How to be a Gardener Book Two available in long last in paperback is the hugely successful follow up to the fastest-selling gardening title of all time.

Having set out the basic principles of gardening in Book One, this second volume takes an in depth look at all areas of designing & planting your garden.

Alan's love of gardening & years of experience really come to the fore as he demonstrates how to create a garden to be proud of. Covering both design & plants, the chapters include boundaries & climbers, patios & containers, borders & perennials & water & wildlife gardens.

Released to coincide with How to be a Gardener Revisited, a reversioned series of HTBAG 1 & 2 featuring new footage with Alan Titchmarsh in January 2005.

With its perfect balance of practical advice & inspirational ideas, How to be a Gardener Book Two gets to the very heart of gardening &, together with How to be a Gardener Book One, provides a complete reference manual for any garden owner.







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Stepfamilies are currently the fastest growing family type in the UK, with current estimates suggesting that 1 in 10 of all families are now stepfamilies. Yet despite the ever-growing number of stepfamilies, there remains a dearth of information & support for them.

How to be a Happy Stepmum provides the first step in this support by guiding stepmothers through the pitfalls of adapting to stepfamily life; firstly by identifying what type of stepmother they are & then by addressing each of the recognised factors related to becoming a successful & happy stepmother.

Based on sound research & written by an expert in the field, this book is essential reading for all stepmums.



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Stepfamilies are currently the fastest growing family type in the UK, with current estimates suggesting that 1 in 10 of all families are now stepfamilies. Yet despite the ever-growing number of stepfamilies, there remains a dearth of information & support for them.

How to be a Happy Stepmum provides the first step in this support by guiding stepmothers through the pitfalls of adapting to stepfamily life; firstly by identifying what type of stepmother they are & then by addressing each of the recognised factors related to becoming a successful & happy stepmother.

Based on sound research & written by an expert in the field, this book is essential reading for all stepmums.



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Making Slough Happy is made by award-winning independent production company Optomen, with prime-time programming on BBC2, transmitting in November 2005.

One of the boldest social experiments ever undertaken, this unique television event brings happiness experts from all fields & gives them just four months to make the town of Slough happy.

A fact: Although genes & upbringing influence about 50% of our happiness, circumstances (income, living environment) only affects 10%. The remaining 40% is accounted for by our outlook on life, something we all have the power to change for the better.

A simple happiness exercise: keep a diary & once a week write in it things for which you are thankful over the past week. Thats it. This is a simple but highly effective technique people who did it over 6 weeks reported a significant increase in their sense of happiness & satisfaction.

Published against the series, How to be Happy combines the very latest research with advice & exercises from the experts to give you the truth about happiness & practical ways to increase your own happiness"a.







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To their neighbours in suburban Holt, New York, the Winters family has it all: a grand home, a trio of radiant daughters & a sense of security in their affluent corner of America. But when five-year-old Ellie disappears, the fault lines within the Winters family are exposed.

Fifteen years later, Caroline, now a New Orleans cocktail waitress, sees a photograph of a woman in People Magazine. Convinced that it is Ellie all grown up, Caroline embarks on a search for her missing sister. As she travels through the New Mexico desert, the mountains of Colorado, & the smoky underworld of Montana, she devotes herself to salvaging her broken family.

How To Be Lost is a spellbinding novel about sisters, family secrets
- & love.










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To their neighbours in suburban Holt, New York, the Winters family has it all: a grand home, a trio of radiant daughters & a sense of security in their affluent corner of America. But when five-year-old Ellie disappears, the fault lines within the Winters family are exposed.

Fifteen years later, Caroline, now a New Orleans cocktail waitress, sees a photograph of a woman in People Magazine. Convinced that it is Ellie all grown up, Caroline embarks on a search for her missing sister. As she travels through the New Mexico desert, the mountains of Colorado, & the smoky underworld of Montana, she devotes herself to salvaging her broken family.

How To Be Lost is a spellbinding novel about sisters, family secrets
- & love.










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