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BOOK OF THE WEEK with Linda Jennings. Cook. Nourish. Grow, Amelia Freer, ISBN 9781405924184 (Michael Joseph) BD11.200 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Whilst Lean in 15 (reviewed as our Book of the Week last week) remains in the Number One slot, here is a great cookery book for those of you determined to shift a few seasonal pounds and to eat more healthily in 2016.
Following the phenomenal success of her best-selling first book, Eat. Nourish. Glow, Amelia Freer returns with her much-awaited cookbook Cook. Nourish. Glow.
Containing more than 100 delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes, Amelia equips you with the skills and knowledge to improve your health while empowering you to cook with confidence. A professional nutritional therapist, she promotes a gluten, refined sugar and dairy-free lifestyle in favour of endless fad diets.
Chapters cover cooking in the simplest terms, featuring step-by-step visuals designed for the novice chef; how to use and prepare staple pantry ingredients; eating clean on the go; a ‘naughty’ chapter – because living healthily is about consistency, not perfection – and a chapter full of dishes designed to combat gut-related issues. Recipes include:
Amelia is a firm believer that absolutely everybody can cook delicious, healthy, beautiful food.
Many of us feel pressure to be perfect in the kitchen but with Amelia, anyone can learn how to assemble nourishing food in minutes using fresh ingredients that will transform how you look and feel. Be inspired to cook yourself healthy with Cook. Nourish. Glow.
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Disclaimer, Renee Knight, ISBN 9781784160227 (Black Swan), BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Imagine if the next thriller you opened was all about you.
Catherine and Stephen have a good life and stable marriage, but all that is about to change. Their son Nicholas has recently moved out and although he hasn’t achieved all they hoped, he seems stable and happy in his work.
Catherine then finds an intriguing novel which mysteriously appears on the bedside of their new home – she curls up and begins to read:
The book disclaimer has a neat red line through it `Any resemblance to persons living or dead....’ Catherine only appreciates the significance of this as she turns the pages. Suddenly, she is horrified to realise she is a key character, a main player.
This story will reveal her darkest secret. A secret she thought no one else knew… This is a sensationally good psychological thriller and would be the perfect read for all fans of The Girl on the Train.
My favourite read of the week
The Girl In The Red Coat, Kate Hamer, ISBN 9780571313266 (Faber & Faber), BD4.500for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Eight-year-old Carmel has always been different – sensitive, distracted, with a heart-stopping tendency to go missing. Her mother Beth, newly-single, worries about her daughter’s strangeness, especially as she is trying to rebuild a life for the two of them on her own.
When she takes Carmel for an outing to a local festival, her worst fear is realised: Carmel disappears into the crowd.
Unable to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone for good, Beth embarks on a mission to find her. Meanwhile, Carmel begins an extraordinary and terrifying journey of her own. But do the real clues to Carmel’s disappearance lie in the otherworldly qualities her mother had only begun to guess at?
Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa First Novel Award, Kate Hamer’s debut novel is both beautifully written and gripping and would appeal to fans of The Light between Oceans and The Snow Child.
* Gulf Weekly Book Club members can buy their discounted books from all branches of The Bookcase: Budaiya Highway, Seef Mall and Saar Mall.
