5 books that inspire words of fitness and nutrition-filled wisdom

Clean and Simple Eating

Lorna Jane Clarkson, Lorna Jane

With mouth-watering photography, this 96-page cookbook by Lorna Jane Clarkson, the founder of Lorna Jane Active Wear, offers healthy recipes and advice on ensuring your kitchen is equipped with all the essentials to make clean eating a breeze.

You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises

Mark Lauren with Joshua Clark, Vermilion

The elite special forces trainer Mark Lauren shares his secrets to fitness through simple exercises that can be done using the resistance of your own body weight.

Man v Fat: The Weight-Loss Manual

Andrew Shanahan, Headline

Written by a man especially for men, this book is a practical guide for those who want to get into shape. In it, Shanahan – an award-winning journalist and entrepreneur – offers plans for walking, running and cycling.

The Art of Eating Well

Jasmine Hemsley and Melissa Hemsley, Ebury Press

Sisters Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley join forces on this cookbook that has more than 150 alkaline-friendly recipes, all free from grain, gluten, refined sugar and high starch.

Yoga Girl

Rachel Brathen, Touchstone Books

Written by the Swedish yoga teacher Rachel Brathen, who has 1.2 million followers on Instagram, this book is part memoir and part life manual, with step-by-step yoga sequences and simple recipes for a life well lived.

In numbers: PKK’s money network in Europe

Germany: PKK collectors typically bring in $18 million in cash a year – amount has trebled since 2010

Revolutionary tax: Investigators say about $2 million a year raised from ‘tax collection’ around Marseille

Extortion: Gunman convicted in 2023 of demanding $10,000 from Kurdish businessman in Stockholm

Drug trade: PKK income claimed by Turkish anti-drugs force in 2024 to be as high as $500 million a year

Denmark: PKK one of two terrorist groups along with Iranian separatists ASMLA to raise “two-digit million amounts”

Contributions: Hundreds of euros expected from typical Kurdish families and thousands from business owners

TV channel: Kurdish Roj TV accounts frozen and went bankrupt after Denmark fined it more than $1 million over PKK links in 2013

Anna and the Apocalypse

Director: John McPhail

Starring: Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Mark Benton

Three stars

TRAP

Starring: Josh Hartnett, Saleka Shyamalan, Ariel Donaghue

Director: M Night Shyamalan

Rating: 3/5

Lewis Hamilton in 2018

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Round 1: January 17-19, Yas Marina Circuit – Abu Dhabi

Round 2: January 22-23, Yas Marina Circuit – Abu Dhabi

Round 3: February 7-9, Dubai Autodrome – Dubai

Round 4: February 14-16, Yas Marina Circuit – Abu Dhabi

Round 5: February 25-27, Jeddah Corniche Circuit – Saudi Arabia

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