As a mother are you comfortable in your skin? Want to know how best to be a stay-at-home or working mum? Babies have very simple needs yet many parents are overwhelmed with elaborate advice on how to meet them In How Not to F Them Up leading child psychologist Oliver James argues that your under-threes do not need training; it's getting your head straight as a parent that's important Drawing on extensive interviews & the lastest clinical research James identifies three basic types of mum the Hugger the Organiser & the Fleximum Outlining the benefits & pitfalls of each How Not to F Them Up shows you how to recognise which style suits you best & outlines simple strategies to reconcile personal ambitions with the needs of your family Empowering & provocative Oliver James will help you make the best choices for bringing up a happy confident child ...

A hilarious debut for all fans of Mhairi Mc Farlane & Lisa Owens The perfect antidote for Valentine's Day! Life is 10 planning 10 design & 80 totally winging it Join Emma as she guides you through How Not to become accidentally knocked up at the age of 27 How Not to unceremoniously dump the father of your child & then How Not to lose the job that (even though you hate it) is the only thing between you & being homeless Hilarious & heart-warming How Not to Fall in Love Actually will make you laugh make you cry & will reassure you that perhaps your life is not that bad actually What people are saying about How Not to Fall in Love Actually 'A phenomenal cast of characters & some real laugh out loud moments Brilliant!' Heidi Swain author of The Cherry Tree Cafe & Mince Pies & Mistletoe at the Christmas Market ' More bubbly than a big glass of champers & just as fun How Not To Fall In Love Actually is bright breezy & the perfect way to beat back the winter blues' Georgia Clark author of The Regulars ...

‘ Clever honest & hilarious her book should become a baby shower classic’ Publishers Weekly‘ Funny honest & helpful’ Grazia‘ Loads of useful achievable advice’ The Pool How did I become the ‘expert’ at changing a nappy? Jancee Dunn wondered This combined with a lack of sleep a suddenly unfair division of household chores & her husband’s new found passion for very long bike rides meant that Jancee found it hard to look at her well-meaning clever funny husband playing with his iPhone without feeling a white-hot rage Like many expectant parents they’d spent weeks researching the safest car seat but little time thinking about the titanic impact the baby would have on their marriage &8213; & the way their marriage would affect their child Tired of having the same fights over & over Dunn consults the latest relationship research solicits the counsel of renowned sex & couples therapists canvasses friends & parents & even consults an FBI hostage negotiator on how to effectively contain an ‘explosive situation’ Could it be that the person who got her into this position is the ally she&d forgotten she had? Funny honest & actually helpful this book can’t do the washing but it might just save your marriage ...

How Not to Kill Your Houseplant is your guide to every stage of plant parenting for beginners from identifying exactly what's in the pot to helping it flourish & grow If you wonder what the crispy bits at the leaf edges are why the stalks are looking spindly or why your plant looks brown even though you've watered it How Not to Kill Your Houseplant will explain
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Hands up if you've killed a plant? Yep me too It's no secret that we've all become plant obsessed but do we really understand how to look after them? I am not a Professor of Botany but having run my florist & plant shop Grace & Thorn since 2011 I've learnt a few things along the way HOW NOT TO KILL YOUR PLANTS is about taking the hocus-pocus out of plants & flowers & enabling you to understand a plant's needs in order to know where to place & how to style them but most importantly how to keep them alive I get asked every type of question you can imagine & I have written this book to answer them Watering can down it's time to go back to the roots Keep it green Nik x (AKA The Agony Plant) ...

I had no life experience zero common sense & had never eaten rice I suffered from debilitating anxiety was battling an eating disorder & had just had my heart broken I hoped by leaving to travel the world I would be able to heal myself Instead Lauren's travels were full of bad luck & near-death experiences Over the space of a year she was scammed & assaulted; lost teeth & swallowed a cockroach She fell into leech-infested rice paddies was caught up in a tsunami had the brakes of her motorbike fail & experienced a very unhappy ending during a massage in Thailand It was just as she was about to give up on travel when she stumbled across a handsome New Zealander with a love of challenges ...

There are many ways prospective authors routinely sabotage their own work But why leave it to guesswork? Misstep by misstep How Not to Write a Novel shows how you can ensure that your manuscript never rises above the level of unpublishable drivel; that your characters are unpleasant dimensionless versions of yourself; that your plot is digressive tedious & unconvincing; & that your style is reliant on mangled cliches & sesquipedalian malapropisms Alternatively you can use it to identify the most common mistakes avoid them & actually write a book that works Guardian Award shortlisted novelist Sandra Newman & veteran editor Howard Mittelmark have distilled 30 years of teaching editing writing & reviewing fiction into a hilarious & liberating guide that is the perfect read for anyone who's ever laughed at a badly written piece of prose & for anyone who's ever penned one
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Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed & passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups & in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work Drawing on his weekly Guardian column ' Elements of Fiction' John Mullan examines novels mostly of the last ten years many of which have become firm favourites with reading groups He reveals the rich resources of novelistic technique setting recent fiction alongside classics of the past Nick Hornby's adoption of a female narrator is compared to Daniel Defoe's; Ian Mc Ewan's use of weather is set against Austen's & Hardy's; Carole Shield's chapter divisions are likened to Fanny Burney's Each section shows how some basic element of fiction is used Some topics (like plot dialogue or location) will appear familiar to most novel readers; others (metanarrative prolepsis amplification) will open readers' eyes to new ways of understanding & appreciating the ...

All growth is spiritual growth Authors Drs Cloud & Townsend unlock age-old keys to growth from Scripture to help people resolve issues of relationships maturity emotional problems & overall spiritual growth They shatter popular misconceptions about how God operates & show that growth is not about self-actualization but about God's sanctification In this theological foundation to their best-selling book Boundaries they discuss? What the essential processes are that make people grow? How those processes fit into a biblical understanding of spiritual growth & theology? How spiritual growth & real-life issues are one & the same? What the responsibilities are of pastors counselors & others who assist people in growing-and what your own responsibilities are in your personal growth ...

We are attracted whether we know it or not to the hidden aspects of things & people Some teenagers enjoy cutting themselves with razors Some men pay good money to be spanked by prostitutes The average Briton spends over a day a week watching television People slow their cars to look at gory accidents & go to sentimental movies that make them cry In this revealing & witty account Paul Bloom examines the science behind these curious desires attractions & tastes exploring one of the most fascinating & fundamental engines of human behaviour Drawing on insights from child development philosophy neuroscience & behavioural economics How Pleasure Works shows how certain universal habits of the human mind explain what we like & why we like it ...