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|isbn=00082144681529337925|title=A Time to LieThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Simon BerthonCatriona McPherson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime (Historical)|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of an excavation It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on a building sitethe sofa. It's wrapped The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in part Dundee. She was the publisher of an old shower curtain a magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and is a hand, severed above Judy show in the wristlocal 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. It Sandy Bissett's been there for request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about twentyinfringement of copyright -five and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to thirty-five yearsdo the same job.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0099551063|title=The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary='' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.''

Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. HeUntil the events of 6 January 2021 that might have surprised, even shocked many readers: now they's married to heiress Carol van Koon and re probably convinced that they have two daughters, Becca and Bellaknew it all along. Sandford's determined to be The statement has lost a better type little of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, its shock value but morally goodit does help us to understand more about the nature of psychopathy.'' One of the ways heIt's planning on going about this is too easy to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morlandassociate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the real-Crosslife Hannibal Lecter, but the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes truth is that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementhaving psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.

|isbnauthor=B077K6BQFDAlex Wheatle|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane AustenHumiliations of Welton Blake|rating=2.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Yes We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting a text from the most bae- thatworthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over eightyanother girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, and the wanna-one hours of listening for the purchase of one audio bookbae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. All six major novels On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and so bad they're presented resorting to having cabbage for dinner. I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the order in which they were published.wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495

|isbnauthor=0241453585Karen M McManus|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne BodenThe Cousins

|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at The rich and famous Story family led a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. AIB was in the throes life of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when she arrived and she was one each of the first to realise that banks needed to do things differently. AIB thought it was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received a branch which allowed customers to access mysterious letter from their accounts via mother and were cut off completely. But now, a terminal. Boden took things quarter of a step furthercentury later, realising that customers could access their accounts from children have been called to return to the island for the summer by their homes: grandmother. What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the old branch networkdeaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted lies, employing thousands secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family up - and held them apart - for a quarter of people, would soon become redundanta century is about to come crashing down.|isbn=0241376947

|authorisbn=Lauren Martin1786495902|title=The Book of MoodsNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman

|summary= I was in Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a great mood when I first learnt of this bookfriend who does know, burst into tears and because sarcasm doesnhealth-care professionals't always translate well into writing, imagine jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the word time by 'keeping going'great'' being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. I had spent : the best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on next day she went to work to cover the water at our local sailing club in the rescue ribbudget, on standby in case anyone who next there was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I'm happy toEU referendum, but that day the weather was miserable political party leadership contests and I then it was miserable, party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and it all came returned home to a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife"begin long-term sick leave. Wow. I had never needed That was what brought me to this book : 2020 was the year when the bins went out moreoften than I did.|isbn=1538733625

|author=Becky AlbertalliEmma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaThe Ghost Garden|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has Fran, the gardener's daughter at a great lifeposh country house, is worried. He has She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a close group of friends, grim discovery - a loving familylarge bone, and even an adorable dogburied under the potatoes. But he has a secret: heshe's gay. Only one person knows this, and even more worried when she learns that's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out that there was another closeted guy at event coincided with Leo, the older child of the house, breaking his schoolleg while playing cricket on the lawn. Their emails are She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a safe space for Simon; it's surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his own private universe without the bathchair, she might have reason to be out of her mind with fear of being judged, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. Until one day, these emails fall into But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the wrong handssultry, and everything Simon knows is turned upside down.summery days of 1914?|isbn=014135609X1781129002

|isbn=3110641119reed3|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey MappingWhy You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=Jerry AngraveJames Reed

|summary=I had no idea what Six years on from the original edition, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'journey mapping' was until which includes an additional 10 questions. I read 've come to this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading some 6 years after reviewing the original book and acting on my life has changed significantly in the contentsmeantime. YouI're going to learn how to run m no longer working in middle-management having opted for a workshop down-shift into reduced hours freelancing to discover what it feels like enable me to be one of your own customersfocus on other (not necessarily paying) work. At this I can therefore relate to the first point, please don't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because made in this is going chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that employees need to be fun and youhave.}}{{Frontpage|author= Deborah O're going to Connor|title= The Captive|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows the cage, intimately. It lurks in the corner of her eye. Soon, it will be surprised by occupied. Then what emerges.? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650

|isbn=3110641291B08CR3WNFT|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing BreakthroughsTherapist|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderB A Paris

