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|author=Paul B Preciado
|title=Dysphoria Mundi
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''
Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''Read [[Forthcoming Publicationsuse dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''. |reviews isbn=1804271454}}{{Frontpage|author=Samantha Harvey|title=Orbital|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital'', a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the lives of books a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933}}{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Our unnamed narrator is about to be published]]begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.}}{{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 -- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}
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|isbnauthor=B08QDL5HDLJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Jeeves Collection, Vol 1|author=P G WodehouseVaim
|rating=4
|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=In my youth, I wasn't fond of PG Wodehouse: I've never been keen on upper-class twits and I All was greedystrange''.. I wanted everything: I required brilliant plots, exceptional characters and laugh-out-loud humour. Age brought This haunting phrase encapsulates the realisation that you have to compromise and I came back to Wodehouse with pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a different mindset. The humour is gentle fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and subtle: there's never any malice in it. The characterisation is Eline, two-dimensional where women are concerned: there's little of the protagonists caught in between old gorgons (Aunt Agatha, we're looking at you...) and young schemers such as Honoria Glossop. The plots are superficial but gently engaging. They're fun - and the writing is exquisiteits melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829
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|authorisbn=H M Long1035043092|title=Hall of SmokeThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=45|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= Hessa is an Eangi: a powerful priestess of I can't have been the Goddess of War. That is until she is banished only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by her high priestess for not following her one order: Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to kill the traveller that visits her templestart a new life on Orkney. Her whole town is burnt to the ground while she is praying for forgiveness It's been seven years since we heard from him, and Hessa – but he's now left alone – must find this traveller to atone for her weakness living with Willow Reeves and win back her goddess' favour. On her journeytheir young son, she encounters zealot soldiersJames, deceitful godsas well as Cassie, and newly awakened demons at every turnthe daughter of his former partner. It is a gruelling quest Willow's also his boss, and along she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the waybody of a popular islander, she discovers a harrowing truth: the gods are dyingArchie Stout, is found, and in the High Halls aftermath of the afterlife are fadinga storm, she can't resist getting involved. Soon Hessa He's trust in her goddess weakens, and she is thrust into d been battered about the head with a battle between the gods Neolithic stone - one of the Old World and the Newa pair - which had been stolen from a museum.|isbn=1789094984
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|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Thea Lenarduzzi|title=Kokoschka's DollThe Tower|rating=2.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Well''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this looked very much like a book I could love from compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the get-goprotagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, which the story of a second protagonist is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any unveiled: Annie, the daughter of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section wealthy family in the middle on darker stock paper19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a chapter whose number was in the 20tower,000scaptures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, letters used as narrative formabove all, and so onan enticing story to T. It intrigued with the subterranean voice is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a man hears quest for truth and knowledge, and in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew service of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this reviewmyth, fable and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by themfantasy. So what happened?|isbn=15294026971804271799
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|author=David F RossClaire-Louise Bennett|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyBig Kiss, Bye-Bye
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Years agoEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, Danny Garvey was is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a footballing prodigy playing for his local clubkiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career in professional football never quite worked When the narrator cries out. Thirteen years oninternally, ''come over here and kiss me, convinced '' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying motherconfirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, Danny takes over the shambolic and onceher ex-great team he used to play for and tries partner, a ghost she conjures to reform themtest her detachment.|isbn= 19131935001804271934
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|isbn=15293379250008405026|title=The Mirror Dance A Stranger in the Family (Dandy GilverMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Catriona McPhersonJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was the August Bank Holiday weekend never found and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined investigation ground to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofaa halt. The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in Dundeetheir bed. She was Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the publisher positioning of a magazine and had been told the bodies that the man running the Punch makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open- Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in his show. Sandy BissettRosalie's request was simpledisappearance: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same jobothers (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbnauthor=0099551063Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin DuttonOther Girl
|rating=4
|genre=Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary='' We were born from the same body. I'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcherve never really wanted to think about this.''
