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|author=Alex WheatleTom Percival|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeWrong Shoes|rating=2.5
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|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of timesways. He should be getting a text from is bullied because he has 'the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema datewrong shoes', but he has the wrong shoes because his phone has packed up, hedad can's chundered last nightt work and doesn's meal t have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his breakfast over another girl in classdad can't work because he lost his job at the college, who's duffed him up was working a cash-in response, -hand job on a building site and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anywayhad an accident. On a bigger scale he's living with Throw into that mix the fact that his mother mum and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yesare separated, things are so bad theyand Will're resorting to having cabbage for dinners life seems bleak in every direction. I knowAnd yet, right? he still has a tiny amount of hope. But surely this He is just a blipgood at art, a day at school and clings to forgetthe moments of joy when he is drawing, and everything (that feel like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be a light at the start end of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17811294951398527122
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|author=Karen M McManusSylvie Cathrall|title=The CousinsA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= The rich and famous Story family led There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a life compelling premise. And this is one of luxury on Gull Cove Islandthem.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, until 25 years ago when each has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of the Story children - Anders, Archerhis life with his vet girlfriend, 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
|genre=Thrillers
|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 drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that Alice wouldnwill impact the three friends. This time, it't have s their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to sell her cottage bring up an image of a city banker in Harlestone for them your mind, you're unlikely to be able to afford itthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Alice agreed A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin- she stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was tired no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of their longEconomics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright -distance relationshipand he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Now they would He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be able 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 spend most 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 week together instead of just circumstances seem suspicious, to say the weekendsleast. Leo Arthur was the reason why Freya had some work done on not been back to the housevillage: he made two bedrooms into one 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 although Alice knew that married James (on the rebound from the house love of her life, who was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable theremurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1406395404AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Awesome Power of SleepAll 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: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots ''Opening up new ways of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought thinking about sleep problemsthe shape of things to come. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - ' I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarilyheard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Most peopleWell, from children to adults will I must confess that there have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack been more than a few decades of sleep is only likely to make it worsetechnology in my lifetime. And thereI've kept up reasonably well with what's also advantageous to me but I'm left with the fact feeling that for far too long, lack it's all getting away from me. Some of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like lazinessit is - frankly - quite frightening. Being up earlyOf course, working late has been praised I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CVlatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=000820831XSunny Singh|title=The Coffinmaker's Garden|author=Stuart MacBrideHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=At The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the coastal village of Clachmaraterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, the headland there is slowly eroding into Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the seahotel manager. Storm Trevor speeds up As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the process. A ship - residents who are still alive in the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking venturing out of the house her room to try to see capture what's happeninghappened through her photography. Margaret runs after Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her son keep safe and as she grabs him they both wait to pull him back to safety she glances across at see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bones. Gordon Smith's home is falling into the North Sea and the evidence of what he's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruinterrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1529153298|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)The List of Suspicious Things|author=Ragnar JonassonJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Ari Thor Arason It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and hePrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's still living in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do a Masters degreefamily, taking three-year-old Stefnir with herthough. Women have been disappearing. They were supposed Well, they've been murdered, but to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. ItMiv's upset because she's now overheard that her father wants to move the Thursday of Holy Week and his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoon'Down South'. Ari Thor When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get to sleep the phone rings: the body of a young woman has been found on Adalgatafrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the main street of move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the towndangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Rob Winters1398524085|title=His Name Was WrenHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban WoodsCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, near the village of Hurstwickis not. It came down hardShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, taking find the spire body of the village church with itGreg's father, destroying a stone shackDuncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and leaving a wide trail through then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the wood, but no trace of what it actually wasguilt. German secret weapon was the local gossip, The Salter children are not convinced but there should have been an explosion 's little else they can do but get on with their lives and a crater, and there were neither of those thingswonder about what really happened.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB
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|authorisbn=Stephen Clarke1035906708|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is a spoof spy storyWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, that isn't about James Bondin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Or Ian Fleming. But Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and to 'likes the ladiesCallas' and who works for the secret service, but to make it more manageable in the planning side of things more than the active serviceStates. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on Nazi occupation by a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the resistance network, mother who mercilessly exploited her and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with made no secret of her preference for her!|isbn=2952163855elder sister, Jackie.
