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[[Category:New Reviews|Lifestyle]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1454955546|title=Sugarless|author=Jill StarkNicole 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=High Sobriety: My Year Without BoozeThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|summary=On It's strange, the first of January 2011 Jill Stark woke up with things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the hangover from Hellbook for you. She was no stranger to themBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https: at thirty five she//www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there'd been binge drinking for more than twenty years and was in the dubious position s a picture of a slice of being chocolate cake on the health reporter who wrote herself off at weekendshomepage. And by I don'wrote herself offt eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There' I mean being seriously drunk on s a very regular basisrecipe in the book, having consumed vast quantities of alcohol which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and having regularly put herself in danger I was told to make a mess of serious illness, unwanted pregnancy and assaultit. But on that first day Notes in January Stark decided that she was going the margins are sanctioned. You get to do something about it and fold down the initial decision was corners of pages. You suspect that she smears of butter would spend three months on the wagonnot be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922247030</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0760381267
|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life
|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago
|rating=3.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''.
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?}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=3.5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|isbn=1785633848}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1394159544|title=The Sex DiariesRecycling for Dummies|author=Arianne CohenSarah Winkler
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=As far as ‘doing what it says on the tin’ goes, this book is a good ''Recycling oneton of plastic can save up to 16. It’s the diaries, plural, from people, plural, talking about their sex lives3 barrels of oil. But it’s not just the doing '' ''Recycling one ton of the deed and the sowing of the seed, it’s also all the stuff that goes with being in a relationship or not paper can save 17 trees from being in onecut down. The daydreams'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. The texts. The efforts made A glass bottle will take up to secure a hook-up, if there’s not one waiting for you at home1 million years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091939550</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter0760378134|title=The Norm ChroniclesFirst-Time Gardener: Stories and numbers about dangerContainer Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley
|rating=5
|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=IIf you'd like you ve ever thought how good it would be to be able to meet Norm. He's an absolutely average kind of guy, thirty one years old, 5'9”, a touch over thirteen stone pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and he works vegetables for a thirty-nine hour week with the occasional treat of a bar of milk chocolate. Oh, and he's ambivalent about Marmite - couldnmeal – but realised that you wouldn't care one way or know where to start, this is the other - can take it or leave itbook you need. In ''The Norm ChroniclesIt's comprehensive: you' we hear the story of his life and the lives of his friends Prudence (the name tells ll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you need 're going to knowgrow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil) and Kelvin, whowhere you's a dare-devilll put these containers, hard-living kind of guy. Ithow you's ll water and fertilise them and you finish the story main part of the hazards they face - some real and some imagined - in every aspect of their livesbook with a handy section on troubleshooting. And along with these stories are the There''real'' facts about the reality of the risks they takes also a good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686202</amazonuk> So, is it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Dawson1398508632|title=Pigs in Clover: Or How I Accidentally Fell in Love with the Good Life|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Simon Dawson really had no intention of leading a life of self-sufficiency - he accidentally fell into the beginnings of it at a New Year's Eve party which was a little too noisy for him to be completely certain what it was he was agreeing to. But even then there was no need for it to go too far. After all, this man'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 that she couldn't stand being 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 London.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780285019</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Wilderness Cure|author=Naomi Schillinger|title=Veg Street: Grow Your Own CommunityMo Wilde|rating=4.5
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|summary=As It had been on the cards for a child Naomi Schillinger helped while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her parents year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to grow fruit and vegetables start, in their South London garden and a world where the urge to grow resurfaced when she normal sores had her own propertybeen exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. It wasn't just Wilde had a few advantages: the ''growing'' which she remembered, but the ''sharing'' of the produce and sense area around her was a known habitat with a variety of community which went with itterrains. Soon after starting She had electricity which allowed her to grow food for herself she was run a prime mover in getting whole streets involved in growing fruit and vegetables in their front gardensfridge, making the most of recycled materials freezer and free seeds dehydrator. She had a car - and compostfuel. When weMost importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live're constantly urged ' wild just to reduce food miles what could be better than growing your food (quite literally) on your own doorstep?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721129</amazonuk>live off its produce.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adele Faber Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Elaine Mazlish Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will TalkI May Be Wrong