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|author=Alex WheatleMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=The Humiliations Reminiscences of Welton BlakeTolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=23.5|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary=We meet Welton Blake at Biographies are often seen as the worst form of times – only they should life-writing which offers less colour; it can be the best seen as more objective and less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of timeshis literary contemporaries. He should be getting a text from In the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, hefriend Gorky that: 's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in classyou write not of real life as it is, who's duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems but of what you yourself imagine it to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that the dad has left the picture – yessea, things are so bad theyor that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''re resorting to having cabbage for dinner. I knowWell, right? But surely this is just Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a blipsubjective account, a day at school giving us access to forgethow he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and everything Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=The Dark Wives (like D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A man walking his vomit) will all come out dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the wash? park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. This can't be D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the start disappearance of a most nightmarish time one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|authorisbn=Karen M McManusB0FK5LHKD9|title=The CousinsColour of Memory|author=Christopher Bowden|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= The rich and famous Story family led It's been three years since we last reviewed a life of luxury on Gull Cove Islandbook by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, until 25 years ago when each of the Story children - Anders, Archer, Adam and Allison - received so we were very glad to see a mysterious letter from their mother and were cut off completelynew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. But nowLike all Bowden's stories, there's a quarter mystery at the heart of a century later, their children have been called to return to the island for the summer by their grandmother. What does she want with the cousins? Why did she cut off her children all those years ago? Are the deaths on Gull Cove Island really what they seem? ''The dark web Colour of twisted lies, secrets and tragedy that has held the Story family up Money''. We like this running theme in an author's work - take a mystery but give it different flavour and held them apart - for a quarter of a century is about to come crashing downatmosphere each time.|isbn=0241376947
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|isbnauthor=1786495902Olga Tokarczuk|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel HardmanHouse of Day, House of Night
|rating=5
|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered ''What's the good of a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says world that keeps changing like that a friend who does know? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, burst into tears and health-care professionalsHouse of Night'' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with , somewhat reflects this at notion of shifting realities - the time by 'keeping going': small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the next shift from day she went to work to cover night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the budgethouse, next there was stoic against the EU referendumancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference seasonhe should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. One night she had His wife, Laura, has been trying to be sedated and returned home persuade him to begin longretire -term sick leave''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That was 's what brought me 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to this book: 2020 was persuade him to take his case, it's the year when thought of the bins went out more often than I didmoney he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.
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|authorisbn=Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez1836284683|title=The Ghost GardenBig Happy|author=David Chadwick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersDystopian Fiction|summary=FranWell! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, the gardenerit's daughter at nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a posh country house, wild ride. And that is worriedjust what happened with ''The Big Happy''. SheI don's just cracked her garden fork through quite t want to ruin a grim discovery - a large bone, buried under similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the potatoesscene. But sheOnce that's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leodone, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sally Rooney|title=Intermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the older child chessboard of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She life and is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell of a surprisegrandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Tasked with shoving Leo around Among the grounds in his bathchairmany relationships woven into this story, she might have reason the central one for readers to be out of her mind unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with fearhis older brother Peter, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chambersuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. But surely that wonFollowing their father't act as s passing after a premonition to anything - not here in long battle with cancer, the sultry, summery days of 1914?brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=17811290020571365469
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|isbn=reed31036916375|title=Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again (3rd Edition)Just a Liverpool Lad|author=James ReedPeter McArdle|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=Six years on ''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the original editionyears Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the book is being refamily history of a sea-issued going family, with a bonus chapter entitled ''The Future of Work'' which includes an additional 10 questionsthe docks dominating lives. I've come to this some 6 years after reviewing Other stories blend seamlessly into the original book and my life has changed significantly in the meantimewhat-might-have-been. I It'm no longer working in middle-management having opted for s a down-shift book to settle into reduced hours freelancing and allow your mind to enable me roam across your childhood memories, to focus on other (not necessarily paying) workthink of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's early years. I can therefore relate to 'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the first point made in this chapter namely that independence and flexibility are core skills that employees need to haveall-clear was sounded.
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|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1836285493|title= The CaptiveDouble Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Hannah knows the cageWill is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, intimatelya slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. It lurks in the corner But most of her eyeall, he is an aspiring writer. SoonEnglish is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, it will be occupiedand one at which he excels. Then what? What if he speaks This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to her? What if Will and his mum that he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.
