This title helps you prepare for childbirth. From parenting guru, Dr. Miriam Stoppard, comes the latest in the “Trusted Advice” series, “Preparing for Childbirth”.

Providing warm and reassuring advice and guidance for every step of the way and with a fresh, contemporary feel and affordable price, these books are perfect for reading from cover to cover or to dip in and out of for quick reference. Focusing on how you can prepare for childbirth, this handy guide offers essential advice for expectant mothers about the final stages of pregnancy, the birth itself and the post-natal period. Birthing and pain relief options are covered as well as advice on how to stay emotionally and physically healthy once your baby is born.

Plus, special procedures are explained so you understand what to expect in the event of a premature or assisted delivery. “Trusted Advice Preparing for Childbirth” is ideal for busy mums-to-be who want quick, reliable advice to help them prepare for childbirth.

This title includes simple steps to gardening success, from the experts at the RHS. From strawberries to salad leaves, “RHS Simple Steps Vegetables and Fruit” gives you practical tips and guidance on how to get started, care for your crops and combat pests to guarantee success. Plus step-by-step photographs, checklists and charts ensure that you stay on the right track all year round.

Visually inspiring, reliably informative and excellent value for money, “RHS Simple Steps Vegetables and Fruit” will give you perfect results every time. For more step-by-step gardening advice, pick up other titles from this series.

This title offers antenatal advice to help you every step of your pregnancy. From parenting guru, Dr. Miriam Stoppard, comes the latest in the “Trusted Advice” series, “Your Antenatal Care”.

Providing warm and reassuring advice and guidance for every step of the way and with a fresh, contemporary feel and affordable price, these books are perfect for reading from cover to cover or to dip in and out of for quick reference. Focusing on antenatal care, this is a handy guide to the health checks and medical care that you need during your pregnancy. It includes all the latest information on routine tests and screening as well as advice on childbirth classes and the birthing options available to you.

Plus, advice on potential complications and their symptoms help you prepare for every eventuality. “Trusted Advice Your Antenatal Care” is ideal for busy mums-to-be who want quick, reliable information about antenatal care.

A Review By Keith

In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his chateau to brood on his own private grief – the deaths of his best friends, his father, his brother and, most recently, his first-born child. But finding his mind agitated rather than settled by this idleness, Montaigne began to write, giving birth to the Essays – short prose explorations of an amazing variety of topics. And gradually, over the course of his writing Montaigne began to turn his back upon his stoical pessimism, and engage in a new philosophy of life, in which living is to be embraced in all its sensory, exuberant vitality – the smell of his doublet, the pleasures of friendship, the intelligence of his cat and the flavour of his wine.

Quite frankly I was surprised by this book. I knew nothing of Montaigne to speak of, and could easily have mixed him up with Montesque. Now I have discovered what I have been missing. Montaigne was not only a great thinker and writer and philosopher, but he was also some one who was very human and whom we get to know in intimate detail..whether it was the agonising problems he had with kidney stones, the circular stone library he loved to inhabit, his love life, his problems with his vineyard, his close involvement with the horrific Wars of Religion then raging in France, or his attitiude to the foreigners he meets on his travels, it all adds up to making him a man we can almost regard as a friend…such is the acuity and cleverness with which Saul Frampton paints his picture.

Indeed Saul Frampton offers a celebration of perhaps the most joyful and yet profound of all Renaissance writers, whose work went on to have a huge impact on Shakespeare (very interesting this….Shakespeare virtually copies and pastes huge chunks of Monataigne into his plays) , and whose writings offer a user’s guide to existence even to the present day. I shall certainly now be reading some of the Essays as a result of this marvellous introduction which made a thoroughly enjoyable read.

A Review By Joe Maiden

 A classic ghost story but with an original twist, this is not a tale for the faint-hearted. Young Michael’s mother has recently died and he has passed into the care of a mysterious benefactor. He is taken away from his home in the city and is brought to his new carer’s manor house. When he arrives strange things start to happen throughout the house and Michael’s sanity is tested as he is visited time and time again by a mysterious presence. Can he find the source of the disturbances, or has he truly gone insane? A thrilling read for teens and adults alike.