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The Brain: A User’s Manual


by Marco Magrini
B Format Paperback
Translated by Katherine Gregor   “Congratulations on the purchase of this exclusive product, tailor-made just for you. It will provide you with years of continuous existence.” The brain is one of nature’s most miraculous but misunderstood creations.  In this fascinating [...]

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 [...]

The Food Mood Connection


by Dr Uma Naidoo
Demy Paperback
The definitive book on how to eat for mental health, from a go-to expert on the impact of food on the brain. Did you know that blueberries can help you cope with the after-effects of trauma? That salami can cause [...]

How To Live


by Professor Robert Thomas
Demy Paperback
Did you know: • that drinking a glass of red wine after sunbathing can reduce lasting skin damage? • that your choice of deodorant can affect your long-term health? • that some houseplants are more effective in removing air toxins [...]

Covid-19


by Michael Mosley
B Format Paperback
From award-winning science journalist Dr Michael Mosley: the story of Covid-19, the greatest public health threat of our time… This book tells the story from the emergence of a novel virus in China at the end of 2019 to its [...]

The Dance Cure


by Dr Peter Lovatt
B Format Paperback
“Peter has brilliantly put into words what I have felt my whole dancing life: that the power of dance can liberate and change all our lives.” Darcey Bussell Humans are born to dance. And in today’s sedentary world, we would [...]

Fast Asleep


by Michael Mosley
B Format Paperback
Groundbreaking sleep science from the bestselling author of The 5:2 Fast Diet and The Fast 800 A good night’s sleep is essential for a healthy brain and body. So why do so many of us struggle to sleep well? In Fast Asleep, Dr Michael [...]

Fast 800 Health Journal


by Clare Bailey, Michael Mosley
B Format Paperback
CHANGE YOUR HABITS, CHANGE YOUR LIFE This easy-to-use, 12-week journal is the essential companion to Dr Michael Mosley’s bestselling Fast 800 – an ideal aid for those wanting to fit the programme into busy lives. Perfectly sized so you can keep it [...]

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 [...]

The Meaning of Pain


by Nick Potter
Demy Paperback
`With his easy, flowing prose, Nick makes the science of pain understandable, dispels the myths and emphasises always the importance of attending to the equilibrium of the individual, by recognising and dealing with stress in all its forms... A book that is written from the heart by someone who is truly passionate about his subject and cares tremendously for his patients.' Dr Sean White FRCA FIPP FFPMRCA

The Brain: A User’s Manual


by Marco Magrini
Demy
Translated by Katherine Gregor   “Congratulations on the purchase of this exclusive product, tailor-made just for you. It will provide you with years of continuous existence.” So begins The Brain: A User s Manual, Marco Magrini s fascinating guide to the [...]

Just Soup


by Henrietta Clancy
B Format Paperback
  “Recipes based on centuries of nutritional wisdom that show that soup can take pride of place as the main meal” The Independent A bowl of soup is food for the soul, not only comforting and tasty but also incredibly good [...]

The Diet Fix


by Dr Zoë Harcombe
B Format Paperback
How many of us have dieted to lose weight and then put it all back on again? Oprah Winfrey, one of America’s most loved stars, has been on a staggering 674 diets, 255 fitness regimes and weighed herself 4,349,571 times [...]

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 Good Stuff


by Lucinda Miller
Crown Quarto Hardback
Healthy food that children will actually eat? Most parents would go to the moon and back for the secret…. In this game-changing book, designed for busy parents, top child nutrition expert Lucinda Miller shows you how to cook nutritious food [...]

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Chemo


by Ileana von Hirsch
Crown Quarto Hardback
Cancer is not a laughing matter, as I was told by a cross German lady from Dortmund when I showed her this journal. She had herself had breast cancer and is right of course; there are lots of things that [...]

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 [...]

X and Why


by Tom Whipple
Demy Hardback
  Gender is shifting. But is gender disappearing? This is the story of where biology meets behaviour – how sex drives us, and informs so many of the key choices we make in life.   In the last century it [...]

Singing in the Rain


by Rachel Kelly
Demy Hardback
Thinking often makes us sad but doing rarely does. This book is about action: it is full of inventive and accessible activities, one for each week of the year, to help you rediscover your creativity and, little by little, build [...]

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, [...]

Vegan in 15


by Kate Ford
B Format Paperback
The vegan revolution is here… More and more people are looking to eat and shop in a way that treads as lightly as possible on our fragile planet and doesn’t cause suffering to animals. In this book, renowned green food [...]

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 [...]

The Art of Baby-Making


by Gerad Kite
B Format Paperback
From the bestselling author of Everything You Need You Have Nature teaches us that a balanced state is a fertile state; and in this book Gerad Kite shows how “balance” can be the secret to successful conception, even when all [...]

Just Soup


by Henrietta Clancy
B Format Paperback
Soup is the ultimate in healthy eating. Studies have shown that food, when blended with water, performs a remarkable nutritional trick: it remains in your stomach for longer, allowing the absorption of maximum nutrients while at the same time keeping [...]

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, [...]

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

Be Your Own Nutritionist


by George Cooper
B Format Paperback
Did you know that eating sushi in the winter can be positively bad for you? Any idea why you need to eat a different lunch when it starts to rain? Or why steak is more nutritious than a salad? Forget [...]

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