Adult life is full of mysteries.

What should you check before renting a flat?

How do you ask for a pay rise?

Does anything really need to be dry cleaned?

And why does everyone else seem to know these things except you? (They don’t, but this book will help.)

Being an Adult is a practical and entertaining guide to the life skills you didn’t learn at school. If you've ever wondered when you’re going to become a ‘real’ grown-up, this book will give you the answers you need.

First day jitters? Exam nerves? Money worries? Get all your uni life questions answered inside! Oxford graduate and award-winning journalist Lucy Tobin gives you the lowdown on everything you need to know to have a brilliant time at uni and achieve a great degree. Whether you're looking for tips on finding a balance between your studies and your social life, looking after your health or coping with the cost of living, this book arms you with all the practical advice you need to successfully navigate student life. Welcome to uni life! I'm Lucy, and as soon as I graduated I realised how much I'd learnt since freshers' week. Not just academic stuff, but how to avoid getting ripped off whilst renting a flat, staying on top of your mental health amidst heavy work deadlines, cheap and healthy ways to cook, and how to get a First without trying...too hard. I've grilled tutors, current uni students and graduates who've only just taken off their mortarboards for their top tips to help you have the time of your life. Have an incredible time! Lucy

Small Business Book Award Winner 2013, Small Business Book AwardsThe secrets of the UK's biggest online entrepreneurs revealed

Thinking of starting a business? Already have a business online and looking to take it to the next level? The wonderful world wide web has made creating a start-up that much easier. Thousands of people are out there reaping the rewards the web can bring. If you want to join them, you've come to the right place.

Profiling today's foremost web entrepreneurs, Lucy Tobin - who meets successful business founders every week writing an enterprise column for "The Evening Standard" - takes us through their start-up stories and maps out exactly what's made them so successful. You'll hear first hand from the bright sparks behind some of the UK's top online businesses. With interviews, practical advice and insights, you'll learn how they did it, what they recommend, and how you can do it too.

This book is a careers bible fit for today's job market, with exclusive advice and guidance from some of the biggest names in British business. No matter what stage of life one is at, whether a school leaver, university graduate or job changer, finding the right career to suit one's skills and characteristics has never been more challenging. The amount of choice and information can be daunting. Most of us only have a vague idea of what careers really entail on a day-to-day basis and yet that information could steer one towards - or away - from a job or university course. In this book Lucy Tobin has compiled an inspirational guide to the most popular jobs and careers in the UK, giving the inside scoop on what these jobs are really like day-to-day, what skills recruiters are really looking for and what courses to study to get your foot in the door. Jobs covered include: banker, actuary, publisher, fashion designer, barrister, zookeeper, chef, TV presenter, actor, journalist, civil servant, app developer, architect, engineer and psychologist. Lucy's journalistic approach, together with exclusive interviews with chef Antonio Carluccio, designer Kelly Hoppen, Dragon Den's James Caan, astronaut Tim Peake, footballer Michael Owen, author Tracy Chevalier and entrepreneur Jamal Edwards makes The Book of Jobs the careers guide to trust at every stage of life.