Introducing Gemini Pockets | Linda’s Book Bag

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I never seem to have enough sleep so when lovely Mel Sambells got in touch about a new series of books – Pockets – from Gemini, I asked if I could take a look at one of the first to be published, Deep Sleep. I was thrilled when it arrived with others from the collection, including Sherlock Holmes, The Brontës and Jane Austen. My enormous thanks to Mel for sending them. Today, it’s my pleasure to review Deep Sleep.

You’ll find the full Pockets collection here. There are many more to be added soon.

About the Gemini Pockets Collection

From techniques on how to achieve deep sleep to an all-access pass to the record-breaking life of Ariana Grande; and from quizzes and puzzles for classic lit lovers to the original best-selling glossary of Cockney Rhyming Slang; these are enticing little gifts to pick up, prize and pocket.

With over 100 titles scheduled across Music, Fashion, Travel, Humour and more, Gemini’s Pocket series will become a mainstay across the trade, and will be supported with major marketing activity at launch and throughout 2025.

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The three Pocket literary books I have are brilliant.

Each has illustrations befitting the topic and all the books are filled with fiendish subject related quizes, word searches, quotations, name games and so on.

The only problem for me was they made me realise I need to read the entire works of the authors – the Brontës, Jane Austen and Sherlock Holmes – again as I was hopeless at finding the answers. Thankfully, each book also comes with solutions!

Let’s take a closer look at Deep Sleep.

Deep Sleep

Reboot your physical and mental health with slow-wave deep sleep. An easy-access sleep book that distils all the important information about sleeping well into succinct information, advice and tips.

Wouldn’t you love to wake up every morning feeling refreshed, energetic and ready for the day? Deep sleep – the slow-wave cycle that truly restores and repairs your body and mind, leaving you with that ready-for-anything feeling in the morning – has a starring role in your health, both physically and mentally. In Deep Sleep, you will find concise information to help you understand the most beneficial sleep cycle of them all, as well as tips for increasing your deep sleep and overcoming obstacles that interfere with your essential rest.

One-third of people don’t get enough sleep in general and deep sleep decreases with age. A deep sleep deficit causes you to feel unrefreshed and drowsy, reduces alertness and attention, makes learning and forming new memories more difficult and encourages high-calorie cravings.

Deep sleep has the most benefits of all the sleep cycles: regenerating and healing skin and tissues, processing memory and learning, regulating and processing emotions, stabilizing glucose and metabolism, boosting the immune system and fighting infection.

Includes natural techniques, such as mindful meditation and behavioural therapy, to enable longer, deeper sleep, and to get you back to sleep quickly.

Deep Sleep is out from Gemini on 28th November 2024 and is available for purchase here.

My Review of Deep Sleep

A pocket handbook to help the reader sleep better.

As one of the first books in this new series, I feel duty bound to comment on the physical attributes of the Deep Sleep. It is, as the series might suggest, the perfect size for slipping into a pocket but with a robust cover that means it will last being battered and transported far and wide. I love the fact there are (at least in the books I have) no authors attributed to the books because it gives them a more universal appeal. With Deep Sleep there is a soothing pink and green colour palette that feels suitable for the subject matter. There’s an excellent balance of text to space so that the reader is not overwhelmed by information and throughout the book are lovely little illustrations which, in some cases have an ethereal quality.

Deep Sleep is divided into four interesting and informative chapters. In amongst the scientific and social elements of sleep, I was fascinated to discover I’m a Lion chronotype and I confess I was previously ignorant of ghrelin! Given that my husband is an incredibly twitchy sleeper (which is one of the reasons I don’t sleep well) and discovering that hypnic jerks can partly be cause by caffeine, and we are addicted to tea, we have reduced our caffeine intake with drinks now being ‘caffeine free after 3’ in the afternoon. It certainly seems to have helped.

I found the range of sleep related quotations both interesting and surprising. I wouldn’t necessarily have expected Beyonce, Leonardo da Vinci, Homer (the philosopher, not the cartoon character) and Shakespeare in the same book!

There are plenty of tips for improved sleep in Deep Sleep. Some are well known, but others more innovative so that there’s something for all poor sleepers to try. I thought Deep Sleep was a smashing little book and well worth a look if, like me, you find sleep can be elusive. I’m going to try some of the breathing techniques and journalling suggested to see if they help.

In addition, I have a feeling that this new series of pocket books is going to be a collector’s delight and an absolute godsend to those trying to buy gifts for bookworms.

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Don’t forget to check out the Pockets collection here.