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Ever been called bossy, nosy, obsessed, shameless? Author Jenny Wood will help you reclaim negative traits and view them as strengths.
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The instant New York Times bestseller
'Extraordinary' Kim Scott, bestselling author of Radical Candor
You know where you want to go. You know you have it within you. You just need the courage to do it.
As a former Google executive and top career coach – who chased an attractive stranger off the train and later married him – Jenny Wood knows her way around courage. In this book, Wood shatters conventional wisdom about achieving your goals. She gives you permission to ditch your fear and chase after what you want, unapologetically.
Wood reclaims nine traits from their negative shackles and teaches you how to apply them in a savvy and compassionate way to supercharge your success, whether you’re trying to snag a promotion, launch a company or land a life-changing deal.
Wild Courage will teach you how to be:
Weird: Win as you or lose as ‘who?’.
Selfish: Be your own champion.
Shameless: Beat impostor syndrome and self-promote with ease.
Obsessed: Push, persist and perform at your highest level.
Nosy: Get curious to network confidently and learn from others.
Manipulative: Build influence with empathy and manage up like a pro.
Brutal: Draw lines and stick to them. Embrace the power of no.
Reckless: Err on the side of action and take healthy risks.
Bossy: Steer others to success, even if you’re not in charge yet.
Wild Courage coaches you to smash through your fear of discomfort, failure and the judgement of others, to embrace your boldest self in pursuit of what you want.
‘A fresh, fearless approach to achieving your goals. This book is both a guide and a cheerleader for anyone on a mission to make things happen’ Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project
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Ever been called bossy, nosy, obsessed, shameless? Author Jenny Wood will help you reclaim negative traits and view them as strengths.
BUY Wild Courage by Jenny Wood here: uk.bookshop.org/73/9781035038671
MORE about the book:
The instant New York Times bestseller
'Extraordinary' Kim Scott, bestselling author of Radical Candor
You know where you want to go. You know you have it within you. You just need the courage to do it.
As a former Google executive and top career coach – who chased an attractive stranger off the train and later married him – Jenny Wood knows her way around courage. In this book, Wood shatters conventional wisdom about achieving your goals. She gives you permission to ditch your fear and chase after what you want, unapologetically.
Wood reclaims nine traits from their negative shackles and teaches you how to apply them in a savvy and compassionate way to supercharge your success, whether you’re trying to snag a promotion, launch a company or land a life-changing deal.
Wild Courage will teach you how to be:
Weird: Win as you or lose as ‘who?’.
Selfish: Be your own champion.
Shameless: Beat impostor syndrome and self-promote with ease.
Obsessed: Push, persist and perform at your highest level.
Nosy: Get curious to network confidently and learn from others.
Manipulative: Build influence with empathy and manage up like a pro.
Brutal: Draw lines and stick to them. Embrace the power of no.
Reckless: Err on the side of action and take healthy risks.
Bossy: Steer others to success, even if you’re not in charge yet.
Wild Courage coaches you to smash through your fear of discomfort, failure and the judgement of others, to embrace your boldest self in pursuit of what you want.
‘A fresh, fearless approach to achieving your goals. This book is both a guide and a cheerleader for anyone on a mission to make things happen’ Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project
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![Ann Cleeves and Brenda Blethyn on Detective Fiction and the Vera Stanhope Series
Crime writer Ann Cleeves, creator of the Vera Stanhope, Shetland and Two Rivers series of detective books, and actor Brenda Blethyn, who plays Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope in the TV adaptations, discuss the Vera Stanhope novels and whats next for the character, writer, and actor.
Ann Cleeves is best known for her detective fiction series, with her Vera Stanhope series being translated to screen. Her crime books are beloved by many.
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00:22 - Ann Cleeves and Brenda Blethyn Introduction
00:27 - What Crime/Detective Fiction Have the Pair Been Reading?
01:46 - Vera in Relation to other Fictional Detectives
02:46 - What Brenda Has Been Up To Since Filming Finished
03:25 - The Future of the Vera Stanhope Series
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![Who Are the Women of the Joubert Family? | The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse
Bestselling author Kate Mosse talks us through the women of the Joubert family, who are the heart of her Joubert Family Chronicles, an immersive historical fiction series ending with The Map of Bones.
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Mosse gives us both the satisfying intricacy of historical fact and a fictional narrative that carries us along at a rollicking pace. The long, rich, tragic history of the Huguenots deserved a series of novels as brilliant and well researched as [The Joubert Family Chronicles], in which the past is felt deep in the reader’s bones – The Observer
A sweeping story of love, adventure and adversity, The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is an epic tale of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land.
Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688. When the violent Cape wind blows from the south-east, they say the voices of the unquiet dead can be heard whispering through the deserted valley. Suzanne Joubert, a Huguenot refugee from war-torn France, arrives in search of her cousin ― the notorious she-captain and pirate commander Louise Reydon-Joubert ― who landed at the Cape of Good Hope more than sixty years before, then disappeared without a trace . . .
Franschhoek, Southern Africa, 1862. Nearly one hundred and eighty years after Suzanne’s perilous journey, another intrepid and courageous woman of the Joubert family ― Isabelle Lepard ― has journeyed to the small frontier town once known as Oliftantshoek in search of her long-lost relations. Intent on putting the women of her family back into the history books, she quickly discovers that the crimes and tragedies still shadow the present. And now, Isabelle faces a race against time if she is to discover the truth, and escape with her life . . .
Painstakingly researched and beautifully told, The Map of Bones is the fourth – and final – novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles, following the bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears and The Ghost Ship.
This is adventure-stuffed historical fiction in the grand tradition – The Telegraph
A fittingly terrific conclusion [to The Joubert Family Chronicles] – i newspaper
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