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|isbnauthor=3110706075Christopher Edge|title=Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry BrownBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'You're not there to run the organisation. You are there to make sure that it is run properly.All big movie fans, they'' Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring re looking forward to a board - not just a corporate board, but the board lots of an NHS Trustexciting films, a universityand many, a sports organisation or a charity. many snacks! He's particularly keen that there's increased diversity on these boards and feels However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this would help to avoid some of the scandals (Oxfamnew film format is very different, Kids Company - weand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn're thinking about you) which have occurred in recent yearst even imagine. For this But as they lurch from one film genre to happenthe next, boards need can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to have a wider field of people the cinema, and to choose from when they're looking for an ID.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=1786495902Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel HardmanCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleTeens|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. She says that '' Rosevear, a friend, who does knowremote and partially forgotten island, burst survives on luring ships into tears the rocks and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbeliefplundering the wrecks. Hardman dealt with this at Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the time by 'keeping going': ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the next day she went to work Council Watch lays a trap to cover end the budgetwrecking, next there was they capture the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests island's leader and then it was party conference seasonMira's father. One night she had Desperate to be sedated save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and returned home with only coordinates to begin long-term sick leaveguide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. That was With only nine days to unearth what brought me might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to this book: 2020 was the year when heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the bins went out more often than I didones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|isbnauthor=3030513025James Sherwood Metts|title=The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe MoraisPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=Independent Director: ''Things have been a job bit sticky for which no one is qualified'' (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of the board of directors who (1) do not Earthlings. AI and automation have a material relationship with the companybeen proceeding apace, (2) is not part of the companyoften replacing jobs they's executive team, re paid to do and (3) is not involved with the day-other tasks that took time to-day operations of the companyaccomplish. (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the executive members of boards and the independent directors (formerly known Just as non-executive directors), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. The function of the independent director is they were beginning to have general oversight of the executive side of the board - get used to spot when and where things are going wrong - but all too often the relationship is too cosy, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge this technological change and/or experience starting to understand what's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the failings and weaknesses think of leadership and governance and you might be tempted other, new ways to think that these are extraordinary times and that all will be well once we get back to 'normal' but a spend time, along came an awful pandemic . Life was predicted pretty much shut down and modelled in , along with it, all the past and there has been a general failure to prepare for what has happened - and is still happeningmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQMatthew Tree|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5
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|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibilitybe different from his father, Pride a drunk and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on the trot she who had the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and they were in my inbox in a matter endless crises of minutesself confidence. They're not ''quite'' as well known as the Austen books So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but they're an excellent follow onachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=0008214468A G Slatter|title=A Time to Lie|author=Simon BerthonThe Briar Book of the Dead
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|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=A workman has '' There's a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out part of an excavation on a building siteme that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. It's wrapped in part This secret magic of an old shower curtain and is a handmy own, all mine, severed above the wristat last. It's been there I just want to enjoy it for about twenty-five to thirty-five yearsa while.''
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|isbn=B077K6BQFD1529900360|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion Ghost Orchid|author=Jane AustenJonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Yes - thatIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's over eightyfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-one hours and-shut cases which didn't need the help of listening a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the purchase swimming pool of one audio booka remote property in Bel Air. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and theyshe is married to an extremely rich man and it're presented in s not the order in Italian. But which they were published.of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=02414535851529395224|title=Banking On ItLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: How I Disrupted an IndustryThe Secret Life of a Vet|author=Anne BodenSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Business Animals and FinanceWildlife|summary=Anne Boden had an impressive track record Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bankstrain that being on-call put on his father's life. AIB When he was in seventeen he took the throes opportunity of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and she was one of convinced this was the first to realise that banks needed to do things differentlyjob for him. AIB thought it Before long, he was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a branch which allowed customers child. If anything, he'd wanted to access their accounts via be a terminal. Boden took things a step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundantprofessional footballer.
