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BOOK OF THE WEEK with Charlie Richards. Cook Happy, Cook Healthy, Fearne Cotton, ISBN 978-1409163756 (Orion) BD11.300 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Fearne Cotton is one of our best-loved TV and radio presenters. She is also a keen, healthy baker and young, busy, working mum who has found some great ways to eat well and eat clean.
Her first cookbook, Cook Happy, Cook Healthy, is full of easy, fast and healthy recipes for everything from breakfast and speedy suppers to baked treats.
She said: “Most of the food you put in your body should have ingredients that make your skin glow, your hair shine, your body feel energised, your eyes bright and your kids and friends happy. Even the naughty treats can have good stuff in them too! If you love cooking and baking and are happy, like me, to whittle away the hours with spatula in hand then hopefully you’ll enjoy my ideas and recipes.”
Delicious dishes include Quick Granola, Courgette Fritters with Herby Yoghurt Dip, Halloumi and Roasted Beetroot Salad, and Almond and Apricot Biscuits.
With an eye to food bills and time-poor households, the ingredients are easy to buy and few in number, and the methods very simple.
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Generation Next, Oil White, ISBN 978-1473634374 (Hodder & Stoughton) BD7.300 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Things haven’t been easy for Jack recently - life as a teenager has its ups-and-downs. But when he meets a new group of friends, who are every bit as geek as they are chic, his luck seems to be changing.
Each of the group is talented and when they pool together to create Generation Next, an incredible new kind of social media platform, it’s clear that they’re on to something special.
What if your Instagram account grew by hundreds of thousands of followers overnight and big companies were fighting each other to offer you photoshoots?
When GenNext suddenly goes viral, Jack and his friends are thrust into a crazy world of fame which is as terrifying as it is awesome … because someone out there is determined to trip Jack up at every step. If he doesn’t stop them, soon everyone he cares about - his friends, his family, and the girl he’s falling for - will be in danger.
My favourite
Read of the week
Me Before You, Jojo Moyes, ISBN 978-0718157838 (Michael Joseph) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun teashop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend, Patrick.
What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what keeps her sane.
Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he’s going to put a stop to that.
What Will doesn’t know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they’re going to change the other for all time.
