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|authorisbn=Lauren Martin1529337925|title=The Book of MoodsMirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime (Historical)|summary= I It was in a great mood when I first learnt of this bookthe August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and because sarcasm doesnBunty the Dalmation wasn't always translate well into writing, imagine inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the word ''great'' being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teethcall from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. I had spent She was the best part publisher of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on magazine and had been told that the man running the water at our local sailing club Punch and Judy show in the rescue rib, on standby local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in case anyone who was racing needed supporthis show. It Sandy Bissett's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, request was simple: she wanted Gilver and normally I'm happy Osborne to, but that day warn the weather was miserable man about infringement of copyright - and I was miserable, Dandy and it all came Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to a head that evening when I noticed on do the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book moresame job.|isbn=1538733625

|authorisbn=Becky Albertalli0099551063|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton|rating=54|genre=TeensPopular Science|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great life'' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher. He has a close group '' Until the events of friends, a loving family6 January 2021 that might have surprised, and even an adorable dog. But he has a secretshocked many readers: henow they's gayre probably convinced that they knew it all along. Only one person knows this, and that's Blue – a boy who he The statement has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at his school. Their emails are lost a safe space for Simon; little of its shock value but itdoes help us to understand more about the nature of psychopathy. It's his own private universe without too easy to associate psychopathy with the fear of being judged. Until one dayYorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, these emails fall into the wrong handsreal-life Hannibal Lecter, and everything Simon knows but the truth is turned upside downthat having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|isbn=014135609X

|isbnauthor=3110641119Alex Wheatle|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value Humiliations of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry AngraveWelton Blake|rating=2.5|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=I had no idea what 'journey mapping' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading We meet Welton Blake at the book and acting on worst of times – only they should be the contentsbest of times. You're going to learn how He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to run a workshop to discover what it feels like cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be one of your own customerswith someone else anyway. At this point, please donOn a bigger scale he't say 'oh (expletive deleted) s living with his mother and not another workshopmuch income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they' because re resorting to having cabbage for dinner. I know, right? But surely this is going just a blip, a day at school to be fun forget, and youeverything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can're going to t be surprised by what emerges.the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495

|isbnauthor=3110641291Karen M McManus|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderCousins

|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|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 The rich and quite famous Story family led a bit life of money spent. Why not just leave it as it is? After allluxury on Gull Cove Island, it's ''roughly'' workinguntil 25 years ago when each of the Story children - Anders, isn't it? You might not have said itArcher, but you've probably thought itAdam and Allison - received a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completely. You've also thought the smallBut now, a quarter of a century later, incremental improvements which you their children have been able called to make - return to the island for the optimisation of your core business summer by their grandmother. What does she want with cost efficiencies wherever possible, the extension of your existing products into new areas - haven't cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really delivered in terms what they seem? The dark web of ''growth''. It's been manageable twisted lies, secrets and largely risktragedy that has held the Story family up -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 held them apart - for a nagging suspicion in the back quarter of your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth a century might not survive in the twenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical'' innovationabout to come crashing down.|isbn=0241376947

|isbn=14729620441786495902|title=Creating Value Through TechnologyThe Natural Health Service: Discover the Tech that How Nature Can Transform Mend Your BusinessMind|author=Andrew HampshireIsabel Hardman|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceLifestyle|summary=I was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteen, so there's been Isabel Hardman suffered a lot of technology in my lifetrauma which she chooses not to share. I once worked for She says that a manager friend who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriter. Times - thankfully does know, burst into tears and health- care professionals' jaws have moved onsagged in disbelief. Nowadays Hardman dealt with this at the problem is that someone running a business doesntime by 'keeping going't have : the time next day she went to work to keep up with constant innovation cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and they might also then it was party conference season. One night she had to be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expectedsedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. It's also a fact that no one develops a business because they have That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the knowledge of year when 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 needbins went out more often than I did.

