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|author=Alex WheatleSylvie Cathrall|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=2.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting There are few greater joys than a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed book which lives up, he's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinnercompelling premise. I know, right? But surely And this is just a blip, a day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be the start one of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?them.|isbn=17811294950356522776
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|authorisbn=Karen M McManus0008517061|title=The CousinsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= The rich and famous Story family led Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life of luxury on Gull Cove Islandwith his vet girlfriend, until 25 years ago when each of the Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam Livia and Allison - received a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completely. But nowher daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a quarter lot of a century later, their children have been called compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to return move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the island future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the summer by their grandmother. What does she want with moment they’re enjoying life in the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are present and putting the deaths future on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies, secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family up - and held them apart - for a quarter of a century is about to come crashing downback burner.|isbn=0241376947
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|isbn=17864959021786482126|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Isabel HardmanElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a trauma which she chooses not to sharechild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. She says that Was this a friend who does knowritual killing or murder? Inevitably, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbeliefDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Hardman dealt with this at the time by It'keeping goings difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn': the next day t, that she went to work to cover is pregnant with his child as a result of the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference seasonone night they spent together some three months ago. One night she had to Her condition will be sedated and returned home to begin obvious before long-term sick leave. That was what brought me , not least because Ruth is prone to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I didsudden bouts of sickness.
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|authorisbn=Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez0008551324|title=The Ghost GardenDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Fran, the gardenerIt's daughter at a posh country house, is worriedunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. SheNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's just cracked her garden fork through quite prepared to tell the police where the body of a grim discovery - a large bone, missing person is buried under the potatoesand who was responsible for her death. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with LeoThis person, the older child of the househe promises, breaking his leg while playing cricket on is someone big and it will be worth the lawnpolice doing what he wants. She And what he wants is due to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprisean early parole date. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason Not much to be out of her mind with fearask, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. it? But surely that wonThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't act as a premonition think so and she's even prepared to anything do the other thing that Hardie demanded - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|isbn=1781129002make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|isbn=reed30008405026|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again A Stranger in the Family (3rd EditionMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=James ReedJane Casey
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|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Six It's sixteen years on since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the original editioninvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the book bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is being re-issued with now a bonus chapter entitled complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Future of WorkKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert'' which includes an additional 10 questionss a theatre director. I He've come s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and my life run errands for him. Edward has changed significantly been in the meantimelove with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. I Most men in Robert'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (relationship had begun between them but he's not necessarily paying) work. I can therefore relate like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the first point made two of them kissing in this chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that employees need to havea dark passageway.
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|author= Deborah O'ConnorJo Callaghan|title= The CaptiveLeave No Trace|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary=Hannah knows When a man is found crucified on the cagetop of a hill in Nuneaton, intimatelyDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It lurks in the corner 's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of her eyeunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Soon Will they be able to solve the case in time, it or will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts himKat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1838772650139851120X
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|isbn=B08CR3WNFT1399613073|title=The TherapistMoral Injuries|author=B A ParisChristie Watson|rating=4.5
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|summary=When Leo Curtis found Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the house in The Circlefirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venicebonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Leo wanted to move quickly on Anjali is the property as it was on free spirit of the market group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldndrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it't have s going to sell her cottage end in Harlestone for them to be able to afford ittragedy. Alice agreed - she was tired of their long-distance relationshipWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Now they would Twenty-five years later there will be able to spend most of an eerily similar event that will impact the week together instead of just the weekendsthree friends. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didnThis time, it't feel comfortable theres their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=14063954040241636604|title=The Awesome Power Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of Sleepa city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage BrainFictions that Disrupt|author=Nicola MorganBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=2020 has been a strange year: ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I doubt anyone would argue with 've heard it said that statement'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Lots of our routines Well, I must confess that there have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problemsmore than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarilyme but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Most peopleOf course, from children to adults will have I could research the possibilities and the odd bad night but worrying probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about your lack of sleep or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is only likely to make it worsea luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. And Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there's also is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the fact that hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for far too longthe residents who are still alive in the hotel, lack of sleep has been lauded as he forms a virtue bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and sleep made keeps on venturing out of her room to seem like lazinesstry to capture what's happened through her photography. Being up earlyAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, working late has been praised their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CVterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=000820831X1529153298|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenList of Suspicious Things|author=Stuart MacBrideJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=At the coastal village of Clachmara, the headland It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is slowly eroding into the seaPrime Minister. Storm Trevor speeds up the process(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house to see She's not what's happeningworrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Margaret runs after Miv's upset because she's overheard that her son and as she grabs him to pull him back father wants to safety she glances across at move the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonesfamily 'Down South'. Gordon SmithWhen you's home re from Yorkshire, Down South is falling into a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the North Sea move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the evidence of what hedangers or that her Mum's been doing for decades is going with it stopped talking - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruinto anyone.
