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|isbn=B08BTXSS841529337925|title=Fallen Angel The Mirror Dance (Gaby Darin Book 3Dandy Gilver)|author=Jenny O'Brien|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and she's looking through cold cases for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look at. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intrigued. She can't see any immediate failings in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securely-locked house, wearing her pyjamas, and was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next day. She was wearing a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen before. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told the whole story: he's married to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sister.}}{{Frontpage|author=Nick Jones and Si Clark|title=One Night in Beartown|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives in Beartown, is obsessed with bears. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}} {{Frontpage|author=Gail Honeyman|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineCatriona 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

|genre= Confident ReadersThrillers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since Hannah knows the Blitz claimed cage, intimately. It lurks in the lives corner of her familyeye. NowSoon, in the aftermath of the war, they travel all over the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombsit will be occupied. Their latest job takes them out Then what? What if he speaks to the wilds of Dartmoor, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient and powerful magic. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, known only as The Soldier, is hell-bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own ends, and will not stop until ? What if he escapes? What if he has her…hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=14063852391838772650

|isbn=B08KKQ85FNB08CR3WNFT|title=But Never For LunchThe Therapist|author=Sandra AragonaB A Paris|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesThrillers|summary=''If a woman approaching When Leo Curtis found the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler house in lipstickThe Circle, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of carrion crows orgated community, more Alice Dawson was in Venice. Leo wanted to move quickly on the point, about to discover property as it was on the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas bills.'' You donmarket at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife have to sell her cottage in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what it was like Harlestone for them to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come for HE able to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired of Former Ambassador..their long-distance relationship. They have left The Career and settled in RomeNow they would be able to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekends. Well 'settled' rather overstates Leo had some work done on the situation house: he made two bedrooms into one and their dog, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deafalthough Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable there.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1406395404|title= The Last Resort Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating= 3.5 |genre= ThrillersTeens|summary=A group of strangers gather on 2020 has been a private islandstrange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. They Lots of our routines have been invited to an allcompletely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? -expenses paid retreat I've got loads to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology companybe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. The group includes a games designer Most people, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems from children to adults will have an area the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence sleep is a mysteryonly likely to make it worse. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other And there's histories and it becomes clear also the fact that they all have for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, virtue and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cagesleep made to seem like laziness. In a race against time Being up early, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance working late has been praised and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV. |isbn=1542020018

|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ000820831X|title=The Karma TrapCoffinmaker's Garden|author=Lisette BoydStuart MacBride

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=George Jackson At the coastal village of Clachmara, the headland is thirtyslowly eroding into the sea. Storm Trevor speeds up the process. A ship -three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at the Ocean- Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and singleyoung Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house to see what's happening. She's not had sex for eight months Margaret runs after her son and as she's stuck in grabs him to pull him back to safety she glances across at the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her newly-exposed cliff front and she has a real talent for attracting dramasees human bones. Her lifeGordon Smith's chaotic: she dealt with home is falling into the leak from North Sea and the shower by putting something down at the bottom evidence of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her motherwhat he's dog out been doing for a walk for her to end up decades is going with dog poo spattered across her face it - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the officetumbling ruin.

|isbn=0008333173B08BC4D58S|title=Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting MoreWinterkill (Dark Iceland)|author=Grace DentRagnar Jonasson|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=IAri Thor Arason is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and he'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of s still living in the judges house on ''Masterchef''Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do a Masters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with her. You know that you're going They were supposed to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of the timespend Christmas together but Kristin cancelled. You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all It's now the Thursday of Holy Week and his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that good food in front of herafternoon. I've often wondered about Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get to sleep the phone rings: the body of a young woman behind has been found on Adalgata, the media image and ''Hungry: A Memoir main street of Wanting More'' is a stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in equal measuresthe town.

|isbnauthor=1838773169Rob Winters|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor Knot|author=S J BennettHis Name Was Wren|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the Easter Courtvillage of Hurstwick. She's having a dine and sleep at It came down hard, taking the request spire of Prince Charlesthe village church with it, destroying a stone shack, who's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projects. There'd been and leaving a distinctly Russian flavour to wide trail through the evening and one wood, but no trace of the performers brought in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesit actually was. The immediate reaction is that one of German secret weapon was the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing managerlocal gossip, but there should have been an ex-ambassador to Moscowexplosion and a crater, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any there were neither of ''those'' roadsthings.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB

|author=Matt HaigStephen Clarke|title=The Midnight LibrarySpy Who Inspired Me|rating=54

