''off'' talking about cars, but s not always and they quickly move on to just the things that get his dander up before tailing neatly back to the cars again. Or not. And what is in between is pure gold dustindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155548</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Erling Kagge
|title=Walking: One Step At A Time
|rating=5
|genre= Lifestyle
|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why).
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James MayRichard Brook|title=Car FeverUnderstanding Human Nature: Dispatches From Behind The WheelA User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Now, way back when I was younger, and watched TV a lot, I am sure I remember Top Gear as being a consumer programme. How times change. These days I am sure they destroy more cars than they reviewfirm believer that sometimes we choose books, and the three main people from the show are approaching superstar status, with their amenable personalities, awkward wardrobe choices and trenchant laddish charmssometimes books choose us. They've sprung their media entities from out In my case, this is one of the studiolatter. Not so very long ago, into other TV programmesif I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, and the world found some of journalismit interesting, with chatty columns but it would not have 'hit home' in the broadsheets allowing them free rein way that it does now. I believe it came to witter me not just because I was likely to their heartgive it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's desireu. And heres.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, in one grandiloquent volumeso there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, and in time for Christmaseven if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, are many of James May's desiresright now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340994533</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0753558378
|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters
|author=Greg McKeown
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative.''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1523092734
|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space
|author=Eliza Van Cort
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''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)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Haynes1529109116|title=Who Is It That Can Tell Call Me Who I Am?Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=This is a remarkable book. It gives an insight into ''I want the process image of psychotherapy, both from the theoretical point a British farmer to simply be that of view and, more significantly, from actual conversations and sessions a person who is proudly employed in feeding the consulting roomnation. Jane Haynes takes us through her own development as a client (although she doesnI don't like think that word) in her own self-discovery and therapy sessions, and then into some of her consulting sessions after she qualifies as a therapist. I've always thought of this kind of thing as very American, but this book is entirely British.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299728</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Denise Cullington |title=Breaking Up Blues|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Whether you're married or single, the dumpeé or the dumper, at one time or another, we've all had too much to deal with the trials and tribulations of the dreaded break upask. Whether you're thinking of leaving, have just ended a relationship, or are still trying to recover from the one that got away, Denise Cullington's ''Breaking Up Blues'' is a self-help guide to coping with the bitterness and rage, emotional emptiness and endless depression that can come along with it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0415455472</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria Moore 1786495902|title=The Natural Health Service: How to DrinkNature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=A Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who saw me reading does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this book was moved at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to ask if I really needed cover the advice and was quite surprised when I explained that it budget, next there was about the whole range of liquid intake from EU referendum, the humble glass of warm water (try political party leadership contests and then it – it's wonderful first thing in the morning) was party conference season. One night she had to rare spirits costing hundreds of pounds a bottle. It's completely unpreachy with not a word about how much liquid you should be taking in each day sedated and returned home to how few units you should be consuming each weekbegin long-term sick leave. It's about getting the best (which isn't always That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the most expensive) and enjoying it – and most importantly, enjoying a drink year when that's the drink you wantbins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847080200</amazonuk>
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|summary=There have been allotment gardens I was in the UK a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and other European countries since because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the late 18th century, word ''great'' being delivered with numbers in the UK reaching an eye roll and a peak of 1sigh, through clenched teeth.5 million plots around I had spent the time best part of World War I and nearly the same number during World War II. Numbers then fella rainy, reaching 600,000 by windy weekend afternoon out on the late 1960s. Increased interest water at our local sailing club in green issues from the 1970s only slowed the declinerescue rib, and by 1997 the number of plots on standby in use case anyone who was around 265,000racing needed support. More recently, there has been It's a resurgence of interest as volunteer duty we all do during the notion of food miles year, and "slow food" has come normally I'm happy to the fore, let alone but that day the rising costs of food. In 2008weather was miserable and I was miserable, The Guardian reported and it all came to a head that 330,000 people held an allotment, whilst 100,000 were evening when I noticed on waiting lists. My interest in this book stems from the fact website that we are already keen back (had been thanked for our time as "Dave and front) garden vegetable growers and are shortly to join an allotment waiting list ourselveswife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905862261</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Peacock0008420386|title=Patio ProduceFailosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=ItWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They's surprising how many people dismiss the idea of growing at least some of their own fruit ve all failed and vegetables in the mistaken belief that - more importantly - they'll need ve been willing to have an allotment or at the very least a sizeable vegetable patch of the type which is simply not possible in many modern gardens or because theyappear on Elizabeth Day're living in a city rather than a villages podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. Paul Peacock sets out to prove that this neednYou't be ll find the case – with the proof results of this particular pudding being the fact that he lives these discussions in Manchester.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905862288</amazonuk>''Failosophy''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1504321383
|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again
|author=Louisa Pateman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Brian1538731738|title=The Complete Guide Simple Abundance: 365 Days to IVFa Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach
|rating=5
|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. Someone once said: it's not self-indulgence, it's therapy! About two hundred thousand IVF babies are born annually with some twelve thousand of those in the UK according I think they were talking about shopping, but it probably can be applied to a recent article I read on a BBC sitemost things. Fertility expert Kate Brian has followed her [[The Complete Guide In my case, it applies to Female Fertility by Kate Brian|Complete Guide writing about things because I want to Female Fertility]], which we loved, with another indispensable guide – this time rather than because I can sell it or because I've got something to IVFsell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909706</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali ValenzuelaSharon Blackie|title=Weighing It UpIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=35|genre=LifestyleBiography|summary=Although never having had I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. Perhaps an eating disorder myself, even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I have been interested in them since 've finished reading the one I was young've borrowed. I was want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a competitive gymnast reason and that is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now I'm a mother of three teenage daughters, not sure I worry about the subject from a whole new angle, especially as one of them is a size 6-8 and idolises those super-skinny celebritiescan succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Paterson1543987877|title=AnorexicLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It might seem strange and somewhat ironic that an obese woman ''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is reviewing a book on anorexiaabout love relationships rather than a book about love. But it The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is a topic I have always found interestingthe opposite of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. Despite my being at Your love relationships begin the opposite moment you're born and end of only when you die. Whilst we all come into the weight scale world hoping to Anna Patersongive 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. For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, I could empathise with some in the form of the things she feltresignation is a necessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0952921529</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark GungorMichael Harris|title=Laugh Your Way to Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Better MarriageCrowded World|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=This is not the book is based upon Mark Gungor's highly successful seminar, Laugh Your Way To A Better MarriageI was expecting it to be. However, For some reason I expected it is best to get one thing straight be another self-help manual on how to find calm, how to begin with: Mark is a very funny guystep outside the mainstream, but, as he admits, this book it is not that at all about laughing your way to a better marriage. It encourages laughter Instead of telling us how, and he has a good time laughing it is more about various issuesthe ''why''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, but if you thought this was going which used to be a philosophy based upon laughternatural part of our human life, then you've been a little misled by the titleand why that matters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416536051</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rosalind Penfold|title=Dragonslippers: This is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=So, a five star book where we can predict the entire plot, Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and at times foretell just what people in it say. It's a damning indictment has come of things that that is even possible. This book lives by its subtitle – ''this is what an abusive relationship looks like''. Rosalind meets a man who seems nigh-on perfect – they seem to fall in love with ease, and she gets on very well with his four children from an earlier marriage. Then odd occurrences start to happen – eventually in the final chapter he declares her work getting in talks about his wayown experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he possibly drinks a bit too much, he sees flirting in her shopwanders down the alleys and by-talk with other men. And things escalate and escalate, and – you know every stage. She suffers a guilt trip, before suffering physical violence, discovering affairs, getting back with ways that his thinking about this lost art led him, then finding the right kind of help.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007216882</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Brampton0753553236|title=Shoot the Damn DogTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=ThereGo on, admit it - you's a stigma attached to mental illnessre not quite perfect. If you You still have cancer those odd, quirky even loveable (to you can tell the world about it and expect its sympathy) habits which seem to annoy other people. If you have depression it's seen as Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a character flaw and one about which you had best keep quietlittle bit of effort. Or put another way, pull yourself together I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get on to grips with things the way that normal people have toconcepts. And it's this cloak of shame I constantly fail and secrecy which has the dual effect of pushing people further into depression and dissuading them from seeking the help which they so desperately needthen I get cross with myself for failing. Sally Brampton has set out Lack of willpower is another burden to add to blast away this stigma by telling her own storythe list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747572453</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glenn Harrold1785785516|title=Look Young, Live Longer: The Secret to Changing Your Life and Slowing the Ageing Process Fucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=I was really intrigued Manners maketh man, they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by the title a set of conventions, some of therapist Glenn Harrold's book ''Look Young which are ages old and Live Longer''other which have evolved over time. Could it be possible that a book could deliver on such a huge promise? Having been feeling more than a little jaded lately, I was willing Manners are not about how much to give it a try.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075288610X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Brian|title=The Complete Guide tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Female Fertility|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's tempting to say that every woman over the age of puberty should Buckingham Palace, they have access nothing to Kate Briando with class or financial status: they's 'The Complete Guide re about getting the basics right before we try to Female Fertility'deal with more difficult matters. The truth is that they should Of course we all have their own copies more relaxed manners when we're with family and they should read the book until friends, but it's dog-eared best if we learn to distinguish between our public and falling apart, because I really canprivate lives and to act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners''t think of a better aims to help us on the way to understand why some women are more fertile than others or some women have difficulty in conceiving.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749927925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania Glyde1999811402|title=Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking And LivedPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley
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