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Rebecca Seal Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Journalist and author of SOLO: How To Work Alone (And Not Lose Your Mind), + 11 cookbooks. Recipe developer. Podcaster.

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Book Cover for: The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation, Heejung Chung

The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation

Heejung Chung
Rebecca SealRebecca Seal

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
Book Cover for: How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life, Catherine Price

How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

Catherine Price
Rebecca SealRebecca Seal

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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Book Cover for: Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World, Theresa MacPhail

Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World

Theresa MacPhail
Rebecca SealRebecca Seal

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
Book Cover for: Five Steps to Financial Wellbeing: How Changing Your Relationship with Money Can Change Your Whole Life, Clare Seal

Five Steps to Financial Wellbeing: How Changing Your Relationship with Money Can Change Your Whole Life

Clare Seal
Rebecca SealRebecca 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
Book Cover for: Solo: How to Work Alone (and Not Lose Your Mind), Rebecca Seal

Solo: How to Work Alone (and Not Lose Your Mind)

Rebecca Seal
Rebecca SealRebecca 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
Book Cover for: Life Time: Your Body Clock and Its Essential Roles in Good Health and Sleep, Russell Foster

Life Time: Your Body Clock and Its Essential Roles in Good Health and Sleep

Russell Foster
Rebecca SealRebecca Seal

@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
Book Cover for: The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again, Catherine Price

The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again

Catherine Price
Rebecca SealRebecca Seal

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
Book Cover for: Under the Stars: A Journey Into Light, Matt Gaw

Under the Stars: A Journey Into Light

Matt Gaw
Rebecca SealRebecca Seal

@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
Book Cover for: Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living for, Ella Risbridger

Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living for

Ella Risbridger
Rebecca SealRebecca Seal

@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
Book Cover for: Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club): How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, Susan Cain

Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club): How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

Susan Cain
Rebecca SealRebecca Seal

@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