Book Club

BOOK OF THE WEEK with Linda Jennings. A Practical Guide for Brilliant Women Like You, Tara Mohr, ISBN 9780099591528  (Arrow) BD5 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members

PRESTIGIOUS BOUTIQUE: Dr THIS is the book for anyone who feels they’re being held back in their career.

When women play big, they make things happen.

Five years ago, Tara Mohr began to see a pattern in her work as an expert in leadership: women with tremendous talent, ideas and aspiration were not recognising their own brilliance.

They felt that they were ‘playing small’ in their lives and careers and wanted to ‘play bigger’, but didn’t know how. So Tara devised a step-by-step programme for playing big from the inside-out and this book is the result.

It is a well known fact that women are vastly under-represented at the top of the corporate ladder and this book fills a much-needed gap in the discussion about empowering women to do big work—in that, this work needs to be directed from the inside out.

It is not a book on how to ‘make it in a man’s world’ — it approaches a new solution where both men and women can be fulfilled and make a difference without changing the core of who they are.

Tara holds an MBA from Stanford, a degree in English literature from Yale and was trained by the Coaches Training Institute. She is regular contributor to the Huffington Post and gives talks for TEDx. A great believer in bridging the gap between what women see in others yet not in themselves, she has written this practical guide to help women move past self-doubt and create what they really want – whether in the career world, the community or the home.

This book as born out of a frustration and a hope. The frustration? Brilliant women are playing small. The hope? That the world could be changed.

If our female readers only read one business book this year please make it this one.

* Read it now in paperback
Zodiac Station, Tom Harper, ISBN 9781444731422  (Hodder) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members

AN extraordinary thriller set at the frozen edge of the world, perfect for fans of Dan Simmons, Michael Crichton and Dan Brown.

In the Arctic Ocean, the US Coast Guard icebreaker Terra Nova batters its way through the pack ice. There shouldn’t be anyone near them for hundreds of miles. But then a lone skier, half-dead with cold, emerges out of the snow.

His name is Tom Anderson, and he is the only survivor of a disaster at Zodiac Station, a scientific research base deep in the Arctic Circle. He tells an incredible story of scientists and spies, of lust and greed, of jealousy, mayhem and murder. But his tale simply doesn’t add up. Whose blood is smeared across his clothes? Why is there a bullet hole through the jacket he’s wearing, and why is that jacket labelled with someone else’s name?

It’s clear that more was going on at Zodiac Station than Anderson is telling. And, someone-else may have survived the disaster, as well ... someone who has killed before, and who is willing to kill again.

* My favourite read-of-the-week
The Skin Collector, Jeffery Deaver, ISBN 9781444757491  (Hodder) BD7.300 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members

COPY cat, or revenge? They have never seen a murder like it. A talented tattoo artist is using poison instead of ink. His victim is a young woman.

And, on her skin he’s left a message: ‘the second’. Drafted in to investigate, NYPD detective Lincoln Rhyme and his associate Amelia Sachs find the scene has been scrubbed of evidence. All except for one trace – a scrap of paper that connects this case with one they will never forget.

And, like the Bone Collector before him, Rhyme and Sachs find themselves pitted against a twisted serial killer choosing his victims seemingly at random, a perpetrator who plans his work to the last detail, in a deadly contest with any who try to stop him. But how close is his connection with that old case? What is the meaning of the words tattooed in poison on the skin of his first victim? And where will he strike next?

Jeffery Deaver; what a fabulous thriller writer he is! I just can’t resist scaring myself half to death reading his books and here is another to set the heart pounding and the brain cells working overtime.

Death is his art – I wonder if that applies to Deaver or the murderer!