Super-charge your body's calorie-burning powers to change the way you look and feel forever.Based on cutting-edge scientific research, The Ice Diet reveals natural ways to beat weight gain by firing up your body's metabolism to fight flab.Health and diet expert Peta Bee has devised a unique six-week plan in three easy-to-follow stages that focus on your diet, fitness and lifestyle. It's the secret Hollywood celebrities have known for some time - cool temperatures i...

No more faddy, restrictive diets - The Food Swap Diet is a practical manual for weight loss that provides all the information you need to lose weight permanently. The book compares seemingly similar foods and shows which are friendlier to the waistline, and to your health, allowing you to make the wisest food choices and reduce your daily calorie intake. There's no going hungry, no banned foods and no skipping meals. You'll find hundreds of food swaps that slice anything from 10 t...

Discover the new goals and new rules that are the route to a healthier, better looking and better functioning body... for life!From Gwen Stefani and Cameron Diaz to Jennifer Aniston and Naomi Watts, a new breed of 40 and 50 plus women are redefining not just what an ageless body looks like, but what's entailed in achieving it.A dramatic shift in body expectations in the last few years means that, despite being plagued by a slowing metabolism and a naturally...

The revolutionary fitness plan for men. Are you ready to feel younger, fitter and stronger?Matt Roberts' Younger, Fitter, Stronger is a ground-breaking fitness manual designed for mid-life men. Follow this targeted, testosterone-boosting 8-week fitness plan to lose your gut, tone your body and feel 10 years younger.Drawing on more than 20 years of personal training experience with thousands of clients, Matt Roberts brings you a powerful combination...

Funny, passionate, outrageous and honest, this is a memoir about travel, house renovations, food, music, men and change. ‘I’ve escaped more houses than I’ve said Hail Marys.’ Peta Mathias has been making major moves since leaving home to train as a nurse, before living in Canada, London and later France, where she set up her own restaurant. Although she returned to New Zealand, writing food books and making television series, she continued to yoyo back to Europe a...

Lives are about to be irrevocably changed following a typhus outbreak on a cramped emigrant ship bound for Australia.1850 Sarah Hallow is orphaned, penniless and alone, with only the skills learned from her midwife mother to guide her. Passage on a ship bound for the new settlement of Brisbane, Australia, is her last option. Though her skills are quickly dismissed by the ship's doctor, Sarah is pleased to find instant friendship with her cabin mate, Bridie, a fiery...

The teenage years hold all the promise of adulthood, as well as being a transition from childhood. Yet they’re also full of challenges, for teens themselves and for their parents, siblings, friends, and communities. A story at Examiner.com calls Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT): "one of the most successful psychology self-help techniques ever developed." It’s a powerful stress-reduction method that combines elements of proven psychotherapy methods with acupressure, fingertip tapping on a...

Raised to be tough, determined to be perfect, and convinced she had to do it alone - what could possibly go wrong?On the outside, she looked successful. On the inside, she was chaos wrapped in perfectionism. Like every good Gen-X girl, Peta Leigh was raised to be tough, self-reliant, and flawless - so she wore independence like armour and called it "proof of worth".This book is a collection of the lessons Peta should have learned far earlier ... but who are we kidding? She ...

Before the days of labour laws and workplace protections, employees had little defence against unfair treatment. Bosses takes readers on a candid and insightful journey through the author's real-life experiences with difficult employers—told with wit and reflection.Set around a coffee date with her close friends, each woman recounts a story that mirrors one of the author's own encounters with a bad boss. Through their conversations, readers glimpse the struggles, lessons, ...

Sasha grows up believing she is never enough. Constantly overshadowed, criticised and compared, she learns early that love often feels conditional—and that sibling rivalry can wound long after childhood ends. What begins as teasing becomes bullying, leaving Sasha desperate to prove her worth in a world that seems determined to diminish her.As she steps into adulthood, the patterns of the past refuse to stay buried. Sasha must confront the insecurities shaped by years of emotional s...

When a young, talented dancer from France arrives to join Gregoire Fellini's dance company, Greg's life is changed forever. He, the strict, serious dance maestro, falls in love. Nicole is perfect: beautiful, kind, adored by everyone. In this, the first part of 'Heaven Promises No Favours', enjoy the saga of a beautiful and passionate romance set in the glamorous world of London ballet - savour every moment as the scene is set and events unfold...

Disabled women represent one of the most marginalised minority groups in the world, hence they are largely silent while their sexuality is ignored, suppressed, forbidden and buried underneath the carpet. Until recently, most of the Global Northern published literature on the subject of the sexuality of disabled women has predominantly been constructed from hearsay and second-hand narratives in studies which draw from the perspectives of parents, service providers and advocates, without muc...