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|authorisbn=Gail Honeyman1529337925|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|genre=General FictionCrime (Historical)|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9-5, 5 days a week, and spends It was the August Bank Holiday weekend not drunkand, as so often happened, but not sober. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, was cold enough to have the fire lit and thatBunty the Dalmation wasn's fine, thankyouverymucht inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. Nothing is missing The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for Sandy Bissett in an office raffle, she sees the man she is sure will be her husbandDundee. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself She was the best version publisher of herself a magazine and had been told that she can, in order to secure this beautiful musician. Then, as she's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in running the street Punch and stay close to him Judy show in hospital. Then, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub the local park had used copies of social engagements with the man's family and friends, with Raymond from IT and two of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her life seems sister Freckle - to be looking drum up, things take a turn for the worsesome local interest in his show. Is Johnnie all he Sandy Bissett's cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down request was simple: she wanted Gilver and she has Osborne to fight her way out warn the man about infringement of the shadows copyright - but maybe she doesn't have and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do it alonethe same job.|isbn=0008172145

|isbn=18388873340099551063|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Angela MarsonsDr Kevin Dutton

|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were '' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingpsychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher. The need for coffee overtook Stone - '' Until the course had been a complete waste events of time for her as she 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew that she was equally rude to everyoneit all along. It was in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of The statement has lost a little girl clutching a teddy bear in of its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the absence nature of her motherpsychopathy. Stone and Bryant didnIt't realise the extent s too easy to which this case was going to occupy their minds as associate psychopathy with the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours later. Her neck had been broken and it had all Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the hallmarks of a quick, functional killreal-life Hannibal Lecter, but who would do the truth is that to having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a young mother out shopping with her child?good thing.

|author=Roxanne BouchardAlex Wheatle|title=The Coral BrideHumiliations of Welton Blake|rating=42.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity 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 female fisherwomancinema date, but his phone has packed up, making her living he's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in a manclass, who's worldduffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the coast of Quebecpicture – yes, Detective Morales is called in things are so bad they're resorting to come and head the investigationhaving cabbage for dinner. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusionI know, Morales feels something more sinister right? But surely this is going onjust a blip, and finds himself frustrated a day at every turn by hidden agendasschool to forget, fishing histories and secret family feuds. everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? At This can't be the same start of a most nightmarish time as trying to run his investigation, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficulties.for young Welton?|isbn=19131933221781129495

|isbnauthor=1472134710Karen M McManus|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death|author=M C BeatonThe Cousins|rating=45|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement The rich and she's left South Moulton Street for famous Story family led a cottage in the Cotswold village life of Carsley. She'd have preferred one luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off the tourist trail with all the problems that bringscompletely. Now the problem is settling into But now, a different way quarter of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant a century later, their children have been called to people. The first move is return to enter the village quiche-baking competition and island for the beginning of summer by their grandmother. What does she want with the campaign is taking cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the judge, Reginald Cummings-Brownedeaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies, secrets and his wife Vera out to dinner. She knows she's being ripped off at tragedy that has held the pub in the next village but this is necessary Story family up - and it's held them apart - for a quarter of a good investment as she knows that she's going century is about to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..come crashing down.|isbn=0241376947

|authorisbn= Claire McGowan1786495902|title=The PushNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating= 5|genre= General FictionLifestyle|summary= Six mums-Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not toshare. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-be meet care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''stylethe time by 'keeping going', but not : the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have next day she went to wait a little work to see why. This being Londoncover the budget, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgroundsnext there was the EU referendum, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is political party leadership contests and then it's their first babywas party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. Probably after That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down patbins went out more often than I did.|isbn=1542019990

|isbnauthor=1472255917Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)|author=Quintin JardineGhost Garden

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=On New YearFran, the gardener's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating daughter at the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and the man with whom she shares a posh country house, Dominic Jacksonis worried. Jackson would be better-known to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but heShe's reformed and just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bone, buried under the new name reflects a new manpotatoes. The Skinners donBut she't stay much after midnight at s even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the new yearlawn. Skinner's tempted She is due to let the phone ring but knows get even more worried when she finds something else that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at also seems to foretell a crime scene surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in the centre his bathchair, she might have reason to be out of Edinburghher mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. SkinnerBut surely that won's t act as a premonition to anything - not technically with here in the police now - he's chairman sultry, summery days of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experience.1914?|isbn=1781129002

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQreed3|title=The Long Dark RoadWhy You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=P R BlackJames Reed|rating=45|genre=ThrillersBusiness and Finance|summary=Two Six years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old universityon from the original edition, the book is being re-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was issued with a furious storm going on and shebonus chapter entitled ''d already refused the offer The Future of help from one man in a big vehicleWork'' which includes an additional 10 questions. We I'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops ve come to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and Stephanie is bundled into my life has changed significantly in the car and driven offmeantime. There has been I'm no sign of her longer working in middle- or her body management having opted for a down- in the two years sinceshift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined I can therefore relate to find out what happened the first point made in this chapter namely that independence and she's not going flexibility are core skills that employees need to be stoppedhave.}}

|author= Katharine OrtonDeborah O'Connor|title= GlassheartThe Captive

|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

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