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|isbn=02414535851529337925|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an IndustryThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Anne BodenCatriona McPherson|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime (Historical)|summary=Anne Boden had an impressive track record in It was the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish August Bank. AIB Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was in cold enough to have the throes of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived fire lit and she was one of Bunty the first Dalmation wasn't inclined to realise that banks needed leave it to do things differentlykeep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. AIB The thought it of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. She was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening publisher of a branch which allowed customers 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 access their accounts via a terminaldrum up some local interest in his show. Boden took things a step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the old branch network, employing thousands man about infringement of people, copyright - and Dandy and Alex would soon become redundantbe cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same job.

|authorisbn=Lauren Martin0099551063|title=The Book Wisdom of MoodsPsychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton|rating=54|genre=LifestylePopular Science|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 ''greatDonald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.'' being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh Until the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, through clenched teetheven shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that they knew it all along. I had spent The statement has lost a little of its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the best part nature of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed supportpsychopathy. It's a volunteer duty we all do during too easy to associate psychopathy with the yearYorkshire Ripper, and normally I'm happy toJeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, but that day the weather was miserable and I was miserablereal-life Hannibal Lecter, and it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on but the website truth is that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife"having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing. Wow. I had never needed this book more.|isbn=1538733625

|author=Becky AlbertalliAlex Wheatle|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaThe Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=2.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great lifeWe meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He has should be getting a close group of friends, text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a loving familycinema date, and even an adorable dog. But he but his phone has a secret: packed up, he's gay. Only one person knows thischundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, and thatwho's Blue – duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On a boy who bigger scale he 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's living with his own private universe without mother and not much income now that the dad has left the fear of being judgedpicture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. Until one I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day, these emails fall into the wrong handsat school to forget, and everything Simon knows is turned upside down.(like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=014135609X1781129495

|isbnauthor=3110641119Karen M McManus|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey Mapping|author=Jerry AngraveCousins

|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=I had no idea what 'journey mapping' was The rich and famous Story family led a life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until I read this playbook but any business that engages with 25 years ago when each of the Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter from their customers will benefit from reading the book mother and acting on the contentswere cut off completely. You're going But now, a quarter of a century later, their children have been called to learn how return to run a workshop to discover the island for the summer by their grandmother. What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what it feels like to be one they seem? The dark web of your own customers. At this pointtwisted lies, please don't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family up - and held them apart - for a quarter of a century is going about to be fun and you're going to be surprised by what emergescome crashing down.|isbn=0241376947

|isbn=31106412911786495902|title=The Radical Innovation PlaybookNatural Health Service: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing BreakthroughsHow Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderIsabel Hardman

|genre=Business and FinanceLifestyle|summary=So, why bother? Every time you set out Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to do something new you end up with the same thing in share. She says that a slightly different form friend who does know, burst into tears and quite a bit of money spent. Why not just leave it as it is? After all, it's ''roughly'' working, isnhealth-care professionals't it? You might not jaws have said it, but yousagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 've probably thought it. Youkeeping going've also thought : the next day she went to work to cover the smallbudget, incremental improvements which you have been able to make - next there was the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possibleEU referendum, the extension of your existing products into new areas - haven't really delivered in terms of ''growth''political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. It's been manageable One night she had to be sedated and largely riskreturned home to begin long-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a more radical approachterm sick leave. You've merely kept That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the business ticking over and there's a nagging suspicion in year when 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'' innovationbins went out more often than I did.

|isbnauthor=1472962044Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your Business|author=Andrew HampshireThe Ghost Garden

|summary=I was once told that Six years on from the original edition, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''technologyThe Future of Work' is anything that happens after you're eighteen, so therewhich includes an additional 10 questions. I's been a lot of technology in ve come to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book and my lifehas changed significantly in the meantime. I once worked 'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriter. Times down- thankfully - have moved shift into reduced hours freelancing to enable me to focus onother (not necessarily paying) work. Nowadays I can therefore relate to the problem is first point made in this chapter namely that someone running a business doesn't have the time to keep up with constant innovation independence and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected. It's also a fact flexibility are core skills that no one develops a business because they employees need to have the knowledge of 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 need.

|author=Mark LinganeDeborah O'Connor|title=Note to Self: An EducationThe Captive|rating=4|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary= In Kry's world, Hannah knows 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 beforecage, intimately. It lurks in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect corner of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven yearsher eye. In a society obsessed with image and youthSoon, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1838770046|title=Body Language|author=A K Turner|rating=4it will be occupied.5|genre=Crime|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the dead, she also hears Then what they have to say ? What if he speaks to her. It's not something she's inclined to share with people as ? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she's pretty certain about what their reaction will be. She's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, 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 the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have a lot more experience than hurts him and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistake.?|isbn=1838772650

|isbn=0578761718B08CR3WNFT|title=The Inspiring History of a Special RelationshipTherapist|author=Nancy CarverB A Paris|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryThrillers|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181Circle, a gated community, when it Alice Dawson was first mentioned in recordsVenice. Sadly, Leo wanted to move quickly on the original church property as it was destroyed in on the Great Fire of London market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her cottage in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived Harlestone for centuries until World War II, when them to be able to afford it . Alice agreed - she was again ruined by bombs during the Blitztired of their long-distance relationship. But that wasn't Now they would be able to spend most of the end week together instead of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from just the church's walls were transported to Fulton, Missouriweekends. There, in Leo had some work done on the grounds of Westminster College, house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the church house was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchillstunning she just didn't feel comfortable there.

|isbn=B08NF79QXT1406395404|title=Cherry Blossom BoutiqueThe Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Brooke AdamsNicola Morgan|rating=35|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=Thirty-one-2020 has been a strange year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, : I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Awardsome teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. SheSome teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('s delighted and the two people shewho needs sleep? - I's brought with her ve got loads to the event couldn't be more pleaseddoing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Sonja, her motherMost people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks fromonly likely to make it worse. Jessica And there's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husbandalso the fact that for far too long, Charles lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and their four-year-old daughter, Avasleep made to seem like laziness. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her lifeBeing up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.

|isbn=B08BTXSS84000820831X|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)The Coffinmaker's Garden|author=Jenny O'BrienStuart MacBride

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin At the coastal village of Clachmara, the headland is slowly eroding into the sea. Storm Trevor speeds up the process. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is twiddling her thumbs: stuck on the usual flood rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of cases has slowed the house to less than a dribble and shesee what's looking through cold cases for inspiration happening. Margaret runs after her son and as she grabs him to which one pull him back to safety she should have a good look glances across at. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteennewly-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 exposed cliff front and Gaby is intriguedsees human bones. She canGordon Smith't see any immediate failings in s home is falling into the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securely-locked house, wearing her pyjamas, North Sea and was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next day. She was wearing a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen before. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told the whole story: evidence of what he's married to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sisterbeen doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruin.

|authorisbn=Nick Jones and Si ClarkB08BC4D58S|title=One Night in BeartownWinterkill (Dark Iceland)|author=Ragnar Jonasson

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Many children have an obsession Ari Thor Arason is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and Sandy Lane, who lives he's still living in Beartown, is obsessed the house on Eyrargata which he shared 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 his wife Kristin and says goodnight son Stefnir before Kristin left to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello go to Sweden to Bee Beardo a Masters degree, a colourful painted bear that lives at taking three-year-old Stefnir with her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}} {{Frontpage|author=Gail Honeyman|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9-5, 5 days a week, and spends the weekend not drunk, They were supposed to spend Christmas together but not soberKristin cancelled. alone. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, and that It's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing now the Thursday of Holy Week and his family is missing from her lifedue to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoon. Except everything Ari Thor is. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, she sees having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get to sleep the man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself phone rings: the best version body of herself that she can, in order to secure this beautiful musician. Then, as she's a young woman has been found on her way home one FridayAdalgata, she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in the main street and stay close to him in hospital. Then, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family 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 worsetown. Is Johnnie all he's cracked up to be? 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=0008172145

|isbnauthor=1838887334Rob Winters|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)|author=Angela MarsonsHis Name Was Wren

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone - In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the course had been a complete waste village of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude to everyoneHurstwick. It was in came down hard, taking the shopping centre that Stone caught sight spire of the village church with it, destroying a little girl clutching stone shack, and leaving a teddy bear in wide trail through the absence wood, but no trace of her motherwhat it actually was. Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent to which this case German secret weapon was going to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours later. Her neck had local gossip, but there should have been broken an explosion and it had all the hallmarks of a quickcrater, functional kill, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping with her child?and there were neither of those things.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB

|author=Roxanne BouchardStephen Clarke|title=The Coral BrideSpy Who Inspired Me

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Angel Roberts This is an oddity - a female fisherwomanspoof spy story, making her living in that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a mancalled Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies's world. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off and who works for the coast of Quebecsecret service, Detective Morales is called but in to come and head the investigationplanning side of things more than the active service. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, and Lemming finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendasput on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, fishing histories and secret family feuds. At the same time as trying to run his investigation, he also has his grown pair end up son, Sebastien arriving at his doorstranded in Normandy, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable Margaux on a desperate mission to talk unearth traitors in the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to his father about, which tie keep up with Morales own marital difficulties.her!|isbn=19131933222952163855

|isbn=14721347103110706075|title=Agatha Raisin Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Quiche of DeathIndependent Director Way|author=M C BeatonGerry Brown

|genre=CrimeBusiness and Finance|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street for a cottage in 'You're not there to run the Cotswold village of Carsleyorganisation. She'd have preferred one of the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems You are there to make sure that brings. Now the problem it is settling into a different way of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant to peoplerun properly. The first move '' Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to enter the village quichea board -baking competition and not just a corporate board, but the beginning board of the campaign is taking the judgean NHS Trust, Reginald Cummings-Brownea university, and his wife Vera out to dinnera sports organisation or a charity. She knows sheHe's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary and itparticularly keen that there's a good investment as she knows increased diversity on these boards and feels that shethis would help to avoid some of the scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - we's going to winre thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. How? WellFor this to happen, boards need to have a wider field of people to choose from when they''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..re looking for an ID.

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

|isbn=14722559173030513025|title=The Roots Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of Evil (Bob Skinner)governance and what to do|author=Quintin JardineGerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeBusiness and Finance|summary=On New YearIndependent Director: 's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at 'a job for which no one is qualified'' (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of the golf club board of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with his wifethe company, Professor Sarah Grace(2) is not part of the company's executive team, daughter Alex Skinner and (3) is not involved with the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic Jacksonday-to-day operations of the company. Jackson would be better-known to (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the criminal fraternity executive members of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed boards and the new name reflects a new manindependent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at function of the independent director is to have general oversight of the executive side of the clubhouse board - to spot when and where things are dropped home not long into going wrong - but all too often the relationship is too cosy, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the new year. Skinnerknowledge and/or experience to understand what's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to let the phone ring but knows think that these are extraordinary times and that he cannot: itall will be well once we get back to 'normal's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at but a crime scene pandemic was predicted and modelled in the centre of Edinburgh. Skinner's not technically with the police now past and there has been a general failure to prepare for what has happened - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experienceis still happening.

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQB002SQCYWQ|title=The Long Dark RoadComplete Barchester Chronicles|author=P R BlackAnthony Trollope|rating=45|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student When I told my daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a big vehicle. Wethat I didn'll see - but no one else will t know - what to listen to now that another car stops I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Stephanie is bundled into the car Sensibility, Pride and driven off. There has been no sign of her - or her body - in the two years since. Georgia is back is FerngatePrejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, determined to find out what happened Northanger Abbey and she's not going to be stopped.}} {{FrontpagePersuasion by Jane Austen|author= Katharine Orton|title= Glassheart|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the Blitz claimed second time on the lives of her family. Now, in trot she had the aftermath of the war, perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and they travel all over the country, replacing stained-glass windows were in my inbox in buildings destroyed by bombs. Their latest job takes them out to the wilds of Dartmoor, where Nona discovers that her world is full a matter of ancient and powerful magicminutes. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, They're not ''quite'' as well known only as The Soldier, is hell-bent the Austen books but they're an excellent follow on using Nona's innate magic for his own ends, and will not stop until he has her…|isbn=1406385239.

|isbn=B08KKQ85FN0008214468|title=But Never For LunchA Time to Lie|author=Sandra AragonaSimon Berthon|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesThrillers|summary=''If A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to package out of an excavation on a Rottweiler building site. It's wrapped in lipstick, part of an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles old shower curtain and is a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of carrion crows orhand, more to severed above the point, wrist. It's been there for about twenty-five to discover the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas billsthirty-five years.''

