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Book Reviews
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*We Are All One *J.M. Harrison * BookSurge £7.99
Written in just six days after a near-death experience, the book is based on the popular notion that ‘we are all one’. Harrison looks at how we have consciously evolved and are becoming more spiritual in our outlook. He places significance on 2012 as a crucial turning point, an opportunity for change ‘for when one era ends and another begins, we are arriving at a gate in time’. Each chapter is laid out with an individual question but the main message throughout is one of conscious evolution. Harrison says ‘the more aware we become, the more we receive from …
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*The Witch of Portobello *Paulo Coelho * Harper Collins £7.99
This latest offering from one of our best-loved authors digresses a little from his usual storytelling format in that it is based on a series of recollections about the protagonist after her death. Don’t be put off by this retrospective approach – this is an enjoyable and engrossing read about one woman’s struggle to come to terms with her own identity and her desire to realise her enormous potential. Through Romanian-born Athena, questions about our very existence, purpose and responsibility to others are voiced and answered in Coelho’s familiar, colourful style. …
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*The Apple and the Thorn *W. W. Melnyk & E. R. Orr *Thoth £12.95
A story rich in myth, characterisation and history is told by each of the two main characters. Joseph of Arimathea, known as Eosaidh in the book, comes to England in his job as a trader and traveller and meets Vivian, the High Priestess of the Goddess at Avalon. It begins when Joseph, ready to cease from his travelling, comes to end his life in the West Country. Here he encounters Vivian again and their story of love and honour unfolds in the context of the ending of one world and the dawn of another as the Romans invade and change England forever. Like all good stories, once begun I could …
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*Men, Money & Chocolate *Menna van Praag *£8.99
This light-hearted novel tells the story of one woman’s journey to discover her true source of joy. ‘Maya’ spends her days working in a café dreaming of a better life. Miserable and lonely, she is lost in a world where she longs for the perfect body, the perfect man, and the perfect job. The humour is enjoyable throughout as Maya tries to find happiness in all the wrong places, by taking comfort in the pursuit of men money and …
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*Gargantua Now *Rebelaise *O Books £9.99
Please don’t try and read this wonderfully quirky book with an intellectual mindset for it is in no way a serious book. It is in actuality as absurd as it is humorous and it is in effect a huge delicious nonsense with a capital N. When you ‘get this’ you will not be able to stop yourself smiling at the clever word play and the wackiness of it all. It pokes fun at …
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Unconditional Bliss *Howard Raphael Cushnir *Quest Books £6.99
This remarkably lucid and plainspoken book, refreshing in its brevity, concerns itself with the principal end of every person: finding real happiness. The crux of his presentation is that our resistance to what is, to the situations and events we confront, keeps us from being happy, and that unconditioned awareness, which fully accepts any present state of affairs without mind-based resistance that either wants it to continue or cease, is the key to unconditioned happiness. To my mind, Cushnir's book is uniquely notable for two reasons. First, instead of speaking of unconditioned awareness …
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The Art of Being Kind*Stefan Einhorn *Sphere £7.99
This book explores the concept of what it means to be truly kind. Einhorn begins by looking at the way in which kindness is perceived, how it has become linked to negative qualities such as stupidity and weakness. He then states how we need to shift this way of thinking so that we can become more understanding and caring for ‘kindness is the greatest thing we can offer those around us, and ourselves’. Einhorn uses many different theories to back up his individual points. When evaluating the benefits from being kind he looks at the studies of animals, human …
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Be the Change *Trenna Cormack *Love Books £12.99
Containing interviews of 28 pioneers who are taking action to create positive change, each account gives us an insight into their work and the triumphs and challenges they have faced along the way. Amongst these pioneers include activists, campaigners and volunteers, who are involved in issues on both a national and global scale. Each fighting for their cause, we learn of the many strategies, organisations and campaigns which have been put in place to tackle issues of poverty, water supply, activism, sustainable development and much more. Cormack has cleverly put together a book which …
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Sacred Nature *Adrian Cooper *Capall Bann £14.99
Though now 10 years old, it still commands respect for the way it explores how apparently ordinary people from almost every conceivable background find themselves changed by encounters with wild nature. Dissatisfied with the monotony of hum-drum careers, all the people Adrian Cooper has interviewed have found in the wilderness areas to which they have travelled something that has changed their lives. It’s ability to capture the life-changing experiences of these people makes it an absolutely essential read. Adrian Cooper presents us with such a weight of evidence that we can …
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