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1398524085|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Ragnar JonassonNicci French|rating=45
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|summary=Ari Thor Arason is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and heCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's still living in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do a Masters degreeher daughter, taking threeEtty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old Stefnir with herhusband, Alec, is not. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It's now was an easy assumption for the Thursday of Holy Week and his family is due police to arrive in Siglufjordur make that afternoonDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but when he finally managed to get to sleep the phone rings: the body of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the townwith their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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{{FrontpageinterviewFrontpage|isbn=31106412911035906708|title=Diva|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|summarygenre=General Fiction|summary=Sue We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was so impressed by [[The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing born to Greek parents in Manhattan, NewYork, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs by Olga Kokshagina in December 1923 and Allen Alexander]] that only moved to Athens when she wished that was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she had a good business idea of her own was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could use the book. Perhaps that was what get appropriate training for her voice - she was talking about when Olga raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and Allen popped into Bookbag Towers to chat to usmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Rob WintersChristopher Edge|title=His Name Was WrenBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|summary=In September 1944 something came down Lucas and his friends are all booked in Oban Woodsfor a movie marathon at their local cinema, near a place that has the village nickname of Hurstwick'The Black Hole'. It came down hardAll big movie fans, taking the spire they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the village church with itmovie starts, destroying a stone shackthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. and leaving a wide trail through But as they lurch from one film genre to the woodnext, but no trace of can they figure out what it actually was. on earth is going on? German secret weapon was Will they ever get back to the local gossip, but there should have been an explosion and a cratercinema, and there were neither of those things.to their real lives?|isbn=B08KGVNVNB1839942738
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|author=Stephen ClarkeRachel Greenlaw|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=This is a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond'I can hear the song of the sea. Or Ian FlemingThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. But it features '' Rosevear, a man called Ian Lemmingremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who dresses well swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and 'likes any treasure that lies within. But when the ladies' and who works for Council Watch lays a trap to end the secret servicewrecking, but in they capture the planning side of things more than the active serviceisland's leader and Mira's father. Lemming finds himself put on Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a mission bargain with a female spy called Margauxwreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, and the pair end up stranded she sets off in Normandy, with Margaux on search of a desperate mission family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth traitors in what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the resistance networksmuggler's territory, and Lemming desperately trying Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to keep up with save the future of her!home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=29521638550008664730
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|isbnauthor=3110706075James Sherwood Metts|title=Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry BrownPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=''YouThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're not there paid to do and other tasks that took time to run the organisationaccomplish. You are there Just as they were beginning to make sure that it is run properly.'' Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring get used to all this technological change and starting to a board - not just a corporate board, but the board think of an NHS Trustother, a universitynew ways to spend time, a sports organisation or a charityalong came an awful pandemic. He's particularly keen that there's increased diversity on these boards Life was pretty much shut down and feels that this would help to avoid some of , along with it, all the scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - we're thinking about you) many daily social interactions on which have occurred in recent years. For this to happen, boards need to have a wider field of people to choose from when they're looking for an IDdepend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1786495902Matthew Tree|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel HardmanWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to share. She says that be different from his father, a friend, who does know, burst into tears drunk and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and then it was party conference season. One night she who had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leaveendless crises of self confidence. That was what brought me So Tim applied himself to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than I didhis daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=3030513025A G Slatter|title=The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis Briar Book of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Moraisthe Dead
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|genre=Business and FinanceFantasy|summary=Independent Director: ''There's a job part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for which no one is qualified'' (''Financial Timesa while.'')
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|isbn=B002SQCYWQ1529900360|title=The Complete Barchester ChroniclesGhost Orchid|author=Anthony TrollopeJonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=When I told my daughter that I didnIt hadn't know what to listen to now been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Sensibilityeven after Alex recovered, Pride Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and Prejudice-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, Mansfield Parkit was Robin, EmmaDelaware's partner, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the second time on involvement was something that the trot man she had the perfect answer: loved needed. The Barchester Chronicles and they next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in my inbox the swimming pool of a remote property in a matter of minutesBel Air. TheyHe was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it're s not ''quite'' as well known as the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onItalian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=00082144681529395224|title=A Time to LieLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Simon BerthonSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=A workman has Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a nasty surprise GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he pulls a package out of an excavation considered the strain that being on-call put on a building site. Ithis father's wrapped in part life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of an old shower curtain doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and is a handwas convinced this was the job for him. Before long, severed above the wristhe was at Liverpool University. Ithadn's been there for about twentyt -five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie with so many students - is Prime Minister. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and Bella. Sandford's determined to be a better type of politician: been his dream since he wants ''was a government that is not just practically good, but morally goodchild.'' One of the ways he's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morland-CrossIf anything, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy wanted to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementbe a professional footballer.