|author=Mark Lingane|title=Note to Self: An Education|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary= In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 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 years. In a society obsessed with image Emma Carroll and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1838770046Kaja Kajfez|title=Body Language|author=A K TurnerThe Ghost Garden

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is Fran, the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the deadgardener's daughter at a posh country house, she also hears what they have to say to heris worried. ItShe's not something just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bone, buried under the potatoes. But she's inclined to share even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will beLeo, the older child of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She's certainly not going is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to share it foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the new pathologistgrounds in his bathchair, Dr Archie Chuffshe might have reason to be out of her mind with fear, wearer of when she learns what he is seeking - a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianlong-forgotten burial chamber. He's very conscious of his position and isnBut surely that won't even inclined act as a premonition to ask for anything - not here in the view sultry, summery days of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact 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 be a mistake.1914?|isbn=1781129002

|isbn=0578761718reed3|title=The Inspiring History of a Special RelationshipWhy You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=Nancy CarverJames Reed|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryBusiness and Finance|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London Six years on from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the original church was destroyed in edition, the Great Fire book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of London in 1666Work'' which includes an additional 10 questions. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon I've come to this some 6 years after reviewing the fire original book and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during my life has changed significantly in the Blitzmeantime. But that wasnI't the end of its story: after m no longer working in middle-management having opted for a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to Fulton, Missourifocus on other (not necessarily paying) work. There, I can therefore relate to the first point made in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt this chapter namely that independence and today serves as a memorial flexibility are core skills that employees need to Winston Churchillhave.

|isbnauthor=B08NF79QXTDeborah O'Connor|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke AdamsThe Captive|rating=34|genre=Women's FictionThrillers|summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, Hannah knows the Cherry Blossom Boutiquecage, for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Awardintimately. She's delighted and It lurks in the two people she's brought with corner of her to the event couldn't eye. Soon, it will be more pleasedoccupied. Sonja, Then what? What if he speaks to her mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got ? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty ? What if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.hurts him?|isbn=1838772650

|isbn=B08BTXSS84B08CR3WNFT|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)The Therapist|author=Jenny O'BrienB A Paris|rating=45|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: When Leo Curtis found the usual flood of cases has slowed house in The Circle, a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venice. Leo wanted to less than move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such a dribble and shereasonable price that Alice wouldn's looking through cold cases t have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for inspiration as them to be able to which one she should have a good look atafford it. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder Alice agreed - she was tired of eighteentheir long-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intrigueddistance relationship. She can't see any immediate failings in Now they would be able to spend most of 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 week together instead of just the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next dayweekends. She was wearing a hand-made nightdress which her mother Leo had never seen before. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told some work done on the whole storyhouse: hemade two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn's married to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sistert feel comfortable there.

|authorisbn=Nick Jones and Si Clark1406395404|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 The Awesome Power 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}} {{FrontpageSleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Gail Honeyman|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineNicola 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 PushSpy Who Inspired Me|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at This is a prenatal classspoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. It's NCT ''style But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies'and who works for the secret service, but not in the proper NCTplanning side of things more than the active service. This bit is important, but you have to wait Lemming finds himself put on a little to see why. This being London, such a class attracts mission with a wide variety of peoplefemale spy called Margaux, from all sorts of backgroundsand the pair end up stranded in Normandy, but for most of the ladies the thing they have with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in common is it's their first baby. Probably after the first oneresistance network, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|isbn=15420199902952163855

|isbn=14722559173110706075|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Quintin JardineGerry Brown|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeBusiness and Finance|summary=On New Year's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at 'You're not there to run the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic Jacksonorganisation. Jackson would be better-known You are there to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but hemake sure that it is run properly.''s reformed and  Gerry Brown is passionate about the new name reflects benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a new man. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home board - not long into just a corporate board, but the new yearboard of an NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a charity. SkinnerHe's tempted to let the phone ring but knows particularly keen that he cannot: itthere's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in the centre increased diversity on these boards and feels that this would help to avoid some of Edinburgh. Skinner's not technically with the police now scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - hewe's chairman re thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. For this to happen, boards need to have a wider field of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experiencepeople to choose from when they're looking for an ID.

