BOOK OF THE WEEK with Charlie Richards. The Louise Parker Method: Lean for Life, Louise Parker, ISBN 978-1784721756 (Mitchell Beazley) BD11.300 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members

IT is not a diet – it is an inspiring, easyto-follow programme for life, consisting of two phases, TRANSFORM – taking the direct route to your best body and LIFESTYLE – protecting your results for life.

The method is the best-kept secret of A-list celebrities, royals, global CEOs, entrepreneurs and London society - the quickest, most do-able approach of total body and lifestyle transformation. It contains over 80 effortless recipes to help you ‘Eat Beautifully’ and avoid being ‘Organically Overweight’. Many of the recipes call for fewer than eight ingredients and take just eight minutes to prepare.

For the first time, Louise shares her unique four-pronged approach to lasting success that has made her method the mecca for worldwide clients demanding the most intelligent, focused and practical solution to permanent weight loss and habit change.

The book details four simple pillars that promise you can drop two dress sizes in six weeks without a chia seed in sight.

  • Think Successfully - positivity, keeping inspiring company and making time for simple pleasures every single day.
  • Live Well - de-cluttering your surroundings, a Digital Detox after 9pm every night, sleeping seven to eight hours a night and taking 20-minutes a day to ‘brain nap’.
  • Eat Beautifully - eating three meals and two snacks daily from any of the 80 delicious recipes in the book.
  • Exercise intelligently - achievable goals of walk a minimum of 10,000 steps, exercise for 30-minutes, following Louise’s workouts or other exercises you enjoy.

READ IT NOW IN PAPERBACK Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay, William Boyd, ISBN 9781408867990 (Bloomsbury) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members 

AMORY Clay’s first memory is of her father doing a handstand - but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers. Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, gives her both the affection she needs and a camera, which unleashes a passion that irrevocably shapes her future. She begins an apprenticeship with him in London, photographing socialites for magazines. But Amory is hungry for more and her search for life, love and artistic expression will take her to the demi-monde of 1920s Berlin, New York in the 1930s, the Blackshirt riots in London, and France during the Second World War, where she becomes one of the first women war photographers. In this enthralling story of a life fully lived, William Boyd has created a sweeping panorama of the 20th Century, told through the camera lens of one unforgettable woman.

MY FAVOURITE READ OF THE WEEK The Marble Collecter, Cecelia Ahern, ISBN 978-0007501847 (Harper) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members A BOX of possessions, a father with no memory and a daughter with just one day to piece together the past - when Sabrina Boggs stumbles upon a mysterious collection of her father’s belongings, her seemingly uneventful life suddenly alters and shifts. In the single day she has to search for answers about the man she thought she knew - a man who can no longer remember his own story. Sabrina uncovers far bigger secrets than she could have imagined and discovers that sometimes it’s the people closest to us that we know the least.