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This is a step by step guide on how to approach launching a new business with the help of a structured process. It includes carrying out proper analysis of potential customer segments, what they want and what they are prepared to pay. Russell encourages the reader to take the risk out of risk-taking and his Five Step High-Profit Launch System does just that - provided you carry out all steps!!! There is quite a lot of work required to complete the five steps, and it is not a fast process that you'll be able to do in a few weeks - expect it to take 6-12 months, depending on your own skills (and time!) and access to money and external resources.  Russell generously shares his extensive knowledge of customer and market behaviours, potential pitfalls, and he is a great "coach" to have one the journey setting up a new business, or launching a new product/service for an established business. This is one of very few books where I wished I had a printed copy, with wide margins t...

Entertaining and not your usual rock star story - more depth, more complicated and sadly, more left open at the end. There are another three books already announced in the series so hopefully somewhere along the way there may be more or an ending; this wasn't that book. Some passages that caught my eyes;  Mia laughed. “You never stop loving someone.” She said. “You can hate the decisions or the actions they make, but not the person.” Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that, “It doesn’t make you a bad person just because you didn’t love someone enough.”  People come into your life for a reason when you need them most. Whether it was to teach you a lesson, to get through a tough time, or to give you the faith you lack.

Aly has finally been offered the Editor in Chief position at her dream magazine but it comes with a big pay cut and redundancies across the team making her a not so welcome boss.  At the same time she is avoiding dealing with the paperwork following the loss of her brother less than a year ago. This head in the sand mentality and the pressures building at work all come crashing down in a very public (and recorded!) display. She's encouraged to take a month off and this is where the story gets interesting! She relocates to the beach house her brother passed to her in his will, but not everything is as she expected it to be and we follow her in dealing with her grief, supported by her brother's best friend.  Great story to while away a few hours! Triggers: grief, death, PTSD #GoodforYou #NetGalley

Bybee has written another fab book in the D'Angelos series - great holiday read, perhaps even more so if you're heading to Italy and love wine! Amazing combination of romance, travel, independence, life experience and wine. Oh, and not to forget the Golden Girls!! This is the third book in the D'Angelos series - you really ought to read them all!! - and it'll be available at the end of June 2023. My review of the second book in the series, Be your everything , can be found ## here ##. #BeginningofForever #NetGalley

England, but a very different England to what I have any experience of. Expectations on what boys should do and how girls should behave and strive for, as set by generations of Bangladeshi ancestors.  When you don't fit the norm and break free, as in Sumaya's case by moving to New York and creating her own life there - free from the expectations of accepting an arranged marriage and be a stay at home wife breeding children.  When you follow the rules, but are miserable and having to endure constant micro aggressors at work and a wife who's not interested in you, or in living for that matter, like Imran.  Or when you focus on your studies as university, like Majid, making friends with likeminded people of lots of different nationalities - where values and priorities are more important than family traditions and expectations.  Three siblings, three different lives, but all coming together when disaster strikes. Thank you for writing an eye opening book amongst the heav...

Set in beautiful Tuscany, Italy and sharing the lives and stories of two women from two different times - during the second world war and in 2015. 1943. Beatrice has escaped Scotland to teach English in Italy but the war forces her Italian host family to let her go. After some time in police cells and prisons she is granted shelter at the Villa delle Colombe, run by Francesca and Edoardo. The estate is almost completely self sufficient with everyone working together to ensure survival during testing times.  2015. Struggling to come to terms with the medical struggles of her husband and his decision to take his own life at a clinic in Switzerland, Tess arrives in Tuscany to be the companion to Beatrice, an old friend of her grandmother's. Beatrice helps Tess find calm and healing with the help of the amazing gardens at the villa. Unfortunately all comes crashing down when the real owner of the villa appears - and it's not the one Beatrice expects, but rather his son who's al...

Using the Covid period as the setting for this book, Remy is told by his father that the end is coming and that they need to look after themselves away from everyone else. Not only has Remy's mother died recently, but now he is also taken away from everything he knows including his best friend.  After a long journey they arrive at their destination, in complete darkness. Waking up the next morning, cold and hungry, Remy is utterly confused. With his father's firm guidance he is immediately forced to learn how to survive and to "grow up". Remy is days shy of his eighth birthday when he finds his father's dead body.  Completely isolated from the world, he has to find a way to survive. With dwindling supplies, he makes a desperate attempt to get some more food and water.  Navigating his return to the great unknown of civilisation, including hospital treatments for the injuries he's sustained, he is suspicious of other people - are the friends or enemies? The stor...

The Russia Leak: A White House hopeful is a real page turner! As per the blurb, we encounter the mistress, extortion, espionage, murder and revenge; all mixed up in a tangle of stories and clues, with clever cliff hangers throughout the book making it difficult to put down. The characters are well developed and the insight into the US political system is well researched and very believable - and clearly corrupt.  It's easy to see that Ganaway is passionate about the thriller genre and influenced by some of the best writers including Connelly, Baldacci, Grisham, and Clancy.  Would it be premature to wish that there will be a sequel? #TheRussiaLeakAWhiteHousehopeful #NetGalley

An absolutely brilliant story of an unlikely but cleverly planned and executed heist by the staff downstairs straight under the noses of the lady of the house and her staff! 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned' springs to mind! I would love to see this one made into a film! Pre-order your copy now - link to Amazon UK:  https://amzn.to/3YEINxm  - release date in currently set to 6 July 2023. #TheHousekeepers #NetGalley