Rebecca Seal Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Journalist and author of SOLO: How To Work Alone (And Not Lose Your Mind), + 11 cookbooks. Recipe developer. Podcaster.

The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation
Heejung Chung
Today’s Solo Collective podcast is with @HeejungChung and it’s about flexible work (of which we are both fans) and how it can and often does lead to us exploiting ourselves, which is the subject of her 💫book, The Flexibility Paradox #ad | sponsored by @pensionbee & @TideBusiness
Paperback, 2022
$45.95$22.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
Catherine Price
Not to sound unbelievably smug (I do, I do) but I deleted instagram and twitter from my phone last week and I've got hours and hours of my life back. And quite a bit of sanity. Thanks to Catherine Price and How To Break Up With Your Phone.
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Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World
Theresa MacPhail
Are we becoming more allergic? I interviewed medical anthropologist @TheresaMacphail about her fascinating and illuminating new book, Allergic: How Our Immune System Reacts to a Changing World, for @ObsMagazine today: https://t.co/OmHfIOmILe
Hardcover, 2023
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Five Steps to Financial Wellbeing: How Changing Your Relationship with Money Can Change Your Whole Life
Clare Seal
Today’s Solo Collective podcast episode is all about MONEY (and how complex and emotional it can be) with the brilliant @claremseal, talking about her ace new book, Five Steps To Financial Wellbeing. #ad Sponsored by @pensionbee and @TideBusiness https://pod.link/1555707166/episode/cdab8777fad5b3bd582023cb9e077869
Paperback, 2022
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Solo: How to Work Alone (and Not Lose Your Mind)
Rebecca Seal
I'm at the Catford Literary Festival (twice!) in October. I'll be talking about my (granted, slightly unusual) portfolio career - giving one talk about my book, SOLO: How To Work Alone (And Not Lose Your Mind), and appearing as part of a brilliant food writing panel. https://twitter.com/BookBrunch/status/1548970079924195331
Paperback, 2021
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Life Time: Your Body Clock and Its Essential Roles in Good Health and Sleep
Russell Foster
@sartorialfoodie I would love to know this. Have you come across Russell Foster at Oxford - he runs @SleepCircadianNeuro and wrote the excellent Life Time. He might know...
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again
Catherine Price
New episode of my podcast, the solo collective, out today! It’s a bonus episode swap from @freedom matters podcast with Catherine Price, author of the Power of Fun 🌟 https://t.co/FKOkk6nK2p #ad sponsored by @TideBusiness banking and @pensionbee self employed pensions 😊 https://t.co/Rzl2ck5XME
Paperback, 2024
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Under the Stars: A Journey Into Light
Matt Gaw
@lllucym Yes! The industrial revolution could only happen because of electric light; shift work was invented by it. Have you read Under The Stars - A Journey Into Light, by Matt Gaw? And I'm sure you've read Underland by Robert McFarland...
Hardcover, 2020
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living for
Ella Risbridger
@beth_kitson Have you come across @tiffphilippou? She’s written a wonderful memoir-type book about just this. Also Ella Risbridger’s Midnight Chicken - a recipe book/manual for hope in the midst of darkness.
Hardcover, 2019
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club): How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Susan Cain
@AnnalisaB Have you read Susan's Cain's Bittersweet? Whole of the first section is about exactly this. Kids often respond to sad music in exactly this way. Fascinating.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book