Straight from the bookshelf, here are a few of our favourite lockdown reads for September.
How To Take A Breath
Dr Tania Clifton-Smith
Learn how to breathe well for reduction in stress/anxiety, better sleep, clearer thinking and improved performance in sports and at work, written by an experienced clinical expert in breathing function. There are chapters on pain management, the stress connection, sports performance and recovery, and many more. Dr. Clifton-Smith has been helping people correct their breathing patterns for over 30 years and has seen at first hand what a difference changing your breathing function can make.
Edible Backyard
Kath Irvine
In this practical step-by-step guide, gardening teacher Kath Irvine shares her wealth of knowledge from more than 20 years of helping Kiwi gardeners design, build, grow and maintain their own productive edible gardens. The Edible Backyard is the perfect guide, and this easy-to-understand, comprehensive book is ideal for gardeners at any skill level, from beginners setting up a new garden from scratch, to intermediate trouble-shooters, to advanced green-thumbs seeking deeper knowledge.
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Pandora Sykes is absolutely spot-on with her description of Malibu Rising as ‘the escapism we all need – a sex-on-the-beach cocktail (quite literally) of a book.’ Malibu: August, 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. The Rivas are a source of fascination in Malibu as they are the offspring of legendary singer, Mick Riva. By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them . . . and what they will leave behind.
Double Helix
Eileen Merriman
Would you want to know what awaits you? Would you want to be in control of your life . . . and death? What would you do for love? The words cut deep. Emily knows Jake is not like his father; he’d never leave her willingly. But if he has inherited his mother’s genes, then Huntington’s disease is more than likely to take him away. He may even make the same request his mother made, when Jake was still a teenager: to end the suffering for good.
