Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
BOOK OF THE WEEK with Linda Jennings. LEAN IN 15: 15 Minute Meals and Workouts to keep you Lean and Healthy, Joe Wicks, ISBN 9781509800667 (Bluebird) BD7.900 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
EAT MORE. EXERCISE LESS. LOSE FAT.
In his first book, Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach, has stormed to the Number One slot on all the best seller guides for the New Year, as he reveals how to shift your body fat by eating more and exercising less.
Joe is going to change the way you eat forever and rescue you from low calorie diets once and for all.
LEAN IN 15 features 100 recipes for nutritious, quick-to-prepare meals and guides you through Joe’s signature HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) home workouts – revealing how to combine food and exercise to ignite intense fat-burning.
The thousands of amazing body transformations Joe’s clients have achieved prove that his method works. Now you too can learn how to eat in line with your energy demands every day.
With recipes divided into three sections – Reduced-Carbohydrate, Post-Workout Carbohydrate-Refuel, and Snacks – and top tips for ‘Prepping Like A Boss’, LEAN IN 15 provides a plan for sustainable fat loss that will inspire you to keep your body healthy, strong and lean, forever.
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Shardik, Richard Adams, ISBN 9781780748054 (One World), BD5.600 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
This brilliantly inventive fantasy epic by the award-winning author of Watership Down immerses the reader in a medieval world complete with created languages, detailed maps and elaborate traditions and rituals.
The tale centres on the long-awaited reincarnation of a giant god-like bear among the half-barbaric Orelgan people. When Shardik arrives his appearance sets off a violent chain of events as faith in his divinity sweeps the land.
Closest to the bear is the hunter Kelderek, a naturally pious, ignorant, well-meaning man who becomes – in his dedication to Shardik – a prophet, victorious soldier, corrupt priest-king and ruler of an empire.
A gripping tale of war, adventure, morality and slavery, horror and romance, Shardik is a remarkable exploration of mankind’s universal desire for divine incarnation and thirst for power (and its corrosive influence).
My favourite read of the week
Return to the Secret Garden, Holly Webb, ISBN 9781407144856 (Scholastic), BD5 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
This is a most delightful story based on the wonderful tale, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s timeless classic, The Secret Garden, which remains one of our best-selling titles year-in, year-out.
In this magical sequel by bestselling author Holly Webb, it is 1939 and a group of children have been evacuated to Misselthwaite Manor. Emmie is far from happy to have been separated from her cat and sent to a huge old mansion, but soon she starts discovering the secrets of the house – a boy crying at night, a diary written by a girl named Mary, and a garden. A very secret garden...
Centred around the Second World War, this new chapter in the garden’s story feels like a natural continuation to the story that began so many years ago.
Webb’s masterful weaving of the original tale’s characters with her new telling is beautifully done and breathes new life into the story of a magical garden.
The two stories have a great mirroring: a bad-tempered and lonely little girl finds solace in the garden, a sad and sick little boy who originally hates having his home invaded by strange children learns to befriend them, and, of course, the lovely little robin makes an appearance too.
Moreover, this is one time when you can judge a book by its cover – a beautiful pink foil embossed hardback which every little girl would just love to own (ditto, plenty of mummies too)!
* We are pleased to announce that Book Club members and readers can now buy their books from all branches of The Bookcase: Budaiya Highway, Seef Mall and Saar Mall.
