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|isbn=31106411191529337925|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey MappingMirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Jerry AngraveCatriona McPherson|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime (Historical)|summary=I had no idea what 'journey mapping' It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading cold enough to have the book fire lit and acting on Bunty the contents. YouDalmation wasn're going t inclined to learn how to run a workshop to discover what leave it feels like to be one keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The thought of your own customerswork was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. At this point, please donShe was the publisher of a magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is going s request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be fun and you're going cheaper than employing a solicitor to be surprised by what emergesdo the same job.

|isbn=31106412910099551063|title=The Radical Innovation PlaybookWisdom of Psychopaths: A Practical Guide for Harnessing NewLessons in life from Saints, Novel or Game-Changing BreakthroughsSpies and Serial Killers|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderDr Kevin Dutton|rating=54|genre=Business and FinancePopular Science|summary=So, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in a slightly different form and quite a bit of money spent. Why not just leave it as it is? After all, it's ''roughlyDonald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits'claims Oxford University researcher.' working, isn't it?

You Until the events of 6 January 2021 that might not have said itsurprised, but youeven shocked many readers: now they've re probably thought convinced that they knew itall along. You've also thought the small, incremental improvements which you have been able The statement has lost a little of its shock value but it does help us to make - understand more about the optimisation nature 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''psychopathy. It's been manageable and largely risktoo easy to associate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the real-free life Hannibal Lecter, but you could easily the truth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be 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 the twenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovationgood thing.

|isbnauthor=1472962044Alex Wheatle|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew HampshireThe Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=42.5|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=I was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteen, so there's been a lot We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of technology in my lifetimes. I once worked for He should be getting a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriter. Times text from the most bae- thankfully - have moved on. Nowadays the problem is that someone running worthy girl in school in regards to a business doesncinema date, but his phone has packed up, he't have s chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, and the time wanna-bae seems to keep up actually be with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expectedsomeone else anyway. ItOn a bigger scale he's also a fact living with his mother and not much income now that no one develops a business because they have the knowledge of dad has left the required technologypicture – yes, things are so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that bad they're at a disadvantageresorting to having cabbage for dinner. They need helpI know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school to forget, but they frequently donand everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't know what help they need.be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495

|author=Mark LinganeKaren M McManus|title=Note to Self: An EducationThe Cousins|rating=45|genre=Science General Fiction|summary= In Kry's worldThe rich and famous Story family led a life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each of the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completely. But now, a cascade quarter of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can a century later, their children have been called to return cells back to the island for the summer by their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but grandmother. What does she want with the side effect of erasing seven cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of memorytwisted lies, by 2045 secrets and tragedy that has held the cosmetics industry Story family up - and held them apart - for a quarter of a century is using the same technique about to "de-age" their customers by seven yearscome crashing down. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS0241376947}}

|isbn=18387700461786495902|title=Body LanguageThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=A K TurnerIsabel Hardman|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician and Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not only to share. She says that a friend who does she talk to the deadknow, she also hears what they burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have to say to hersagged in disbelief. ItHardman dealt with this at the time by 's not something keeping going': the next day she's inclined went to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will be. She's certainly not going work to share it with cover the new pathologistbudget, Dr Archie Chuffnext there was the EU referendum, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket the political party leadership contests and old Harrovianthen it was party conference season. He's very conscious of his position One night she had to be sedated and isn't even inclined returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to ask for this book: 2020 was the view of year when the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have a lot bins went out more experience often than him and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistakeI did.

|isbnauthor=0578761718Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=The Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy CarverGhost Garden

|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in Fran, the City of London from gardener's daughter at least 1181a posh country house, when it was first mentioned in recordsis worried. Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War IIlarge bone, when it was again ruined by bombs during buried under the Blitzpotatoes. But she's even more worried when she learns that that wasn't event coincided with Leo, the end older child of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effortthe house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the stones from the church's walls were transported lawn. She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to Fulton, Missouriforetell a surprise. There, in Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to be out of Westminster Collegeher mind with fear, the church was rebuilt and today serves when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act as a memorial premonition to Winston Churchill.anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|isbn=1781129002

|isbn=B08NF79QXTreed3|title=Cherry Blossom BoutiqueWhy You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=Brooke AdamsJames Reed|rating=35|genre=Women's FictionBusiness and Finance|summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shopSix years on from the original edition, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when shebook is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled 's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the two people sheThe Future of Work's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her mother, is which includes an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks fromadditional 10 questions. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they I've known each other since university come to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and Liberty adores Jessicamy life has changed significantly in the meantime. I's husband, Charles and their fourm no longer working in middle-yearmanagement having opted for a down-old daughter, Avashift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man I can therefore relate to the first point made in her lifethis chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that employees need to have.

