Books for parents

Lesley Lodge and Sharon Bexley – with, respectively, a son and a daughter just off to university – review PWT founder Anne Coates’ latest book University A Survival Guide.

Helen Hunt  tried out some of the meals in Rosemary Conley 4 in 1 Recipe Collection and was impressed.

Lesley Lodge's daughter has had CFS/ME  for over four years so she is well placed to review Fighting Fatigue: a practical guide to managing the symptoms of CFS/ME  by Sue Pemberton and Catherine Berry.

Mother of three Sue O'Neill reviews Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer's Making Sense of Your Child's Friendships and found some useful tips in an area which can be a minefield!

The Anatomy of Pilates takes the reader inside the body to see exactly what happens in the body's muscles and joints during a Pilates exercise.

Feeling down, suffering depression or facing a huge life challenge? The Bounce Back Book by Karen Salmansohn could be the starting point for looking at your life more positively, writes Karen Trinder.

Published by Dorling Kindersley, this is a compact form of the first edition of Travel: Where to Go When. Here’s a book full of inspirational ideas to help you plan a fabulous holiday, reviewed by Anne Coates.

In times of recession, precycling could be the way forward to save money, writes Alex Bell in her review of Paul Peacock's book, Precycle!

Sue O'Neill reviews Healing Touch for Children in which author and practitioner Mary Atkinson describes how to use and perform massage, reflexology and acupressure on children aged four to 12 years old.

This latest book The Food Doctor -Super Eating by Ian Marber - is billed as "a revolutionary way to get more from the foods you eat". Just another book on nutrition or a new way to look at the food we eat? asks Anne Coates.

Written with David Miller and Dr James Braly, this book proposes "The fast, highly effective way to end addiction to caffeine, sugar, cigarettes, alcohol, illicit or prescription drugs". How to QUIT without feeling S**T offers timely advice for New Year's resolutions!

Subtitled "For every woman who wants to look her best", Anne Coates thinks Dress Like a Star is a must read for for women and girls of every age. 

This book celebrates the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, seen through the eyes of a host of "famous people who reveal the strange and beautiful truth about themselves and their grandparents".

Ann Lloyd reviews a family cookbook by the celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson and, like Oliver Twist, is left asking for more!

Mother of two daughters, one of whom is 14, and a teacher with many years experience teaching teenage pupils with a variety of special needs, Julia Bairstow was well placed to review Your Defiant Teen 10 Steps to Resolve Conflict and Rebuild your Relationship.

Patient UK, one of the most trusted health websites on the internet, has published Health Matters to give patients a "fuller picture of their illnesses and provide inspiration and support". Anne Coates reviews a book which is a great standby for family health concerns.

Why do women fail to negotiate pay rises the way their male colleagues do? Or delegate household chores within the family? Probably there has never been a more opportune time to hone those skills. Karen Trinder investigates Why women don’t ask by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever.

Having adopted two boys four years ago, Tim Walder was ideally placed to review Holly Noseda's Adoption and Fostering: A Parent’s Guide.