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|isbn=14729620441529337925|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your BusinessThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Andrew HampshireCatriona McPherson

|genre=Business and FinanceCrime (Historical)|summary=I It was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteenthe August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so thereoften happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasn's been a lot t inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The thought of technology work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in my lifeDundee. I once worked for She was the publisher of a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they magazine and had a typewriter. Times - thankfully - have moved on. Nowadays been told that the problem is that someone man running a business doesn't have the time Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to keep drum up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expectedsome local interest in his show. It Sandy Bissett's also a fact that no one develops a business because they have request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the knowledge man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the required technology, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantage. They need help, but they frequently don't know what help they needsame job.

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0099551063|title=Note to SelfThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: An EducationLessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton

|genre=Popular Science Fiction|summary= In Kry's world, ' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.'' Until the discovery events of 6 January 2021 that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances"might have surprised, even shocked many readers: in 2030 itnow they's found re probably convinced that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 they knew it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven yearsall along. In The statement has lost a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1838770046|title=Body Language|author=A K Turner|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician and not only little of its shock value but it does she talk help us to understand more about the dead, she also hears what they have to say to hernature of psychopathy. It's not something she's inclined too easy to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will be. She's certainly not going to share it associate psychopathy with the new pathologistYorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dr Archie ChuffSaddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovian. He's very conscious of his position and isn't even inclined to ask for the view of real-life Hannibal Lecter, but the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact truth is that they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each body. That will prove to having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a mistakegood thing.

|isbnauthor=0578761718Alex Wheatle|title=The Inspiring History Humiliations of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy CarverWelton Blake|rating=42.5|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=The church We meet Welton Blake at the worst of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in times – only they should be the City best of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in recordstimes. Sadly, He should be getting a text from the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London most bae-worthy girl in 1666. It was rebuilt school in Portland stone from regards to a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and then survived for centuries until World War IIhis breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, when it was again ruined by bombs during and the Blitzwanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. But On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effortdad has left the picture – yes, the stones from the churchthings are so bad they's walls were transported re resorting to Fultonhaving cabbage for dinner. I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, Missouri. Therea day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the grounds wash? This can't be the start of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495

|isbnauthor=B08NF79QXTKaren M McManus|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke AdamsThe Cousins|rating=35|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=ThirtyThe rich and famous Story family led a life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each of the Story children -oneAnders, Archer, Adam and Allison -year old Liberty Rossini has had her shopreceived a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completely. But now, a quarter of a century later, their children have been called to return to the Cherry Blossom Boutique, island for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Awardsummer by their grandmother. She's delighted and What does she want with the two people cousins? Why did she's brought with cut off her to children all those years ago? Are the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonjadeaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies, her mother, is an ex-model secrets and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirtytragedy that has held the Story family up -four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their fourheld them apart -year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her lifequarter of a century is about to come crashing down.|isbn=0241376947

|isbn=B08BTXSS841786495902|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Jenny O'BrienIsabel Hardman|rating=45|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to less than share. She says that a dribble friend who does know, burst into tears and shehealth-care professionals's looking through cold cases for inspiration as to which one she should jaws have a good look sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intrigued. She cantime by 'keeping going't see any immediate failings in : the next day she went to work to cover the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securely-locked housebudget, wearing her pyjamasnext there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next dayparty conference season. She was wearing a handOne night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforeterm sick leave. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the whole story: he's married to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sisterbins went out more often than I did.

|author=Nick Jones Emma Carroll and Si ClarkKaja Kajfez|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 FineThe Ghost Garden

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Eleanor Oliphant Fran, the gardener's daughter at a posh country house, is almost 30worried. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery -5, 5 days a weeklarge bone, and spends buried under the weekend not drunk, but not soberpotatoes. alone. And But she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, and that's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at a concert even more worried when she won tickets for in an office rafflelearns that that event coincided with Leo, she sees the man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself older child of the best version of herself that she canhouse, in order to secure this beautiful musician. Then, as she's breaking his leg while playing cricket on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in the street and stay close lawn. She is due to him in hospital. Then, before get even more worried when she knows it, her once quiet life becomes finds something else that also seems to foretell a hubbub of social engagements surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the man's family and friendsgrounds in his bathchair, with Raymond from IT and she might have reason to be out of course her side project of falling in love mind with Johnnie Lomondfear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But just surely that won't act as her life seems a premonition to be looking upanything - not here in the sultry, things take a turn for the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to besummery days of 1914? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down and she has to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it alone.|isbn=00081721451781129002