|rating=5
|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=Many parentsWhen the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispiece, I'm inclined to think it seems, go through life in a constant state doesn't really matter how the rest of feudthe world responds to your book. Not with each other I know, necessarilyhaving read the book in question, but that Lindeblad would disagree with their childrenthat thought. Their small, beloved bundles He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of joy turn into obstreperous toddlersthe world responds to this book, defiant pre-schoolersbecause it tells the truth as it is, angry schoolchildren or morose teens. Parents find themselves caught up in arguments, advice, failed attempts at consolation... and then may resort to punishment of some kindthe early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848123094</amazonuk>1526644827
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilly Janes1732898731|title=Latte or CappuccinoThe Boy Who Loved Boxes: 125 Decisions That Will Change Your LifeA Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese |rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=I must admit that my immediate reaction when I saw the title ''Latte or Cappuccino?'' There was that a filter coffee would be very pleasantBoy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, particularly with a shortbread biscuitstuffed toys and the like: all the things which most children have in abundance. But itThe Boy's not a book about coffee but rather about choices we encounter which could make a real difference to our livesdelight was in the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happy. You see one coffee has 150 calories As he grew up and became a Man, his life became more complicated and the other just 90 he dealt with this by getting bigger and over better boxes. Look carefully at the weeks pictures and months you'll see that decision can mean substantial weight gain - or loss. There are 125 one of these relatively minor questions which can have real impact, particularly when you add them all uphas a padlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843175584</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Smith1846276772|title=The End of Bias: How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and DeductionWe Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=34.5|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=Whether youAnyone 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're s simply a fan part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the original Conan Doyle novelsdisabled. Jobs, promotions, have enjoyed higher salaries are the recent film and television representations preserve of Sherlock Holmes or if, like me, the name always conjures up white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the image medical become a part of Basil Rathbone youan organisation it'll be impressed by the way s rare that their views are heard, that Holmes can reason and deducetheir concerns are acknowledged. YouIt've probably wished that you were capable of some s personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the mental acrobatics which he performs. Much of his prowess is down to being a fictional character (of course) bias but it is possible to improve your powers of observation, memory and deduction by exercising your brain. Daniel Smith has some suggestions to get us started's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179539</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=Nick ColemanRichard Brook|title=The Train in the NightUnderstanding Human Nature: A Story of Music and LossUser's Guide to Life
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=When you want - or need - to master I am a new skill youfirm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'll be told to practiced have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but thereit would not have 'hit home's in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not always just because I was likely to give it a lot of advice around on favourable review [ ''howfull disclosure The Bookbag'' to practices u. Sometimes it's .p. is that hint about how to practice more effectivelypeople chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, how so there is a predisposition towards expecting to approach like the skill from book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a different direction which makes all the difference. Daniel Coyle has fifty two tips - most of which can be applied book I needed to just about everything from improving your golf swing to success in 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 practice, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847946798</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa Kite0753558378|title=Real LifeEffortless: One Woman's Guide to Love, Men and Other Everyday Disasters|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=We're used to thinking about career women who have it all: the high-flyer who goes home to her husband, children and immaculate house to plan their next holiday and their social life. We might not know these people - but everything seems Make It Easier to tell us that they're ''there''. Do What, though, of the single woman, no longer in the first flush of youth (that's probably nineteen, these days) who struggles just to keep going? What of the woman who struggles to keep the ''boiler'' going and who is tempted to kidnap the television repairman and tie him to the bed because she's convinced that the television will stop working the moment he goes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331916</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMatters|author=Siri Hustvedt|title=Living, Thinking, LookingGreg McKeown|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary='Living, Thinking, Looking' is a collection The marginal return of essays by Siri Hustvedt whichworking harder was, she claimsin fact, are linked by an abiding curiosity about what it means to be humannegative. In these essays she examines who we are and how we got that way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444732633</amazonuk>}}''
