 | Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House: The Art and Science of Keeping House by Cheryl Mendelson
Buy new: £11.86 / Used from: £1.48 Achingly comprehensive, but it never lets me down.
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 | The New Messies Manual: The Procrastinator's Guide to Good Housekeeping by Sandra Felton
Buy used from: £2.09 A bit evangelical (and very American) but if you're messy, this book could change everything.
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 | Domestic Bliss: How to Live by Rita Konig
Buy new: £10.68 / Used from: £0.01 Seriously stylish, with some great ideas. I've tried quite a few things from this book.
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 | House Rules by Clare Coulson
Buy used from: £0.01 I wish I had time to be as glamorous as the people in this book. I don't have a guest room, let alone a laundry room. I can dream, though...
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 | Tidy Your Room: Getting Your Kids to Do the Things They Hate by Jane Bidder
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £1.10 This stuff really works. My two-year old now dusts, polishes and is desperate to help. Hope it lasts...
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 | The Last-Minute Party Girl: Fashionable, Fearless, and Foolishly Simple Entertaining by Erika Lenkert
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £3.31 If I ever have time to party again... Very good for general entertaining ideas, too - and some fab recipes.
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 | How Not to be a Perfect Mother: The International Bestseller by Libby Purves
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 THE best parenting book I've found. Funny too.
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 | How Not to Raise the Perfect Child by Libby Purves
Buy used from: £1.13 And again.
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 | How Not to be a Perfect Family by Libby Purves
Buy used from: £0.01 And again.
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 | New Toddler Taming: A Parents' Guide to the First Four Years by Dr. Christopher Green
Buy used from: £0.01 Not as funny, but very helpful indeed. I especially recommend the section on sleep and controlled crying. It works for us, though the whole 'sedation' thing is still baffling.
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 | Mr Thrifty's How to Save Money on Absolutely Everything by Jane Furnival
Buy new: £3.72 / Used from: £0.01 I bought for my husband. We already did nearly everything in it, but it made us feel good!
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 | How to Eat: Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (Cookery) by Nigella Lawson
Buy new: £11.36 / Used from: £4.94 I've got 200+ cookery books and this is my favourite. Covered in splatters of God-knows-what and in use constantly. Can't praise it enough!
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 | Lunches by Baroness Claire Macdonald
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.01 This book, and the accompanying 'Suppers' rate very highly with me. Good, sensible, family food.
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 | Suppers by Baroness Claire Macdonald
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.01 This and 'Lunches' (above) are great favourites. Wholly unpretentious, and the recipes always work.
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 | If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?! by Cynthia Heimel
Buy used from: £0.18 This is my favourite one, but EVERY woman should read ALL of Cynthia Heimel's books. They are, quite simply, brilliant, even if they are by now a little dated.
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