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|authorisbn=Lauren Martin0861541774|title=The Book A Nye of MoodsPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= I was in a great mood when I first learnt of this bookDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writingDanny Maik, imagine the word ''great'' being delivered has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an eye roll and a sighold ally, through clenched teethGuy Trueman. I had spent the best part of Maik was involved in a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who street brawl - he would later maintain that he was racing needed support. It's facing a man armed with a volunteer duty we all do during the year, knife - and normally I'm happy tohe killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but that day the weather was miserable and I was miserable, and it all evidence came to a head light that suggested that evening when I noticed on he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the website that we had been thanked for our time death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as "Dave any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book morewouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1538733625
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|author=Becky AlbertalliAlexander McCall Smith|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a great lifemore personal, tailored service. He Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a close group while. Katie is coming out of friends, a loving familybreak up with a bad boyfriend, and even so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an adorable dogEdinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. But he Katie has no experience in running a secret: he's gay. Only one person knows thisbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and that's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at his school. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; it's his own private universe without the fear of being judged. Until one dayalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, these emails fall into the wrong handsWilliam, and everything Simon knows is turned upside down.to lend a hand…|isbn=014135609X1846976596
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|isbn=31106411190811771741|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey MappingInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jerry AngraveMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceCrafts|summary=I had no idea what Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'journey mapping' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will benefit from reading be quick knits - others are of the book and acting on 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the contentsfire' variety. YouThe projects are divided by the time they're going ll take to learn how complete - less than five hours, five to run a workshop ten hours, ten to discover what it feels like to be one of your own customerstwenty hours and more than twenty hours. At this pointAll the projects are attractive, please donmodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 't say social-media-worthy projects'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshopbut that' because this is going to be fun and you're going to be surprised by what emergess me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=3110641291Dean Koontz|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceParanormal|summary=SoBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, why bother? and his house gets trashed. Every time you set out Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to do something new you end up with his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the same thing in that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a slightly different form and quite a bit of money spentnice person. A really nice person. Why not just leave it as So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is? After alla new friend, it's ''roughly'' workinga bad weather friend called Spike, isn't it? You might not have said it, but you've probably thought itwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. You've also thought the small, incremental improvements which you have been able Spike is going to make - the optimisation take care of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possibleBenny, the extension and will certainly take care of your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in terms of ''growth''. ItBenny's been manageable enemies, if he, Benny, and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by Harper (a competitor waitress slash Private Investigator who takes a more radical approach. You've merely kept the business ticking over and therefinds herself roped into Benny's a nagging suspicion in the back of your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovationwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=1472962044Adam Stower|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew HampshireMurray and Bun
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|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers |summary=I was once told that 'technology' Murray is anything that happens after you're eighteensupposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, so there's been a lot of technology in my life. I once worked for a manager one who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriter. Times - thankfully - have moved on. Nowadays the problem is that someone running a business doesn't have the time able to keep up with constant innovation sleep and eat and eat and sleep and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. ItBut he's also a fact that no one develops bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a business because hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they have the knowledge of both use can chuck them out, not into the required technologyregular back garden, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they're at but into a disadvantageworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. They need helpThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but they frequently donhe's turned up and he't know what help they need.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Mark LinganeB0C47LV1PC|title=Note to Self: An EducationFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary= In KryCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s worldjoke? And if you could, is the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 question should you make it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before? Or is the question if you did, in 2035 would itland? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. 's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with 'Fragility'' is set as the side effect city of erasing seven years of memoryPortland, Oregon, by 2045 cautiously begins to emerge from the cosmetics industry is using restrictions imposed during the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KScovid pandemic
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|isbn=1529431735
|title=The Winter Visitor
|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?