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Business

Unleash Your Leader

by Emmanuel Gobillot, Katherine Thomas

"An easy read which presents some essential home truths about leadership." Jo Owen

Stop thinking you should be an executive. Start leading like one! There are many books on leadership, but the vast majority already assume the reader is in a leading role. But how do you use and enhance your business skillset to reach the leadership position you want?

Bestselling business author and guru Emmanuel Gobillot and leading executive and entrepreneur Katherine Thomas, reveal in simple steps the secret to becoming a leader, showing you how to do the things executives do, speak the way executives speak and behave the way executives behave.

The only question on completing the book will be not why you should be a leader in your organisation, but why you are not one already!

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White Gold

Crime & Thrillers

White Gold

by David Barker

Vengeance always has a price. The thrilling finale to the Gaia Trilogy.

Sim Atkins, Overseas Division agent, returns to Earth, having saved the Moon base from a deadly terrorist plot (see Rose Gold). All Sim can think about is finding the criminals responsible.

But his fury and lust for revenge are put on hold when a nuclear warhead is stolen by Terra Former leader Matthias Larsson. Can Sim and his colleagues track down the terrorist cell and disarm the device in time?

White Gold is the gripping finale in the compellingly original Gaia Trilogy, page-turning thrillers that provoke as well as excite.

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Contemporary Fiction

Time Will Tell

by Eva Jordan

Eva Jordan’s much-anticipated follow up to the bestselling `All The Colours In-Between’.

Writer, Lizzie Lemalf, and her loving but somewhat dysfunctional family are still grieving over the loss of a much-loved family member. Lizzie is doing her best to keep her family together but why does the recent death of a well-known celebrity have them all in a spin? The police suspect foul play; Lizzie and other family members suspect one another.

Lizzie begins searching for answers only to find herself being dragged back to the past, to 1960’s London to be exact, and to the former life of her father, that up until now she has never been privy to. Every family has its secrets but how can the past hold the key to a present day celebrity death?

They say the past comes back to haunt you. Surely the truth will out? Maybe, but only time will tell…

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Unfinished Business

Crime & Thrillers

Unfinished Business

by Tom Hocknell

"Bloody loved it. Original, very clever, unusual, and, at times, very funny. A seriously intriguing read!!!" James Dreyfuss, actor extraordinaire

The Life Assistance Agency finds itself at a loss after returning from Europe.

Ben is determind to stay away from anything involving Angels, when the phone rings to invite him and his hapless sidekick to write the biography of a self-deluded singer from defunct rave group Elev-8. At his mansion in Sussex they meet the singer’s right-hand man, Billy ‘blind’ Fury, a retired wrestler, and his beautiful secretary Amber. Both of whom have plans for the Life Assistance Agency far beyond writing down half-recalled anecdotes from the early 90s pop charts…

‘Unfinished Business’ is the second novel featuring the Life Assistance Agency – when you’re in trouble, whatever you do, don’t give them a call….

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The Red Gene

Fiction

The Red Gene

by Barbara Lamplugh

"The Red Gene is a fascinating read that affirms the importance not only of the family you have, but also of the family you don’t know you have." Jane Sullivan

When Rose, a young English nurse with humanitarian ideals, decides to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, she is little prepared for the experiences that await her.

Working on one front after another, witness to all the horrors of war, she falls in love with a Republican fighter, Miguel. In 1939 as defeat becomes inevitable, Rose is faced with a decision that will change her life and leave her with lasting scars.

Interspersed with Rose’s story is that of Consuelo, a girl growing up in a staunchly Catholic family on the other side of the ideological divide. Never quite belonging, treated unkindly, she discovers at a young age that she was adopted but her attempts to learn more about her origins are largely thwarted.

It falls to the third generation, to Consuelo’s daughter Marisol, born in the year of Franco’s death and growing up in a rapidly changing Spain, to investigate the dark secrets of her family and find the answers that have until now eluded her mother.

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