Non-fiction

RISE AND SHINE: HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE, MORNING BY MORNING

by Kate Oliver & Toby Oliver, Piatkus, £9.99, ebook £6.99

Many of us could probably make better use of our mornings. Rise And Shine promises to transform readers’ mornings – and therefore their lives – with 30 different practices, organised under five concepts like ‘Happiness’ and ‘Nourishment’.

No one’s expecting you to do all of them, but it’s a pleasingly laid out, user-friendly manual full of practical tips, so you can pick and choose what might work to create a new routine.

Some suggestions are no-brainers (a healthy breakfast, movement); and some seem like a pipe dream (15 minutes of ‘freewriting’, getting a nature fix), but after a week of focusing on ‘creative visualisation’ – spending a few minutes imagining how you want your day to pan out – you do start to feel more positive and ready to tackle what’s ahead.