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|isbnauthor=3110706075Sylvie Cathrall|title=Making a Difference: Leadership, Change and Giving Back A Letter to the Independent Director Way|author=Gerry BrownLuminous Deep|rating=45|genre=Business and FinanceScience Fiction|summary=''You're not there to run the organisation. You There are there to make sure that it is run properly.'' Gerry Brown is passionate about the benefits few greater joys than a book which Independent Directors can bring lives up to a board - not just a corporate board, but the board of an NHS Trust, a university, a sports organisation or a charitycompelling premise. He's particularly keen that there's increased diversity on these boards and feels that And this would help to avoid some is one of the scandals (Oxfam, Kids Company - 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 from when they're looking for an IDthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=17864959021786482126|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Isabel HardmanElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered 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 trauma which she chooses not to sharechild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. She says that Was this a friendritual killing or murder? Inevitably, who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbeliefDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Hardman dealt with this at the time by It'keeping goings difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn': the next day t, that she went to work to cover is pregnant with his child as a result of the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference seasonone night they spent together some three months ago. One night she had to Her condition will be sedated and returned home to begin obvious before long-term sick leave. That was what brought me , not least because Ruth is prone to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I didsudden bouts of sickness.

|isbnauthor=3030513025Joan Didion|title=The Independent Director in Society: Our current crisis Year of governance and what to do|author=Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe MoraisMagical Thinking|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=Independent Director: ''a job for which no one This book is qualifiedJoan Didion'' (''Financial Times'') Independent Director: ''An independent director is a member s heartbreaking autobiographical account of the board of directors who (1) do not have a material relationship with the company, (2) is not part of the companygrief she endured following her husband's executive team, and (3) is not involved with the day-to-day operations of the companysudden death. (Corporate Finance Institute) Gerry Brown, Andrew Kakabadse and Filipe Morais feel Books that the relationship 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 shed light on taboo topics like death are going wrong - but all too often the relationship is too cosy, too antagonistic or the independent director lacks the knowledge such a beautiful and/or experience necessary resource to understand what's happening or to know how to intervenehelp people feel less alone. CovidDidion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-19 has highlighted the failings pity, denial and weaknesses of leadership delusion 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 'makes them utterly normal' but , lends them a pandemic was predicted and modelled in the past and there has been a general failure human face to prepare for what has happened - and is still happeningwear.|isbn=0007216858

|isbnauthor=B002SQCYWQAlba de Cespedes |title=The Complete Barchester Chronicles|author=Anthony TrollopeForbidden Notebook|rating=54

|summary=When I told my daughter that I didn't know what to listen to now that I'd finished [[The Complete Novels: Sense This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and Sensibilitytension from the moment our protagonist, Pride and PrejudiceValeria Cossati, Mansfield Parkpurchases her forbidden notebook, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion by Jane Austen|The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]] for the second time on learns about herself in the trot she had the perfect answer: The Barchester Chronicles most intimate and they were in my inbox in a matter of minutes. They're not ''quite'' as well known as the Austen books but they're an excellent follow onrevealing ways.|isbn=1782278222

|isbnauthor=0008214468Ottessa Moshfegh|title=A Time to Lie|author=Simon BerthonMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=A workman has At best, this novel is a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out scathing critique of an excavation on a building site. It's wrapped in part modern society and reveals the fragility of an old shower curtain and human relationships; at worst, it is a hand, severed above the wrist. It's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five years. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime Minister. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughterscynical, Becca predictable and Bellaslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. Sandford's determined to be This unlikely heroine, a better type of politician: he wants ''a government that slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is not just practically gooddisillusioned with the world, but morally good.'' One of the ways he's planning on going about this is resolves not to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morland-Crosslose sleep over it: in fact, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes that he'd been warned about this: it's easy to see that he wouldn't have been her solution lies in agreementher hibernation.|isbn=1784707422

|isbn=B077K6BQFD0008551324|title=The Complete Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jane AustenNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Yes - thatIt'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 over eighty-one hours prepared to tell the police where the body of listening 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 purchase remainder of one audio bookhis sentence and to get an early parole date. All six major novels are read by conmedienne Alison Larkin Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and theyshe're presented in s even prepared to do the order in which they were publishedother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=02414535851739526910|title=Banking On It: How Where I Disrupted an Industry've Not Been Lost|author=Anne BodenGlen Sibley|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=Anne Boden had an impressive track record in the financial services sector: she had thirty years experience at ''One year after a senior level including Group Chief Operating Officer at Allied Irish Bank. AIB was suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, he arrives in the throes of recovering from the 2008 financial crisis when she arrived and she was one of the first an unfamiliar Devon town to realise that banks needed to do things differentlyrecover. AIB thought it was Living with an unexpected housemate at the cutting edge when it proposed opening a branch which allowed customers to access their accounts via a terminalhis former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of reconnecting with everything he has lost. Boden took things But as those tentative plans falter, he becomes swept up in a step further, realising that customers could access their accounts from their homes: the old branch network, employing thousands local world of peopleunlikely friendships, would soon become redundantmobile discos and surprising romantic possibilities.''

