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|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1529337925|title=The Coral BrideMirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime(Historical)|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwomanIt was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, making her living in a manit was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasn's worldt inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called call from Sandy Bissett in to come and head the investigationDundee. Although She was the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, publisher of a magazine and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories had been told that the man running the Punch and secret family feuds. At Judy show in the same time as trying local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to run his investigation, he also has his grown drum up son, Sebastien arriving at some local interest in his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable show. Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to talk warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesdo the same job.|isbn=1913193322
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|isbn=14721347100099551063|title=Agatha Raisin The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and the Quiche of DeathSerial Killers|author=M C BeatonDr Kevin Dutton
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|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street for a cottage in ' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.'' Until the Cotswold village events of Carsley. She6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many readers: now they'd have preferred one of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with re probably convinced that they knew it all the problems that bringsalong. Now the problem is settling into The statement has lost a different way little of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant its shock value but it does help us to people. The first move is to enter the village quiche-baking competition and understand more about the beginning nature of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browne, and his wife Vera out to dinnerpsychopathy. She knows sheIt's being ripped off at too easy to associate psychopathy with the pub in Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the next village real-life Hannibal Lecter, but this the truth is necessary and it's that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good investment as she knows that she's going to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..thing.
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|author= Claire McGowanAlex Wheatle|title=The PushHumiliations of Welton Blake|rating= 2.5|genre= General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Six mumsWe meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to-be meet at a prenatal class. Itcinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's NCT chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who'styles duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he'', but s living with his mother and not much income now that the proper NCT. This bit is importantdad has left the picture – yes, but you have things are so bad they're resorting to wait a little to see whyhaving cabbage for dinner. This being London I know, such right? But surely this is just a class attracts blip, a wide variety of peopleday at school to forget, from and everything (like his vomit) will all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have come out in common is it's their first baby. Probably after the first one, you donwash? This can't have be the start of a most nightmarish time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.young Welton?|isbn=15420199901781129495
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|isbnauthor=1472255917Karen M McManus|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)|author=Quintin JardineCousins|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=On New Year's EveThe rich and famous Story family led a life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at until 25 years ago when each of the golf club with his wifeStory children - Anders, Professor Sarah GraceArcher, daughter Alex Skinner Adam and the man with whom she shares Allison - received a housemysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completely. But now, Dominic Jackson. Jackson would be better-known to the criminal fraternity a quarter of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed and the new name reflects a new man. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into the new year. Skinner's tempted century later, their children have been called to return to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking island for his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburghsummer by their grandmother. Skinner's not technically What does she want with the police now - he's chairman cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of InterMedia UK twisted lies, secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family up - but the police value his knowledge and experienceheld them apart - for a quarter of a century is about to come crashing down.|isbn=0241376947
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|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1786495902|title=The Long Dark RoadNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=P R BlackIsabel Hardman|rating=45|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgechooses not to share. There was She says that a furious storm going on friend who does know, burst into tears and shehealth-care professionals'd already refused the offer of help from one man jaws have sagged in a big vehicledisbelief. WeHardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into : the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the car political party leadership contests and driven offthen it was party conference season. There has been no sign of her - or her body One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long- in the two years sinceterm sick leave. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined That was what brought me to find this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out what happened and she's not going to be stoppedmore often than I did.}}
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|author= Katharine OrtonEmma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title= GlassheartThe Ghost Garden|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and Fran, the gardener's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. She's just cracked her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bone, buried under the Blitz claimed the lives of her familypotatoes. Now But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, in the aftermath older child of the warhouse, they travel all over breaking his leg while playing cricket on the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombslawn. Their latest job takes them out She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the wilds grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to be out of Dartmoorher mind with fear, where Nona discovers that her world when she learns what he is full of ancient and powerful magicseeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. She also discovers But surely that won't act as a mysterious entity, known only as The Soldier, is hellpremonition to anything -bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own endsnot here in the sultry, and will not stop until he has her…summery days of 1914?|isbn=14063852391781129002
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|isbn=B08KKQ85FNreed3|title=But Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never For LunchFear Again (3rd Edition)|author=Sandra AragonaJames Reed|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesBusiness and Finance|summary=''If a woman approaching Six years on from the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstickoriginal edition, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles the book is being re-issued with a pampered peacock about to be released into the company bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of carrion crows or, more Work'' which includes an additional 10 questions. I've come to this some 6 years after reviewing the point, about to discover original book and my life has changed significantly in the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas billsmeantime.I'' You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife m no longer working in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come middle-management having opted for HE a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to retires and for Sandra Aragona enable me to become The Wife of Former Ambassador..focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. They have left The Career and settled I can therefore relate to the first point made in Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates the situation this chapter namely that independence and their dog, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deafflexibility are core skills that employees need to have.
