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|isbn=18388873341529337925|title=Deadly Cry The Mirror Dance (D I Kim StoneDandy Gilver)|author=Angela MarsonsCatriona McPherson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime(Historical)|summary=DI Kim Stone It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and DS Jim Bryant were Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingthe sofa. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been a complete waste thought of time for her as she knew that she work was equally rude to everyonealmost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. It She was in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight publisher of a little girl clutching a teddy bear magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the absence local park had used copies of two of her mothercartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Stone and Bryant didn Sandy Bissett't realise the extent to which this case s request was going simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to occupy their minds as warn the body man about infringement of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours later. Her neck had been broken copyright - and Dandy and it had all the hallmarks of Alex would be cheaper than employing a quick, functional kill, but who would solicitor to do that to a young mother out shopping with her child?the same job.

|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard0099551063|title=The Coral BrideWisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton

|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwoman'' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.'' Until the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, making her living in a maneven shocked many readers: now they's worldre probably convinced that they knew it all along. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast The statement has lost a little of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in its shock value but it does help us to come and head understand more about the investigationnature of psychopathy. Although It's too easy to associate psychopathy with the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusionYorkshire Ripper, Morales feels something more sinister is going onJeffrey Dahmer, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendasSaddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, fishing histories and secret family feuds. At the same time as trying to run his investigationreal-life Hannibal Lecter, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems but the truth is that he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultieshaving psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|isbn=1913193322

|isbnauthor=1472134710Alex Wheatle|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche The Humiliations of Death|author=M C BeatonWelton Blake|rating=42.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Agatha Raisin We 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 a cinema date, but his phone has taken early retirement packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and shehis breakfast over another girl in class, who's left South Moulton Street for a cottage duffed him up in response, and the Cotswold village of Carsleywanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. SheOn a bigger scale he'd have preferred one of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail s living with all the problems his mother and not much income now that brings. Now the problem is settling into a different way of life - and Agatha dad has never done small talk or even being pleasant left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to peoplehaving cabbage for dinner. The first move I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school to enter the village quiche-baking competition and the beginning of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browneforget, and everything (like his wife Vera vomit) will all come out to dinner. She knows she's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary and it's a good investment as she knows that she's going to win. Howwash? Well, This can''her'' quiche is coming from t be the start of a Chelsea Bakery...most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495

|author= Claire McGowanKaren M McManus|title=The PushCousins|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at The rich and famous Story family led a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style''life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, but not until 25 years ago when each of the proper NCT. This bit is importantStory children - Anders, Archer, but you have to wait Adam and Allison - received a little to see whymysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completely. This being LondonBut now, such a class attracts quarter of a wide variety of peoplecentury later, from all sorts of backgrounds, but their children have been called to return to the island for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's summer by their first babygrandmother. Probably after What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the first onedeaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies, you don't have time secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family up - and held them apart - for classes, or think you've got child-rearing a quarter of a century is about to come crashing down pat.|isbn=15420199900241376947

|isbn=14722559171786495902|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Quintin JardineIsabel Hardman|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=On New YearIsabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the golf club with his wifetime by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and next there was the man with whom she shares a houseEU referendum, Dominic Jackson. Jackson would be better-known to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed political party leadership contests and the new name reflects a new manthen it was party conference season. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse One night she had to be sedated and are dropped returned home not to begin long into the new year-term sick leave. Skinner's tempted That was what brought me to let the phone ring but knows that he cannotthis book: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in 2020 was the centre of Edinburgh. Skinner's not technically with year when the police now - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experiencebins went out more often than I did.

|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQEmma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackGhost Garden|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaFran, the gardener's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgea posh country house, is worried. There was She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a furious storm going on and she'd already refused large bone, buried under the offer of help from one man in a big vehiclepotatoes. WeBut she'll see - but no one else will know - s even more worried when she learns that that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into event coincided with Leo, the car and driven off. There has been no sign older child of her - or her body - in the two years sincehouse, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. Georgia She is back is Ferngate, determined due to find out what happened and get even more worried when she's not going finds something else that also seems to be stoppedforetell a surprise.}} {{Frontpage|author= Katharine Orton|title= Glassheart|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since the Blitz claimed Tasked with shoving Leo around the lives of her family. Now, grounds in the aftermath of the warhis bathchair, they travel all over the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombs. Their latest job takes them she might have reason to be out to the wilds 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

|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.

|author= Susi Holliday Deborah O'Connor|title= The Last Resort Captive|rating= 3.5 4

|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

|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.

|isbn=00083331731406395404|title=HungryThe Awesome Power of Sleep: A Memoir of Wanting MoreHow Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Grace DentNicola Morgan

|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.

|isbn=1838773169000820831X|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotCoffinmaker's Garden|author=S J BennettStuart MacBride|rating=54

|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.

|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

|isbnauthor=0349423083Rob Winters|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances BrodyHis Name Was Wren|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives In September 1944 something came down in Woodhouse and her housekeeperOban Woods, Mrs Sugdennear the village of Hurstwick. She's been approached by William Lofthouse It came down hard, taking the spire of the Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is going wrong village church with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthousedestroying a stone shack, will be back from and leaving a trip to Germany before long. James went to see what wide trail through the continental brewers were doing and wood, but no trace of what changes Barleycorn might need to makeit actually was. William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride secret weapon was the local gossip, but he'd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returnsthere should have been an explosion and a crater, and there were neither of those things.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB

|author=Caroline ScottStephen Clarke|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 CoxThe Spy Who Inspired Me

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Kitt HartleyThis is a spoof spy story, that isn's assistantt about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, Grace Edwards, has left her library job who dresses well and taken a place on 'likes the Venerable Bede Academyladies's vocational library studies course and who works for the secret service, but in Durhamthe planning side of things more than the active service. It's an unusual place to study as students Lemming finds himself put on a mission with government grants are not accepteda female spy called Margaux, so most of and the people attending are scions of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or they've managed, somehowpair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to scrape together unearth traitors in the money. Graceresistance network, who's 22, comes into the last category. Her parents agreed to fund the course but told her that if that was what she chose and Lemming desperately trying to do then they were finished keep up with her. Not long after she started the course, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year ago.!|isbn=2952163855

|authorisbn=Vincent Panettiere3110706075|title=These Thy GiftsMaking a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry Brown

|genre=General FictionBusiness and Finance|summary=''2006 is a tumultuous year for You're not there to run the Catholic Churchorganisation. Reports of horrific sexual abuse You are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli there to make sure that it 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 imaginedrun properly.''

As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to try to make sense a board - not just a corporate board, but the board of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic churchan NHS Trust, a university, he discovers that one child in his own parish has been abused by a priest sent by his bishopsports organisation or a charity. And this isn He't just any boy: this is Steves particularly keen that there's grandson whose mother is the offspring of a long past relationship between Steve increased diversity on these boards and a gangster's widow. Steve is determined to seek justice for feels that this boy and all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his church. But he must also face up to his own failings, going right back would help to his breaking avoid some 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 Wakefieldscandals (Oxfam, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old and had served six years for the manslaughter of his wife. Only that wasnKids Company - we't who he was. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty re thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years for the murder of five boys between the ages of ten and seventeen. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of the body of one of his victims. The Bogeyman was going For this to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared happen, boards need to be a reformed character but he had have a list wider field of people upon whom he wished to exact revengechoose from when they're looking for an ID.

