I love Christmas. It’s honestly one of my favourite times of year. I love getting a real Christmas tree, decorating it with the family, baking and assembling gift baskets, wrapping presents, and of course the big day itself. To celebrate the festive season along with the opening of my new blog shop, I’ve raided the …
RRP: $44.95 (paperback) Most of us know his face as the co-host of popular cooking game show My Kitchen Rules, but did you know that Australian chef Pete Evans is dedicated to improving peoples’ lives through education about nutritional food and wellness? With an increasing amount of research pointing to gut health as a leading …
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RRP: $33.95 Ever find yourself staring blankly at the equipment in your gym trying to figure out what to do with it? Books like this can provide some great inspiration and tips to help keep your workouts fresh and interesting. The blurb promises that this third edition of Strength Ball Training delivers more exercises, programmes, …
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So Christmas is next Sunday. Hope you’re ready for it! I’m a Christmas-a-holic and therefore always completely over-organised which means all of my Christmas shopping is not only done, it’s also wrapped (with the exception of the baking gift baskets which I do in the last three days before the big day). Some has already …
New Zealand-based soundscape guitarist Arli Liberman has just released his new album Allegra and announced he’s joining the international Wanderlust circuit (which makes him kind of a big deal!), with shows coming up across the US, Europe, Canada and Australia, with additional performances scheduled in New York, Malibu and Colorado. Playing solo sets as well …
RRP: $39.99 Most of us would recognise Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz for her work on the big screen, but did you know she’s written a couple of well-received health books as well? As one of the most famous women in the world, Cameron has fielded journalist’s questions about ageing at almost every interview – especially …
RRP: $39.99 (hardcover), $11.99 (e-book) As a qualified nutritionist, Julie’s kitchen philosophy is that food should be made from real, whole foods. However, as a busy working mum of two, she also recognises the day-to-day difficulties behind the seemingly simple task of just getting healthy food on the table for the family at the right …
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Beth Shaw’s YogaFit combines challenging conditioning work with yoga to improve your strength and flexibility, creating a total-body workout. Extended and updated, this highly acclaimed programme aims to increase your overall health, energy and vitality, while creating a stronger and leaner body, reducing stress, improving posture and increasing concentration. What’s inside it? Beth Shaw – …
RRP: $44.99 Featuring recipes from premier wholefood bloggers and entrepreneurs, WHOLE is a book born from the demands for better food. Compiled by Bronwyn Kan, WHOLE explores the personal relationship between each contributor and the food they make. The recipes in this book are simple, nourishing and in some cases, utilise just four or five …
RRP: $37.00 Powerful Living is the hotly anticipated new release from influential health and fitness expert, Michelle Bridges. In her 20 years of helping people, Michelle has seen time and time again how the mind can be the single point of difference between goal success or failure. In Powerful Living, Michelle emphasises that empowerment is …
Rating: 4 out of 5 Defying his non-typical pop star appearance, Ed Sheeran has been going from strength to strength since bursting onto the international music scene in 2011. The 24-year-old’s highly anticipated second album, X (pronounced ‘multiply’), has largely received great reviews from critics and fans, and at the 57th Grammy Awards earlier this …
Improve your health knowledge over the remainder of this summer with some of the latest health books to hit the shelves. From dealing with chronic illness through the writing of a journal to the way technology is affecting how we are monitoring and improving our health, here are some interesting new titles from New Zealand …