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WHY WE SLEEP: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker, 9780141983769 (PENGUIN) BD4.900 for members of Gulf Weekly Book Club
In this book, which is taking the world by storm, a top sleep scientist argues that sleep is more important to our health than exercise or diet.
Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in 21st Century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer’s, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep.
Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why its absence is so damaging to our health. Compared to the other basic drives in life - eating, drinking, and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
Now, in this book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert, Professor Matthew Walker explores 20 years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters. Looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom as well as major human studies, Why We Sleep delves in to everything from what really happens during REM sleep to how caffeine and alcohol affect sleep and why our sleep patterns change across a lifetime, transforming our appreciation of the extraordinary phenomenon that safeguards our existence.
NOW OUT IN PAPERBACK
HOW TO STOP TIME, MATT HAIG
9781782118640 (CANONGATE)
BD4.400 for members of Gulf Weekly Book Club
How many lifetimes does it take to learn how to live?
This is an addictive, time-travelling tale which unfolds at cracking pace. It concerns love and loss but also has some profound things to say about the importance of living in the moment.
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old history teacher, but he’s been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen it all. As long as he keeps changing his identity he can keep one step ahead of his past - and stay alive. The only thing he must NOT do is fall in love … guess what happens next!
With sales of over 100,000 copies, this was one of the most talked about books of 2017, now out in paperback.
MY FAVOURITE
READ OF THE WEEK
THE THIRST (HARRY HOLE 11), JO NESBO
9781784705091 (VINTAGE)
BD3.900 for members of Gulf Weekly Book Club
There’s a new killer on the streets. A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer - and he’s out for blood.
Under pressure from the media to solve the crime, the force know there’s only one man for the job. But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him. Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing and his one failed case.