You donRobin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. He't get many better opening sentences than thats married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, do you? Becca and Bella. We first met His Excellency and The AmbassadorSandford's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what it was like determined to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, but morally good.'' One of the time has come for HE ways he's planning on going about this is to retires and for Sandra Aragona ban arms sales to become The Wife of Former Ambassador..dubious regimes. They have left The Career and settled in Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates Henry Morland-Cross, the situation Deputy Prime Minister and their dog, Beagle, has no intention Chancellor of slowing down any time soonthe Exchequer, despite being sixteen and deafwishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreement.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday B077K6BQFD|title= The Last Resort Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane Austen|rating= 3.5 |genre= ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an allYes -expenses paid retreat to test a brandthat's over eighty-new product from one hours of listening for the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area purchase of expertise that makes their attendance necessaryone audio book. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and they explore 're presented in the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret order in which they would rather keep hiddenwere published. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018

|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ0241453585|title=The Karma TrapBanking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Lisette BoydAnne Boden|rating=45|genre=Women's FictionBusiness and Finance|summary=George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not Anne Boden had sex for eight months and she's stuck an impressive track record in the karma trapfinancial services sector: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has had thirty years experience at a real talent for attracting dramasenior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with AIB was in the leak throes of recovering from the shower by putting something down at the bottom 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the stairs first to realise that banks needed to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she do things differently. AIB thought it was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has cutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to take her mother's dog out for access their accounts via a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and terminal. Boden took things a photo being taken by someone who shares it around step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the officeold branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundant.

|isbnauthor=0008333173Lauren Martin|title=Hungry: A Memoir The Book of Wanting More|author=Grace DentMoods

|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Iwas in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn'm t always relieved when Grace Dent is one of translate well into writing, imagine the judges on word ''Masterchefgreat''being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. You know that you're going to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most I had spent the best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the time. You also ponder rescue rib, on how she can look so elegant with all that good food standby in front of hercase anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I've often wondered about m happy to, but that day the woman behind the media image weather was miserable and I was miserable, and ''Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' is it all came to a stunning read which will make you laugh head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and break your heart in equal measureswife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.|isbn=1538733625

|isbnauthor=1838773169Becky Albertalli|title=Her Majesty Simon vs. the Queen Investigates: The Windsor Knot|author=S J BennettHomo Sapiens Agenda

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for the Easter CourtSixteen-year-old Simon Spier has a great life. She's having He has a dine and sleep at the request close group of Prince Charlesfriends, a loving family, whoand even an adorable dog. But he has a secret: he's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for gay. Only one of his pet projects. Thereperson knows this, and that'd been s Blue – a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening and one of the performers brought in to play the piano boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesout that there was another closeted guy at his school. The immediate reaction is that one Their emails are a safe space for Simon; it's his own private universe without the fear of the guests is responsiblebeing judged. The Queen mentally rules out her racing managerUntil one day, an ex-ambassador to Moscowthese emails fall into the wrong hands, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go everything Simon knows is turned upside down any of ''those'' roads.|isbn=014135609X

|authorisbn=Matt Haig3110641119|title=The Midnight LibraryJourney 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= 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 that couldI had no idea what 've gone wrong in Norajourney mapping's life has. Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother won't speak to her, her parents are dead, was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, book and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her help. She gave up acting on all the things that wouldcontents. You've let her escape the wet, cold town re going to learn how to run a workshop to discover what it feels like to be one of Bedford and given her life some purposeful directionyour own customers. So at 23:22 At this point, she realises that she isnplease don't made for life and decides to die. But instead of death, she finds the library. Each infinite shelf say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is filled with books, each book providing a chance going 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 be fun and you're going to live every life she could'vebe surprised by what emerges.|isbn=1786892731

|isbn=03494230833110641291|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs|author=Frances BrodyOlga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Business and Finance|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing CottageSo, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in Woodhouse a slightly different form and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's been approached by William Lofthouse quite a bit of the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashammoney spent. Something Why not just leave it as it is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into ? After all, it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man''roughly'' working, James Lofthouseisn't it? You might not have said it, will be back from a trip to Germany before longbut you've probably thought it. James went to see what You've also thought the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need small, incremental improvements which you have been able to make. William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit - 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 'too'growth' much or is going to bring back a German bride but he'd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returns.}}{{Frontpage|author=Caroline Scott|title=When I Come Home Again|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1918 It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give competitor who takes a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he ismore radical approach. Eventually, they determine this isn You't willful obstinance, he doesnve merely kept the business ticking over and there't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on s a nagging suspicion in the road for a long time and being frightened, and some back of the faces from the road, but other than your mind that – everything that came before has gone. They need a name an organisation designed for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found twentieth century might not survive in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galileetwenty-first. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesnWhat you need is innovation - ''radical''t know who he is, where he is or how he got thereinnovation.|isbn=1471192172