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What if the greatest gift you could leave your family was clarity? The Gentle Art of Legacy Planning for Women Over 50 is a warm, practical guide to getting your life admin in order with dignity, simplicity, and a calm, step-by-step method. If estate planning has been sitting on your "I'll deal with it later" list, this audiobook offers a gentle way forward. No complicated lingo, and no pressure to do everything at once. Just clear, manageable steps to help you feel in control again.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Turn your home into a place of peace, contentment, and purposeful living with the beloved author of The More of Less and Uncluttered Faith. “A valuable, practical road map for those who are hoping to declutter their homes and take control of their lives.”—Katie...

By sorting out the wants from the needs, Anna shows you how she was able to enrich her life with thrifty and sustainable living. A book worth every penny! - Nancy Birtwhistle, Sunday Times bestselling author of Clean & Green This beautifully written book will challenge how you think about...

Drowning in tides of toys, overflowing closets, and a crazy schedule, Rachelle Crawford assumed you had to be naturally organized to keep a tidy living space. Then she found minimalism: the messy, real-life kind, that is less about perfection and more about purpose. Thus began a journey toward decluttering her home, calendar, and soul.

Bloomsbury presents Potholes and Pavements written and read by Laura Laker. Just wonderful – two wheels good, Laura Laker brilliant. Part travel diary, part love poem to Britain's cycle network ... it's difficult not to be inspired by this fabulous book.' Jeremy Vine 'With a passion for both...

With her special blend of housecleaning tips, humor, and musings about daily life, Marla Cilley, a.k.a. "The FlyLady", shows you how to manage clutter and chaos and get your home - and your life - in order. Drawn from the lessons and tools used in her popular mentoring program, the FlyLady system helps you create doable housekeeping routines and break down overwhelming chores into manageable missions that will restore peace to your home - and your psyche.  

Summer doesn't last forever, but can a perfect one change your life? For successful estate agent Freya Henderson, life is all work and no play. But, when she crosses paths with carefree young surfer, Luke Stevenson, there's no denying the attraction between them. When Luke invites her to join...

As the sun set slowly on the British Empire in the years after the Second World War, the nation's stately homes were in crisis. Tottering under the weight of rising taxes and a growing sense that they had no place in 20th-century Britain, hundreds of ancestral piles were dismantled and demolished. Perhaps even more surprising was the fact that so many of these great houses survived, as dukes and duchesses clung desperately to their ancestral seats and tenants' balls gave way to rock concerts, safari parks and day trippers.

Brought to you by Penguin Live in a clean and clutter-free home forever with the life-changing KonMari Method - now a multi-million copy international bestseller Transform your home into a permanently clear and clutter-free space with the incredible KonMari Method. Japan's expert declutterer and...

READ BY THE AUTHOR. Listen while you organize in real time! Eliminate the clutter and discover the joy of having your house organized with simple, realistic strategies that work for normal people. So you want to keep your kitchen counter clean but you aren't ready to toss the toaster? You want...

You'll learn why things are out of control so you can get them back in order and keep them that way. You'll uncover the mental and emotional roots of clutter - guilt, fear, rebellion, habit - so you can get rid of it. Even the best cleaning methods are useless if you can't keep up and soon slip back into old habits. Stop struggling. You can overcome that old, unsuccessful mind-set and discover a new way of thinking that makes messiness a thing of the past.

Read by GBBO winner and author, Nancy Birtwhistle With Nancy Birtwhistle, it IS easy being green. Clean Magic is a complete guide with practical and down-to-earth advice on how to integrate Nancy’s tried and tested household tips into your daily life. From sorting stubborn stains to Basic...

The Minimalists created 16 rules to help you get organized—No Junk Rule, Seasonality Rule, Just-in-Case Rule, Gift-Giving Rule, and 12 others—and we collected them in a beautifully designed ebook, which you can download for free below. Print at home or read on any device. In this expanded audiobook version, Joshua reads each rule, and then he and Ryan discuss how that rule applies to their own lives—like a short podcast episode to accompany every rule. We also invent some new rules along the way.

The Allotment Keeper's Handbook is a no-nonsense guide to managing your own organic vegetable patch. Packed with invaluable advice, from how to choose an allotment and test its soil to knowing your chickweed from your chicory, it offers an enjoyable and inspiring shortcut through the trials, errors and frustrations of starting a kitchen garden.

Inspired by The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, this book will light a fire under your untidy ass with humor and helpful organizing tips that you’ll actually want to use. Like a delightfully foul-mouthed best friend, this book dishes out the funny, unpretentious advice you need to hear most. You’ll discover how to deal with your sh*t like there’s no tomorrow, live in the moment without the f*cking mess, and make your life and your eventual death a hell of a lot easier. 

Brought to you by Penguin. How can we eat well without harming the planet? The way we produce food today is damaging people and nature alike. Modern, intensive farming systems producing pesticide-laced, ultra-processed foods are bad for us and bad for the planet. But there is cause for hope...

Ancient woods are Britain's richest habitats: rare fragments of our landscape that teem with life from soil to canopy. They live in our collective imagination as quiet places, best left pristine and untouched. But their story has always been one of interdependence with people. Now, as ever...

Have you ever had compost that would not break down? Or compost that turned into a smelly mess? You are not alone. Millions of people struggle with making compost at home. Composting is such an integral part of gardening that learning to get it right allows you to become a master of your special place. This audiobook will take you on a journey of how the microbial life in your soil and compost play vital roles in your garden. You will learn why specific things happen when making compost and how to solve common problems.

Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book", Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book "is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical."

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind by Shoukei Matsumoto, read by Adam Sims. We remove dust to sweep away our worldly desires. We scrub dirt to free ourselves of attachments. We live simply and take time to contemplate the self, mindfully living...