|authorisbn=Lauren Martin0008405026|title=The Book of MoodsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= I It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, never found and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word ''great'' being delivered with an eye roll and investigation ground to a sighhalt. Now, through clenched teeth. I had spent the best part of a rainyher mother, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue ribHelena, on standby and her father are dead in case anyone who was racing needed supporttheir bed. It Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's a volunteer duty we all do during something about the positioning of the year, and normally I'm happy to, but bodies that day the weather was miserable makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and I her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was miserable, going to be an open-and it all came to -shut case is now a head complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book moreDerwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1538733625

|author=Becky AlbertalliJo Callaghan|title= Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier has When a great life. He has man is found crucified on the top of a close group of friendshill in Nuneaton, a loving familyDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, and even an adorable dogthe AI detective Lock. But he has a secret: he It's gaytheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Only one person knows this But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and that's Blue – a boy who he has been emailing almost daily since he found out very high profile case that there was another closeted guy at his school. Their emails are draws a safe space for Simon; it's his own private universe without the fear lot of being judgedunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Until one day Will they be able to solve the case in time, these emails fall into or will Kat find herself taken off the wrong handscase and, and everything Simon knows is turned upside down.potentially, out of a career?|isbn=014135609X139851120X

|isbn=31106411191529077745|title=The Journey Mapping Playbook: A Practical Guide to Preparing, Facilitating and Unlocking the Value of Customer Journey MappingDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Jerry AngraveAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=I had no idea what 'journey mapping' was until I read this playbook but any business that engages with their customers will benefit from reading A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the book and acting on body of a man in the contentspark near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. You're going The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to learn how to run work a workshop shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to discover what it feels like to be investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of your own customersthe residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. At Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this point, please donis unlikely as the girl't say 'oh (expletive deleted) not another workshop' because this is going s diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to be fun and you're going find Chloe to be surprised by discover what emergeshappened to Josh.

|isbn=31106412911399613073|title=The Radical Innovation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Harnessing New, Novel or Game-Changing BreakthroughsMoral Injuries|author=Olga Kokshagina and Allen AlexanderChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceThrillers|summary=SoOlivia, why bother? Every time you set out to do something new you end up with Laura and Anjali met on the same thing in a slightly different form first day of medical school and quite their friendship would keep them inseparable for a bit quarter of money spenta century. Why not just leave it as it Olivia is? After allruthlessly ambitious, it's ''roughly'' working, isn't it? You might not have said it, but which is a bonus when you've probably thought itaim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. You've also thought Anjali is the small, incremental improvements which you have been able to make - the optimisation free spirit of your core business with cost efficiencies wherever possible, the extension of your existing products into new areas group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol- havenfuelled party and it't really delivered s going to end in terms of ''growth''tragedy. ItWe don's been manageable and largely risk-free but you could easily be challenged by a competitor t know who takes a more radical approachsuffered the tragedy or the consequences. You've merely kept the business ticking over and Twenty-five years later there's a nagging suspicion in the back of your mind will be an eerily similar event that an organisation designed for will impact the twentieth century might not survive in the twenty-firstthree friends. What you need is innovation - This time, it''radical'' innovations their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=14729620440241636604|title=Creating Value Through TechnologyThe Trading Game: Discover the Tech that Can Transform Your BusinessA Confession|author=Andrew HampshireGary Stevenson

|genre=Business and FinanceAutobiography|summary=I was once told that 'technology' is anything that happens after If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're eighteenunlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, so there's been a lot of technology in my lifepoverty and injustice. I once worked for a manager who judged if an accountant There was reputable by establishing whether or not they no posh public school on his CV - but he had a typewriterbeen to the London School of Economics. Times Stevenson is bright - thankfully extremely bright - have moved onand he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Nowadays the problem is He also realised that someone running a business doesn't have the time most rich people expect poor people to keep up with constant innovation and they might also be scared because previous IT investments haven't delivered as expectedstupid. It's also a fact that no one develops a business because they have the knowledge of the required technologywas his ability at what was, essentially, so they start off in conversations about technology feeling that they're at a disadvantagecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. They need helpEventually, but they frequently don't know what help they needthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Mark LinganeB0DB64PYV5|title=Note to Self: An EducationThe White Rose|author=Dave Baines

|genre=Science Dystopian Fiction|summary= In Kry's world2033, a superstorm known as the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 White Rose devastates the Northern Hemisphere. And it's found not a storm that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years beforegathers, wreaks havoc, then dissipates. Instead, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but hovers across half the Earth with the side effect of erasing seven years of memoryits octopus-like tentacles, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven yearsnot giving up and never going away. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}}

|isbnauthor=1838770046Leanne Egan|title=Body Language|author=A K TurnerLover Birds