|isbn=1838887334reed3|title=Deadly Cry Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (D I Kim Stone3rd Edition)|author=Angela MarsonsJames Reed|rating=45|genre=CrimeBusiness and Finance|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were Six years on their way back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone the original edition, the book is being re- the course had been issued with a complete waste bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude Work'' which includes an additional 10 questions. I've come to everyone. It was in this some 6 years after reviewing the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of a little girl clutching a teddy bear original book and my life has changed significantly in the absence of her mothermeantime. Stone and Bryant didnI't realise the extent m no longer working in middle-management having opted for a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to which this case was going enable me to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterfocus on other (not necessarily paying) work. Her neck had been broken I can therefore relate to the first point made in this chapter namely that independence and it had all the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would do flexibility are core skills that employees need to a young mother out shopping with her child?have.

|author=Roxanne BouchardDeborah O'Connor|title=The Coral BrideCaptive|rating=4|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwomanHannah knows the cage, making her living intimately. It lurks in a man's world. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast corner of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in to come and head the investigationher eye. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendasSoon, fishing histories and secret family feudsit will be occupied. At the same time as trying Then what? What if he speaks to run his investigation, her? What if he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that escapes? What if he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficulties.hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=19131933221838772650

|isbn=1472134710B08CR3WNFT|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of DeathThe Therapist|author=M C BeatonB A Paris|rating=45|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street for When Leo Curtis found the house in The Circle, a cottage gated community, Alice Dawson was in the Cotswold village of CarsleyVenice. She'd have preferred one of Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the more romantic names but market at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems such a reasonable price that bringsAlice wouldn't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Now the problem is settling into a different way Alice agreed - she was tired of life their long- and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant to peopledistance relationship. The first move is Now they would be able to enter spend most of the village quiche-baking competition and the beginning week together instead of just the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browne, and his wife Vera out to dinnerweekends. She knows she's being ripped off at Leo had some work done on the pub in the next village but this is necessary house: he made two bedrooms into one and it's a good investment as she knows although Alice knew that the house was stunning shejust didn's going to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..t feel comfortable there.

|authorisbn= Claire McGowan1406395404|title=The PushAwesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating= 5|genre= General FictionTeens|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at 2020 has been a prenatal classstrange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. It Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('s NCT who needs sleep? - I''style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have ve got loads to wait a little to see whybe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of Most people, from all sorts of backgrounds, children to adults will have the odd bad night but for most worrying about your lack of the ladies the thing they have in common sleep is only likely to make itworse. And there's their first baby. Probably after also the first onefact that for far too long, you don't have time for classeslack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, or think you've got child-rearing down patworking late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|isbn=1542019990

|isbn=1472255917000820831X|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Coffinmaker's Garden|author=Quintin JardineStuart MacBride|rating=4.5

|summary=On New Year's EveAt the coastal village of Clachmara, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and headland is slowly eroding into the sea. Storm Trevor speeds up the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic Jacksonprocess. Jackson would be betterA ship -known to the criminal fraternity Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but hethe house to see what's reformed and the new name reflects a new manhappening. The Skinners don't stay much Margaret runs after midnight her son and as she grabs him to pull him back to safety she glances across at the clubhouse newly-exposed cliff front and are dropped home not long into the new yearsees human bones. SkinnerGordon Smith's tempted to let home is falling into the North Sea and the phone ring but knows that evidence of what he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking been doing for his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburgh. Skinner's not technically decades is going with the police now it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but later escapes the police value his knowledge and experiencetumbling ruin.

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQB08BC4D58S|title=The Long Winterkill (Dark RoadIceland)|author=P R BlackRagnar Jonasson

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaAri Thor Arason is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and he's Healey's nineteenstill living in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do a Masters degree, taking three-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate BridgeStefnir with her. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelled. There was a furious storm going on and sheIt'd already refused s now the offer Thursday of help from one man in a big vehicle. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops Holy Week and Stephanie his family is bundled into the car and driven off. There has been no sign of her - or her body - due to arrive in the two years sinceSiglufjordur that afternoon. Georgia Ari Thor is back is Ferngate, determined having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to find out what happened and she's not going get to be stopped.}} {{Frontpage|author= Katharine Orton|title= Glassheart|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since sleep the Blitz claimed phone rings: the lives body of her family. Nowa young woman has been found on Adalgata, in the aftermath main street of the war, they travel all over the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombs. Their latest job takes them out to the wilds of Dartmoor, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient and powerful magictown. 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 he has her…|isbn=1406385239

|isbnauthor=B08KKQ85FNRob Winters|title=But Never For Lunch|author=Sandra AragonaHis Name Was Wren

