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How to Be Happy (or at least less sad) is a workbook offering a place of solace, distraction, and a fresh perspective on life. This book will not fix you and it will not make you happy, but it promises to help you rediscover the simple pleasures in life and, ultimately, make you feel that little less sad • "This book made me nervous when I first scanned through it because I knew it would work! This isn't a self-help book; it's more of a blue-collar, get-down-to business friend with calloused hands who is ready to boogie when you are. This book is about action. But also acknowledgement. There are no platitudes and its author is no Pollyanna. It's an explicit map that leads to a place where you're going to feel measurably better, and better equipped to face life's vicissitudes

Whether he likes it or not, John is getting older. His hair is greying, it’s getting that much harder to stay fit, and the potential to become something of an embarrassment is ever increasing • But hope is not lost • How to Grow Old is John’s offering to the world. With sage advice on how to avoid the common pitfalls of age, intimate confessions and spit-your-dentures-out hilarious commentary on his own advancing years, this is his observational comic writing at its very best. If you were concerned about how not to be boring or how to get rid of your should-be-old-enough-to-manage kids, this the book has the answers

Often recruited before they've worn long trousers, today's footballers become superstars who earn huge amounts without ever learning much about the world beyond the training ground. Coddled by their support teams, everything is done for them. They live their lives in the glaring media spotlight, yet only really develop one life skill - how to kick a ball better. Then inevitably, when age catches up with them or injury strikes, these man-children are thrown out into the real world, utterly defenceless apart from their multi-million-pound bank accounts • So what do these Peter Pans, whose careers end just as most people's are getting going, do with the rest of their lives? Crouch speaks from his own experience and discusses with fellow former professionals too - just how do you safely release a near seven-foot striker back into the wild? • Peter goes in search of the answer to what his second career might be and encounters stories far more bizarre than anything you'll find on the pitch

Listen to the brand new dramatisation of How To Be a Woman, narrated by Caitlin herself, as part of BBC Radio 4's Riot Girls season • Selected by Emma Watson for her feminist book club ‘Our Shared Shelf’ • It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain • Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should we use Botox? Do men secretly hate us? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby? • Part memoir, part rant, Caitlin answers the questions that every modern woman is asking

What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood’s glittering success and subsequent collapse in The Bell Jar help us understand ambition? And, finally, what can we learn about death from Virginia Woolf? • Literature matters. Not only does it provide escapism and entertainment, but it also holds a mirror up to our lives to show us aspects of ourselves we may not have seen or understood. From jealousy to grief, fierce love to deep hatred, our inner lives become both stranger and more familiar when we explore them through fiction • Josh Cohen, a psychoanalyst and Professor of Modern Literary Theory, delves deep into the inner lives of the most memorable and vivid characters in literature

My name’s Johanna Morrigan. I’m fourteen, and I’ve just decided to kill myself • I don’t really want to die, of course! I just need to kill Johanna, and build a new girl. Dolly Wilde will be everything I want to be, and more! But as with all the best coming-of-age stories, it doesn’t exactly go to plan…

Кристин Куинн, звезда популярного сериала Netflix "Продаваемый закат", показывает женщинам, как непримиримо владеть своей властью в бизнесе и отношениях, чтобы жить так, как они хотят • Книга Кристин Куинн "Как стать стервой-боссом", частично содержащая инструкции, частично манифест, частично рассказывающая обо всем, откровенно рассказывает о сексе и деньгах, моде и славе, сплетнях и благодарности, уверенности и сознательности. Делясь подробностями своего пути от выпускницы средней школы до миллионерши, сделавшей себя сама, звезды реалити-шоу и предпринимателя в сфере моды и красоты, Куинн дает своим читателям инструменты для определения собственного стиля "стервозной начальницы" и демонстрации собственного успеха - без ограничений со стороны общества

Ты становишься футболистом, потому что любишь футбол. А потом ты становишься футболистом и внезапно оказываешься в самом странном, сбивающем с толку мире из всех возможных. Мир, в котором один товарищ по команде приходит на тренировку в ярко-красном костюме, цилиндре в тон, трости и очках без стекол, а у другого так много спортивных автомобилей, что они забывают, что оставили Porsche на вокзале. Даже если их фамилия указана на регистрационном знаке • Так что пройдемте со мной в раздевалку, чтобы узнать, какие игроки отказываются прикасаться к футбольному мячу перед игрой, узнать, почему у множества миллионеров никогда нет геля для душа, и послушать, что говорит Криштиану Роналду, когда смотрит на себя в зеркало • Нас будет тренировать и уговаривать Харри Реднапп, огорчать Рафа Бенитес и успокаивать звук аккордеона, на котором играет помощник Свена-Горана Эрикссона Торд Грип

'Over the years I've had some incredible finds, but the one that excites me the most is the next one.' • Drew Pritchard set himself up as a dealer when he was a teenager, rooting around in scrapyards, working out of a shed and getting about in a ropy old Transit. Now he's a leading figure in the antiques trade with an international online business, and he's hugely popular presenter of hit TV show Salvage Hunters. But he's still as driven by the thrill of the find as he was forty years ago • In this engaging and informative narrative, clearly structured into practical themes, Drew reveals what it takes to start with nothing but an obsession and a dream. He shows you how to create the opportunities, establish a network, get the best out of auctions and fairs, spot the fakes, develop your eye, build a reputation, buy and sell and yes, make a profit

Discover the mindset that made Lawrence Okolie a champion • 'Whatever your situation, I want to help you. I'm proud of the changes I've made to my life. While flipping burgers in McDonald's, I found my ambition and now I'm a boxing champion. I've changed how I look at myself. how I look at the world. and I've improved my lifestyle • If I can do this. I know you can too • Perhaps you're feeling scared. a bit hopeless or unsure about where you're heading in life and what to do next? Maybe you feel stuck and you can't see a way out? I want to help you to change your life.' Lawrence Okolie • Discover • How anything is possible • Why you don't need luck but you do need purpose and faith • When fear and risks are good things • Why positive energy and kindness are essential • How curiosity is power • That you are not defined by your past • Why you shouldn't fear failure • That you can control your future • And much 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