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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=Mark Matousek1529109116|title=When YouCall Me Red: A Shepherd're Falling, Dives Journey|author=Hannah Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=You never quite know what life is going ''I want the image of a British farmer to serve up next and even the happiest moments or saddest news can simply be turned around in a heartbeat. For the author Mark Matousek his down was learning he was HIV positive, while his up, a while later, was being informed that it wasn’t quite the death sentence originally imposed and that he had quite of a bit of life left. In this book he looks at how you can find the good person who is proudly employed in feeding the bad or, to quote the subtitle, the keys to nation. I don'Using your pain to transform your life'. The art of survival t think that is an intriguing one. The same scale of trauma affects different people in different ways and this book seeks too much 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 usask.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848504926</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Neill1786495902|title=Feel Happy NowThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=45
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''Feel Happy Now'' is Isabel Hardman suffered a dummy’s guide trauma which she chooses not to happiness written by an NLP expert share. She says that a friend who Paul McKenna has dubbed does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals'The finest success coach jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the worldtime by '. What makes this book stand outkeeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, perhapsnext there was the EU referendum, is the way the complexity is done away with, political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and everything is broken down returned home to an accessible level without being too patronizingbegin long-term sick leave. Its expert concepts presented in layman speak and That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the result is a highly readable and accessible book regardless of your belief in year when the subjectbins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848504942</amazonuk>
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|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=In decades gone byI was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, educated workers in many industries could view their careers as imagine the word ''great'' being delivered with an elevator – rising eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. I had spent the ranks best part of a company before stepping aside and settling into a comfortable retirementrainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. In todayIt's vastly different job marketa volunteer duty we all do during the year, with much less loyalty from both employers and employeesnormally I'm happy to, but that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, your career is more likely and it all came to follow a head that evening when I noticed on the model of some promotions mixed in with frequent sideways moves to other companies website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and perhaps even completely different industrieswife". Time, then, for a new guide to how to handle your employment prospectsWow. I had never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184794079X</amazonuk>1538733625
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Watts and Anna Magee0008420386|title=The De-Stress DietFailosophy: The Revolutionary Lifestyle Plan A handbook for a Calmer, Slimmer Youwhen things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Most people will recognise that excessive stress is not good for you. It's the cause of depressionWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, high blood pressureMeera Syal, skin problems Dame Kelly Holmes and insomnia - to name just a few problems from a very long list. Andrew Scott have in common? ThereThey's also mounting evidence that chronic stress is responsible for excessive weight gain ve all failed and not just because there- more importantly - they've been willing to appear on Elizabeth Day's a tendency (er, yes, I can testify podcast to this...) to turn to comfort eatingdiscuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. Too many stress hormones in You'll find the body encourage fat storage - particularly results of these discussions in that ''obviousFailosophy'' and very-hard-to-shift area around the middle. The aim of the De-Stress Diet is to bring about a slimmer, calmer person with a better quality of life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848507798</amazonuk>
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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=Francesca Beauman1538731738|title=Shapely Ankle Preferr'dSimple Abundance: A History of the Lonely Hearts Advertisement365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach
|rating=5
|genre=HistoryLifestyle|summary=You might think the Lonely Hearts ad a trivial matter. Someone once said: it's not self-indulgence, it's therapy! You might I think it should appear in lower case and not be capitalisedthey were talking about shopping, but you'd it probably can be in disagreement with Ms Beauman, who gives a big L and a big H applied to it every time she writes of it in her survey of its historymost things. What's moreIn my case, she gets it applies to write writing about a lot more things because I want to, rather than just the contents of the adverts in this brilliant bookbecause I can sell it or because I've got something to sell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009951334X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roman KrznaricSharon Blackie|title=The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to LiveIf Women Rose Rooted
|rating=5