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|isbn=B08CR3WNFT1009473085|title=The TherapistConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=B A ParisAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Circle, a gated community, Alice Dawson was in VeniceConservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. Leo wanted to move quickly on If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the property as it was inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the market at such a reasonable price book for you. If that Alice wouldn's what you're looking for, I don't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for them to those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be able compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to afford itpolitics. Alice agreed - she was tired of their long-distance relationship''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. Now they would be able to spend It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the week together instead state of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the house: he made two bedrooms into one changes that occurred and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable theresituation in 2024.
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|isbnauthor=1406395404Jenny Valentine|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola MorganUs in the Before and After
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=2020 has been Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statementlifetime connection. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this They meet as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night one day on a trip out but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And thereunfortunately they don't get each other's also contact details at the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like lazinesstime. Being up earlyBut then chance brings them back together, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep they are inseparable. Something has almost become happened though, something to put on your CVterrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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|isbn=000820831X1787333175|title=The CoffinmakerYou Don's Gardent Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Stuart MacBrideBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=At I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the coastal village workings of Clachmarathe NHS, the headland is slowly eroding into the seahumour and autobiography. Storm Trevor speeds up the process''You Don't Have to be Mad... A ship - '' promised the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out work of the house to see what's happeninga psychiatrist. Margaret runs after her son and as she grabs him I did wonder whether it was acceptable to pull him back to safety she glances across at be looking for humour in this setting but the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bones. Gordon Smith's home laughter is falling into the North Sea directed at a situation rather than a person and the evidence of what he's been doing for decades it is going always delivered with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruinempathy and understanding.
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|isbnauthor=B08BC4D58SMariana Enriquez|title=Winterkill (Dark Iceland)|author=Ragnar JonassonA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=45|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=Ari Thor Arason Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is the police inspector in Siglufjordur and he's still living in the house disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on Eyrargata which he shared with his wife Kristin gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and son Stefnir before Kristin left to go to Sweden to do a Masters degree, taking threecrime-yearridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine -old Stefnir with herall within Argentina. They were supposed to spend Christmas together but Kristin cancelled. It's now the Thursday The circumstances of Holy Week and his family is due to arrive in Siglufjordur her characters are so plausible that afternoon. Ari Thor is having trouble sleeping but when he finally managed to get to sleep the phone rings: the body of supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a young woman has been found on Adalgata, the main street of the townsimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230
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|authorisbn=Rob Winters1529934753|title=His Name Was WrenThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban WoodsFor a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, near the village country's most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of Hurstwickhis retrospective at the Royal Academy. It came down hardStill, taking he arrived in the spire nick of the village church time, complete with ithis two wives and six children, destroying a stone shackone of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, and leaving a wide trail through the woodyou tend to do things like that, but no trace of what it actually wasfortunate that there was a record of the protest. German secret weapon was Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the local gossipWar''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but there should have this was different. The can had been an explosion and a craterlaced with cyanide, and there were neither of those thingsSir Max Bruce was dead.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB
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|author=Stephen ClarkeAriel Saramandi|title=The Spy Who Inspired MePortrait of an Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionPolitics and Society|summary=This is a spoof spy storyIn this powerful collection of essays, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian LemmingSaramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, who dresses well tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting'likes the ladies' and who works , a blunt yet apt metaphor for the secret service, but in systemic decay brought about by the planning side malignant forces of things more than the active serviceracism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Lemming finds himself put on Each essay in this collection serves as a mission with a female spy called Margauxkind of diagnostic, and charting the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in various diseases afflicting the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!island state.|isbn=29521638551804271616
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|isbnauthor=3110706075Pekka Harju-Autti|title=Making a Difference: Leadership, Change LoveVortex and Giving Back the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry BrownDrakor's Curse
|rating=4
