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The Fast Diet
Short Books 2013; US$ 11.65THE OFFICIAL 5:2 DIET IS IT POSSIBLE TO EAT WELL, MOST OF THE TIME, AND GET SLIMMER AND HEALTHIER AS YOU DO IT? WITH THE FAST DIET IT IS. This revolutionary new approach to weight loss is really is as simple as it sounds: you eat normally five days a week, then for just two days you cut your calories (500 for women, 600 for men). Scientific trials... more...
The Fast Diet Recipe Book
Short Books 2013; US$ 17.49?The biggest diet revolution since the Atkins? --DAILY MAIL. ?A health revolution.? --NEW YORK TIMES. FOLLOWING THE NO 1 BESTSELLING FAST DIET, this fabulous cookbook offers 150 carefully crafted, nutritious, low-calorie recipes to enable you to incorporate the 5:2 weight-loss system into your daily life. The recipes range from simple breakfasts to... more...
Friendfluence
Short Books 2013; US$ 16.03We have long known that good friends can be our main source of moral support, the generous suppliers of love, humour and understanding. But did you know that having good friendships makes you cleverer, richer and healthier? Increasingly, research shows that the single most important factor in a well-lived life is not our jobs, our families, our health,... more...
Mr Gig
Short Books 2013; US$ 11.65Nige Tassell?s life has been defined by live music. It?s the fabric of his being, his bloodline, his DNA. He is Mr Gig. Or at least he was. A few years ago Mr Gig hung up his backstage pass and headed off to raise children in rural isolation. The thrill had gone. Now, with a widening waistline, less hair and a mid-life crisis coming over the hill,... more...
A Commonplace Killing
Short Books 2013; US$ 16.03On a damp July morning in 1946, two schoolboys find a woman?s body in a bomb site in north London. The woman is identified as Lillian Frobisher, a wife and mother who lived in a war-damaged terrace a few streets away. The police assume that Lil must have been the victim of a vicious sexual assault; but the autopsy finds no evidence of rape, and Divisional... more...
My Natural History
Short Books 2011; US$ 13.11?The animal kingdom came to my rescue. It always has done. I suspect it always will. It rescued me at Sunnyhill Primary School, it rescued me in my adolescence, it has rescued me over and over again throughout my adult life.? In My Natural History Simon Barnes, like a modern-day Gerald Durrell, weaves together the story of his life via the animals... more...
The Trouble with Alice
Short Books 2011; US$ 11.65?A story that really draws the reader in... Quite deliciously funny and sad.? Barbara Trapido, author of Frankie & Stankie. ?????????????????????? Kit and Alice are happy, in love and enjoying a luxurious weekend break abroad when the unthinkable happens. Their car spins off a mountain road and into an empty desert valley. Their lives are changed... more...
Dreaming in Chinese
Short Books 2010; US$ 18.94Why can?t the Chinese say ?I love you?? Can you wear pyjamas on the streets of Shanghai? Why is it so difficult to hear Chinese tones? In this charming, original book, Harvard linguist Deborah Fallows draws on her three years of living and working in China to provide the answers to these puzzles and many more. Using her own struggles and triumphs... more...
Nigel Dempster and the Death of Discretion
Short Books 2010; US$ 21.86?If the trade of the gossip columnist is trivial, then all life is trivial? ? Nigel Dempster No one is more responsible for Britain?s current obsession with celebrity culture than the late, great gossip columnist Nigel Dempster (1941-2007). For a quarter of a century, as the editor of the Daily Mail?s Diary, he was the man perfectly placed and... more...
A Book of Heroes
Short Books 2010; US$ 13.11Everyone?s lives will, at some time, have been touched by a moment of sporting heroism. Whether it was Ellen MacArthur?s triumphant finish off the French coast in 2005, or Bobby Charlton?s long-range goal that transformed England?s fortunes against Mexico in 1966, we have all witnessed heroic acts ? or indeed moments of epic failure and pain ? that... more...









