The Do-Able Diet, by Barbara Wimhurst (Allen & Unwin, $23.99): Author Barbara Wimhurst lost a whopping half of her body weight without fad diets, potions or expensive programmes. She did it the old-fashioned way — by not eating junk. She’s lost 45kg while eating six times a day, having dessert every night and exercising...
Come Yesterday, by Sue Emms (Hazard Press, $29.99): After living in relative peace for 15 years, Jill Nelson’s world is falling apart. In the tradition of Desperate Housewives, our intrepid heroine in this delightful story discovers that she’s not the only one with secrets and it seems her deep, dark, hidden past doesn’t want...
Stuart: A Life Backwards, by Alexander Masters (HarperCollins, $26.99): Proving that the rules are sometimes made to be broken, and that sometimes it isn’t always best to begin at the beginning, this book tells the life story of Stuart Shorter backwards. Shorter was a homeless man who had a tough life as the illegitimate...
The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness, by Stephen R Covey (HarperCollins, $34.99): Self-help books are a dime a dozen but there seems to be a general acceptance that Stephen R Covey’s offerings are among the best. Covey’s latest book takes up where the international best-seller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People left...
The Road to Dune, By Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson (Hodder, $24.99): In a companion piece to the hugely popular Dune series of science fiction books readers are taken back to the creation of the Dune novels. Brian Herbert, son of the late Frank, and Kevin J Anderson have already told...
The Low GI Diet, by Professor Jennie Brand-Miller, Kaye Foster-Powell and Joanna McMillan-Price; Low GI Eating Made Easy by Professor Jennie Brand-Miller, Kaye Foster-Powell and Philippa Sandall (both published by Hodder): These days it seems like everyone is on some sort of diet and carbohydrates are being billed as the evil fat-causing gremlins of the food...
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