|genre=Business and FinanceThrillers|summary=So, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with When Leo Curtis found the same thing house in The Circle, a slightly different form and quite a bit of money spentgated community, Alice Dawson was in Venice. Why not just leave it Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it is? After all, it's ''roughly'' working, isnwas on the market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't it? You might not have said it, but you've probably thought to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. You've also thought the small, incremental improvements which you have been able to make Alice agreed - the optimisation she was tired of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, the extension of your existing products into new areas their long- haven't really delivered in terms of ''growth''distance relationship. It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily Now they would be challenged by a competitor who takes a more radical approachable to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekends. You've merely kept Leo had some work done on the business ticking over house: he made two bedrooms into one and there's a nagging suspicion in the back of your mind although Alice knew that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-first. What you need is innovation - house was stunning she just didn''radical'' innovationt feel comfortable there.

|isbn=14729620441406395404|title=Creating Value Through TechnologyThe Awesome Power of Sleep: Discover the Tech that Can Transform How Sleep Super-Charges Your BusinessTeenage Brain|author=Andrew HampshireNicola Morgan|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceTeens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I was once told doubt anyone would argue with that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteen, so there's been a lot of technology in my lifestatement. I once worked Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for a manager who judged if an accountant was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewritersome teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Times Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - thankfully - have moved onI've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Nowadays Most people, from children to adults will have the problem odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is that someone running a business doesn't have the time only likely to keep up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expectedmake it worse. ItAnd there's also a the fact that no one develops a business because they have the knowledge for far too long, lack of the required technology, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they're at sleep has been lauded as a disadvantagevirtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. They need helpBeing up early, but they frequently don't know what help they needworking late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane000820831X|title=Note to Self: An EducationThe Coffinmaker's Garden|author=Stuart MacBride

|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is At the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the deadcoastal village of Clachmara, she also hears what they have to say to her. It's not something she's inclined to share with people as 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 headland is slowly eroding into the view 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 bodysea. That will prove to be a mistake.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0578761718|title=The Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in Storm Trevor speeds up the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in recordsprocess. Sadly, A ship - the original church was destroyed in Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire rocks and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the end young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the churchhouse to see what's walls were transported to Fulton, Missourihappening. There, in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt Margaret runs after her son and today serves as a memorial she grabs him to Winston Churchill.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, pull him back to safety she glances across at the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for newly- exposed cliff front and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Awardsees human bones. SheGordon Smith's delighted home is falling into the North Sea and the two people sheevidence of what he's brought been doing for decades is going with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her mother, is an exit -model and Brazilian: you except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can see where Liberty got 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 if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her lifegrab as he later escapes the tumbling ruin.

|isbn=B08BTXSS84B08BC4D58S|title=Fallen Angel Winterkill (Gaby Darin Book 3Dark Iceland)|author=Jenny O'BrienRagnar Jonasson

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin Ari Thor Arason is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble police inspector in Siglufjordur and shehe's looking through cold cases for inspiration as still living in the house on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to which one she should have Sweden to do a good look atMasters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with her. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelled. DS Owen Bates suggests It's now the murder Thursday of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 Holy Week and Gaby his family is intrigueddue to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoon. She can't see any immediate failings in Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get to sleep the original investigationphone rings: Angelica disappeared from the body of a room in a securely-locked house, wearing her pyjamas, and was young woman has been found dead by a dog walker on Adalgata, 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 main street of the whole story: he's married to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sistertown.

|author=Nick Jones and Si ClarkRob Winters|title=One Night in BeartownHis Name Was Wren

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Many children have an obsession and Sandy Lane, who lives In September 1944 something came down in BeartownOban Woods, is obsessed with bearsnear the village of Hurstwick. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford, a teddy bear passed It came down by her grandmother. Every nighthard, she looks out taking the spire of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outside. Every morning she says hello to Bee Bear, a colourful painted bear that lives at her school. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}} {{Frontpage|author=Gail Honeyman|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives in Glasgow, alone. And she likes village church with it that way. She works 9-5, 5 days destroying a weekstone shack, and spends leaving a wide trail through the weekend not drunkwood, but not sober. alone. And she likes no trace of what it that wayactually was. She lives by a routine German secret weapon was the local gossip, and that's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for in but there should have been an office raffle, she sees the man she is sure will be her husband. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself that she can, in order to secure this beautiful musician. Then, as she's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in the street explosion 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 friendscrater, with Raymond from IT and there were neither of course her side project of falling in love with Johnnie Lomond. But just as her life seems to be looking up, those things take a turn for the worse. 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=0008172145B08KGVNVNB

|isbnauthor=1838887334Stephen Clarke|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)|author=Angela MarsonsThe Spy Who Inspired Me