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|isbn=B077K6BQFD0861541774|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion A Nye of Pheasants|author=Jane AustenSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Yes DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that's over eightyhe was facing a man armed with a knife -one hours and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of listening for manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the purchase of one audio bookdeath penalty. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and theywouldn're presented in the order in which they were publishedt help Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=0241453585Alexander McCall Smith|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne BodenThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=Anne Boden had The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an impressive track record alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bankwhile. AIB was in the throes Katie is coming out of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived a break up with a bad boyfriend, and she was one of so jumps at the first chance to realise that banks needed come home to do things differentlyEdinburgh. AIB thought it was at And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the cutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to access their accounts via a terminalcharm. Boden took things Katie has no experience in running a step furtherbusiness, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch networkor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, employing thousands of peopleWilliam, would soon become redundant.to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Lauren Martin0811771741|title=The Book of MoodsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCrafts|summary= I was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesnMelissa Leapman't always translate well into writing, imagine the word s ''greatInstaKnits for Baby'' being delivered with an eye roll and gives us a sigh, through clenched teethcollection of knits from toys to blankets. I had spent Some will be quick knits - others are of the best part of a rainy'long, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club cosy afternoons in front of the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed supportfire' variety. It The projects are divided by the time they's a volunteer duty we all do during the yearll take to complete - less than five hours, and normally I'm happy five toten hours, but that day ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the weather was miserable projects are attractive, modern and useable. I was miserable, and it all came to a head that evening perhaps show my age when I noticed on the website wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife"'s me being picky. Wow. I had never needed this book more.|isbn=1538733625
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|author=Becky AlbertalliDean Koontz|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has Benny is having a great lifeterrifically bad day. He has a close group of friendsloses his job, a loving familyhe loses his fiancee, and even an adorable doghis house gets trashed. But he Oh, and someone has delivered a secret: he's gay. Only one person knows thisreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and thatit's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out possible that there whoever or whatever was another closeted guy at inside is the thing that has trashed his schoolhouse! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Their emails are He is a safe space nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Simon; Benny it's turns out that the delivery to his own private universe without the fear of house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being judgeda good person. Until one day Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, these emails fall into the wrong handsBenny, and everything Simon knows is turned upside downHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=014135609X1662500491
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|isbnauthor=3110641119Adam Stower|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating Murray and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry AngraveBun|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers |summary=I had no idea what 'journey mapping' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the book Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and acting on , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the contentstwo. YouBut he're going to learn how to run s a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a workshop to discover what it feels like to be one world of your own customersfrightening adventure and whiffs. At this pointThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, please don't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this where a troll hunter is going expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be fun honest, but he's turned up and youhe're going ll have to be surprised by what emerges.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=3110641291B0C47LV1PC|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing BreakthroughsFragility|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction|summary=So, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new Can you end up with the same thing in make a slightly different form and quite a bit of money spent. Why not just leave it as it is? After all, it's 'Yo birthing person'roughly'' workingjoke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, isn't would itland?The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.
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|isbn=14729620441529431735|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your BusinessThe Winter Visitor|author=Andrew HampshireJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=I was once told that 'technologyIt' s February 1991 and Essex is anything that happens after youbitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins're eighteen, so therereturn all the more surprising. He's d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a lot of technology in my lifedecade. I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they The return has come about because he's had a typewriter. Times letter from his ex- thankfully - have moved on. Nowadays the problem is wife, saying that someone running a business doesnshe't have the time to keep up with constant innovation s ill and they might also be scared because previous IT investments havenhasn't delivered as expectedlong to live. It's also hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a fact that no one develops a business because they have watery grave in the knowledge boot of the required technology, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantagestolen Ford Sierra. They need help, but they frequently don't know what help they need.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|author=Mark LinganeAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Note to Self: An EducationThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= In Kry's worldEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a cascade of medical "advances": generation missing in 2030 itthe family. A few short years ago, Eli's found that radiation can return cells back parents were both lost to their regeneration state seven years beforethe titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in 2035 it's possible the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to cure cancerous tumours the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the side effect of erasing seven years sole aim the prize of memory, by 2045 magic at the cosmetics industry is using end – the same technique only thing to "de-age" their customers by seven yearspossibly save his gran. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS0571382231
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