|summary= Between life and death there This is a library. And so, 38 minutes after Nora decided to diespoof spy story, she finds herself in the Midnight Library. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora's life has. Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother wonisn't speak to her, her parents are dead, the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called off her weddingIan Lemming, who dresses well and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. She gave up on all 'likes the things that wouldladies've let her escape and who works for the wetsecret service, cold town but in the planning side of Bedford and given her life some purposeful directionthings more than the active service. So at 23:22 Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, she realises that she isn't made for life and decides to die. But instead of deaththe pair end up stranded in Normandy, she finds the library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing Margaux on a chance desperate mission to try another life she could have lived, unearth traitors in a parallel time. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of Aprilresistance network, Nora Seed begins and Lemming desperately trying to live every life she could've.keep up with her!|isbn=17868927312952163855

|isbn=03494230833110706075|title=Death Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)Independent Director Way|author=Frances BrodyGerry Brown|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Business and Finance|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 'You're not there to run the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashamorganisation. Something You are there to make sure that it is going wrong with his business and herun properly.''d like Kate  Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to look into it discreetly: hea board - not just a corporate board, but the board of an NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a charity. He's hoping particularly keen that his nephew there's increased diversity on these boards and rightfeels that this would help to avoid some of the scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company -hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to Germany before longwe're thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. James went For this to see what the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might happen, boards need to make. William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself have a little bit ''too'' much or is going wider field of people to bring back a German bride but hechoose from when they'd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returnsre looking for an ID.

|authorisbn=Caroline Scott1786495902|title=When I Come Home AgainThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionLifestyle|summary=1918 and Isabel Hardman suffered a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedraltrauma which she chooses not to share. He refuses to give She says that a namefriend, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he isdoes know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Eventually, they determine Hardman dealt with this isnat the time by 't willful obstinance, he doesnkeeping going't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on : the next day she went to work to cover the road for a long time and being frightenedbudget, and some of the faces from next there was the roadEU referendum, but other than that – everything that came before has gone. They need a name for the forms political party leadership contests and so they call him Adam then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and, because he returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 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 thereyear when the bins went out more often than I did.|isbn=1471192172

|isbn=15294103473030513025|title=Death Awaits The Independent Director in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Helen CoxGerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais|rating=45|genre=CrimeBusiness and Finance|summary=Kitt HartleyIndependent Director: ''s assistant, Grace Edwards, has left her library a job and taken a place on the Venerable Bede Academyfor which no one is qualified''s vocational library studies course in Durham. It(''s an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not accepted, so most of the people attending are scions of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or theyFinancial Times've managed, somehow, to scrape together the money. Grace, 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 to do then they were finished 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Vincent Panettiere|title=These Thy Gifts|rating=4)|genre=General Fiction|summary=Independent Director: ''2006 An independent director is a tumultuous year for member of the Catholic Church. Reports board of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the company, (2) is troubled. He worries for the future not part of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church company's executive team, and hit closer (3) is not involved with the day-to home than he ever imagined-day operations of the company.'' (Corporate Finance Institute)

As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic churchGerry Brown, he discovers Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel 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 the executive members of boards and a gangster's widowthe independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. Steve The function of the independent director is determined to seek justice for this boy have general oversight of the executive side of the board - to spot when and where things are going wrong - but all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his church. But he must also face up to his own failingstoo often the relationship is too cosy, going right back to his breaking of too antagonistic or the celibacy vows.|isbn=1503199886}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1800321104|title=The Body on independent director lacks the Island|author=Nick Louth|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve knowledge and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old and had served six years for the manslaughter of his wife. Only that wasn/or experience to understand what't who he wass happening or to know how to intervene. SixtyCovid-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for 19 has highlighted the murder of five boys between the ages failings and weaknesses of ten leadership and seventeen. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield governance 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 you might be tempted to think that these are extraordinary times and that all will be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared well once we get back to be 'normal' but a reformed character but he had pandemic was predicted and modelled in the past and there has been a list of people upon whom he wished general failure to exact revengeprepare for what has happened - and is still happening.

|isbn=1473692407B002SQCYWQ|title=The Book of Two WaysComplete Barchester Chronicles|author=Jodi PicoultAnthony Trollope|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Dawn Edelstein is a death doula: When I told my daughter thatI didn's someone who is there for the person who is dying, t know what to make their passage listen to whatever they believe in as easy as possible now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and to support their carers. It's a rewardingSensibility, caring occupation and Dawn puts her heart Pride 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 an EgyptologistPrejudice, she was working with her supervisorMansfield Park, Professor Ian DumphriesEmma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on trot she had the Nile perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and they were in my inbox in Middle Egypta matter of minutes. Then she was Dawn McDowell: that was her maiden name, They're not ''quite'' as well known as the name she published underAusten books but they're an excellent follow on.

|authorisbn=Delia Owens0008214468|title=Where The Crawdads SingA Time to Lie|author=Simon Berthon