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|author= Susi Holliday Deborah O'Connor|title= The Last Resort Captive|rating= 3.5 4
|genre= Thrillers
|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from Hannah knows the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencercage, gossip columnist and hedge fund managerintimately. Everyone seems to have an area It lurks in the corner of expertise that makes their attendance necessaryher eye. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the islandSoon, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenwill be occupied. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle Then what? What if he speaks to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. ? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=15420200181838772650
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|isbn=B08GFSK2WZB08CR3WNFT|title=The Karma TrapTherapist|author=Lisette BoydB A Paris|rating=45|genre=Women's FictionThrillers|summary=George Jackson is thirty-three years oldWhen Leo Curtis found the house in The Circle, a gated community, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and singleAlice Dawson was in Venice. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in Leo wanted to move quickly on the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited property as it was on the market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her and she has a real talent cottage in Harlestone for attracting dramathem to be able to afford it. Her life's chaotic: Alice agreed - she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom was tired of the stairs their long-distance relationship. Now they would be able to absorb spend most of the water - then week together instead of just the shower fell through weekends. Leo had some work done on the roof whilst she was in it house: he made two bedrooms into one and left her, stark naked, staring at although Alice knew that the pervy postman. She only has to take her motherhouse was stunning she just didn's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the officet feel comfortable there.
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|isbn=00083331731406395404|title=HungryThe Awesome Power of Sleep: A Memoir of Wanting MoreHow Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Grace DentNicola Morgan
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|genre=AutobiographyTeens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of the judges on ''Masterchefour routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. You know that you're going Most people, from children to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of the timesleep is only likely to make it worse. You And there's also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all the fact that good food in front for far too long, lack of hersleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. I've often wondered about Being up early, working late has been praised and the woman behind the media image and ''Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' is a stunning read which will make you laugh and break ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your heart in equal measuresCV.
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|isbn=1838773169000820831X|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotCoffinmaker's Garden|author=S J BennettStuart MacBride|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II At the coastal village of Clachmara, the headland is at Windsor for slowly eroding into the Easter Courtsea. She's having a dine and sleep at Storm Trevor speeds up the request of Prince Charles, who's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectsprocess. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the evening rocks and one young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the performers brought in house to play the piano has been found dead in see what can only be called embarrassing circumstances. The immediate reaction is that one of the guests is responsible's happening. The Queen mentally rules out Margaret runs after her racing manager, an ex-ambassador son and as she grabs him to pull him back to Moscow, safety she glances across at the Archbishop of Canterbury newly-exposed cliff front and Sir David Attenboroughsees human bones. One couldnGordon Smith't bear to go down any s home is falling into the North Sea and the evidence of what he''those'' roadss been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruin.
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|authorisbn=Matt HaigB08BC4D58S|title=The Midnight LibraryWinterkill (Dark Iceland)|author=Ragnar Jonasson|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Between life and death there Ari Thor Arason is a library. And so, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself in the Midnight Library. Everything that could've gone wrong police inspector in NoraSiglufjordur and he's life has. Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother won't speak still living in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to her, her parents are dead, the boy she teaches piano Sweden to no longer cares about piano, she called off her weddingdo a Masters degree, and taking three-year-old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs Stefnir with her help. She gave up on all the things that would They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelled. It've let her escape s now the wet, cold town Thursday of Bedford Holy Week and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, she realises his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that she isn't made for life and decides to dieafternoon. But instead of death, she finds the library. Each infinite shelf Ari Thor is filled with books, each book providing a chance having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get to try another life she could have lived, in sleep the phone rings: the body of a parallel time. And soyoung woman has been found on Adalgata, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th main street of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she could'vethe town.|isbn=1786892731
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|isbn=0349423083|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to Germany before long. James went to see what the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride but he'd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returns.}}{{Frontpage|author=Caroline ScottRob Winters|title=When I Come Home Again|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isn't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on the road for a long time and being frightened, and some of the faces from the road, but other than that – everything that came before has gone. They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he is, where he is or how he got there.|isbn=1471192172}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529410347|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)|author=Helen CoxHis Name Was Wren
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Kitt Hartley's assistant, Grace EdwardsIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, has left her library job and taken a place on near the Venerable Bede Academy's vocational library studies course in Durhamvillage of Hurstwick. It's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not acceptedcame down hard, so most of taking the people attending are scions spire of the seriously richvillage church with it, scholarship students - or they've manageddestroying a stone shack, somehow, to scrape together and leaving a wide trail through the money. Gracewood, who's 22, comes into the last category. Her parents agreed to fund the course but told her that if that no trace of what it actually was what she chose to do then they were finished with her. Not long after she started German secret weapon was the courselocal gossip, Kitt Hartley came for but there should have been an explosion and a visit - crater, and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance there were neither of a student from a year agothose things.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB
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|author=Vincent PanettiereStephen Clarke|title=These Thy GiftsThe Spy Who Inspired Me
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''2006 This is a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church. Reports of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for the future of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer to home than he ever imagined.'' As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic churchspoof spy story, he discovers that one child in his own parish has been abused by a priest sent by his bishop. And this isn't just any boy: this is Steve's grandson whose mother is the offspring of a long past relationship between Steve and a gangster's widowabout James Bond. Steve is determined to seek justice for this boy and all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his church Or Ian Fleming. But he must also face up to his own failings, going right back to his breaking of the celibacy vows.|isbn=1503199886}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1800321104|title=The Body on the Island|author=Nick Louth|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefieldit features a man called Ian Lemming, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old dresses well and had served six years for 'likes the manslaughter of his wife. Only that wasnladies't and who he was. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years works for the murder secret service, but in the planning side of five boys between things more than the ages of ten and seventeenactive service. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and into a new identity set the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a deal whereby he divulged desperate mission to unearth traitors in the whereabouts of the body of one of his victims. The Bogeyman was going resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared to be a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revenge.keep up with her!|isbn=2952163855
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|isbn=14736924073110706075|title=The Book of Two WaysMaking a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Jodi PicoultGerry Brown
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|genre=General FictionBusiness and Finance|summary=Dawn Edelstein is a death doula: that's someone who is 'You're not there for to run the person who is dying, organisation. You are there to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and to support their carerssure that it is run properly. It's ' Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just a rewardingcorporate board, caring occupation and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it but this wasn't always her life. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as the board of an EgyptologistNHS Trust, she was working with her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphriesa university, a sports organisation or a charity. He's particularly keen that there's increased diversity on these boards and feels that this would help to avoid some of the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir elscandals (Oxfam, Kids Company -Bersha on the Nile we're thinking about you) which have occurred in Middle Egyptrecent years. Then she was Dawn McDowell: that was her maiden nameFor this to happen, the name she published underboards need to have a wider field of people to choose from when they're looking for an ID.
