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|isbnauthor=B08BC4D58SSylvie Cathrall|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)|author=Ragnar JonassonA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Ari Thor Arason is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and he's still living in the house on Eyrargata There are few greater joys than a book which he shared with his wife Kristin and son Stefnir before Kristin left lives up to go to Sweden to do a Masters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with her. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledcompelling premise. It's now the Thursday of Holy Week and his family And this is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoon. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get to sleep the phone rings: the body one of a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the townthem.}}{{Frontpageinterview|isbn=3110641291|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander|summary=|summary=Sue was so impressed by [[The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing Breakthroughs by Olga Kokshagina and Allen Alexander]] that she wished that she had a good business idea of her own so that she could use the book. Perhaps that was what she was talking about when Olga and Allen popped into Bookbag Towers to chat to us.0356522776
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|authorisbn=Rob Winters0008517061|title=His Name Was WrenDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban WoodsFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, near the village of Hurstwickhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It came down hard, taking There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the spire future of the village church his life with ithis vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, destroying as moving in together would mean a stone shack, lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and leaving a wide trail through relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the wood, but no trace of what it actually was. future she wants for herself and her daughter? German secret weapon was For the moment they’re enjoying life in the local gossip, but there should have been an explosion present and a crater, and there were neither of those thingsputting the future on the back burner.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB
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|authorisbn=Stephen Clarke1786482126|title=The Spy Who Inspired MeJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This is Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bonddoorway. Or Ian FlemingThere was no skull. But it features Was this a man called Ian Lemmingritual killing or murder? Inevitably, who dresses well and Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It'likes the ladiess difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' and who works for the secret servicet, but in the planning side that she is pregnant with his child as a result of things more than the active serviceone night they spent together some three months ago. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called MargauxHer condition will be obvious before long, and the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission not least because Ruth is prone to unearth traitors in the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|isbn=2952163855sudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=31107060750008551324|title=Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director WayThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Gerry BrownNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=It''You're not there s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to run approach the organisationpolice. You are there Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to make sure that it tell the police where the body of a missing person is run properlyburied and who was responsible for her death.'' Gerry Brown This person, he promises, is passionate about someone big and it will be worth the benefits which Independent Directors can bring police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to a board - not just a corporate board, but serve the board remainder of his sentence and to get an NHS Trustearly parole date. Not much to ask, a university, a sports organisation or a charity. is it? HeThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn's particularly keen that theret think so and she's increased diversity on these boards and feels that this would help even prepared to avoid some of do the scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company other thing that Hardie demanded - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. For this to happen, boards need to have a wider field of people to choose make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from when theywhat're looking for an IDs happening.
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|isbn=17864959020008405026|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Isabel HardmanJane Casey
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|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to shareIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She says that was never found and the investigation ground to a friendhalt. Now, who does knowher mother, Helena, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged her father are dead in disbelieftheir bed. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget Initially, next it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there was 's something about the EU referendum, positioning of the political party leadership contests bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and then her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was party conference season. One night she had going to be sedated an open-and returned home to begin long-term sick leaveshut case is now a complex double murder. That was what brought me to this book Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I didothers (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=30305130250571379877|title=The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to doKellerby Code|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe MoraisJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Independent Director: ''Edward Jevons is a job for which no one is qualified'' working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. (Robert''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent s a theatre director is a member of the board of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the company, (2) is not part of the company. He's executive teamalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and (3) is not involved uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with the dayStanza since their university days -and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to-day operations of the companyRobert. (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that the a relationship had begun between the executive members of boards and the independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors), trustees or governors of organisations is frequently unbalanced. The function of the independent director is to have general oversight of the executive side of the board - to spot when and where things are going wrong - them but all too often the relationship is too cosy, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge and/or experience to understand whathe's happening or not like most men: Edward is left to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted stumble upon the failings and weaknesses two of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to think that these are extraordinary times and that all will be well once we get back to 'normal' but a pandemic was predicted and modelled them kissing in the past and there has been a general failure to prepare for what has happened - and is still happeningdark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQJo Callaghan|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to listen to now that Ithe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibilitys their first live case together, Pride and Prejudicehaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels a very high profile case that draws a lot of Jane Austen]] for unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the second case in time on the trot she had , or will Kat find herself taken off the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles case and they were in my inbox in , potentially, out of a matter of minutes. They're not ''quite'' as well known as the Austen books but they're an excellent follow on.career?|isbn=139851120X
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|isbn=00082144681399613073|title=A Time to LieMoral Injuries|author=Simon BerthonChristie Watson|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A workman has Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out quarter of an excavation on a building sitecentury. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a hand, severed above the wristbonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. It's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five yearsLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - Anjali is Prime Ministerthe free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. HeWhen we first meet them they's married to heiress Carol van Koon re at a drug and they have two daughters, Becca alcohol-fuelled party and Bella. Sandfordit's determined going to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that is not just practically good, but morally goodend in tragedy. We don'' One of t know who suffered the tragedy or the ways he's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimesconsequences. Henry MorlandTwenty-Cross, five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequerthree friends. This time, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementtheir teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=B077K6BQFD0241636604|title=The Complete NovelsTrading Game: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion A Confession|author=Jane AustenGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=Yes If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin- that's over eightystripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV -one hours of listening for but he had been to the purchase London School of one audio bookEconomics. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and they're presented in the order in he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which they were publishedgot him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=02414535851035021803|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an IndustryThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Anne BodenC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Anne Boden had an impressive track record in It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the financial services sector: English country village where she had thirty years experience at a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bankgrew up. AIB was in the throes She's back now because of recovering a request for help from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and she was one of the first circumstances seem suspicious, to realise that banks needed to do things differentlysay the least. AIB thought it Arthur was at the cutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to access their accounts via a terminalbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Boden took things After the split, she worked in a step furthercafe, realising that customers could access their accounts met and married James (on the rebound from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands love of peopleher life, would soon become redundantwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Lauren MartinAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Book of MoodsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary= I was in a great mood when I first learnt ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of this book, and because sarcasm doesnthings to come.''t always translate well into writing, imagine the word I've heard it said that 'greattechnology'is what happens after you' being delivered with an eye roll and a sighre eighteen. Well, through clenched teeth. I had spent the best part must confess that there have been more than a few decades of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club technology in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed supportmy lifetime. It I've kept up reasonably well with what's a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally advantageous to me but I'm happy toleft with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, but that day I could research the weather was miserable possibilities and I was miserable, the probabilities and it all came to a head that evening when end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I noticed on 'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wowlatest conspiracy theorist. I had never needed this book morepeople I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1538733625
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|author=Becky AlbertalliSunny Singh|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=TeensThrillers |summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has The Hotel Arcadia is a great life. He luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a close terrorist group of friends. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a loving familywartime photographer and Abhi, and even an adorable dogthe hotel manager. But As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he has forms a secret: he's gay. Only one person knows thisbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and that's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found keeps on venturing out that there was another closeted guy at his school. Their emails are a safe space for Simon; itof her room to try to capture what's his own private universe without the fear of being judgedhappened through her photography. Until one day, these emails fall into Although they only ever talk over the wrong handsphone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and everything Simon knows is turned upside downthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=014135609X086154742X
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|isbn=31106411191529153298|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value List of Customer Journey MappingSuspicious Things|author=Jerry AngraveJennie Godfrey
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|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I had no idea mean, honestly...) She's not what 'journey mappings worrying Miv' was until I read this playbook s family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but any business to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that engages with their customers will benefit from reading her father wants to move the book and acting on the contentsfamily 'Down South'. YouWhen you're going to learn how to run from Yorkshire, Down South is a workshop to discover what it feels like to be one of your own customersfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. At this pointFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, please donand she't say ll do anything to prevent that. She'oh (expletive deleted) s not another workshopworried about the dangers or that her Mum' because this is going s stopped talking - to be fun and you're going to be surprised by what emergesanyone.
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|isbn=31106412911398524085|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing BreakthroughsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderNicci French
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|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=SoCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with the same thing in a slightly different form sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and quite a bit of money spenther daughter, Etty. Why not just leave it as it is? After are allworried but - strangely - her husband, it's ''roughly'' workingAlec, isn't it? You might is not have said it, but you've probably thought it. You've also thought the smallShortly afterwards, incremental improvements which you have been able to make - the optimisation of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possibleEtty and Greg, find the extension body of your existing products into new areas - havenGreg't really delivered s father, Duncan Ackerley, in terms of ''growth''the river. It's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor who takes a more radical approach. You've merely kept was an easy assumption for the business ticking over police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and therethen committed suicide when he couldn's a nagging suspicion in t stand the back of your mind that an organisation designed for the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-firstguilt. What you need is innovation - The Salter children are not convinced but there''radical'' innovations little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=14729620441035906708|title=Creating Value Through Technology: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your BusinessDiva|author=Andrew HampshireDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=I We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after you're eighteenborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, so there's been a lot of technology in my lifeDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant Her original surname was reputable by establishing whether or not they had a typewriterKalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. Times When she was back in Athens - thankfully supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - have moved on. Nowadays she was raised under the problem is that someone running Nazi occupation by a business doesn't have the time to keep up with constant innovation mother who mercilessly exploited her and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expected. It's also a fact that made no one develops a business because they have the knowledge secret of the required technologyher preference for her elder sister, 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 needJackie.
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|author=Mark LinganeChristopher Edge|title=Note to Self: An EducationBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= In KryLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 's worldThe Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the discovery movie starts, they very quickly realise that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 itsomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's found that radiation t even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can return cells they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their regeneration state seven years beforereal lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in 2035 itmy heart.'s possible to cure cancerous tumours but with ' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the side effect wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of erasing the seven years of memory, by 2045 who swim out to survey the cosmetics industry is using ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the same technique Council Watch lays a trap to "de-age" their customers by seven yearsend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. In Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a society obsessed bargain with image a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and youthwith only coordinates to guide her, who needs memories?she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=B08LY8J4KS0008664730}}
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|isbnauthor=1838770046James Sherwood Metts|title=Body Language|author=A K TurnerPlanet Storyland
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is Things have been a bit sticky for the senior mortuary technician Earthlings. AI and not only does she talk to the deadautomation have been proceeding apace, she also hears what often replacing jobs they have 're paid to say do and other tasks that took time to heraccomplish. It's not something she's inclined Just as they were beginning to get used to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will be. She's certainly not going all this technological change and starting to share it with the think of other, new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuffways to spend time, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianalong came an awful pandemic. He's very conscious of his position Life was pretty much shut down and isn't even inclined to ask for , along with it, all the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that many daily social interactions on which 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 mistakedepend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=0578761718Matthew Tree|title=The Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy CarverWe'll Never Know
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|genre=HistoryLiterary Fiction|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of London from being exceptional at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire any of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire his artistic passions all failed miserably and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitzwho had endless crises of self confidence. But that wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported So Tim applied himself to Fulton, Missouri. Therehis studies, in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchillset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=B08NF79QXTA G Slatter|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke AdamsThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=35|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, the Cherry Blossom Boutiqueall mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for just six months when shea while.''s nominated for - and wins - Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Retail Best Newcomer Award. SheBriar's delighted , a family of witches who protect the town and the two people she's brought with her to wider world from the event couldn't be more pleasedDarklands. Sonja, her motherThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is an exthe first non-model witch to be born into her family for generations and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got as such since she was young, her looks fromtraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. JessicaWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's thirty-four and Libertycousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's best friend: they've known each other since university leader, and Liberty adores Jessica's husbandEllie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, Charles right and their four-year-old daughtercentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, Avaputting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasnReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches't for one thing: she misses having a man in her lifelegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=B08BTXSS841529900360|title=Fallen Angel (Gaby Darin Book 3)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jenny O'BrienJonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: the usual flood of cases has slowed to less than a dribble and sheIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's looking through cold fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases for inspiration as to which one she should have a good look at. DS Owen Bates suggests the murder of eighteenHis assertions that there were only open-yearand-old Angelica Brock in 1995 and Gaby is intrigued. She canshut cases which didn't see any immediate failings in need the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from help of a room in psychologist only worked for a securely-locked housewhile. Finally, it was Robin, wearing her pyjamasDelaware's partner, and who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno something that the man she loved needed. The next daycase did look simple, though. She was wearing Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a hand-made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforeremote property in Bel Air. Bates hasn't ''quite'' told He was the whole story: he's heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to Kate Brock, Angelicaan extremely rich man and it's younger sisternot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Nick Jones Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Si ClarkWildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=One Night in BeartownA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Many children have an obsession DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Sandy Laneformer colleague, who lives Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in BeartownSingapore to meet up with an old ally, is obsessed Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with bearsa knife - and he killed a Ghurka. She collects books about bears. Her favourite toy is Berisford Initially, he faced a teddy bear passed down by her grandmother. Every night, she looks out charge of her bedroom window and says goodnight manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the bear statue outsideman. Every morning she says hello Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to Bee Bear, help as any interference from another police force could provoke a colourful painted bear that lives diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at her schoolall. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X}}
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|author=Gail HoneymanAlexander McCall Smith|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineThe Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Eleanor Oliphant The Perfect Passion Company is almost 30. She lives a dating agency in Glasgow, alone. And she likes it that way. She works 9-5, 5 days a weekEdinburgh, run by Ness and spends operating as an alternative to all the weekend not drunkonline apps in providing a more personal, but not sobertailored service. alone. And Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, could come and that's finelook after the business, thankyouverymuch. Nothing as Ness is missing from her lifeplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Except everything Katie is. Until one daycoming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, she sees the man she is sure will be her husbandchance to come home to Edinburgh. Eleanor And so begins a journey this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to make herself the best version of herself that she canan Edinburgh we already love, in order thanks to secure this beautiful musician. Then, as she's on her way home one Friday, she 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new IT guy at her office see a man collapse in the street and stay close characters who quickly begin to him charm. Katie has no experience in hospital. Thenrunning a business, before she knows itor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements with the man's family and friendsabilities, 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 hethere's cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from always her childhood? Eleanor's walls have been broken down very helpful (and she has rather handsome) neighbour, William, to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it alone.lend a hand…|isbn=00081721451846976596
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|isbn=18388873340811771741|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Angela MarsonsMelissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from Diversity Awareness trainingtoys to blankets. The need for coffee overtook Stone Some will be quick knits - others are of the course had been a complete waste 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time for her as she knew that she was equally rude they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to everyonetwenty hours and more than twenty hours. It was in All the shopping centre projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that Stone caught sight of 's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of her motherterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Stone Oh, and Bryant didnsomeone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it't realise s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the extent very last person to which deserve all this case was bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to occupy their minds as the body take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Katrina Nock Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is discovered some hours latersupposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Her neck had But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been broken turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and it had all the hallmarks catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a quickViking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, functional killto be honest, but who he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would do it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to a young mother out shopping with her child?emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1529431735|title=The Coral BrideWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwoman, making her living in a manIt's world. When her lobster trawler February 1991 and Essex is found drifting off the coast of Quebecbitingly cold, Detective Morales is called in to come and head which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the investigationmore surprising. Although He'd been exiled on the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. At the same time as trying to run his investigation, The return has come about because he also has 's had a letter from his grown up sonex-wife, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems saying that he she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is unable abducted, stripped to talk his underwear and sent to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesa watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1913193322 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=1472134710Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche The Glorious Race of Death|author=M C BeatonMagical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and she's left South Moulton Street runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a cottage generation missing in the Cotswold village of Carsleyfamily. SheA few short years ago, Eli'd s parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have preferred one of to navigate the more romantic names but at least Carsley is off world in the tourist trail with all the problems that bringscompany of a magical beast. Now This has made the problem is settling into race anathema to the pair – but when a different way of life - and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant bad incident at the eatery leads to people. The first move a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the village quiche-baking competition and sole aim the beginning prize of the campaign is taking the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browne, and his wife Vera out to dinner. She knows she's being ripped off magic at the pub in end – the next village but this is necessary and it's a good investment as she knows that she's going only thing to win. How? Well, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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