Kiwi author Lotta Dann is no stranger to sharing her struggles with the public, and she's turned her attention to diet culture in her latest release.

In 2018, Lotta shared her experience with alcohol and opened up about ditching the booze for good in her popular blog and subsequent books. 

Her focus then shifted to her weight - and she's since detailed her experience with extreme dieting and obsessing over calories, as well as her subsequent recovery in her new book Mrs D is Not on a Diet.

"It was just so full-on, but it worked and I just got so skinny and the praise - it was incredible. So I kept going and then I just couldn't make it work, and I tried every trick in the book, and I couldn't make it work." 

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Kiwi author Lotta Dann is no stranger to sharing her struggles with the public, and she's turned her attention to diet culture in her latest release.
In 2018, Lotta shared her experience with alcohol and opened up about ditching the booze for good in her popular blog and subsequent books.&nbsp;
Her focus then shifted to her weight - and she's since detailed her experience with extreme dieting and obsessing over calories, as well as her subsequent recovery in her new book Mrs D is Not on a Diet.
"It was just so full-on, but it worked and I just got so skinny and the praise - it was incredible. So I kept going and then I just couldn't make it work, and I tried every trick in the book, and I couldn't make it work."&nbsp;
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Lotta Dann: journalist and author pushes back against diet culture in new book Mrs D is Not on a Diet

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Geoffrey Rush has maintained a long-running acting career - and his latest film is set to explore the horrors that can come with old age.

Rush has made a name for himself on the big screen, appearing in films like Shakespeare in Love, Pirates of the Caribbean, and The King’s Speech - to name a few.

He's set to star in Kiwi director James Ashcroft's The Rule of Jenny Pen, a film set in a drab retirement home in the North Island.

"It's about bullying, really. And I asked James - why did you write this? He said - I've got three daughters and they're all less than 12 and I've always been intrigued by the genre of thriller or mystery or horror, but I'm more concerned about consequences." 

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Geoffrey Rush has maintained a long-running acting career - and his latest film is set to explore the horrors that can come with old age.
Rush has made a name for himself on the big screen, appearing in films like Shakespeare in Love, Pirates of the Caribbean, and The King’s Speech - to name a few.
He's set to star in Kiwi director James Ashcroft's The Rule of Jenny Pen, a film set in a drab retirement home in the North Island.
"It's about bullying, really. And I asked James - why did you write this? He said - I've got three daughters and they're all less than 12 and I've always been intrigued by the genre of thriller or mystery or horror, but I'm more concerned about consequences."&nbsp;
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Geoffrey Rush: Australian actor on his new film The Rule of Jenny Pen

Globally-acclaimed Kiwi indie band The Veils have returned with a new album - and Kiwi fans will be able to catch them on tour in the coming days.

Their seventh studio album, Asphodels, was released at the end of January, and features singles including The Ladder and O Fortune Teller.

Lead singer Finn Andrews says he's looking forward to sharing the new album with Kiwi fans as part of their upcoming tour of New Zealand.

"I've always just used songwriting as a way to try and process these thoughts that are too big for my daily life - there's big questions that elude me and elude everyone else, I suppose."

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Globally-acclaimed Kiwi indie band The Veils have returned with a new album - and Kiwi fans will be able to catch them on tour in the coming days.
Their seventh studio album, Asphodels, was released at the end of January, and features singles including The Ladder and O Fortune Teller.
Lead singer Finn Andrews says he's looking forward to sharing the new album with Kiwi fans as part of their upcoming tour of New Zealand.
"I've always just used songwriting as a way to try and process these thoughts that are too big for my daily life - there's big questions that elude me and elude everyone else, I suppose."
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Finn Andrews: Lead singer of The Veils talks about the band's new album and upcoming tour of New Zealand

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Broken Country by Clare Lesley Hall. Set in a small English farming community in the 1960s, this is the story of a love triangle which goes horribly wrong. Beth and Gabriel were young lovers whose lives then took very different turns and when they reconnect years later, a lot of things have changed. You know from the first page that someone is dead, and the weight of secrets which Beth and her husband Frank are holding becomes insurmountable as a murder trial looms and nothing will ever be the same again. Beautifully written and highly recommended.

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy. Dominic Salt and his three children live on the remote island of Shearwater where he’s the custodian of the world’s largest seed bank. A woman is washed ashore in a storm, but her arrival can’t be random as the island is so remote and it soon becomes clear she’s come searching for something which the family may not want to give her. The isolation, the depth of these characters and the unfurling of the story is couched in some exceptional writing. This book is a miracle. 

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Broken Country by Clare Lesley Hall. Set in a small English farming community in the 1960s, this is the story of a love triangle which goes horribly wrong. Beth and Gabriel were young lovers whose lives then took very different turns and when they reconnect years later, a lot of things have changed. You know from the first page that someone is dead, and the weight of secrets which Beth and her husband Frank are holding becomes insurmountable as a murder trial looms and nothing will ever be the same again. Beautifully written and highly recommended.
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy. Dominic Salt and his three children live on the remote island of Shearwater where he’s the custodian of the world’s largest seed bank. A woman is washed ashore in a storm, but her arrival can’t be random as the island is so remote and it soon becomes clear she’s come searching for something which the family may not want to give her. The isolation, the depth of these characters and the unfurling of the story is couched in some exceptional writing. This book is a miracle.&nbsp;
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Whitcoulls Recommends: Broken Country and Wild Dark Shore

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Lotta Dann: journalist and author pushes back against diet culture in new book Mrs D is Not on a Diet

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