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ1786495902|title=The Long Dark RoadNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=P R BlackIsabel Hardman|rating=45|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridgechooses not to share. There was She says that a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a big vehicle. We'll see - but no one else will friend, who does know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled , burst into the car tears and driven off. There has been no sign of her - or her body health- care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and shetime by 's not keeping going ': the next day she went 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 work to cover the lives of her family. Nowbudget, in next there was the aftermath of the warEU referendum, they travel all over the country, replacing stainedpolitical party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombsterm sick leave. Their latest job takes them out That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the wilds of Dartmoor, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient and powerful magicyear when the bins went out more often than I did. 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

|isbn=B08KKQ85FN3030513025|title=But Never For LunchThe Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Sandra AragonaGerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesBusiness and Finance|summary=Independent Director: ''If a woman approaching job for which no one is qualified'' (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of the menopause can be likened to board of directors who (1) do not have a Rottweiler in lipstickmaterial relationship with the company, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into (2) is not part of the company of carrion crows or's executive team, more to and (3) is not involved with the point, about day-to discover -day operations of the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas billscompany.'' (Corporate Finance Institute)

You don't get many better opening sentences than Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel thatthe relationship between the executive members of boards and the independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), do you? We first met His Excellency and trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting function of the independent director is to have general oversight of the executive side of the Priorities: Ambassadress board - to spot when and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting where things are going wrong - but all too often the Priorities]] relationship is too cosy, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge and we learned /or experience to understand what it was like 's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you might be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come for HE tempted to retires think that these are extraordinary times and for Sandra Aragona that all will be well once we get back to become The Wife of Former Ambassador... They have left The Career 'normal' but a pandemic was predicted and settled modelled in Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates the situation past and their dog, Beagle, there has been a general failure to prepare for what has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen happened - and deafis still happening.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday B002SQCYWQ|title= The Last Resort Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony Trollope|rating= 3.5 |genre= ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited When I told my daughter that I didn't know what to an all-expenses paid retreat listen to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. now that I'd finished [[The group includes a games designerComplete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, social media influencerEmma, gossip columnist Northanger Abbey and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow Jane Austen]] for the second time on the group as they explore trot she had the island, and each other's histories perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and it becomes clear that they all have were in my inbox in a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenmatter of minutes. As the clock ticks down, these They're not ''quite'' as well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover known as the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themAusten books but they're an excellent follow on. |isbn=1542020018

|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ0008214468|title=The Karma TrapA Time to Lie|author=Lisette BoydSimon Berthon|rating=45|genre=Women's FictionThrillers|summary=George Jackson A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation on a building site. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and is a hand, severed above the wrist. It's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-three five years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at . Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - and singleis Prime Minister. SheHe's not had sex for eight months married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, Becca and sheBella. Sandford's stuck in the karma trapdetermined to be a better type of politician: an awful lot of bad luck he wants ''a government that is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting dramanot just practically good, but morally good. '' Her lifeOne of the ways he's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to absorb the water dubious regimes. Henry Morland- then Cross, the shower fell through Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the roof whilst she was in Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her easy to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the officesee that he wouldn't have been in agreement.

|isbn=0008333173B077K6BQFD|title=HungryThe Complete Novels: A Memoir of Wanting MoreSense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Grace DentJane Austen

|genre=AutobiographyLiterary Fiction|summary=IYes - that'm always relieved when Grace Dent is s over eighty-one hours of listening for the judges on ''Masterchef''purchase of one audio book. You know that youAll six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and they're going to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of presented in the time. You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all that good food order in front of her. I've often wondered about the woman behind 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 measuresthey were published.

|isbn=18387731690241453585|title=Her Majesty the Queen InvestigatesBanking On It: The Windsor KnotHow I Disrupted an Industry|author=S J BennettAnne Boden

|genre=CrimeBusiness and Finance|summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Windsor for the Easter CourtAllied Irish Bank. She's having a dine and sleep at AIB was in the request throes of Prince Charles, who's attempting to raise money recovering from some rich Russians for one of his pet projects. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the performers brought in first to realise that banks needed to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesdo things differently. The immediate reaction is that one of AIB thought it was at the guests is responsiblecutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminal. The Queen mentally rules out her racing managerBoden took things a step further, an ex-ambassador to Moscowrealising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch network, the Archbishop employing thousands of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any of ''those'' roadspeople, would soon become redundant.

|author=Matt HaigLauren Martin|title=The Midnight LibraryBook of Moods

|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary= Between life 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'' being delivered with an eye roll and death there is a librarysigh, through clenched teeth. And soI had spent the best part of a rainy, 38 minutes after Nora decided to diewindy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, she finds herself on standby in the Midnight Librarycase anyone who was racing needed support. Everything that could've gone wrong in NoraIt's life has. Her cat dieda volunteer duty we all do during the year, she lost her job, her brother wonand normally I't speak m happy to her, her parents are dead, but that day the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her weddingweather was miserable and I was miserable, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. She gave up on it all the things came to a head that would've let her escape evening when I noticed on the wet, cold town of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, she realises website that she isn't made we had been thanked for life our time as "Dave and decides to diewife". But instead of death, she finds the libraryWow. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each I had never needed this book providing a chance to try another life she could have lived, in a parallel time. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she could'vemore.|isbn=17868927311538733625

|isbnauthor=0349423083Becky Albertalli|title=Death and Simon vs. the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances BrodyHomo Sapiens Agenda|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Teens|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing CottageSixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great life. He has a close group of friends, ably assisted by Jim Sykesa loving family, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugdeneven an adorable dog. SheBut he has a secret: he's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashamgay. Something is going wrong with his business Only one person knows this, and that's Blue – a boy who he'd like Kate to look into has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at his school. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand manown private universe without the fear of being judged. Until one day, James Lofthousethese emails fall into the wrong hands, will be back from a trip to Germany before long. James went to see what the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. William everything Simon knows is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride but he'd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returnsturned upside down.|isbn=014135609X

|authorisbn=Caroline Scott3110641119|title=When I Come Home AgainThe Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry Angrave|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionBusiness and Finance|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a name, I had no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isnidea what 't willful obstinance, he doesnjourney mapping't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the road for a long time book and being frightened, and some of the faces from acting on the road, but other than that – everything that came before has gonecontents. They need You're going to learn how to run a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, workshop to discover what it becomes Adam Galileefeels like to be one of your own customers. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesnAt this point, please don't know who he say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is, where he is or how he got theregoing to be fun and you're going to be surprised by what emerges.|isbn=1471192172

|isbn=15294103473110641291|title=Death Awaits in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Helen CoxOlga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander|rating=45|genre=CrimeBusiness and Finance|summary=Kitt HartleySo, 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 assistant''roughly'' working, Grace Edwardsisn't it? You might not have said it, has left her library job and taken a place on the Venerable Bede Academybut you's vocational library studies course in Durhamve probably thought it. ItYou's an unusual place ve also thought the small, incremental improvements which you have been able to study as students make - the optimisation of your core business with government grants are not acceptedcost efficiencies wherever possible, so most of the people attending are scions extension of the seriously rich, scholarship students your existing products into new areas - or theyhaven't really delivered in terms of ''growth''ve managed, somehow, to scrape together the money. Grace, whoIt's 22, comes into the last categorybeen manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a more radical approach. Her parents agreed to fund You've merely kept the business ticking over and there's a nagging suspicion in the course but told her back of your mind that if that was what she chose to do then they were finished with heran organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-first. Not long after she started the course, Kitt Hartley came for a visit What you need is innovation - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year ago''radical'' innovation.