Trade Secrets 2001

by Katherine Lapworth, Annie Ashworth, Meg Sanders

One of BBC2's conspicuous successes of the last four years has been the ten minute slot called Trade Secrets created and produced by Maverick Television. Each week seasoned professionals from key occupations give hints and tips developed through a lifetime of doing the job. Each tip uses material everyone has around the house and either saves money or costs nothing. The book will contain over 5000 hints and tips (an additional 2000 from the first edition). Each series of tips will come from an individual who will be mentioned and the book will be divided into subjects. There will be sixty line drawings in a second colour to illustrate entries as appropriate and a comprehensive cross referenced index.

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction

375 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an interesting book (I will admit I could not find the exact details of the version I have) but its close enough and I guess the content is the same. Its basically a book full of little gems of wisdom broken down in a series of sub groups so you have an group set by activity - say gardeners, then it would be further divided down to a common set of tasks for example seedlings - with each group then having a number of helpful handy comment and suggestions. As for the actual advice or suggestions imparted - that varies, from common sense, to facts I already knew (but its always reassuring to see them re-affiremd) to down right surprising. There seems to be something for everyone here - I would say though you have to skim through a lot to find the interesting stuff.

[Steve Bennett · Rating 4 out of 5]

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