|isbn=14736924071786495902|title=The Book of Two WaysNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Jodi PicoultIsabel Hardman|rating=45|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=Dawn Edelstein is Isabel Hardman suffered a death doula: that's someone who is there for the person who is dying, to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and trauma which she chooses not to support their carersshare. It's She says that a rewardingfriend, caring occupation who does know, burst into tears and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it but this wasnhealth-care professionals't always her lifejaws have sagged in disbelief. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student Hardman dealt with this at Yale working towards her doctoratethe time by 'keeping going': as an Egyptologistthe next day she went to work to cover the budget, she next there was working with her supervisorthe EU referendum, Professor Ian Dumphries, on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir elpolitical party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egyptterm sick leave. Then she That was Dawn McDowellwhat brought me to this book: that 2020 was her maiden name, the name she published underyear when the bins went out more often than I did.

|authorisbn=Delia Owens3030513025|title=Where The Crawdads SingIndependent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais

|genre=General FictionBusiness and Finance|summary= In 1952Independent Director: ''a job 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 have a material relationship with the company, Kya(2) is not part of the company's mother disappeared up executive team, and (3) is not involved with the dirt track day-to town, wearing her alligator heels-day operations of the company. (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and never came home. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the shack on executive members of boards and the North Carolina marsh that served independent directors (formerly known as home and non-executive directors), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. The function of the life that would lead independent director is to nothing but suffering, leaving 7have general oversight of the executive side of the board -year-old Kya with her drunken father. Years pass to spot when and Kya where things are going wrong - now nicknamed 'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for a mother that would never return and grew up far but all too fast for a girl who can neither read nor write. Finally, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to survive on often the marsh. Eventuallyrelationship is too cosy, as too antagonistic or the years drift painfully by, independent director lacks the time comes when Kya, now an emotional knowledge and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns for company besides /or experience to understand what's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the gulls failings and weaknesses of leadership and the land, yearning governance and you might be tempted to be loved think that these are extraordinary times and to that all will be held. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way well once we get back to her, she finds 'normal' but a new way of life. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback pandemic was predicted and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying modelled in the mud of the marsh, past and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysterious, runthere has been a general failure to prepare for what has happened -down Marsh-Girland is still happening. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665

|authorisbn=David C MasonB002SQCYWQ|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony Trollope|rating=35|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary= John Cranston is a gardenerWhen I told my daughter that I didn't know what to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, although what he did before he became a gardenerMansfield Park, he claimsEmma, is classifiedNorthanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on the trot she had the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and they were in my inbox in a matter of minutes. That is just They're not ''quite'' as well because he is about to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save known as the dayAusten books but they're an excellent follow on. |isbn=0956180523

|isbn=03565124790008214468|authortitle= Alix E HarrowA Time to Lie|titleauthor= The Once and Future WitchesSimon Berthon|rating= 5|genre= FantasyThrillers|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It''Theres wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and is a hand, severed above the wrist. It's no such thing as witches, but been there used for about twenty-five to bethirty-five years.''

In 1893, after the purges Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon and the burningsthey have two daughters, witching has been reduced to little more than weak charms Becca and simple spellsBella. If women want Sandford's determined to hold power in their handsbe a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, but morally good.'' One of the ways he's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to have their voices hearddubious regimes. Henry Morland-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it is now through women's suffrageeasy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreement.

|authorisbn=Onjali Q RaufB077K6BQFD|title=The Night Bus HeroComplete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane Austen|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Hector is a bully. Egged on by his two 'friends', he takes other childrenYes - that's sweets, harasses and threatens, plays pranks at school, 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 liesover eighty-one hours of listening for the purchase of one audio book. Nothing seems fair. His parents All six major novels are barely home, and seem to only care about his perfect sister read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and his annoying little brother when they are, and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost cause. So what happens when, 're presented in trying to tell 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=1510106774order in which they were published.

|isbn=18497673430241453585|title=Count on MeBanking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Miguel TancoAnne Boden|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionBusiness and Finance|summary=The title Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the 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 throes of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and format she was one of this book might lead you the first to think realise that banks needed to do things differently. AIB thought it's either about responsibility - or was at the cutting edge when it's proposed opening a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journeybranch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminal. It isn'tBoden took things a step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: it's a hymn the old branch network, employing thousands of praise to maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday lifepeople, would soon become redundant.

