One Good Turn

Author Jan Brierton (based in Artane in Dublin), fashion stylist by trade, began writing out of frustration at her work drying up, and the need to juggle being a home-school teacher, playground chaperone, cook, cleaner and everything else, and the desire to be back with the people she loved. She ended up writing a poem the book takes its name from, which was championed by her friend Roisín Ingle in the Irish Times and went ‘viral’.

Balanced Body and Mind: A Complex Equation takes a holistic approach to weight loss, but it is much more than a diet book. It gives you the tools you need to explore the areas of your life that you struggle with and that are impacting your happiness and wellbeing.

This is the gritty prison memoir of Michaella McCollum, one half of the infamous 'Peru Two', sentenced to 7 years in a Peruvian jail for attempting to smuggle 11kg of cocaine.