|isbnauthor=B08BTXSS84Deborah O'Connor|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)|author=Jenny O'BrienThe Captive|rating=4|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: Hannah knows 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 atcage, intimately. DS Owen Bates suggests It lurks in the murder corner of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intriguedher eye. She can't see any immediate failings in the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securely-locked houseSoon, wearing her pyjamas, and was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next dayit will be occupied. She was wearing a hand-made nightdress which Then what? What if he speaks to her mother had never seen before. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told the whole story: ? What if he escapes? What if he's married to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sister.hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650

|authorisbn=Nick Jones and Si ClarkB08CR3WNFT|title=One Night in BeartownThe Therapist|author=B A Paris|rating=45|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary= Many children have an obsession and Sandy LaneWhen Leo Curtis found the house in The Circle, a gated community, who lives Alice Dawson was in Beartown, is obsessed with bearsVenice. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such a teddy bear passed down by reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her grandmothercottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Every night, Alice agreed - she looks out was tired of her bedroom window and says goodnight their long-distance relationship. Now they would be able to spend most of the bear statue outsideweek together instead of just the weekends. Every morning Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her schooljust didn't feel comfortable there. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}}

|authorisbn=Gail Honeyman1406395404|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineThe Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9-5, 5 days 2020 has been a week, and spends the weekend not drunk, but not sober. alone. And she likes it strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that waystatement. She lives by a routine, Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and that's fine, thankyouverymuchfor some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, she sees the man she is sure Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be her husbanddoing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Eleanor begins a journey Most people, from children to make herself adults will have the best version odd bad night but worrying about your lack of herself that she can, in order sleep is only likely to secure this beautiful musicianmake it worse. Then, as she And there's on her way home one Fridayalso the fact that for far too long, she and the new IT guy at her office see lack of sleep has been lauded as a man collapse in the street virtue and stay close sleep made to him in hospitalseem like laziness. Then Being up early, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family working late has been praised and friends, with Raymond from IT and of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking up, things take a turn for the worse. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up ability to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down and she survive on little sleep has almost become something to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it aloneput on your CV.|isbn=0008172145

|isbn=1838887334000820831X|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)The Coffinmaker's Garden|author=Angela MarsonsStuart MacBride

|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingAt the coastal village of Clachmara, the headland is slowly eroding into the sea. The need for coffee overtook Stone - Storm Trevor speeds up the course had been a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude to everyoneprocess. It was in A ship - the shopping centre that Stone caught sight Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of her motherhouse to see what's happening. Stone Margaret runs after her son and Bryant didn't realise the extent as she grabs him to which this case was going pull him back to occupy their minds as safety she glances across at the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laternewly-exposed cliff front and sees human bones. Her neck had been broken Gordon Smith's home is falling into the North Sea and it had all the hallmarks evidence of a quick, functional kill, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping what he's been doing for decades is going with her child?it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruin.

|authorisbn=Roxanne BouchardB08BC4D58S|title=The Coral BrideWinterkill (Dark Iceland)|author=Ragnar Jonasson

|summary=Angel Roberts Ari Thor Arason is an oddity - the police inspector in Siglufjordur and he's still 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 female fisherwomanMasters degree, making taking three-year-old Stefnir with her living in a man's world. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in They were supposed to come and head the investigationspend Christmas together but Kristin cancelled. Although It's now the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, Thursday of Holy Week and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret his family feudsis due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoon. At the same time as trying to run his investigation, Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable finally managed to talk get to his father aboutsleep the phone rings: the body of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesthe main street of the town.|isbn=1913193322

|isbnauthor=1472134710Rob Winters|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death|author=M C BeatonHis Name Was Wren

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street for a cottage In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the Cotswold village of CarsleyHurstwick. She'd have preferred one It came down hard, taking the spire of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail village church with all the problems that brings. Now the problem is settling into it, destroying a different way of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant to people. stone shack, The first move is to enter the village quiche-baking competition and leaving a wide trail through the beginning wood, but no trace of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browne, and his wife Vera out to dinnerwhat it actually was. She knows she's being ripped off at German secret weapon was the pub in the next village local gossip, but this is necessary there should have been an explosion and it's a good investment as she knows that she's going to win. How? Wellcrater, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..and there were neither of those things.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB

|author= Claire McGowanStephen Clarke|title=The Push|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have to wait a little to see why. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's their first baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.|isbn=1542019990}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1472255917|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)|author=Quintin Jardine|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=On New Year's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic Jackson. Jackson would be better-known to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed and the new name reflects a new man. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into the new year. Skinner's tempted to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburgh. Skinner's not technically with the police now - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experience.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackSpy Who Inspired Me