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness training. The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been This is a complete waste of time for her as she knew spoof spy story, that she was equally rude to everyoneisn't about James Bond. It was in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of her motherOr Ian Fleming. Stone But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and Bryant didn't realise likes the ladies' and who works for the extent to which this case was going to occupy their minds as secret service, but in the body planning side of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterthings more than the active service. Her neck had been broken Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and it had all the hallmarks of pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a quickdesperate mission to unearth traitors in the resistance network, functional kill, but who would do that and Lemming desperately trying to a young mother out shopping keep up with her child?!|isbn=2952163855

|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard3110706075|title=The Coral BrideMaking a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry Brown

|genre=CrimeBusiness and Finance|summary=Angel Roberts ''You're not there to run the organisation. You are there to make sure that it is an oddity run properly.'' Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just a female fisherwomancorporate board, making her living in a man's world. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off but the coast board of Quebecan NHS Trust, Detective Morales is called in to come and head the investigationa university, a sports organisation or a charity. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going He's particularly keen that there's increased diversity on, these boards and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendasfeels that this would help to avoid some of the scandals (Oxfam, fishing histories and secret family feudsKids Company - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. At the same time as trying For this to run his investigationhappen, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable boards need to talk have a wider field of people to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultieschoose from when they're looking for an ID.|isbn=1913193322

|isbn=14721347101786495902|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of DeathThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=M C BeatonIsabel Hardman|rating=45|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she's left South Moulton Street for a cottage in the Cotswold village of Carsleychooses not to share. Shesays that a friend, who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals'd jaws have preferred one of the more romantic names but sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all time by 'keeping going': the problems that brings. Now the problem is settling into a different way of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant next day she went to people. The first move is work to enter cover the village quiche-baking competition and budget, next there was the beginning of the campaign is taking EU referendum, the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browne, political party leadership contests and his wife Vera out to dinnerthen it was party conference season. She knows One night she's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary had to be sedated and it's a good investment as she knows that she's going returned home to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery.begin long-term sick leave.That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.

|authorisbn= Claire McGowan3030513025|title=The PushIndependent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais|rating= 5|genre= General FictionBusiness and Finance|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at Independent Director: ''a prenatal class. Itjob for which no one is qualified''s NCT (''styleFinancial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of the board of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the company, but (2) is not part of the proper NCT. This bit company's executive team, and (3) is important, but you have not involved with the day-to wait a little to see why-day operations of the company. This being London (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, such a class attracts a wide variety Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between the executive members of peopleboards and the independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), from all sorts trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. The function of the independent director is to have general oversight of backgrounds, but for most the executive side of the ladies board - to spot when and where things are going wrong - but all too often the thing they have in common relationship is ittoo cosy, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge and/or experience to understand what's their first babyhappening or to know how to intervene. Probably after Covid-19 has highlighted the first one, failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you donmight be tempted to think that these are extraordinary times and that all will be well once we get back to 't have time normal' but a pandemic was predicted and modelled in the past and there has been a general failure to prepare for classes, or think you've got childwhat has happened -rearing down patand is still happening.|isbn=1542019990

|isbn=1472255917B002SQCYWQ|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Quintin JardineAnthony Trollope|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=On New YearWhen I told my daughter that I didn's Evet know what to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wifeMansfield Park, Professor Sarah GraceEmma, daughter Alex Skinner Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the man with whom second time on the trot she shares a house, Dominic Jackson. Jackson would be better-known to had the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and the new name reflects they were in my inbox in a new manmatter of minutes. The Skinners donThey't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home re 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. Skinnerquite''s not technically with as well known as the police now - heAusten books but they's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experiencere an excellent follow on.

