Recommended Reads
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The Family Guide to Better Sleep
Sleep science meets ancient wisdom in this groundbreaking guide to a happier, healthier family life.
Is tiredness eroding your family’s ability to learn and thrive? Do you worry your family isn’t getting enough sleep? If bedtimes are a challenge – whether it's anxious children who can’t settle, teenagers struggling to disconnect from devices, or adults dealing with insomnia and stress – this book has the help you need.
Find a tried-and-tested, easy-to-follow range of techniques to help the whole family sleep better. Learn how to diagnose sleep issues and find the best solutions tailored to your family’s needs.
Dawn Howarth has worked with children, adolescents, and adults for over 15 years, bringing a wealth of knowledge, experience, and a generous dose of empathy to help you resolve sleep issues and build a toolkit for lifelong health.
It’s time for a revolution in how we manage sleep in our everyday lives, and to put an end to disturbed nights and exhausted days. With these techniques, bedtime will become easier, happier, and more nurturing, laying the foundation for better health and wellbeing for the whole family.
This book honours the extraordinary power of sleep. Tiredness doesn't just rob us of our health – it steals our joy and the ability to live our fullest and happiest lives.
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Dear Mum
During the 1960s, Central and Southern Africa were in turmoil, marked by civil wars, racial tensions, Rhodesia’s UDI, apartheid in South Africa, and tribal conflicts. Despite the instability, my husband and I moved to Zambia, where we lived for three years. On our arrival in 1967, Zambia had been independent from British Colonial rule for nearly three years and was reasonably stable compared to some of its neighbours.
With no mobile phones or emails, our only means of communication with family back home was through handwritten letters. Many of these letters, carefully kept by my mother, form the heart of this book. They capture the details of our daily lives, working environments, and vibrant social circles, as well as the incredible places we visited across Zambia and its neighbouring countries.
While living there, we witnessed a nation facing immense challenges yet striving to forge its own identity. Still carrying many hallmarks of British colonial influence, Zambia was undergoing a slow but determined transformation into an independent country. Through these letters, this book offers a personal and historical glimpse into a pivotal time in Zambia’s journey.
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Aeroplanes and an Angel
Follow the career of John Lewis from a 16-year-old Air Radar apprentice to an Avionics Engineer in the Royal Air Force during the majority of the Cold War with the Soviet Union and the Warsaw pact countries. The author details the various RAF stations he served on during his 29 years in uniform from the late 1960s until the late 1990s, listing the myriad squadron aircraft he maintained, and the local history associated with each of those stations. Coupled with countless anecdotes, it is a truly comprehensive insight into life in uniform and later as a Project Manager in the Ministry of Defence.
This is a very personal account into the challenges faced by an airman and his family being a member of the armed forces.
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Life with William
The heroine is enjoying life with her second husband, but his ex-wife is still alive – so will that pose problems? Violet and William travel extensively and she sees countries that she had only read about. They also experience lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and Violet discovers letters from Henry, her first love. Her piano recitals continue for charity, but disaster strikes! Will Violet cope with life minus her performance of the renowned composers?
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The Road to Freedom
In The Road to Freedom, Bruce Robertson presents a groundbreaking philosophical journey that challenges conventional thought and seeks to uncover the foundations of understanding.
Drawing from his scientific background in physics and astronomy, Robertson constructs a new paradigm – The Pattern Paradigm – that critiques the limitations of traditional Western philosophy. This model offers a fresh perspective by linking diverse fields such as consciousness, decision-making, science, and ethics into a cohesive and logical framework. Through a blend of rigorous analysis and accessible insights, the book aims to simplify complex ideas and create a unified vision of reality.
From the origins of thought to the nature of freedom, The Road to Freedom offers a rigorous yet accessible exploration of profound questions, illuminating the intricate patterns that underpin our existence. This book is an essential guide for anyone seeking a deeper, more integrated understanding of the universe and our place within it.
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Places and Faces
Spanning continents and decades, Places and Faces is a candid, fast-paced memoir tracing the unconventional path of a man determined to live life on his own terms. From sun-bleached surf in Bondi to freezing winters in London and late-night street encounters in Bangkok to the quiet pull of home, Andrew Maclean reflects on a lifetime of travel, odd jobs, misadventures, and moments of unexpected beauty. Each chapter opens a window into a world seen through the eyes of a restless spirit with an eye for human detail and an appetite for experience.