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaThis is a spoof spy story, that isn's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridget about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. There was But it features a furious storm going on man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and she'd already refused likes the offer of help from one man in a big vehicle. Weladies'll see - and who works for the secret service, but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into in the car and driven off. There has been no sign planning side of her - or her body - in things more than the two years sinceactive service. Georgia is back is FerngateLemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, determined to find out what happened and she's not going 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 the Blitz claimed the lives of her family. Nowpair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the aftermath of the warresistance network, they travel all over the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombs. Their latest job takes them out and Lemming desperately trying to the wilds of Dartmoor, where Nona discovers that keep up with 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 he has her…!|isbn=14063852392952163855

|isbn=B08KKQ85FN3110706075|title=But Never For LunchMaking a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Sandra AragonaGerry Brown

|genre=Short StoriesBusiness and Finance|summary=''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of carrion crows or, more You're not there to run the point, about organisation. You are there to discover the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas billsmake sure that it is run properly.''

You donGerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just a corporate board, but the board of an NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a charity. He't get many better opening sentences than s particularly keen that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassadorthere's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress increased diversity on these boards and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting feels that this would help to avoid some of the Priorities]] and scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - we learned what it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador... They 're thinking about you) which have left The Career and settled occurred in Romerecent years. Well 'settled' rather overstates the situation and their dogFor this to happen, Beagle, has no intention boards need to have a wider field of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deafpeople to choose from when they're looking for an ID.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 1786495902|title= The Last Resort Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating= 3.5 |genre= ThrillersLifestyle|summary=A group of strangers gather on Isabel Hardman suffered a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat trauma which she chooses not to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology companyshare. The group includes She says that a games designerfriend, social media influencerwho does know, gossip columnist burst into tears and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to health-care professionals' jaws have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessarysagged in disbelief. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the group as they explore next day she went to work to cover the islandbudget, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As next there was the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealedEU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cagewas party conference season. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle One night she had to uncover the reason for her attendance be sedated and protect the rest of returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the guests from year when the increasingly sinister accidents that befall thembins went out more often than I did. |isbn=1542020018

|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ3030513025|title=The Karma TrapIndependent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Lisette BoydGerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais|rating=45|genre=Women's FictionBusiness and Finance|summary=George Jackson Independent Director: ''a job for which no one is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. qualified'' She(''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''s An independent director is a member of the board of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the company, (2) is not had sex for eight months and shepart of the company's stuck in executive team, and (3) is not involved with the karma trap: an awful lot day-to-day operations of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting dramathe company. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the leak from relationship between the shower by putting something down at executive members of boards and the bottom independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. The function of the stairs independent director is to absorb have general oversight of the executive side of the water board - to spot when and where things are going wrong - then but all too often the relationship is too cosy, too antagonistic or the shower fell through independent director lacks the roof whilst she was in it knowledge and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman/or experience to understand what's happening or to know how to intervene. She only 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 take her mother's dog out for normal' but a pandemic was predicted and modelled in the past and there has been a walk general failure to prepare for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face what has happened - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the officeis still happening.

|isbn=0008333173B002SQCYWQ|title=Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting MoreThe Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Grace DentAnthony Trollope

|genre=AutobiographyLiterary Fiction|summary=When Itold my daughter that I didn'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of the judges on ''Masterchef''. You t know what to listen to now that youI're going to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most d finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time. You also ponder on how the trot she can look so elegant with all that good food had the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and they were in my inbox in front a matter of herminutes. IThey're not 've often wondered about the woman behind the media image and 'quite'Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'as well known as the Austen books but they' is a stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in equal measuresre an excellent follow on.

|isbn=18387731690008214468|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor KnotA Time to Lie|author=S J BennettSimon Berthon

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It's early 2016 wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor a hand, severed above the wrist. It's been there for the Easter Courtabout twenty-five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. SheHe's having a dine married to heiress Carol van Koon and sleep at the request of Prince Charlesthey have two daughters, whoBecca and Bella. Sandford's attempting determined to raise money from some rich Russians for one be a better type of his pet projects. Therepolitician: he wants ''d been a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening and one of the performers brought in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesgovernment that is not just practically good, but morally good. '' The immediate reaction is that one One of the guests ways he's planning on going about this is responsibleto ban arms sales to dubious regimes. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an exHenry Morland-ambassador to MoscowCross, the Archbishop of Canterbury Deputy Prime Minister and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it'thoses easy to see that he wouldn'' roadst have been in agreement.

