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The Fast 800 Easy


by Clare Bailey, Justine Pattison
Crown Quarto Paperback
130 brand-new recipes to cook up at home, any day of the week… Following their bestselling Fast 800 Recipe Book, Dr Clare Bailey and Justine Pattison return with a fabulous new cookbook, featuring super-simple recipes to enable you to eat well [...]

Secrets of a Devon Wood


by Jo Brown
210x 148mm
“Things of such magnitude deserve respect and understanding. They deserve to be remembered…” Artist and illustrator Jo Brown started keeping her nature diary in a bid to document the small wonders of the wood behind her home in Devon. This book [...]

Life Without Diabetes


by Professor Roy Taylor
B Format Paperback
FOLLOW THIS REVOLUTIONARY HEALTH PLAN AND TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE… From the pioneer of diabetes reversal and creator of the ‘Newcastle Diet’ Prof Roy Taylor is one of the world’s leading experts in type 2 diabetes, the man who discovered that [...]

The Fast 800 Recipe Book


by Clare Bailey, Justine Pattison
Crown Quarto Paperback
With a Foreword by Dr Michael Mosley   Following Dr Michael Mosley’s No.1 bestselling Fast 800, this fabulous companion cookbook offers a collection of delicious, nutritious recipes to help you incorporate the new 800-calorie programme into your daily life.  Dr Clare [...]

9 Lessons in Brexit


by Ivan Rogers
Cutdown A Format Paperback
“Remember the words of Ivan Rogers the next time you hear some posh boy in a suit telling you ‘no deal’ wouldn’t hurt at all and might even be a jolly good thing.”  J.K. Rowling Two and a half years [...]

The Fast 800


by Michael Mosley
B Format Paperback
Six years ago, Dr Michael Mosley started a health revolution with The 5.2 Fast Diet, telling the world about the incredible power of intermittent fasting. In this book he brings together all the latest science (including  a new approach: Time [...]

The Inflamed Mind


by Edward Bullmore
Demy Hardback
  Worldwide, depression will be the single biggest cause of disability in the next 20 years. But treatment for it has not changed much in the last three decades. In the world of psychiatry, time has apparently stood still… until [...]

The Clever Guts Diet Recipe Book


by Clare Bailey
Crown Quarto Paperback
  Your gut is key to y​our ​physical and mental wellbeing ​ – home to your microbiome, an army of microbes that influences your weight, mood and immune system​.​ In this companion book to Dr Michael Mosley’s bestselling Clever Guts [...]

The Clever Guts Diet


by Michael Mosley
Crown Quarto Paperback
From the author of the million-copy bestselling 5:2 Fast Diet Your gut is astonishingly clever. It contains millions of neurons – as many as you would find in the brain of a cat – and is home to the microbiome, [...]

101 Things to Do When You’re Not Drinking


by Robert Short
Crown Quarto Paperback
Recite the alphabet backwards… Memorise these 5 conversation ice-breakers… Mix up this non-alcoholic cocktail… Feeling a bit woozy? Had a few too many at karaoke night? Sometimes we could all do with taking a break from the drinking life. This [...]

The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet Recipe Book


by Clare Bailey, Sarah Schenker
Crown Quarto Paperback
Dr Michael Mosley’s No 1 bestselling 8-week blood sugar diet revealed a game-changing approach to weight loss that not only lowers blood sugar levels, but can also reverse and prevent type 2 diabetes. In this fabulous companion cookbook, Dr Clare [...]

Everything You Need You Have


by Gerad Kite
B Format Paperback
Gerad Kite – founder of the renowned Kite Clinic in London – believes that the way we are living today is making us ill. For all the choices we have, for all the improvements in our material lifestyle, people are [...]

The 8-week Blood Sugar Diet


by Michael Mosley
B Format Paperback
Dr Michael Mosley, author of the bestselling 5:2 Fast Diet, reveals a game-changing approach to one of the greatest  silent epidemics of our time – raised blood sugar levels.  The food we eat today, high in sugar and easily digestible carbohydrates, [...]

Walking on Sunshine


by Rachel Kelly
Cutdown B Format Hardback
Walking on Sunshine offers 52 tips, tools and positive ideas (one for each week of the year) to guide you through the seasons and better manage the pressures of everyday life. In a diary of her year, Rachel Kelly shares [...]

101 Things to do Instead of Playing on Your Phone


by Ilka Heinemann
Cut-down A Paperback
Our phones have become a constant distraction; it’s time we put them down and rediscovered the simple art of taking a few minutes out. This book offers an imaginative list of games and tips aimed at curing us of our [...]

D-Day: Minute by Minute


by Jonathan Mayo
B Format Paperback
The invasion has begun. In this gripping book, Jonathan Mayo gives a blow by blow account of the events of D-Day, revealing what happened to the people swept up in this crucial moment in history. From soldiers, French villagers and [...]

The Fast Diet: Revised and Updated


by Michael Mosley, Mimi Spencer
B Format Paperback
‘Michael Mosley’s bestselling book changed my life. Melodramatic, yes, but true. In the past five months on the 5:2 diet I have lost a stone and a half, reducing my Body Mass Index from a lumberingly 27 to a healthy 23.’ Xanthe Clay, Daily Telegraph

How to be Danish


by Patrick Kingsley
B Format Paperback
Denmark is the country of the moment. The motherland of Borgen and The Killing, it’s the runaway champion of Eurovision, and home to Noma, the world’s most eccentric restaurant. But though we wear their jumpers and watch their thrillers, how [...]

The Fast Diet Recipe Book


by Mimi Spencer, Sarah Schenker
Crown Quarto Paperback
FOLLOWING THE NO 1 BESTSELLING FAST DIET, this fabulous cookbook offers 150 carefully crafted, nutritious, low-calorie recipes to enable you to incorporate the 5:2 weight-loss system into your daily life. The recipes range from simple breakfasts to leisurely suppers, all [...]

How to be Danish


by Patrick Kingsley
Hardback
From Lego to lava lamps – via Borgen, The Killing, and the Muhammed cartoons – Patrick Kingsley takes us on a journey into the mysterious heart of Denmark.

Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed


by Simon Barnes
Paperback
This vital book – with a free podcast – takes you from winter into spring. You start with robin, and end up with nightingales.

The Social Animal


by David Brooks
paperback
Meet Harold and Erica, representative of you and me. In this captivating fable of modern life, David Brooks follows their story from birth to old age and explores the forces that expand and limit their choices in life.

Keeper


by Andrea Gillies
Paperback
Andrea Gillies tracks her mother-in-law, Nancy's, unravelling grasp on everything that we think of as ordinary, and interweaves her own brilliantly cogent investigations into the way Alzheimer's works.

Amo, Amas, Amat… And All That


by Harry Mount
Paperback
In this delightful guided tour of Latin, Harry Mount wipes the dust off those boring primers and breathes life back into the greatest language of them all.

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