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary= In 1952, KyaA workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It's mother disappeared up the dirt track to town, wearing her alligator heels, wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and never came home. Then one by one her siblings leftis a hand, ran from severed above the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead wrist. It's been there for about twenty-five to nothing but suffering, leaving 7thirty-year-old Kya with her drunken fatherfive years. Years pass and Kya  Robin Sandford - now nicknamed 'Marshgenerally known as Robbie -Girlis Prime Minister. He' – 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 s married to survive on the marsh. Eventually, as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional heiress Carol van Koon and vastly intelligent young womanthey have two daughters, yearns for company besides the gulls Becca and the land, yearning Bella. Sandford's determined to be loved and to be helda better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, but morally good. So, when 2 boys from '' One of the town of Barkley Cove find their way ways he's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to her, she finds a new way of lifedubious regimes. But in 1969 Henry Morland-Cross, the body of former star quarterback Deputy Prime Minister and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud Chancellor of the marshExchequer, and everyone wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girlagreement. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665

|authorisbn=David C MasonB077K6BQFD|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane Austen|rating=35|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary= John Cranston is a gardener, although what he did before he became a gardener, he claims, is classifiedYes - that's over eighty-one hours of listening for the purchase of one audio book. That is just as well because he is about to be caught up All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and they're presented in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save the dayorder in which they were published. |isbn=0956180523

|isbn=03565124790241453585|authortitle= Alix E HarrowBanking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|titleauthor= The Once and Future WitchesAnne Boden|rating= 5|genre= FantasyBusiness and Finance|summary=''There's no such thing as witches, but there used to beAnne 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.'' In 1893, after AIB was in the throes of recovering from the purges 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the burnings, witching has been reduced first to realise that banks needed to little more than weak charms and simple spellsdo things differently. If women want AIB thought it was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to hold power in access their handsaccounts via a terminal. Boden took things a step further, to have realising that customers could access their accounts from their voices heardhomes: the old branch network, it is now through women's suffrageemploying thousands of people, would soon become redundant.

|author=Onjali Q RaufLauren Martin|title=The Night Bus HeroBook of Moods|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Hector is I was in a bully. Egged on by his two great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''friendsgreat', he takes other children's sweetsbeing delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, harasses and threatensthrough clenched teeth. I had spent the best part of a rainy, plays pranks windy weekend afternoon out on the water at schoolour local sailing club in the rescue rib, and gets into trouble at every turnon standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isnIt't his faults a volunteer duty we all do during the year, but then he isnand normally I't believed as everyone expects him m happy to be telling lies. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely home, but that day the weather was miserable and seem to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they areI was miserable, and his teachers have abandoned him as it all came to a lost cause. So what happens head that evening when, in trying to tell I noticed on the truth & fight to be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; first trying to accuse, website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?wife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.|isbn=15101067741538733625

|isbnauthor=1849767343Becky Albertalli|title=Count on Me|author=Miguel TancoSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=The title Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great life. He has a close group of friends, a loving family, and format of even an adorable dog. But he has a secret: he's gay. Only one person knows this book might lead you to think , and that it's either about responsibility - or it's Blue – a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out on the numbers journeythat there was another closeted guy at his school. It isn't: Their emails are a safe space for Simon; it's a hymn his own private universe without the fear of praise to mathsbeing judged. It's about why maths Until one day, these emails fall into the wrong hands, and everything Simon knows is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday lifeturned upside down.|isbn=014135609X

|isbn=18497669203110641119|title=Everything is MINEThe Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Andrea D'AquinoJerry Angrave|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingBusiness and Finance|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: I had no idea what else could you be with a name like that? He knows that you'll realise that hejourney mapping's kind, clever and loyal. You'll also need to know was until I read this playbook but any business that everything is '''MINE'''. And he means ''everything''. It begins engages with their customers will benefit from reading the book and acting on the slipper: mum still has onecontents. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that he's being generous in allowing that. Then re going to learn how to run a workshop to discover what it was the pork chopfeels like to be one of your own customers. WellAt this point, did you see anyone's name on it? ''Andplease don't say ' he left the carrots for Leo. That's oh (expletive deleted) not another example of Marcelloworkshop's generosity. There was the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation because this is going to prove ownership. And talking of ownership the tree would provide all the sticks he could ever want be fun and you're going to chewbe surprised by what emerges. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?

|isbn=18497670093110641291|title=It Isn't Rude to be NudeThe Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Rosie HaineOlga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander

|genre=For SharingBusiness and Finance|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches So, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the choirsame thing in a slightly different form and quite a bit of money spent. Why not just leave it as it is? After all, it': the only people whos 'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who 'roughly'know'working, isn' that t it? You might not have said it, but you's shameful will avoid ve probably thought it like they avoid . You've also thought the hotsmall, incremental improvements which you have been able to make -andthe optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, the extension of your existing products into new areas -bothered person haven't really delivered in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bustterms of ''growth''. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a more than a book about not wearing clothesradical approach. ItYou've merely kept the business ticking over and there's a celebration nagging suspicion in the back of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hueyour mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-first. Bodies with disabilities and markings. TheyWhat you need is innovation - ''radical're fine. In fact, they're wonderfulinnovation.