|genre=HistoryBiography|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'How should we live?ve finished reading the one I' asks author Roman Krznaricve borrowed. To answer this ancient question, he looks I want to history. avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'I believe that the future of the art of living can be found by gazing into the pastinspiring', he says. Creating a book which is as full of curiosities as a Renaissance 'Wunderkammerlife-changing', he has a stab at – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the big questions: love, belief, money, family, death. The result is third – but clichés exist for a pot-pourri of delights which left this particular reader stimulated reason and invigoratedI'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846683939</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler1543987877|title=The Question BookLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Most of us have probably made at least one of those end-of-the-year lists of the best books, albums and parties we have been ''Learn to Love: Guide to in the previous twelve months. But can you, with some effort, locate the one you made in 1987? Have you ever constructed Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a graph of your ups and downs in book about love relationships rather than a given period, and then decided to expand it by separating emotional, intellectual, sexual book about love. The two greatest emotions are love and financial aspects grief and colour coding them? Have you made a list of all your lovers, bosses or friends and then rated them from 1 to 10 on several dimensions each? Do you have one love is the opposite of the books that list grief: ''100 things to do before if you dielove'' or , Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''500 books to read in your lifeyou will inevitably grieve'' (and ticked off . Your love relationships begin the ones moment you have done)? Did 're born and end only when you ever spend a whole evening die. Whilst we all come into the world hoping to give 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 half of a night filling in dubious 'personality' questionnaires on this eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the Internet? Have you ever doodled somethingsame mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, decided that it beautifully expresses in the deepest essence form of your personality and then proceeded to draw such icons for all your friends? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685389</amazonuk>resignation is a necessity.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luca Turin and Tania SanchezMichael Harris|title=The Little Book Of PerfumesSolitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=This is not the book I have always admired people who seem was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to know about scentfind calm, those whose dressing tables are littered with bottles none of which flaunt how to step outside the name of a major (or increasinglymainstream, minor) celebritybut it is not that at all. Some Instead of telling us how, it is more about the bottles might ''why''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be works a natural part of art in themselvesour human life, but the general understanding is and why that they’ve been bought not for their vessels, nor for their exclusive advertising campaigns, special offers or celeb endorsement, but for their evocative scentmatters. Perfumery is clearly an art Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude and a science what has come of that, and if your skills aren’t as honed as they might beeventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, this is a wonderful little book to sink your teeth into as you’re guided through but mostly he wanders down the field alleys and by two people very much in the know-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846685192</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda M James0753553236|title=How to Write and Sell Great Short StoriesTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Having read any number Go on, 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 so easily correct, if only they would make just a little bit of books about crafting great storieseffort. Or put another way, I thought get cross with myself because I had had my fill forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and that there were no more books left that could bolster my enthusiasm and help me matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get on to grips with my writingthe concepts. In short, I constantly fail and then I thought get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the only thing left that could motivate me was, well, melist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846947162</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Ryan1785785516|title=Following Atticus: How a little dog led one man on a journey of rediscovery to the top of the world Fucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin
|rating=4
|genre=PetsLifestyle|summary=Tom Ryan is a middle-agedManners maketh man, stressed journalist, running his own newspaper, the ''Undertoad'' in Newburyport in Americathey say. His It certainly makes life is full easier if everybody abides by a set of political intrigues and mayoral electionsconventions, boardroom deals some of which are ages old and subterfuge and his life is full of challengesother which have evolved over time. He doesnManners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palace, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: they't need a dogre about getting the basics right before we try to deal with more difficult matters. He doesnOf course we all have more relaxed manners when we't even particularly want a dogre with family and friends, but when a miniature schnauzer enters his life one day, everything changesit's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and private lives and to act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141048972</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby1999811402|title=It Could Have Been Yours: The enlightened person's guide to the year's most desirable thingsPainting Snails|author=Stephen John Hartley|rating=4.5|genre=TriviaAutobiography|summary=In a world of diamond-encrusted skulls, gold-leafed iPhones and luxury yachts ten a penny, of blingy shit (or should It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that be shitty bling?) as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a relief lifestyle book, but you're not going to know people are still spending money get advice on unique one-offs that are more worthwhilewhat to plant when and where for the best results. The records for costliest photoanswer 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, artworkbecame a busker, musical instrument finally got into medical school and manuscript have all been broken is now an A&E consultant (part-time). 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 twenty four months leading up to this book's releaseabout. Our collators have scoured There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the press for those and otherreal passion of Hartley's life, similarly noteworthy auctions, and found what other people paid for what you but it didn't know you would actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have wanted given a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the moneyone. It's an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684900</amazonuk>
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