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|authorisbn=Delia Owens1786495902|title=Where The Crawdads SingNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman
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|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary= In 1952, Kya's mother disappeared up the dirt track Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to townshare. She says that a friend, wearing her alligator heelswho does know, burst into tears and never came homehealth-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Then one Hardman dealt with this at the time by one her siblings left, ran from 'keeping going': the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead next day she went to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken father. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for a mother that would never return and grew up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor write. Finally, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone work to survive on cover the marsh. Eventuallybudget, as next there was the years drift painfully byEU referendum, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional political party leadership contests and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning then it was party conference season. One night she had to be loved sedated and returned home to be heldbegin long-term sick leave. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way That was what brought me to her, she finds a new way of life. But in 1969, this book: 2020 was the body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects year when the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girlbins went out more often than I did. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665
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|authorisbn=David C Mason3030513025|title=Pandora's Gardener|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary= John Cranston is a gardener, although The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what he did before he became a gardener, he claims, is classified. That is just as well because he is about to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save the day. |isbn=0956180523}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0356512479do|author= Alix E Harrow|title= The Once Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Future WitchesFilipe Morais|rating= 5|genre= FantasyBusiness and Finance|summary=Independent Director: ''a job for which no one is qualified''There (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of the board of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the company, (2) is not part of the company's no such thing as witchesexecutive team, but there used and (3) is not involved with the day-to be-day operations of the company.'' (Corporate Finance Institute)
In 1893Gerry Brown, after Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the executive members of boards and the independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. The function of the independent director is to have general oversight of the purges executive side of the board - to spot when and where things are going wrong - but all too often the burningsrelationship is too cosy, witching too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge and/or experience to understand what's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has been reduced highlighted the failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to little more than weak charms think that these are extraordinary times and simple spells. If women want that all will be well once we get back to hold power 'normal' but a pandemic was predicted and modelled in their hands, the past and there has been a general failure to have their voices heard, it prepare for what has happened - and is now through women's suffragestill happening.
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|authorisbn=Onjali Q RaufB002SQCYWQ|title=The Night Bus HeroComplete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony Trollope|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Hector is a bully. Egged on by his two When I told my daughter that I didn'friendst know what to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, he takes other children's sweets, harasses Pride and threatensPrejudice, plays pranks at schoolMansfield Park, and gets into trouble at every turn. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his fault, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him to be telling lies. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homeEmma, Northanger Abbey and seem to only care about his Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on the trot she had the perfect sister answer: The Barchester Chronicles and his annoying little brother when they are, and his teachers have abandoned him as were in my inbox in a lost causematter of minutes. So what happens when, in trying to tell They're not ''quite'' as well known as the truth & fight to be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; first trying to accuse, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?|isbn=1510106774Austen books but they're an excellent follow on.
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|isbn=18497673430008214468|title=Count on MeA Time to Lie|author=Miguel TancoSimon Berthon|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=The title A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and format of this book might lead you to think that itis a hand, severed above the wrist. It's either been there for about responsibility twenty-five to thirty- or it's a basic 1five years. Robin Sandford -2generally known as Robbie -3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journeyis Prime Minister. It isnHe't: its married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and Bella. Sandford's determined to be a hymn better type of praise to mathspolitician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, but morally good. '' ItOne of the ways he's planning on going about why maths this is so wonderful to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morland-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister and how you meet Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it 's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in everyday lifeagreement.
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|isbn=1849766920B077K6BQFD|title=Everything is MINEThe Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Andrea D'AquinoJane Austen|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: what else could you be with a name like Yes - that? He knows that you'll realise that he's kind, clever and loyal. You'll also need to know that everything is '''MINE'''. And he means ''everything''. It begins with over eighty-one hours of listening for the slipper: mum still has purchase of oneaudio book. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that heAll six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and they's being generous re presented in allowing that. Then it was the pork chop. Well, did you see anyone's name on it? ''And'' he left the carrots for Leo. That's another example of Marcello's generosity. There was the acorn order in which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation to prove ownershipthey were published. And talking of ownership the tree would provide all the sticks he could ever want to chew. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?
