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…
Month: May 2006
Lots of twisty fun in fast-paced tale
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…
Looking back to the beginning
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…
Building good habits
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…
Must-have for Dune fans
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.…
Explaining carbs
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…