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Life Unplugged; A Digital Detox Workbook by Meleah Bowles and Elise Williams Rikard is about how to spend less time staring at a screen and the benefits that it brings.  It also tells you about the downsides of looking at a screen.

It gives suggestions for ways you can do this, such as making notes in a notebook rather than on a laptop or tablet.  It also gives you suggestions and challenges, such as making the effort to write to a friend rather than sending them a message.

I thought this was a good book if you’re looking for suggestions on how to look at a screen less.  The challenges were a fun way to do this, so you could see the difference it made to you.

Life Unplugged; A Digital Detox Workbook was published on 24th December 2019, and is available on Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Meleah Bowles on Twitter.

You can follow Elise Williams Rikard on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

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Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn looks at all the different types of love, through interviews with people who have been thinking about that particular type, including female friendship, romantic love, desire to have children, mourning the loss of a loved one.

It is a touching book, full of interesting thoughts and feelings, and throughout it all, Natasha Lunn talks about her own types of love, and her struggles to get pregnant. 

This is a lovely book, and one that covers so much more than you think it’s going to.

Conversations on Love was published on 15th July 2021, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Natasha Lunn on Instagram and Twitter.

I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Penguin.

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Warriors, Witches, Women; Mythology’s Fiercest Females by Kate Hodges is a beautifully illustrated book, with the story of females from myths and legend.  It’s broken down into different catagories, so you can read about Bringers of Misfortune, or Elemental Spirits.

The females and myths are international, which is another nice feature as it’s so often this type of book would specialise on Greek and Roman myths.

Warriors, Witches, Women was published on 3 March 2020 and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Kate Hodges on Instagram.

I was given access to this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Quarto.

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Re-educated; How I changed my job, my home, my husband and my hair by Lucy Kellaway is the true story of how Lucy Kellaway changed so much of her life, and became happier than ever.

I very much enjoyed reading about the author’s journey, and of googling the house that caused so much of the change!  This is a positive story, and one that is well written, unflinching in the places of pain and suffering, but overall, a joyous read!

Re-educated was published on 1st July 2021 and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Lucy Kellaway on Twitter.

I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Ebury Publishing.

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Literary Places by Sarah Baxter takes you on a world tour of places from books, and tells you the name of the place and the book that was set there.  It also has illustrations to set the scene in the city.

It gives you some history of the place, so you have context for why the book was set there, and it also gives a summary of the book.

This is a great book if you want to know more about books such as Ulysses by James Joyce, which was set in Dublin or for the Kite Runner, you can go to Kabul.

Literary Places was published on 5th March 2019, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Sarah Baxter on Twitter and Instagram.

I was given access to this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Quarto.

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I Know an Artist; The inspiring connections between the world’s greatest artists by Susie Hodge gives you the stories about how different artists knew each other, and were influenced by and influencers to others.

This has lovely pictures in it so you can see the paintings being discussed, and pictures of the artists.

If you’re interested in art or the lives of artists, then this would be a great book for you!

I Know an Artist was published on 2 April 2019 and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Susie Hodge on Twitter, Instagram and her website.

I was given access to this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Quarto.

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You Couldn’t Make It Up…! Unpublished Letters to The Daily Telegraph edited by Kate Moore are letters sent to The Daily Telegraph in 2020, and so this is like a time capsule for 2020!

I thought this was so interesting to have a read through to see what people were making jokes or being worried about, and so a lot of the letters were about coronavirus and the lockdown.

You Couldn’t Make It Up…! Unpublished Letters to The Daily Telegraph was published on 17th November 2020, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

I couldn’t find a link for where you could follow Kate Moore.

I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Quarto.