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|isbn=18497670090241453585|title=Banking On It Isn't Rude to be Nude: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Rosie HaineAnne Boden
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|genre=For SharingBusiness and Finance|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the choir'financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. AIB was in the only people who'll buy it are throes of recovering from the people who know that nudity is OK 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the ones who ''know'' first to realise that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit banks needed to bustdo things differently. But... Rosie Haines makes AIB thought it was at the cutting edge when it into something so much more than proposed opening a book about not wearing clothesbranch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminal. It's Boden took things a celebration of bodiesstep further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: bodies large and small and the old branch network, employing thousands of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In factpeople, they're wonderfulwould soon become redundant.
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|isbnauthor=0241295955Lauren Martin|title=Trio|author=William BoydThe Book of Moods
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|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=It I was 1968: the year in a great mood when Bobby Kennedy I first learnt of this book, and Martin Luther King were assassinated. Itbecause sarcasm doesn's also t always translate well into writing, imagine the year when YSK Films are making a movie in Brighton. Itword 's called 'great'Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. I had spent the Moon''best part of a rainy, or ''Ladder windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the Moon'' as itrescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's known on set. Anny Viklund is the female star in a production which is proving to be just a little bit rackety. There are odd pressures on volunteer duty we all do during the produceryear, Talbot Kyddand normally I'm happy to, to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs but that day the moneyweather was miserable and I was miserable, allow a fading star and it all came to use his catchphrase, or include a song from head that evening when I noticed on the leading man, whose musical star is fadingwebsite that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.|isbn=1538733625
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|isbnauthor=B08B39QNRHBecky Albertalli|title=The Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problem|author=Michael PritchardSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceTeens|summary=''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great lifeI came to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History He has a close group of Writer's Cramp'' by friends, a rather strange routeloving family, and even an adorable dog. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting'But he has a secret: I prefer the word he'painfuls gay. Only one person knows this, and that' but I have an interest in the way s Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out that hands workthere was another closeted guy at his school. An exploration of the history of Their emails are a problem which has defeated some of the best medical minds safe space for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so Simon; it proved, with 's his own private universe without the book fear of being as much about judged. Until one day, these emails fall into the doctors treating the sufferers wrong hands, and the changing medical attitudes as the problem itselfeverything Simon knows is turned upside down.|isbn=014135609X
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|authorisbn=Blake Nuto and Charlotte Ager3110641119|title=Child The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of GalaxiesCustomer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave
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|genre=For SharingBusiness and Finance|summary=What does it mean to be alive? What are we made of, and where are we going? I had no idea what 'journey mapping'Child of Galaxies'' is a lovely children's picture book was until I read this playbook but any business that deals engages with all their customers will benefit from reading the book and acting on the big questionscontents. Written as You're going to learn how to run a poemworkshop to discover what it feels like to be one of your own customers. At this point, the lyrical words please don't shy away from darkness, nor talk down say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is going to the children be fun and you are reading 're going to, but rather than work beautifully together with the illustrations to create a powerful, uplifting reading experiencebe surprised by what emerges.|isbn=1912497425
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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)3110641291|title=BetrayalThe Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander|rating=35|genre=CrimeBusiness and Finance|summary=Meet UrsulaSo, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the stand-same thing in minister, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post for a yearslightly different form and quite a bit of money spent. Why not just leave it as it is? After all, it's ''roughly'' working, isn't it? You might get to meet her hunky husband she cannot have said it, but you't believe she deserves, and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sectorve probably thought it. You'll meet her ministry's cleanerve also thought the small, who bizarrely has fallen into incremental improvements which you have been able to make - the task optimisation of helping a famous newsreader your core business with her Tinder profilecost efficiencies wherever possible, the extension of your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in terms of ''growth''. YouIt'll certainly meet s been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a homeless tramp, competitor who has taken one look at takes a newspaper image of Ursula, and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside hermore radical approach. You'll meet ve merely kept the ministerial bodyguard business ticking over and driver there's a nagging suspicion in the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to accept. But as back of your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughter. What you need is innovation - ''radical's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403innovation.
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