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the deadWhen new girl, Isabel, she also hears what they have to say moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. ItA misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and that's not something definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's inclined never had a good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to share hang out with her because fighting with people as her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|isbn=000862657X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1009473085|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's pretty certain simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what their reaction will be''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. SheIf that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologistbook, Dr Archie Chuff{{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, wearer of can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a genuine Barbour jacket compelling read and old Harrovianshould be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. He''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's very conscious 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 his position and isn't even inclined to ask for experts from various fields review the view state of the anatomical pathology technicians despite nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the fact changes that they have a lot more experience than him occurred and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistakethe situation in 2024.

|isbnauthor=0578761718Max Boucherat|title=The Inspiring History Last Life of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy CarverLori Mills

|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in the City of London from , babysitter poorly, mother at least 1181work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, when it was first mentioned in recordson her lonesome. Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire blanket fort, she has one main intention, and then survived for centuries until World War IIthat is to log on to Voxminer, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitzworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that wasnthis stormy night doesn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effortfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the stones from the church's walls were transported server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to Fulton, Missourienter shows signs of tampering. There When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the grounds of Westminster Collegegame has been doctored – well, the church was rebuilt and today serves as where is a memorial girl to Winston Churchill.turn?|isbn=0008666482

|isbnauthor=B08NF79QXTJenny Lecoat|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke AdamsBeyond Summerland|rating=34|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had Jean lives on Jersey with her shop, mother where they are celebrating the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - end of the Retail Best Newcomer Awardoccupation. She's delighted and During the two people shewar, Jean's brought with her father was arrested for listening to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonjaa banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her motherwaiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husbandfinally over, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Avahopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Life would be perfect for Liberty if But will the truth come as a relief, or will it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537

|isbn=B08BTXSS841529428289|title=Fallen Angel A Grave in the Woods (Gaby Darin Book 3A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Jenny O'BrienMartin Walker

|summary=Acting DI Gaby Darin is twiddling her thumbs: Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the usual flood grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of cases has slowed bones. They dated back to less than a dribble World War II and she's looking through cold cases it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for inspiration as St Denis, to which one she should have a good look at. DS Owen Bates suggests discover the murder identities of eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock in 1995 the bodies and Gaby is intriguedestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. She canAs if this isn't see any immediate failings in enough to worry about, the original investigation: Angelica disappeared from a room in a securelyDordogne River -locked house, wearing her pyjamas, and was found dead by a dog walker on the Gt Orme in Llandudno the next day. She was wearing a handnormally tranquil -made nightdress which her mother had never seen beforeis flowing at record levels. Bates hasnIt't ''quite'' told s not just the local autumn rains that have caused the whole storyproblem: he's married various dams upstream on another river have had to Kate Brock, Angelica's younger sisterrelease water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.

|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Nick Jones Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and Si Clarkshe was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=One Night in BeartownThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary= Many children have It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an obsession impressive retreat for the wealthy and Sandy Lanefamous. Her husband, who lives in BeartownOwen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is obsessed with bearsoppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. She collects books about bears Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4. Her favourite toy 5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, this is BerisfordRonny's story, a teddy bear passed down young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by her grandmother. Every nightRonny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, she looks and keep himself out of her bedroom window and says goodnight to the bear statue outsidetrouble. Every morning she says hello He listens to Bee Bearmusic constantly, and has always dreamed of being a colourful painted bear that lives at her rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words. She even has bears on her bedroom wallpaper!|isbn=B08NFH7H9X0241645441}}

|authorisbn=Gail Honeyman1635866847|title=Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary= Eleanor Oliphant is almost 30. She lives in GlasgowIt's strange, alone. And she likes it the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that waythis is the book for you. She works 9-5, 5 days a week Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', and spends I visited the weekend not drunk, but not soberauthor's [https://www. alonepinelavenderfarm. And she likes it that way. She lives by a routine, com/ website] and thatthere's fine, thankyouverymuch. Nothing is missing from her life. Except everything is. Until one day, at a concert she won tickets for in an office raffle, she sees picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the man she is sure will be her husbandhomepage. Eleanor begins a journey to make herself the best version of herself I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that she can, in order to secure this beautiful musiciancake viscerally. Then, as she (There's on her way home one Friday, she and the new IT guy at her office see a man collapse recipe in the street and stay close to him in hospital. Thenbook, before she knows it, her once quiet life becomes a hubbub of social engagements which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the man's family and friends, with Raymond from IT book and I was told to make a mess of course her side project of falling it. Notes in love with Johnnie Lomondthe margins are sanctioned. But just as her life seems You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be looking up, things take a turn for the worseproblem. Is Johnnie all he I ''s cracked up to be? What secrets does Eleanor have from her childhood? Eleanorloved's walls have been broken down and she has to fight her way out of the shadows - but maybe she doesn't have to do it alonethis book already.|isbn=0008172145

