Bernadette Dunne

How to create the most transformative meetings and moments

Being deprived of gathering has revealed just how important it is to us; to connect with others, collaborate, share ideas and create moving, life-affirming experiences.

At a time when coming together is more crucial than ever, Priya Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that can help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences in their lives, large and small, for work and for play.

Drawing on her wide expertise as a facilitator of high-powered gatherings around the world, Parker takes us inside events of all kinds to show what works, what doesn't, and why. She investigates a wide array of gatherings - a court hearing, a flash-mob party, an Arab-Israeli summer camp - and explains how simple changes can invigorate any group experience. The result is a book full of exciting ideas of real-world applications and one that will forever alter the way you look at your next business meeting, dinner party and garden barbecue.

Daisy Dalrymple is at Wentwater Court to cover a story for Town & Country magazine. But when suave Lord Stephen Astwick meets a chilly end on the tranquil skating pond, with evidence that his death was anything but accidental, Daisy joins forces with Scotland Yard so the culprit can't slip through their fingers...

Daisy Dalrymple is enjoying a delightful performance of Verdi’s Requiem, but when all that emerges from the doomed diva’s vocal chords is a dying gasp, Daisy soon discovers that the notoriously difficult opera star had her share of adversaries… Did someone fatally poison the acclaimed mezzo? Will Daisy’s investigation end on as bitter a note as Bettina’s fateful last performance?

At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything after her mother's death. With her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled, she made the impulsive decision to walk the eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America - and to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking but the journey held a promise - of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet.

Young reporter Daisy Dalrymple has arrived at gloomy Occles Hall, in Cheshire. While photographing the rather barren grounds, Daisy unearths the corpse of missing parlour maid Grace Moss. As the dead woman’s secret is revealed, Daisy realises she needs to catch the killer before she herself is endangered.