April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.

Former fashion editor and Times columnist Kate Reardon had a surprise hit with her first book Top Tips For Girls and she follows it up with Top Tips For Life. Useful, entertaining and with a ‘we’re all in it together’ feel, the book collates the best nuggets of advice to have been posted by visitors to her hugely successful website toptipsforgirls.com – from ‘How to seed peppers and chillies’ to ‘How to choose between two men’.

Synopsis

Following the bestselling Top Tips For Girls, this book is brimming with more brilliant and essential suggestions on how to do absolutely anything. A compilation of the very best tips from the hugely popular website toptips.com, this book can help you out with everything from getting gum out of your hair to preventing wrinkles around your eyes, from beating cellulite to discovering the secret of happiness itself. Ever wondered...How to stop a ladder in your tights? How not to look tired? How to slice an onion without crying? How to find the joy in housework? How to survive Christmas? How to feel more confident? Then look no further! This is THE essential guide to life, those annoying things that men don't seem to notice, and everything.

About the Author

Kate Reardon has spent twenty years at the cutting edge of women's publishing. She started as a fashion assistant at American Vogue and at 21 was made Fashion Editor of Tatler. She has contributed to most major British newspapers and written three columns in The Times - who named her one of Britain's best writers. She is currently a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair. She lives in London during the week and goes to her cottage in Wiltshire at the weekends - as a home worker she finds this helps her remember what day of the week it is. More books by this author Author 'Like for Like' recommendation