|isbnauthor=1838887334Rob Keeley|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)|author=Angela MarsonsChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DI Kim Stone Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and DS Jim Bryant were on he writes for their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingpleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been a complete waste ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude to everyonehis greatest achievements. It was in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight 's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a little stalwart young girl clutching a teddy bear in who can cope with anything the absence of spirit world throws at her mother. Stone , and Bryant didn't realise the extent to which this case was going to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours later. Her neck had been broken Edward, a spoiled lordling and it had all the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping with her child?first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|author=Roxanne BouchardJenny Valentine|title=The Coral BrideUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Angel Roberts Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is an oddity - a female fisherwoman, making her living once in a manlifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's worldcontact details at the time. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast of QuebecBut then chance brings them back together, Detective Morales is called in to come and head the investigationthey are inseparable. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion Something has happened though, Morales feels something more sinister is going onterrible and tragic, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendasnow they must work through their grief, fishing histories and secret family feuds. At the same time as trying to run his investigation, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable to talk to his father abouttheir friendship, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiestogether.|isbn=19131933221471196585

|isbnauthor=1472134710Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death|author=M C BeatonDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement and she's left South Moulton Street for a cottage in the Cotswold village of CarsleyMeet Kit. She'd have preferred one Like most of the more romantic names but at least Carsley people in his world, it seems, he is off the tourist trail with all the problems that brings. Now an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the problem is settling into sport where a different way team of life - warrior, mage and Agatha has never done small talk or even being pleasant to people. The first move is to healer enter the village quichespecially prepared, century-baking competition old, magical mazes, and race to the beginning of exit, perhaps bothering with the campaign is taking treasure or the judge, Reginald Cummings-Browne, big bad and his wife Vera out to dinnerthe points they grant you along the way. She knows sheUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's being ripped off at seen of the pub in latest race on the next village but this inn TV equivalent is necessary that one team has been retired, eaten, and it's a good investment as she knows that she's going to winnew trio of questors is needed. How? WellPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he''her'' quiche is coming from ll enter as a Chelsea Bakery..team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|authorisbn= Claire McGowan1787333175|title=The PushYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating= 5|genre= General FictionPopular Science|summary= Six mums-I was tempted to-be meet at a prenatal class. Itread ''s NCT You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'style'after enjoying Adam Kay', but not the proper NCT. s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This bit is important, but you have Going to wait a little to see why. This being LondonHurt}}, such a class attracts a wide variety glorious mixture of insight into the workings of peoplethe NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from all sorts physical problems to mental illness and the work of backgrounds, a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it's their first babyis always delivered with empathy and understanding. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.|isbn=1542019990

|isbnauthor=1472255917Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)|author=Quintin JardineAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=On New YearAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's Eveincreasingly popular presence on social media, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wifewhere she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, Professor Sarah Gracebasically, daughter Alex Skinner monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and the man with whom she shares a houseis slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, Dominic Jackson. Jackson would be bettersuing her step-known mother to take down the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed and the new name reflects a new mancontent about her. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and are dropped home not long into the new yearreceiving money from them for doing so. Skinner's tempted to let Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the phone ring but knows that he cannot: itnew focus of Ophelia's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburghonline empire. Skinner's not technically Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the police now - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experience.same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQDavid Chadwick|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5

|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaIt's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate BridgeSeptember 1973 in Hicks, California. There was Hicks is a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer Mojave desert town of help from one man in a big vehicle. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offLas Vegas both a significant drive away. There has been no sign of her - or her body - Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngatemain local employers but otherwise, determined to find out what happened and shethere's not going to be stoppedmuch of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}

|author= Katharine OrtonTom Percival|title= GlassheartThe Wrong Shoes|rating= 45|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and her Uncle Antoni doesn't have lived together ever since enough money for even the Blitz claimed the lives most basic of her family. Nowthings like food, in the aftermath of and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the warcollege, they travel all over was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the countryfact that his mum and dad are separated, replacing stained-glass windows and Will's life seems bleak in buildings destroyed by bombsevery direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. Their latest job takes them out He is good at art, and clings to the wilds moments of Dartmoorjoy when he is drawing, where Nona discovers that her world is full feel like a light at the end of ancient and powerful magica long, dark tunnel. She also discovers that |isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a mysterious entityLonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, known only as The SoldierJake Johnson, is hell-bent on using Nona's innate magic for has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his own endsvet girlfriend, Livia and will her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not stop until he has her…|isbn=1406385239this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.