Book club

If you fancy an easy introduction to Mindfulness, then I strongly recommend this book.
 
Be more, achieve more and stress less – learn how mindfulness can change the way you live (without all the complicated philosophical explanations).

Mindfulness for Busy People will show you how to apply the transformative power of mindfulness to your busy life, helping you to de-stress, find your own unique space of calm, and ready yourself for whatever challenges you face using modern terminology and everyday events (such as drinking your coffee) as the basis for an exercise.

Helping you to cultivate and practice mindfulness straight away, you’ll discover a no-nonsense, light-hearted, and clear introduction to the process and its benefits together with unique and clever ‘I-haven’t-got-time-for-this’ exercises that you can do anywhere, anytime (the audio content that accompanies this book can be downloaded and played for free from www.pearson-books.com/mindfulness).

Use this book and you will be able to increase your focus, energy, efficiency and creativity whilst also feeling calm and confident whatever you’re doing, wherever you are; now, that’s got to be a good thing!

* Read it now in paperback
No Man’s Nightingale (Ruth Rendell) ISBN 9780099585855 (Arrow)
BD4.500 (for Gulf Weekly Book Club members)

No Man’s Nightingale is the eagerly anticipated 24th title in Ruth Rendell’s bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series.

The woman vicar of St Peter’s Church may not be popular among the community of Kingsmarkham, however, it still comes as a profound shock when she is found strangled in her vicarage.

Inspector Wexford is retired, but he retains a relish for solving mysteries especially when they are as close to home as this one. So, when he’s asked whether he will assist on the case, he readily agrees. But why did the vicar die? And is anyone else in Kingsmarkham in danger? What Wexford doesn’t know is that the killer is far closer than he, or anyone else, thinks.

* My favourite read-of-the-week
The Beach Hut Next Door (Veronica Henry) ISBN 9781409146735 (Orion)
BD4.500 (for Gulf Weekly Book Club members)

Summer appeared from nowhere that year in Everdene ... and for those lucky enough to own one of the beach huts, this was the summer of their dreams. For Elodie, returning to Everdene means re-awakening the memories of one summer 50 years ago. A summer when everything changed.

Vince and his brother are struggling to come to terms with the death of their father – but they have very different ways of coping. And for Jenna, determined to put the past behind her, the opportunity to become ‘the ice cream girl’ once again might just turn her life around. But this summer is not all sunshine and surf – as secrets unfold, and some lives are changed for ever.