Penguin Life in Lists Mrs Hinch

I sometimes can't believe just how much has happened in the last couple of life-changing years. It's been a total whirlwind of a journey, and I'm so grateful to all my followers for their amazing love and support along the way • From my very first toy kitchen which was my pride and joy right through to the my very first Instagram posts stories of my cleaning routine, I'm going to take you back to the start of how it all began • But there is so much more to my story than just cleaning tips; there have been the highest of highs, but also heart-breaking devastating lows • So let's do this! Put your Hinch Lists to one side, get comfy and join me on the sofa with a cuppa. Welcome to my world • This is me: Soph - the wife, the mother and the person behind Mrs Hinch

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online • Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content • The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers story comprehension and develop vocabulary

Cleaning isn't just necessary; it can be incredibly therapeutic, too. A domestic guru who makes household chores fun, Mrs Hinch reveals how to get your home sparkling with her top cleaning hacks and the best cleaning products, most of which are available for no more than e1 on the high street. Whilst her pals Minkeh the Sponge, Doris the Duster and her loyal and trusty steed, Sharon the Shark have captured an audience of 1 million, Mrs Hinch addresses something much more profound and shows that cleaning is a brilliant way to taper anxiety and manage your mental health. She has captivated a legion of followers by reminding us of our deep-rooted desire for a calm and orderly space in an increasingly chaotic world. Including daily, weekly, monthly and seasonal cleaning plans and a list of must-have products, Mrs Hinch will guide you effortlessly room by room to a cleaner house and a calmer you

Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer - now in paperback • Benjamin Britten was Britain's greatest twentieth-century composer, who broke decisively with figures such as Elgar and Vaughan Williams and recreated English music in a fresh, modern, European form. Paul Kildea's biography has been acclaimed as the definitive account of Britten's extraordinary life, exploring his deeply held and controversial pacifism; his complex forty-year relationship with Peter Pears; and his creation of an artistic community in Aldeburgh. Above all, however, this book helps us understand the relationship of Britten's music to his life, and takes us as far into its unique alchemy as we are ever likely to go

The revolutionary guide to re-thinking and combating stress from the bestselling author of The 4 Pillar Plan • "It's thought that between 70 and 90% of GP consultations are related to stress" • This has to change • Dr Rangan Chatterjee knows this better than anyone. As a practising GP he's seen first-hand how stress affects his patients and has found simple but effective methods to help them • Now he's on a mission to show that combatting stress is easier than you think • He shows how a small change in the way you approach your • BODY • MIND • RELATIONSHIPS • PURPOSE • can help you lead a more fulfilled, calmer life • In The Stress Solution, Rangan offers simple and achievable interventions to help you re-set your life, offering simple tools for how to cope with modern-life, including • · How to design your morning routine effectively • · How to keep a touch diary • · How to mute your digital world and make maoi mates • · How to eat the alphabet • Packed with personal accounts and patient cases, this book will become your blueprint on how to live stress-free in the modern world

This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest historical portraits written in the twentieth century • Drawing on an astonishing cache of letters unearthed centuries after Datini's death, it reveals to us a shrewd, enterprising, anxious man, as he makes deals, furnishes his sumptuous house, buys silks for his outspoken young wife and broods on his legacy. It is an unequalled source of knowledge about the texture of daily life in the small, earthy, violent, striving world of fourteenth-century Tuscany

Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power Кристофера Кларка представляет собой краткую, захватывающую и доступную биографию одной из самых выдающихся личностей XX века • Кайзер Вильгельм II, король Пруссии, император Германской империи, военачальник и побежденный изгнанник был одной из ключевых (и самых неоднозначных) фигур в истории XX века. Но какой властью он обладал на самом деле? • За свой труд Iron Kingdom Кристофер Кларк был удостоен премии Вулфсона. В книге Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power историк анализирует политическую карьеру кайзера Вильгельма начиная с юности, проведенной при дворе Гогенцоллернов, до неспокойных десятилетий вильгельмовской эры, мировой войны и падения империи в 1918 году и последних дней его жизни. Насколько далеко простирался его контроль? Каковы были его политические цели? Удалось ли ему их добиться? Как проявлялись власть и влияние кайзера? Что о нем думал народ? • Новые исследования Кристофера Кларка позволяют под новым углом взглянуть на эту спорную личность, а также на то, как его тридцатилетнее правление повлияло на судьбу не только самой Германии, но и всей Европы

Across the planet, the futures of young people hang in the balance as they face the harsh realities of the environmental crisis. Isn't it time we made their voices heard? • The Children of the Anthropocene, by conservationist and activist Bella Lack, chronicles the lives of the diverse young people on the frontlines of the environmental crisis around the world, amplifying the voices of those living at the heart of the crisis • Advocating for the protection of both people and the planet, Bella restores the beating heart to global environmental issues, from air pollution to deforestation and overconsumption, by telling the stories of those most directly affected. Transporting us from the humming bounty of Ecuador's Choco Rainforest and the graceful arcs of the Himalayan Mountains, to the windswept plains and vibrant vistas of life in Altiplano, Bella speaks to young activists from around the world including Dara McAnulty, Afroz Shah and Artemisa Xakriaba, and brings the crisis vividly to life

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals • Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh, the little university town of Santiniketan, where he was raised as much by his grandparents as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he came aged 19 • Sen brilliantly recreates the atmosphere in each of these. He remembers his river journeys between Dhaka and his parents' ancestral homes and wonderfully explores the rich history and culture of Bengal. In 1943 he witnessed the disastrous unfolding of the Bengal Famine, and the following year the inflaming of tensions between Hindus and Muslims

'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love' • Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina • When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives?

In the twenty-first century, we increasingly push our daily routines into the night, carrying out work, exercise and our social lives long after dark. But we have forgotten that our bodies are governed by a 24-hour biological clock which guides us towards the best time to sleep, eat and think. New science has proven that living out of sync with this clock is not only disrupting our sleep, but leaving us more vulnerable to infection, cancer, obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and mental illness • In Life Time, Professor Russell Foster shares his life's work, taking us on a fascinating and surprising journey through the science of our body clocks. Using his own studies, as well as insights from an international community of sleep scientists and biologists studying circadian rhythms, he illustrates the surprising effects the time of day can have on our health • - how a walk outside at dawn can ensure a better night's sleep • - how eating after sundown can affect our weight • - the extraordinary effects the time we take our medication can have on our risk of life-threatening conditions, such as strokes • In the modern world, we have neglected an essential part of our biology

In this powerful and compelling 'view from old age', Penelope Lively, at eighty, reports back on what she finds. There are meditations on what it is like to be old as well as on how memory shapes us. There are intriguing examinations of key personal as well as historical moments she has lived through and her thoughts on her own bookishness - both as reader and writer. Lastly, she turns to six treasured possessions to speak eloquently about who she is and where she's been - fragments of memories from a life well lived