A Day at the Office by Matt Dunn from Lake Union Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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For most people, Valentine’s Day means flowers, chocolates, and candlelit dinners. But for five of Seek Software’s employees, it’s shaping up to be as much fun as a trip to the dentist.
Long-term singleton Sophie has a crush on colleague Nathan but worries he doesn’t even know her name. And is there really any point in her sending a card to the man who organises the annual office Anti-Valentine’s party?
Overweight, insecure, and still living with his mum, Calum’s desperate for a girlfriend. He’s recently met the woman of his dreams online but his exaggerated profile might mean tonight’s first date could also be their last.
Mark’s been besotted with Julie since she kissed him at the office Christmas party. While she doesn’t seem to remember a thing, today might be his best chance to remind her. If only he could work out how.
A Day at the Office is a wise, wonderfully moving, and laugh-out-loud novel about life, love, and relationships by bestselling novelist Matt Dunn.
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The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead from Granta Books (£1.69) is the Amazon UK
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Rebecca Mead was a young woman when she first read Middlemarch, and she has read it many times since, interpreting and discovering it anew.
In The Road to Middlemarch she writes passionately about her relationship to this remarkable, much-loved Victorian novel, and shows how we can live richer and more fulfilling lives through our profound engagement with great literary works.
Published when George Eliot was fifty-one, Middlemarch has at its centre one of literature's most compelling and ill-fated marriages, and some of the most tenderly drawn characters. Its vast canvas incorporates the lives of ordinary people and their most intimate struggles. Virginia Woolf famously described it as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people', and Mead explores how the ambitions, dreams and attachments of its characters teach us to value the limitations of our ordinary lives.
Interweaving readings of Middlemarch with an investigation of George Eliot's unconventional, inspiring life and Mead's reflections on her own youth, relationships and marriage, this is a sensitive work of deep reading and biography, for every lover of literature who cares about why we read books and how they read us.
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The Fast Beach Diet: The super-fast 6-week programme to get you in shape for summer by Mimi Spencer from Short Books (£1.09) is the Amazon UK
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From the author of the bestselling 5:2 Fast Diet and Fast Diet Recipe Book. Mimi Spencer presents the super-fast 6-week programme to kickstart your Fast Diet for summer. Based on the original, bestselling Fast Diet, this book offers an enhanced approach that will take you off cruise control and give your 5:2 lifestyle a sensational summertime boost.
The Fast Beach Diet includes:
A clear 6-week plan to encourage fat loss of up to 2lbs a week
New tips and clever tricks to get you through your Fast Days
Habit-busting ideas to jumpstart your non-Fast Days
A brilliant new HIT exercise programme to maximise your fitness and fat loss – in just five minutes a day 30 fresh new calorie-counted summer recipes, plus meal plans and food and exercise trackers Motivation and 5:2 support to rev up your Fast Diet and get you fit for life
Think of it as a boot camp for the 5:2. For six short weeks. Whether you’re a woman with a bikini deadline or a man on a mission to fitness – or simply interested in better health – the Fast Beach Diet is for you.
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