|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler In September 1944 something came down in lipstickOban Woods, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into near the company village of carrion crows orHurstwick. It came down hard, more to taking the spire of the pointvillage church with it, about to discover the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas bills.'' You don't get many better opening sentences than thatdestroying a stone shack, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting leaving a wide trail through the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned wood, but no trace of what it actually was. German secret weapon was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government local gossip, but the time has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador... They there should have left The Career been an explosion and settled in Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates the situation a crater, and their dog, Beagle, has no intention there were neither of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deafthose things.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB

|author= Susi Holliday Stephen Clarke|title= The Last Resort Spy Who Inspired Me|rating= 3.5 4|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=A group of strangers gather on This is a private islandspoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company Or Ian Fleming. The group includes But it features a games designerman called Ian Lemming, social media influencerwho dresses well and 'likes the ladies' and who works for the secret service, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area but in the planning side of expertise that makes their attendance necessarythings more than the active service. All except Amelia whose presence is Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a mystery. We follow the group as they explore female spy called Margaux, and the islandpair end up stranded in Normandy, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have with Margaux on a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As desperate mission to unearth traitors in the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealedresistance network, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle Lemming desperately trying to uncover the reason for keep up with her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. !|isbn=15420200182952163855

|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ3110706075|title=The Karma TrapMaking a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Lisette BoydGerry Brown

|genre=Women's FictionBusiness and Finance|summary=George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous ''You're not there to look at - and singlerun the organisation. SheYou are there to make sure that it is run properly.'s ' Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in just a corporate board, but the karma trap: board of an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a real talent for attracting dramacharity. Her lifeHe's particularly keen that there's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom increased diversity on these boards and feels that this would help to avoid some of the stairs to absorb the water scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was we're thinking about you) which have occurred in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postmanrecent years. She only has For this to happen, boards need to take her motherhave a wider field of people to choose from when they's dog out re looking 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 officean ID.

|isbn=00083331731786495902|title=HungryThe Natural Health Service: A Memoir of Wanting MoreHow Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Grace DentIsabel Hardman

|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=IIsabel 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'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the judges on time by 'keeping going'Masterchef''. You know that you're going : the next day she went to work to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the timepolitical party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. You also ponder on how One night she can look so elegant with all that good food in front of herhad to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. I've often wondered about That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the woman behind year when the media image and ''Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' is a stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in equal measuresbins went out more often than I did.

|isbn=18387731693030513025|title=Her Majesty the Queen InvestigatesThe Independent Director in Society: The Windsor KnotOur current crisis of governance and what to do|author=S J BennettGerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais

|genre=CrimeBusiness and Finance|summary=ItIndependent Director: ''s early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II a job for which no one is at Windsor for the Easter Court. qualified'' She(''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''s having An independent director is a dine and sleep at member of the request board of Prince Charlesdirectors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the company, who(2) is not part of the company's attempting executive team, and (3) is not involved with the day-to raise money from some rich Russians for one -day operations of his pet projectsthe company. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the evening executive members of boards and one the independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. The function of the performers brought in independent director is to play have general oversight of the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstances. The immediate reaction is that one executive side of the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an exboard -ambassador to Moscowspot when and where things are going wrong - but all too often the relationship is too cosy, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the Archbishop of Canterbury knowledge and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn/or experience to understand what't bear s happening or to go down any know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to think that these are extraordinary times and that all will be well once we get back to 'normal'those'' roadsbut a pandemic was predicted and modelled in the past and there has been a general failure to prepare for what has happened - and is still happening.

|authorisbn=Matt HaigB002SQCYWQ|title=The Midnight LibraryComplete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony Trollope

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Between life and death there is a library. And so, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself in the Midnight Library. Everything When I told my daughter that could've gone wrong in Nora's life has. Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother wonI didn't speak know what to herlisten to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, her parents are deadPride and Prejudice, the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about pianoMansfield Park, she called off her weddingEmma, Northanger Abbey and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. She gave up Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on all the things that would've let her escape trot she had the wet, cold town of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23perfect answer:22, she realises that she isn't made for life The Barchester Chronicles and decides to die. But instead of death, she finds the library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing a chance to try another life she could have lived, they were in my inbox in a parallel timematter of minutes. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday They're not ''quite'' as well known as the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she couldAusten books but they'vere an excellent follow on.|isbn=1786892731

|isbn=03494230830008214468|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)A Time to Lie|author=Frances BrodySimon Berthon|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It's wrapped in Woodhouse part of an old shower curtain and her housekeeperis a hand, Mrs Sugdensevered above the wrist. SheIt's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashamthere for about twenty-five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. Something is going wrong with his business He's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and heBella. Sandford'd like Kate s determined to look into it discreetlybe a better type of politician: hewants ''s hoping a government that his nephew and right-hand manis not just practically good, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to Germany before longbut morally good. '' James went One of the ways he's planning on going about this is to see what the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need ban arms sales to makedubious regimes. William is worried Henry Morland-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit he'd been warned about this: it'too'' much or is going s easy to bring back a German bride but see that hewouldn'd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returnst have been in agreement.

