Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
BOOK OF THE WEEK with Linda Jennings. Lean in 15: 15 minute meals and workouts to keep you lean and healthy, Joe Wicks, ISBN 978-1509800667 (Bluebird) BD8.400 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
In his first book, Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach, reveals how to shift your body fat by eating more and exercising less.
Lean in 15 features a hundred recipes for nutritious, quick-to-prepare meals and guides you through Joe’s signature HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) home workouts – revealing how to combine food and exercise to ignite intense fat-burning.
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The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro, ISBN 978-0571315079 (Faber) BD5 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members)
The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day.
The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But, at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased.
The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards – some strange and other-worldly – but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another.
Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.
My favourite read of the week
The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge, ISBN 978-1447264101 (Macmillan Children’s) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night.
Faith’s father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances. When she searches through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree.
The tree only grows healthy and bears fruit if you whisper a lie to it. The fruit of the tree, when eaten, will deliver a hidden truth to the person who consumes it. The bigger the lie, the more people who believe it and thus the bigger the truth that is uncovered.
The girl realises that she is good at lying and that the tree might hold the key to her father’s murder, so she begins to spread untruths far and wide across her small island community. But as her tales spiral out of control, she discovers that where lies seduce, truths shatter.