|isbnauthor=1849766920Lauren Martin|title=Everything is MINE|author=Andrea D'AquinoThe Book of Moods|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is I was in a schnauzer: what else could you be with a name like that? He knows that you'll realise that he's kindgreat mood when I first learnt of this book, clever and loyal. Youbecause sarcasm doesn'll also need to know that everything is t always translate well into writing, imagine the word '''MINE'great''being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. And he means ''everything''. It begins with I had spent the best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the slipper: mum still has one. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that he's being generous water at our local sailing club in allowing that. Then it was the pork chop. Wellrescue rib, did you see on standby in case anyonewho was racing needed support. It's name on it? ''And'' he left a volunteer duty we all do during the carrots for Leo. Thatyear, and normally I's another example of Marcello's generosity. There was m happy to, but that day the acorn which squirrel weather was gnawing at: there miserable and I was no documentation miserable, and it all came to prove ownershipa head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". And talking of ownership the tree would provide all the sticks he could ever want to chewWow. I had never needed this book more. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?|isbn=1538733625

|isbnauthor=1849767009Becky Albertalli|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie HaineSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=This could have been one Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great life. He has a close group of those books which 'preaches to the choir'friends, a loving family, and even an adorable dog. But he has a secret: the only people whohe'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK s gay. Only one person knows this, and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket Blue – a boy who is coughing fit to busthe has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at his school. But... Rosie Haines makes Their emails are a safe space for Simon; it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and his own private universe without the fear of every possible huebeing judged. Bodies with disabilities Until one day, these emails fall into the wrong hands, and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderfuleverything Simon knows is turned upside down.|isbn=014135609X

|isbn=02412959553110641119|title=TrioThe Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=William BoydJerry Angrave

|genre=General FictionBusiness and Finance|summary=It I had no idea what 'journey mapping' was 1968: until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the year when Bobby Kennedy book and Martin Luther King were assassinatedacting on the contents. ItYou's also the year when YSK Films are making re going to learn how to run a movie in Brightonworkshop to discover what it feels like to be one of your own customers. It's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to the Moon''At this point, or please don't say 'Ladder the Moonoh (expletive deleted) not another workshop'' as it's known on set. Anny Viklund is the female star in a production which because this is proving going to be just a little bit rackety. There are odd pressures on the producer, Talbot Kydd, fun and you're going to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs the money, allow a fading star to use his catchphrase, or include a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fadingbe surprised by what emerges.

|isbn=B08B39QNRH3110641291|title=The Curious History of Writer's CrampRadical Innovation Playbook: Solving an ageA Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-old problemChanging Breakthroughs|author=Michael PritchardOlga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceBusiness and Finance|summary=So, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in a slightly different form and quite a bit of money spent. Why not just leave it as it is? After all, it's ''roughly'Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word'working, isn'.t it?

I came to Michael PritchardYou might not have said it, but you's ve probably thought it. You've also thought the small, incremental improvements which you have been able to make - the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, the extension of your existing products into new areas - haven'The Curious History t really delivered in terms of Writer's Cramp'growth'' . It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a rather strange routecompetitor who takes a more radical approach. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interestingYou': I prefer ve merely kept the word business ticking over and there'painful' but I have an interest s a nagging suspicion in the way back of your mind that hands work. An exploration of an organisation designed for the history of a problem which has defeated some of twentieth century might not survive in the best medical minds for some threetwenty-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and the changing medical attitudes as the problem itselffirst.}}{{Frontpage|author=Blake Nuto and Charlotte Ager|title=Child of Galaxies|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=What does it mean to be alive? What are we made of, and where are we going? 'you need is innovation - 'Child of Galaxies'radical' is a lovely children's picture book that deals with all the big questions. Written as a poem, the lyrical words don't shy away from darkness, nor talk down to the children you are reading to, but rather than work beautifully together with the illustrations to create a powerful, uplifting reading experienceinnovation.|isbn=1912497425