|authorisbn=Caroline ScottB077K6BQFD|title=When I Come Home AgainThe Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane Austen|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary 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 isnYes - that't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on s over eighty-one hours of listening for the road for a long time and being frightened, and some purchase of the faces from the road, but other than that – everything that came before has goneone audio book. They need a name for the forms All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and so they call him Adam and, because he was found 're presented in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man order in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he is, where he is or how he got therewhich they were published.|isbn=1471192172

|isbn=15294103470241453585|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Helen CoxAnne Boden|rating=45|genre=CrimeBusiness and Finance|summary=Kitt Hartley's assistant, Grace Edwards, has left her library job and taken Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a place on the Venerable Bede Academy's vocational library studies course in Durhamsenior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. It's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not accepted, so most AIB was in the throes of recovering from the people attending are scions 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or they've managed, somehow, first 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 realise that was what she chose banks needed to do then they were finished with herthings differently. Not long after she started AIB thought it was at the course, Kitt Hartley came for cutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of terminal. Boden took things a student step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from a year agotheir homes: the old branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundant.

|author=Vincent PanettiereLauren Martin|title=These Thy GiftsThe Book of Moods|rating=45|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=I was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''great''2006 is being delivered with an eye roll and a tumultuous year for the Catholic Churchsigh, through clenched teeth. Reports of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for I had spent the future best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer to home than he ever imagined.'' As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of water at our local sailing club in the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic churchrescue rib, he discovers that one child on standby in his own parish has been abused by a priest sent by his bishopcase anyone who was racing needed support. And this isn't just any boy: this is SteveIt's grandson whose mother is a volunteer duty we all do during the offspring of a long past relationship between Steve year, and a gangsternormally I's widow. Steve is determined m happy to seek justice for 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 to his breaking of but that day 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 Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve weather was miserable and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who I was 67 years old miserable, and had served six years for it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the manslaughter of his wife. Only website that wasn't who he was. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston we had served thirty years been thanked for the murder of five boys between the ages of ten our time as "Dave 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 victimswife". The Bogeyman was going to be set free on 2 July 2019Wow. He appeared to be a reformed character but he I had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengenever needed this book more.|isbn=1538733625

|isbnauthor=1473692407Becky Albertalli|title=The Book of Two Ways|author=Jodi PicoultSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda|rating=45|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Dawn Edelstein is Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great life. He has a close group of friends, a loving family, and even an adorable dog. But he has a death doulasecret: thathe's someone who is there for the gay. Only one person who is dyingknows this, to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and to support their carers. Itthat's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at his school. Their emails are a rewarding, caring occupation and Dawn puts her heart and soul into safe space for Simon; it but this wasn't always her lifes his own private universe without the fear of being judged. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an EgyptologistUntil one day, she was working with her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphries, on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on these emails fall into the Nile in Middle Egypt. Then she was Dawn McDowell: that was her maiden namewrong hands, the name she published underand everything Simon knows is turned upside down.|isbn=014135609X

|authorisbn=Delia Owens3110641119|title=Where The Crawdads SingJourney Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave

|genre=General FictionBusiness and Finance|summary= In 1952, KyaI had no idea what 'journey mapping's mother disappeared up was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the dirt track to town, wearing her alligator heels, book and never came home. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from the shack acting on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken fathercontents. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed You'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for re going to learn how to run a mother that would never return and grew up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor write. Finally, workshop to discover what it feels like to be one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to survive on the marshof your own customers. Eventually At this point, as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning please don't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is going to be loved fun and you're going to be held. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds a new way of life. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girlsurprised by what emerges. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665

|authorisbn=David C Mason3110641291|title=Pandora's GardenerThe Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander|rating=35|genre=CrimeBusiness and Finance|summary= John Cranston is So, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in a gardener, although what he did before he became slightly different form and quite a gardener, he claims, is classifiedbit of money spent. That is Why not just leave it as well because he it is about ? After all, it's ''roughly'' working, isn't it? You might not have said it, but you'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't really delivered in terms of ''growth''. It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be caught up challenged by a competitor who takes a more radical approach. You've merely kept the business ticking over and there's a nagging suspicion in the back of your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save the daytwenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation. |isbn=0956180523