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Noah's Harvest
The planting of a seed, the turning of the soil, Noah’s Harvest paints a picture of life in the countryside, the wildlife, the weather, fleeting moments that are so beautiful but do not last long, a woodpecker in the tree, a butterfly, a squirrel on the hunt for fallen tomatoes.
The repetitive words and rhymes in the book cement the understanding and process of bringing vegetables into the kitchen straight from the allotment, all contributing to a family meal.
This first book of the series focuses on three different vegetables, drawing on the seasonality of the allotment, different vegetables and processes. All held together by the joy and love that doing it with Noah brings. And everything tastes delicious.
The perfect educational and fun book for children aged between 3~5 who are already so naturally inquisitive and learning quickly.
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One Foot in the Grave, the Other on the Treadmill: Reflections from Over the Hill
Unflinchingly honest, this collection of anecdotes treats the challenges of aging with clarity and wit. Here, the losses are diluted with laughter, the shiver gives way to a shrug, the OMG to an LOL. Readers weary of the “how to” books that promise to reverse the aging process will welcome the dark humor of a self-described narcissist preoccupied with her mortality. From fears of dementia to hearing loss, cosmetic procedures to breast cancer, joint replacement and heart surgery, the octogenarian author mines the comic potential of her humbling experience of the later years. The witty and sometimes poignant essays of this collection may not silence the ticking of the clock or slow the falling sand of the hourglass, but for readers from middle age and beyond, they are bound to resonate.
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Filling the Void
Jackie is more than just a storyteller. She is a guide, a friend, and a seeker of truth. In Filling the Void, she shares her extraordinary life experiences, insights, and teachings on discovering the deepest forms of love.
From childhood, Jackie felt an unshakable sense of searching, though she could not say exactly what for. As the years passed, this longing led her down a path of self-destruction, struggling with imbalance in her mental, physical, and emotional well-being. She turned to food and drink in an attempt to fill the void, only to find herself feeling more lost, alone, and disconnected than ever.
However, within her struggles lay the seeds of transformation. With raw honesty, Jackie recounts how she pieced together the next steps of her life. Taking a leap of faith into the unknown, she began to find healing and purpose. She unveils her journey through self-discovery, which she calls her road trips, leading her to reconnect with her feminine, emotional, and spiritual self. Through these experiences, she uncovers past life influences, learns to balance the masculine and feminine within, and ultimately teaches herself how to love fully and unconditionally.
Jackie’s story is not just her own. It is a guiding light for anyone searching for meaning, connection, and inner peace. Through her teachings, she empowers you to become your own transformational coach, unlocking the wisdom and love that already reside within you.
This is a journey of self-discovery, healing, and profound inspiration that will stay with you long after you turn the final page.
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Tracks of My Tears
Tracks of My Tears is a selection of poems by Paul Hollingworth.
Hollingworth utilises varied styles, including the Sestina form, to play with themes which touch our lives in one form or another. He sees every poem as a ghost story and a space to create thought on eternal issues such as loss, love, change, ecology, time, history, markets and identity. He takes us at different moments on a philosophical and poetic journey to the Peruvian and Colombian Andes, to London, to Venice, to Andalucia and to Dorset in order to discover magic, change, and dystopia. He writes about UK riots and Covid-19.
There are many ghosts here: teachers, friends, poets and philosophers. People who shaped who we once were and are today. Real, rather than fake, influencers. There are ghostly locations everywhere too.
The collection is a pondering for all of us to question what we hear or read and “certain or safe” beliefs about where we belong, to value what is sacred within human life, and to fight for truth and authenticity as well as acceptance of others rather than lose ourselves to unscientific easy opinions and conspiracy theories despite our natural susceptibilities, flaws and failings.
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MaCello
MaCello is a series of short stories about the life of a magical violincello, origins unknown, presumed to have been especially made for the great Maestro, revealing small aspects from the lives of the individuals who played this amazing instrument, told through the lives of people’s musicanship. The stories relate how the cello magically improved each person’s ability, or not. The MaCello stories try to put forward how one’s performance and attitude develop our successes in life.
Found in a musical shop, by a young boy and his mother (also a cello player, who had to give it up once she married), the cello helps players, who love playing and music, to access their hidden talents or enhance their latent talent, but, only if they show love to the cello and dedication to their musicianship. The stories reflect the passing of years through the twentieth century, technologically speaking, of each participant’s story, and gradually reveals how the cello interacted with their lives.
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Awakening
What will the world look like a thousand years from now?
Will it be prosperous, strong, peaceful, free, equal, and fair?
Or will we be running out of resources, society disordered, dictators taking power, with war and catastrophe following each other?
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