|genre=Business and FinanceFantasy|summary=It''You're not there to run s the organisation. You are there to make sure that it eighteenth century, a time of discovery and Britain is run properlyexpanding its foreign trade.'' Gerry Brown Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is passionate about sent to the benefits which Independent Directors can bring to a board - not just a corporate boardAndaman Islands in his endeavour. Along with his son, Peter, but the board of an NHS Trustand their cat, a universityMichi, they set off on a sports organisation or a charityperilous voyage to these faraway lands. He's particularly keen that there's increased diversity on these boards The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and feels that this would help to avoid some of the scandals (Oxfamislanders' leader, Kids Company - we're thinking about you) which have occurred in recent years. For this to happenAarav, boards need to have a wider field of people is keen to choose from when they're looking for an IDestablish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3
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|isbnauthor=1786495902Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel HardmanLili is Crying|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a trauma timeless text which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend, who does know, burst into tears wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at sentences from their proper position on the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budgetpage and positions them elsewhere, next there was the EU referendumdisjointed, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference seasontruncated. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was Like the year when the bins went out more lives of her characters, they are often than I didleft tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675
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|isbnauthor=3030513025Tom Percival|title=The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe MoraisWrong Shoes
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|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=Independent Director: 'Will's life is difficult, in a job for which no one multitude of ways. He is qualifiedbullied because he has 'the wrong shoes' (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: , he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'An independent director is a member of the board of directors who (1) do not t have a material relationship with enough money for even the company, (2) is not part most basic of the company's executive teamthings like food, and (3) is not involved with his dad can't work because he lost his job at the daycollege, was working a cash-toin-day operations of the companyhand job on a building site and had an accident. (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel Throw into that mix the relationship between the executive members of boards fact that his mum and dad are separated, and the independent directors (formerly known as non-executive directors)Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, trustees or governors he still has a tiny amount of organisations is frequently unbalancedhope. The function of the independent director He is good at art, and clings to have general oversight of the executive side moments of the board - to spot joy when and where things are going wrong - but all too often the relationship he is too cosydrawing, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge and/or experience to understand what's happening or to know how to intervene. Covid-19 has highlighted the failings and weaknesses of leadership and governance and you might be tempted to think that these are extraordinary times and that all will be well once we get back to 'normal' but feel like a pandemic was predicted and modelled in light at the past and there has been end of a general failure to prepare for what has happened - and is still happeninglong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQSylvie Cathrall|title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on the trot she had the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles and they were in my inbox in a matter compelling premise. And this is one of minutes. They're not ''quite'' as well known as the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=00082144681786482126|title=A Time to LieThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Simon BerthonElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when he pulls they discovered the bones of a package out of an excavation on child beneath a building sitedoorway. There was no skull. It's wrapped in part of an old shower curtain and is Was this a handritual killing or murder? Inevitably, severed above the wristDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known difficult as Robbie - is Prime Minister. HeRuth knows, but Nelson doesn's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughterst, Becca and Bella. Sandford's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that she is not just practically good, but morally good.'' One pregnant with his child as a result of the ways he's planning on going about this is to ban arms sales to dubious regimesone night they spent together some three months ago. Henry Morland-CrossHer condition will be obvious before long, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that he wouldn't have been in agreementsickness.
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|isbnauthor=B077K6BQFDGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion |author=Jane AustenAccidentals|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=Yes - that's over eighty-one hours This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of listening for the purchase word: spellbinding with its fantastical, magical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of one audio booknature and human relationships. All six major novels are read Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, her stories structured by conmedienne Alison Larkin and they're presented in a wisdom that appears to want to teach us something about the order in which they were publishedworld.|isbn=1804271470
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|isbn=02414535850008551375|title=Banking On It: How I Disrupted an IndustryWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Anne BodenNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Anne Boden had an impressive track record in Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at result of a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Banktragic accident. AIB was in the throes of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis She'd looked so happy, too, when she arrived and posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was one just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the first to realise that banks needed to do things differentlylast year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. AIB thought it was at None of the cutting edge when it proposed opening 'what a branch which allowed customers stupid thing to access their accounts via a terminaldo' explanations applied. Boden took things They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: killer on the old branch network, employing thousands of people, would soon become redundantloose.
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