Two new releases for you today, although on vastly different subjects. First up we have The Meat Fix: How A Lifetime of Healthy Eating Nearly Killed Me!, (available for £6.49, RRP £8.99) one man’s story of how eating meat after 26 vegetarian years transformed his health for the better. We also have The Slow Death of British Industry: A Sixty Year Suicide 1952-2012, (available for £7.99, RRP £8.99) exploring the decline of that which used to make Britain great; its booming industry.
The Meat Fix
For twenty-six years, John Nicholson was a vegetarian. No meat, no fish, no guilt – a walking advert for healthy eating. Brown rice, lentils, tofu, fruit, vegetables – in the battle of good food versus bad, he should have been on the winning side. But the exact opposite was true: his diet was making him ill. Really ill. Joint pain? Tick. Fatigue? Tick. IBS and piles? Tick, tick. Not to mention the fat belly and the sky-high cholesterol. His mind may have forgotten its taste for flesh and blood but had his body? Tired of being sick, John decided to do the unthinkable: eat meat and eat lots of it. Opposing official healthy-eating advice, he returned to an old-fashioned, red-blooded, full-fat, high-cholesterol diet. The results were spectacular. Twenty-four hours later, he felt better. After forty-eight hours he was fighting fit. Twelve months on, he had become a new person. The Meat Fix charts one man’s journey to the top of the food chain, uncovering in the process an alternate universe of research that condemns everything we think we know about healthy eating as little more than illusion, guesswork and marketing. The body is a temple – but, as John Nicholson discovered, we may have forgotten how to worship it.
“a controversial but also a highly enjoyable read” – Mark Pack
“exquisite writing…this is an important book” – Irish Independent
“pungently matey prose” – Guardian
At the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, the souvenirs on sale across the nation were, as one might expect, almost entirely British-produced. Fast-forward to 2012 and the 
vast majority of Diamond Jubilee keepsakes were made in China. Even products that epitomise Britishness are now made overseas: Slazenger’s official Wimbledon tennis ball in the Philippines, Terry’s Chocolate Orange in Poland, HP sauce at a Euro-gloop factory in Holland, and Smarties in Germany. Household names that used to trip off the tongue have been consumed by global competitors and, consequently, lost what made them proudly British. Industry used to be what made Britain great; now a shadow has fallen on the factories of our nation. How has this been allowed to happen and is there any glimmer of hope for the future? The Slow Death of British Industry provides an exacting, timely account of Britain’s industrial problems and shows how we might rectify these ills.
“[a] timely and significant book” – Iain Wright MP, Total Politics