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BOOK OF THE WEEK by Linda Jennings – PINCH OF NOM: 100 SLIMMING, HOME-STYLE RECIPIES, KAY FEATHERSTONE
9781529014068 (BLUEBIRD), BD9.800 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
With Ramadan around the corner, what better time to invest in a go-to home cookbook for mouth-watering meals that tick all the boxes whilst showing that dieting should never be a barrier to good cuisine?
Sharing delicious home-style recipes with a hugely engaged online community, pinchofnom.com has helped millions of people to cook well and lose weight and has become the UK’s most popular cookery blog.
Now, the Pinch of Nom cookbook can help novice and experienced home-cooks enjoy exciting, flavourful and satisfying meals without having to mess around with a phone in the kitchen!
Accessible to everyone by not including diet points, all of these recipes are compatible with the principles of current diet programmes. There are 100 incredible recipes in the book, 33 of which are vegetarian.
Each recipe has been tried and tested by 20 Pinch of Nom community members to ensure it is healthy, full of flavour and incredibly easy to make. Whether it’s Cumberland Pie, Mediterranean Chicken Orzo, Mexican Chilli Beef or Chicken Balti, this food is so good you’ll never guess the calorie count.
The recipes are labelled with helpful icons to guide you towards the ones that suit you best – whether you’re looking for something veggie, want to feed a family-of-four or have limited time to spare. Just because it’s Ramadan doesn’t mean you need to put on weight!
READ IT NOW IN PAPERBACK
PAST TENSE (JACK REACHER #23), ) LEE CHILD, 9780857503626 (BANTAM)
BD4.400 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
The most hotly-anticipated paperback thriller of the year follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father’s past and climaxes in the most blood-curdling ticking time bomb of an adventure yet.
The present can be tense.
A young couple trying to get to New York City are stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. Before long they’re trapped in an ominous game of life and death.
But the past can be worse.
Meanwhile, Jack Reacher sets out on an epic road trip across America. He doesn’t get far. Deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. But when he arrives he is told no one named Reacher ever lived there. Now he wonders: who’s lying?
As the tension ratchets up and these two stories begin to entwine, the stakes have never been higher for Reacher.
MY FAVOURITE
READ OF THE WEEK
CIRCE, MADELINE MILLER, 9781408890042 (BLOOMSBURY)
BD9.200 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
A deserving winner of the Goodreads Choice Awards ‘Best Fantasy’ section. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born.
Circe is a strange child - not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother.
Scorned and rejected, Circe grows up in the shadows, at home in neither the world of gods or mortals. But Circe has a dark power of her own: witchcraft. When her gift threatens the gods, she is banished to the island of Aiaia where she hones her occult craft, casting spells, gathering strange herbs and taming wild beasts.
Yet a woman who stands alone will never be left in peace for long – and among her island’s guests is an unexpected visitor: the mortal Odysseus, for whom Circe will risk everything. So Circe sets forth her tale, a vivid, mesmerising epic of family rivalry, love and loss – the defiant, inextinguishable song of woman burning hot and bright through the darkness of a man’s world.
Long-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019, this captivating Number One top selling tale will keep you spellbound from cover to cover.
