We all have an ikigai. It's the Japanese word for 'a reason to live'. The place where your needs, ambitions, skills and satisfaction meet. A place of balance. From authors Héctor García and Francesc Miralles comes a book that will help you unlock what your ikigai is and equip you to change your life.
What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? Here, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress.
Facing Trauma
'That place has been my whole life. Everything I thought I knew about myself was constructed in those few months I spent within touching distance of the sea. Everything I am is because Alistair loved me.'
Eve should never have married Don Hathaway. Yes, he gave her two beautiful children – Olly and Tabitha – but he is a bully. Worse than that, he hurts her. But, after one drunken rage too many, she has the courage to leave him. Eve is warned that it's a difficult path, yet she needs to give her children hope for the future.
Bursting with colourful photography, Ottolenghi's Simple showcases Yotam’s standout dishes that will suit whatever type of cooking you find easy – whether that’s getting wonderful food on the table in under 30 minutes, using just one pot to make a delicious meal, or a flavoursome dish that can be prepared ahead and then served when you’re ready. Bringing one of Ottolenghi’s recipes to life in your own kitchen has got to be the greatest culinary joy.
Prim Reddy and Niranj Pather are South Africans of Indian origin who embrace the diverse culinary offering of cosmopolitan South Africa. Temptations is a reflection of their philosophy, a cookbook encompassing various cultures and featuring heritage recipes passed down through generations, as well as dishes experienced on their travels. To these they have added their own flair and the resulting flavours are incredible.
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, this masterful literary novel is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere.
The captivating new novel from Pip Williams, the internationally bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words, is the perfect book for anyone obsessed with words. Dip in with this extract from the book.
Before
“Scraps. That’s all I got. Fragments that made no sense without the words before or the words after.
Single mother Revelle Lee is an interpreter who spends her days translating for victims, witnesses and the accused across London. Only she knows what they're saying. Only she knows the truth. When she believes a grave injustice is about to happen, and a guilty man is going to be labelled innocent, she has the power to twist an alibi to get the verdict she wants. She's willing to risk it all to do what's right.
If you follow our Instagram page for foodies, The Hungry Penguin South Africa, you’ll be familiar with the scrumptious dishes we post there daily. We’ve rounded up our fan favourites from that list with recipes that are musts for your own collection.
Baked Chicken with Chorizo