|authorisbn=Matt HaigB077K6BQFD|title=The Midnight LibraryComplete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane Austen

|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 Yes - that could've gone wrong in Nora's life hasover eighty-one hours of listening for the purchase of one audio book. Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother won't speak to her, her parents All six major novels are dead, the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. She gave up on all the things that wouldthey've let her escape re presented in the wet, cold town of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, she realises that she isn't made for life 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, order in a parallel timewhich they were published. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she could've.|isbn=1786892731

|isbn=03494230830241453585|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Frances BrodyAnne Boden|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 Anne Boden had an impressive track record in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugdenthe financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. She's been approached by William Lofthouse AIB was in the throes of recovering from the Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is going wrong with his business 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and he'd like Kate she was one of the first to look into it discreetly: he's hoping realise that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip banks needed to Germany before longdo things differently. James went to see what AIB thought it was at the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need cutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to makeaccess their accounts via a terminal. William is worried Boden took things a step further, realising that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride but he'd like customers could access their accounts from their homes: the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returnsold branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundant.

|author=Caroline ScottLauren Martin|title=When I Come Home AgainThe Book of Moods|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionLifestyle|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested I was in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a namegreat mood when I first learnt of this book, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isnand because sarcasm doesn't willful obstinancealways translate well into writing, he doesnimagine the word ''great't answer because he doesn't knowbeing delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. He remembers being on I had spent the road for best part of a long time and being frightenedrainy, and some of windy weekend afternoon out on the faces from water at our local sailing club in the roadrescue rib, but other than that – everything that came before has goneon standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. They need It's a name for volunteer duty we all do during the forms year, and so they call him Adam normally I'm happy to, but that day the weather was miserable and, because he I was found in the Galilee Chapelmiserable, and it becomes Adam Galileeall came to a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". 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 thereWow. I had never needed this book more.|isbn=14711921721538733625

|isbnauthor=1529410347Becky Albertalli|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)|author=Helen CoxSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda|rating=45|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Kitt Hartley's assistantSixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great life. He has a close group of friends, Grace Edwardsa loving family, and even an adorable dog. But he has left her library job and taken a place on the Venerable Bede Academysecret: he's vocational library studies course in Durhamgay. ItOnly one person knows this, and that's an unusual place to study as students with government grants 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 not accepted, so most of a safe space for Simon; it's his own private universe without the people attending are scions fear of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or they've managed, somehow, to scrape together the moneybeing judged. GraceUntil one day, who's 22, comes these emails fall 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 coursewrong hands, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year agoeverything Simon knows is turned upside down.|isbn=014135609X

|authorisbn=Vincent Panettiere3110641119|title=These Thy Gifts|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''2006 is a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church. Reports of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for the future of the church—and rightly so. The Journey Mapping Playbook: A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer Practical Guide to home than he ever imagined.'' As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic churchPreparing, he discovers that one child in his own parish has been abused by a priest sent by his bishop. And this isn't just any boy: this is Steve's grandson whose mother is Facilitating and Unlocking the offspring Value of a long past relationship between Steve and a gangster's widow. Steve is determined 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 the celibacy vows.|isbn=1503199886}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1800321104|title=The Body on the IslandCustomer Journey Mapping|author=Nick LouthJerry Angrave|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeBusiness and Finance|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring Hill. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old and I had served six years for the manslaughter of his wife. Only that wasnno idea what 'journey mapping't who he was. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the murder of five boys between book and acting on the ages of ten and seventeencontents. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield and into You're going to learn how to run a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of the body of workshop to discover what it feels like to be one of his victimsyour own customers. The Bogeyman was At this point, please don't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is going to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared fun and you're going to be a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengesurprised by what emerges.

|isbn=14736924073110641291|title=The Book of Two WaysRadical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Jodi PicoultOlga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander|rating=45|genre=General FictionBusiness and Finance|summary=Dawn Edelstein is a death doula: that's someone who is there for the person who is dyingSo, why bother? Every time you set out to make their passage to whatever they believe do something new you end up with the same thing in as easy as possible a slightly different form and to support their carersquite a bit of money spent. ItWhy not just leave it as it is? After all, it's a rewarding''roughly'' working, caring occupation and Dawn puts her heart and soul into isn't it? You might not have said it , but this wasnyou't always her lifeve probably thought it. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an EgyptologistYou've also thought the small, she was working incremental improvements which you have been able to make - the optimisation of your core business with her supervisorcost efficiencies wherever possible, Professor Ian Dumphries, on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir elextension of your existing products into new areas -Bersha on the Nile haven't really delivered in Middle Egyptterms of ''growth''. Then she was Dawn McDowell: It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be 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 was her maiden name, an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the name she published undertwenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovation.