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|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08QDL5HDL0008517061|title=The Jeeves Collection, Vol 1Death in a Lonely Place|author=P G WodehouseStig Abell
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|genre=HumourCrime|summary=In my youthFormer Metropolitan Police detective, I wasn't fond of PG Wodehouse: I've never been keen on upper-class twits and I was greedyJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. I wanted everything: I required brilliant plotsThere’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, exceptional characters Livia and laugh-outher daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-loud humour. Age brought the realisation that you have to compromise grid and I came back relaxing life to Wodehouse move in with a different mindset. The humour Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is gentle the future she wants for herself and subtle: there's never any malice in it. her daughter? The characterisation is two-dimensional where women are concerned: there's little For the moment they’re enjoying life in between old gorgons (Aunt Agatha, we're looking at you...) the present and young schemers such as Honoria Glossop. The plots are superficial but gently engaging. They're funputting the future on the back burner.
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|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=H M LongJane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=Hall The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of Smokethem kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= Hessa When a man is an Eangi: a powerful priestess of found crucified on the Goddess top of War. That is until she is banished by her high priestess for not following her one order: a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to kill the traveller that visits case alongside her templesidekick, the AI detective Lock. Her whole town is burnt to the ground while she is praying for forgiveness, and Hessa – now left alone – must find this traveller to atone for her weakness and win back her goddess It' favour. On her journey, she encounters zealot soldiers, deceitful godss their first live case together, and newly awakened demons at every turnhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. It But when there is a gruelling questsecond body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and along the way, she discovers a harrowing truth: the gods are dying, and the High Halls very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the afterlife are fading. Soon Hessa's trust case in her goddess weakenstime, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and she is thrust into , potentially, out of a battle between the gods of the Old World and the New.career?|isbn=1789094984139851120X
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|authorisbn=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)1399613073|title=Kokoschka's DollMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=24.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=WellOlivia, this looked very much like Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a book I could love from the get-gocentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is why I picked my review copy up a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of ita trauma doctor. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in Anjali is the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in free spirit of the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, group and so onshe becomes a GP. It intrigued with the subterranean voice When we first meet them they're at a man hears drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, tootragedy. But youWe don've seen t know who suffered the tragedy or the star rating consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pageswill impact the three friends. This time, it was not actually caused by them's their teenage children who are involved. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697
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|authorisbn=David F Ross0241636604|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= Years ago, Danny Garvey was If you were to bring up an image of a footballing prodigy playing for his local club. Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career city banker in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years onyour mind, convinced you're unlikely to return home by think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying motherbackground is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, Danny takes over the shambolic poverty and onceinjustice. There was no posh public school on his CV -great team but he used had been to play for the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and tries he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to reform thembe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn= 1913193500
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|isbn=15293379251035021803|title=The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Catriona McPhersonC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It was 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the August Bank Holiday weekend English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor andCarole's close friend, as so often happenedArthur Crockleford, it was cold enough to have the fire lit is dead and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it circumstances seem suspicious, to keep Dandy Gilver warm on say the sofaleast. The thought of work Arthur was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in Dundeebusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. She was After the publisher of split, she worked in a magazine cafe, met and had been told that married James (on the man running the Punch and Judy show in rebound from the local park had used copies of two love of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request life, who was simple: she wanted Gilver murdered) and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - Freya and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same jobJames have now divorced.
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|isbn=0099551063AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Wisdom of PsychopathsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial KillersFictions that Disrupt|author=Dr Kevin DuttonBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceFiction|summary='' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcherOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''
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|author=Alex WheatleSunny Singh|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeHotel Arcadia|rating=23.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of timesThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. He should be getting a text Hiding from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema dateterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, but his phone has packed upthere is Sam, he's chundered last night's meal a wartime photographer and his breakfast over another girl Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in classthe hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who's duffed him up in responserefuses to be cowed by events, and the wanna-bae seems keeps on venturing out of her room to try to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale hecapture what's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinnerhappened through her photography. I knowAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school their friendship grows as Abhi tries to forget, help her keep safe and everything (like his vomit) they both wait to see if they will all come out in the wash? This can't be rescued before they are discovered by the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?terrorists.|isbn=1781129495086154742X
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|authorisbn=Karen M McManus1529153298|title=The CousinsList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|summary= The rich It's 1979 and famous Story Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family led a life of luxury on Gull Cove Island, until 25 years ago when each of the Story children - Andersthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, Archerthey've been murdered, Adam and Allison - received a mysterious letter but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from their mother and were cut off completely. But nowYorkshire, Down South is a quarter of a century laterfrightening, foreign place, their children have been called to return to the island for the summer by their grandmotherbest avoided. What does she want with For Miv, the cousins? Why did she cut off move would mean leaving her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? The dark web of twisted liesbest friend, Sharon, secrets and tragedy she'll do anything to prevent that has held . She's not worried about the Story family up - and held them apart dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - for a quarter of a century is about to come crashing downanyone.|isbn=0241376947
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|isbn=17864959021398524085|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Isabel HardmanNicci French
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|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to shareCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She says that a friend who does know Her children, sons Niall, burst into tears Paul and healthOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbeliefstrangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Hardman dealt with this at Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the time by body of Greg'keeping going': s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there river. It was an easy assumption for the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then it was party conference seasoncommitted suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. One night she had to be sedated The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was wonder about what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I didreally happened.
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|authorisbn=Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez1035906708|title=The Ghost GardenDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Christopher Edge
|title=Black Hole Cinema Club
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|summary=FranLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the gardenernickname of 'The Black Hole's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. SheAll big movie fans, they's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bonere looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, buried under the potatoes. many snacks! But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with LeoHowever, as the older child of the housemovie starts, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is due to get very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surpriseimagine. Tasked with shoving Leo around But as they lurch from one film genre to the grounds in his bathchairnext, she might have reason to be can they figure out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he on earth is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. going on? But surely that won't act as a premonition Will they ever get back to anything - not here in the sultrycinema, summery days of 1914and to their real lives?|isbn=17811290021839942738
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|isbnauthor=reed3Rachel Greenlaw|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)|author=James ReedCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Business and FinanceTeens|summary=Six years on from ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the original editiondeep, the book is being re-issued with a bonus chapter entitled answering beat in my heart.''The Future Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Workthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira' which includes an additional 10 questionss father. I've come Desperate to this some 6 years after reviewing the original book save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and my life has changed significantly with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the meantimesea. IWith 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'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for a down-shift into reduced hours freelancing s territory, Mira must be determined to enable me to focus on other (not necessarily paying) work. I can therefore relate stop at nothing to save the first point made in this chapter namely that independence future of her home and flexibility are core skills that employees need to havethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730
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|author= Deborah O'ConnorJames Sherwood Metts|title= The CaptivePlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Hannah knows Things have been a bit sticky for the cageEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, intimatelyoften replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. It lurks in the corner Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of her eyeother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. SoonLife was pretty much shut down and, along with it will be occupied, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=18387726501736128426
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|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTMatthew Tree|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The CircleTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venice. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of their long-distance relationshipself confidence. Now they would be able So Tim applied himself to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable thereset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1406395404A G Slatter|title=The Awesome Power Briar Book of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morganthe Dead
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|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=2020 has been '' There's a strange year: part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I doubt anyone would argue with that statementcan. Lots This secret magic of our routines have been completely dismantled and my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problemsa while. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who needs sleep? protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non- I've got loads witch to be doing) born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and others will worry unnecessarilypotions. Most peopleWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And theretown's also leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the fact that for far too longrare ability to communicate with the dead, lack putting her at the heart of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to seem like laziness. Being up earlyanother, working late has been praised Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the ability Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548
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|isbn=000820831X1529900360|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenGhost Orchid|author=Stuart MacBrideJonathan Kellerman
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|summary=At It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's 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. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the coastal village help of Clachmaraa psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the headland is slowly eroding into involvement was something that the seaman she loved needed. Storm Trevor speeds up the processThe next case did look simple, though. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on Two lovers were murdered in the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the house heir to see what's happening. Margaret runs after her son an Italian shoe empire and as she grabs him is married to pull him back to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front an extremely rich man and sees human bones. Gordon Smithit's home is falling into not the North Sea and the evidence of what he's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson Italian. But which of LIRU can grab as he later escapes them was the tumbling ruin.primary target?
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|isbn=B08BC4D58S1529395224|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Ragnar JonassonSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Ari Thor Arason is the police inspector in Siglufjordur Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and heRowlands didn's still living t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the house strain that being on Eyrargata which -call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he shared took the opportunity of doing work experience with his wife Kristin a family friend who was a vet and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do a Masters degree, taking three-year-old Stefnir with herwas convinced this was the job for him. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelledBefore long, he was at Liverpool University. Ithadn's now the Thursday of Holy Week and t - as with so many students - been his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur that afternoondream since he was a child. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when If anything, he finally managed to get 'd wanted to sleep the phone rings: the body of be a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the townprofessional footballer.
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|authorisbn=Rob Winters0861541774|title=His Name Was WrenA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=In September 1944 something came down DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Oban WoodsSingapore to meet up with an old ally, near the village of HurstwickGuy Trueman. It came down hard, taking the spire of the village church Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with it, destroying a stone shack, knife - and leaving he killed a wide trail through the woodGhurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but no trace of what it actually wasevidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. German secret weapon was Now he could be facing the local gossip, but there should have been an explosion and death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a crater, diplomatic incident and there were neither of those thingswouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB
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|author=Stephen ClarkeAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Spy Who Inspired MePerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This The Perfect Passion Company is a spoof spy storydating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, that isn't about James Bondtailored service. Or Ian FlemingNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. But it features Katie is coming out of a break up with a man called Ian Lemmingbad boyfriend, who dresses well and 'likes so jumps at the ladies' chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and who works for the secret serviceIsabel Dalhousie novels, but in the planning side of things more than the active servicewith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with Katie has no experience in running a female spy called Margauxbusiness, and the pair end up stranded or in Normandymatch-making, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors but Ness has full confidence in the resistance networkher abilities, and Lemming desperately trying there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to keep up with her!lend a hand…|isbn=29521638551846976596
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|isbn=31107060750811771741|title=Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back the Independent Director WayInstaKnits for Baby|author=Gerry BrownMelissa Leapman
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|genre=Business and FinanceCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's 'You're not there InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to run the organisationblankets. You Some will be quick knits - others are there to make sure that it is run properly.of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' Gerry Brown is passionate about variety. The projects are divided by the benefits which Independent Directors can bring time they'll take to a board complete - not just a corporate boardless than five hours, but the board of an NHS Trustfive to ten hours, a university, a sports organisation or a charityten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. He's particularly keen that there's increased diversity on these boards and feels that this would help to avoid some of All the scandals (Oxfamprojects are attractive, Kids Company - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in recent yearsmodern and useable. For this to happen, boards need to have a wider field of people to choose from I perhaps show my age when theyI wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that're looking for an IDs me being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1786495902Dean Koontz|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel HardmanBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleParanormal|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered Benny is having a trauma which she chooses not to shareterrifically bad day. She says that a friend He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, who does knowand his house gets trashed. Oh, burst into tears and healthsomeone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went sized object to work to cover the budgethis home, next there and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the EU referendumthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the political party leadership contests and then very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it was party conference season. One night she had turns out that the delivery to be sedated and returned home his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to begin long-term sick leavehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. That was what brought me Spike is going to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of 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 more often than I didwho exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=3030513025Adam Stower|title=The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse Murray and Filipe MoraisBun|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers |summary=Independent Director: ''a job for which no one Murray is qualified'' (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member of the board of directors who (1) do not have supposed to be a material relationship with the companyhumble, (2) is not part of the company's executive teamtidy and friendly cat, and (3) one who is not involved with the day-able to-day operations sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the companytwo. (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry BrownBut he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel that the relationship between catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the executive members regular back garden, but into a world of boards frightening adventure and the independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors)whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, 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 - but all too often the relationship a troll hunter is too cosyexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge and/or experience to understand whatbe honest, but he's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the failings turned up and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to think that these are extraordinary times and that all will be well once we get back to he'normal' but a pandemic was predicted and modelled in the past and there has been a general failure ll have to prepare for what has happened - and is still happening.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=B002SQCYWQB0C47LV1PC|title=The Complete Barchester ChroniclesFragility|author=Anthony TrollopeMosby Woods|rating=54
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|isbn=B077K6BQFD1529431735|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion Winter Visitor|author=Jane AustenJames Henry|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Yes It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex- wife, saying thatshe's over eighty-one hours of listening for the purchase of one audio bookill and hasn't long to live. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and they're presented sent to a watery grave in the order in which they were publishedboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=0241453585Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry|author=Anne BodenThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=Anne Boden had Eli is a busy lad – by day an impressive track record apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at evening a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer helper at Allied Irish Bankthe dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. AIB was Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the throes of recovering from family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one company of a magical beast. This has made the first to realise that banks needed race anathema to do things differently. AIB thought it was at the cutting edge pair – but when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers bad incident at the eatery leads to access their accounts via a terminal. Boden took things a step furtherconfession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: with the sole aim the old branch network, employing thousands prize of people, would soon become redundantmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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