|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ0008214468|title=The Long Dark RoadA Time to Lie|author=P R BlackSimon Berthon|rating=45

|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge. There was A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a furious storm going package out of an excavation on and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a big vehiclebuilding site. WeIt'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops s wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and Stephanie is bundled into a hand, severed above the car and driven offwrist. There has It's been no sign of her there for about twenty- or her body five to thirty- in the two five years since. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. Georgia is back is FerngateHe's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughters, determined to find out what happened Becca and sheBella. Sandford's not going determined to be stoppeda better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, but morally good.}} {{Frontpage|author= Katharine Orton|title= Glassheart|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since '' One of the Blitz claimed the lives of her familyways he's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Now Henry Morland-Cross, in the aftermath Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the warExchequer, they travel all over the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombs. Their latest job takes them out to the wilds of Dartmoor, where Nona discovers wishes that her world is full of ancient and powerful magic. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, known only as The Soldier, is hell-bent on using Nonahe'd been warned about this: it's innate magic for his own ends, and will not stop until easy to see that he has her…|isbn=1406385239wouldn't have been in agreement.

|isbn=B08KKQ85FNB077K6BQFD|title=But Never For LunchThe Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Sandra AragonaJane Austen|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=Yes - that''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 s over eighty-one hours of carrion crows or, more to the point, about to discover listening for the real world purchase of bus timetables and paying his own gas billsone audio book.'' You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin and The Ambassadorthey's Wife re presented in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and 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 have left The Career and settled order in Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates the situation and their dog, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deafwhich they were published.

|authorisbn= Susi Holliday 0241453585|title= The Last Resort Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne Boden|rating= 3.5 |genre= ThrillersBusiness and Finance|summary=A group of strangers gather on Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at a private islandsenior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product AIB was in the throes of recovering from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems she was one of the first to have an area of expertise realise that makes their attendance necessarybanks needed to do things differently. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore AIB thought it was at the island, and each other's histories and cutting edge when it becomes clear that they all have proposed opening a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a gilded cageterminal. In Boden took things a race against timestep further, Amelia must struggle to uncover realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the reason for her attendance and protect the rest old branch network, employing thousands of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall thempeople, would soon become redundant. |isbn=1542020018

|isbnauthor=B08GFSK2WZLauren Martin|title=The Karma Trap|author=Lisette BoydBook of Moods|rating=45|genre=Women's FictionLifestyle|summary=George Jackson is thirty-three years oldI was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. Shebecause sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''great's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: being delivered with an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her eye roll and she has a real talent for attracting dramasigh, through clenched teeth. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with I had spent the leak from best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the shower by putting something down water at our local sailing club in the bottom of rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It's a volunteer duty we all do during the stairs year, and normally I'm happy to absorb the water - then the shower fell through , but that day the roof whilst she weather was in it miserable and left herI was miserable, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has and it all came to take her mother's dog out for a walk head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - our time as "Dave and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the officewife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.|isbn=1538733625

|isbnauthor=0008333173Becky Albertalli|title=Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More|author=Grace DentSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

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|genre=CrimeBusiness and Finance|summary=ItI had no idea what 'journey mapping's early 2016 was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading the book and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for acting on the Easter Courtcontents. SheYou's having a dine and sleep at the request of Prince Charles, who's attempting re going to learn how to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projects. There'd been run a distinctly Russian flavour workshop to the evening and one of the performers brought in discover what it feels like to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstances. The immediate reaction is that one of the guests is responsibleyour own customers. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador to MoscowAt this point, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldnplease don't bear to go down any of say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop'thosebecause this is going to be fun and you'' roadsre going to be surprised by what emerges.

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|genre=General FictionBusiness and Finance|summary= Between life 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 death there is quite a librarybit of money spent. And so Why not just leave it as it is? After all, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself in the Midnight Library. Everything that couldit's ''roughly've gone wrong in Nora's life has. Her cat diedworking, she lost her job, her brother wonisn't speak to herit? You might not have said it, her parents are dead, the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her wedding, and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her helpbut you've probably thought it. She gave up on all the things that would You've let her escape also thought the wetsmall, cold town incremental improvements which you have been able to make - the optimisation of Bedford and given her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, she realises that she isnthe extension of your existing products into new areas - haven't made for life really delivered in terms of ''growth''. It's been manageable and decides to dielargely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a more radical approach. But instead of death, she finds You've merely kept the library. Each infinite shelf is filled with books, each book providing business ticking over and there's a chance to try another life she could have lived, nagging suspicion in a parallel time. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th back of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she couldyour mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-first. What you need is innovation - ''radical''veinnovation.|isbn=1786892731