Health/Lifestyle

If you're reading this, then we have something in common .... Whether it's a love of getting crafty, meticulously organising or making (read more)

If you're reading this, then we have something in common .... Whether it's a love of getting crafty, meticulously organising or making fun-shaped snacks! I find it hard to sit still, but losing myself in a craft project or tidying a drawer is my form of meditation. It's a chance for me to forget about the things going on in the world around me for a minute.

I hope this book helps you to lose yourself for a moment, too - and that you enjoy reading it and even, maybe, having a go at some of the bits inside. Lots of Love, to the moon and back Stacey x (hide)

We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea (read more)

We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.'

Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.

A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this new book is an instant classic. It will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again. (hide)

Take a jaw-dropping interactive top-to-toe tour of your body with this compact guide. It features amazing 3D images that reveal all (read more)

Take a jaw-dropping interactive top-to-toe tour of your body with this compact guide. It features amazing 3D images that reveal all your major systems in molecular detail. It helps you: discover how the nervous system works, the intricate construction of skeleton and muscles, and how your body protects itself when you are under threat; put yourself under the microscope and learn about the bodies processes, from a nerve impulse to blood surging through an artery; and, journey inside and examine what can go wrong with the human machine - explore the causes and symptoms for diseases and ailments.

It offers an unmissable in-your-body adventure, perfect for students, families and health professionals. (hide)

The Heartland is a brilliant, beautiful and bold book. It is illuminating and empathetic and needs to be read by all.' BRYONY GORDON, (read more)

The Heartland is a brilliant, beautiful and bold book. It is illuminating and empathetic and needs to be read by all.' BRYONY GORDON, author of Mad Girl'I have never read a more powerful book about mental health.

it has the ability to change the way people think about mental illness.' JOANNA CANNON, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep'Absolutely blew me away... I cannot think of another book in the field that would come close to this. In my opinion it is an essential read for those in the mental health arena and anyone whose relative has been touched with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.' JO BRAND'This is a beautifully written book that brims with compassion and wit. (hide)

Patrick Holford is one of the UK's best-known nutrition experts. In this book he outlines his unique detox diet, which in just 9 (read more)

Patrick Holford is one of the UK's best-known nutrition experts. In this book he outlines his unique detox diet, which in just 9 days will leave you looking and feeling fantastic. He explains why detox works, the crucial role of the liver in detoxing and how to go about detoxing your body.

The 9-day plan is easy to follow, spread effortlessly over two weekends and the five days in between. You'll find simple information on how to get started and how to get the most out of your detox, including advice on the five bad eating habits to break, the five new habits to make, and a 9-day menu programme with mouthwatering low-GL recipes. With up-beat advice, based on cutting-edge research, this invaluable book will help you lose weight, boost your energy levels, become clear-headed, and shake off the strains of a high-pressure life. (hide)

Confronting and solving problems is a painful process which most of us attempt to avoid. And the very avoidance results in greater (read more)

Confronting and solving problems is a painful process which most of us attempt to avoid. And the very avoidance results in greater pain and an inability to grow both mentally and spiritually. Drawing heavily on his own professional experience, leading psychiatrist Dr M.

Scott Peck suggests ways in which facing our difficulties - and suffering through the changes - can enable us to reach a higher level of self-understanding. He discusses the nature of loving relationships: how to recognise true compatibility, how to distinguish dependency from love, how to become one's own person, and how to be a more sensitive parent. This is the bestselling self-help book that will change the way you live, and love, for good. (hide)

Blending memoir with critique, an award-winning poet and essayist's devastating exploration of sickness and health, cancer and the (read more)

Blending memoir with critique, an award-winning poet and essayist's devastating exploration of sickness and health, cancer and the cancer industry, in the modern worldA week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip to payslip, the condition was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. In The Undying - at once her harrowing memoir of survival, and a 21st-century Illness as Metaphor - Boyer draws on sources from ancient Roman dream diarists to cancer vloggers to explore the experience of illness.

Published:8 Sep 2020 (hide)

In the 1980s and 1990s John Fisher revolutionised dog training, first in England, then in the US. With his self-deprecating manner (read more)

In the 1980s and 1990s John Fisher revolutionised dog training, first in England, then in the US. With his self-deprecating manner and 'Oh! So British' sense of humour, he taught us to 'Think Dog'. In this seminal pet psychology book, he examines the mind of the dog with examples taken from his practical experience, explaining to owners how the world appears from a dog's point of view.

The first section of the book traces the ancestry and inherent behaviour of dogs, from their origins as pack animals related to the wolf or the jackal. The second part examines what most people describe as problem behaviour, which is just normal canine behaviour exhibited in the wrong place. The book concludes with an A-Z of common problems, their causes and cures. (hide)

Did you know that muscles get bored, just like people do? Also there's a 9 out of 10 chance that you're working the wrong muscles (read more)

Did you know that muscles get bored, just like people do? Also there's a 9 out of 10 chance that you're working the wrong muscles when you exercise. Based on 10 years of scientific research and experience getting A-list stars and everyday people red-carpet ready, Tracy Anderson has developed a unique 30-day diet and workout routine that reshapes the body and defies genetics to tone up the muscles and enable you to lose weight fast. Tracy believes it is possible for anyone to get the body they want, and this workout leaves no chance for anything but terrific, fast results! (hide)

From the on-screen experts for BBC2's Cat Watch, and based on their groundbreaking research - this is the ultimate guide to making (read more)

From the on-screen experts for BBC2's Cat Watch, and based on their groundbreaking research - this is the ultimate guide to making your cat a happier, more sociable animal. The idea of a trained cat is a contradiction in terms, isn't it? Naturally solitary, wary, easily threatened by newcomers, they are attached to place rather than people, and much of their 'antisocial' behaviour arises in situations where that attachment is threatened. But, as cat experts Sarah Ellis and John Bradshaw argue, such stress-induced behaviour can be prevented, reduced, even eliminated, by training. (hide)